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Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit​


Benji Marshall is set to bolster his forward pack for 2026, with Newcastle’s Kai Pearce-Paul reportedly on the verge of signing with the Wests Tigers.

That is according to the Daily Telegraph’s Brent Read, who reported on Thursday night that Pearce-Paul has been “locked into negotiations” with the Tigers for a “few weeks” and that the two parties are “very, very close to a deal”.

“It should be done in the next week or two. He’ll be at the Tigers next year,” Read added on Triple M.

There had been suggestions earlier in the year that Pearce-Paul could end up at the Tigers as part of a three-club player swap involving the Knights and Eels, but Read said he doesn’t believe that will happen anymore.

“I think Kai will go at the end of the year,” Read said.

“Obviously that (the likelihood of the player swap) could change in the coming weeks.”

Pearce-Paul is off-contract at the end of the 2025 season, with Read reporting the Tigers are set to sign him on a three-year deal after the asking price got “too high” for the Knights.

www.foxsports.com.au

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit; $1m bidding war over Bronco — Transfer Whispers

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit; $1m bidding war over Bronco — Transfer Whispers
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Tiger_Fanatic3 said:

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit​


Benji Marshall is set to bolster his forward pack for 2026, with Newcastle’s Kai Pearce-Paul reportedly on the verge of signing with the Wests Tigers.

That is according to the Daily Telegraph’s Brent Read, who reported on Thursday night that Pearce-Paul has been “locked into negotiations” with the Tigers for a “few weeks” and that the two parties are “very, very close to a deal”.

“It should be done in the next week or two. He’ll be at the Tigers next year,” Read added on Triple M.

There had been suggestions earlier in the year that Pearce-Paul could end up at the Tigers as part of a three-club player swap involving the Knights and Eels, but Read said he doesn’t believe that will happen anymore.

“I think Kai will go at the end of the year,” Read sai

“Obviously that (the likelihood of the player swap) could change in the coming weeks.”

Pearce-Paul is off-contract at the end of the 2025 season, with Read reporting the Tigers are set to sign him on a three-year deal after the asking price got “too high” for the Knights.

www.foxsports.com.au

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit; $1m bidding war over Bronco — Transfer Whispers

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit; $1m bidding war over Bronco — Transfer Whispers
www.foxsports.com.au www.foxsports.com.au
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Thanks for posting this article. Note there is no comment from Marshall and Richardson. That is what I like about our recruitment, no oxygen for the media. I understood his purchase would be outright which would also assist the Knights with the salary cap. This is a separate issue to Galvin and his release (if early).
 
innsaneink said:
So what did Pube-Head Weidler have to say in his column this morning?
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May a ‘changed man’ after rehab stint​


Former Panthers star Taylan May says his stint in a mental health facility has changed him and his approach to life.

The 23-year-old was sacked by the Panthers a year ago after a number of off-field incidents. May was also facing domestic violence charges and was subject to the NRL’s no-fault stand-down policy. Those charges were dropped in March, and May is now eyeing a return to the NRL.

I spoke to May recently, and he opened up on how deeply his sacking by the Panthers affected him.

“I got suicidal,” he said. “I had no support. And that’s what made me realise that footy friends are, like your school friends, you don’t really have them, like you thought you had them. I found out who my real boys are.

“Now that I’m starting to come back to footy, people are texting me now, but they weren’t before.”

May said he needed to escape, and spent time in a mental health facility.

“I spoke to my parents, and I thought I needed something, an escape or retreat,” he said. “Honestly, I was mentally drained from everything, and I just needed to get away.

“I got to meet a lot of people, like a lot of different people, but they’re very switched on. But yeah, it was very good. It was probably the best thing that could happen for me, and it opened my eyes up to a lot of things. I feel like I came out of it totally different; my mindset changed, my beliefs have changed. Just, yeah, I’m a whole different person now, and you sort of see that in my demeanour.”

He said the facility was far from a holiday, though.

“I started off in ... a bit of a low section,” he said. “And then they moved me up to the high dependency unit. And, man, the stuff I saw there. Like, there’s people that are claiming they were satanists ... like they were the devil. There’s people claiming that they were God.”

He said the experience definitely changed him.

“I just didn’t like the person that Taylan was,” he said. “Obviously I wasn’t an angel, but Taylan needed to change, and it’s just me changing. As it turns out, it was the best thing to happen. I’m grateful for it. It was also the hardest, one of the hardest things I’ve done in my life. I think it’s changed who I am as a person, and it’s opened my eyes up to a lot of different things. And it’s probably the best thing that’s happened to me.”
 
pawsandclaws1 said:
It would be after Brown and perhaps Young. With the introduction of new teams, what is "too high". Lock them up now to save in the future.
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Prob $700k plus you would think? The new teams would definitely throw that at him …so I can’t see the Tigers paying less … look I’m not going to complain about it …they need NRL forwards and there doesn’t seem a lot available
 
Tiger_Fanatic3 said:

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit​


Benji Marshall is set to bolster his forward pack for 2026, with Newcastle’s Kai Pearce-Paul reportedly on the verge of signing with the Wests Tigers.

That is according to the Daily Telegraph’s Brent Read, who reported on Thursday night that Pearce-Paul has been “locked into negotiations” with the Tigers for a “few weeks” and that the two parties are “very, very close to a deal”.

“It should be done in the next week or two. He’ll be at the Tigers next year,” Read added on Triple M.

There had been suggestions earlier in the year that Pearce-Paul could end up at the Tigers as part of a three-club player swap involving the Knights and Eels, but Read said he doesn’t believe that will happen anymore.

“I think Kai will go at the end of the year,” Read said.

“Obviously that (the likelihood of the player swap) could change in the coming weeks.”

Pearce-Paul is off-contract at the end of the 2025 season, with Read reporting the Tigers are set to sign him on a three-year deal after the asking price got “too high” for the Knights.

www.foxsports.com.au

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit; $1m bidding war over Bronco — Transfer Whispers

Benji ‘very close’ to landing new Tigers recruit; $1m bidding war over Bronco — Transfer Whispers
www.foxsports.com.au www.foxsports.com.au
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I noticed some click bait at the bottom of the article about Gal getting a tramp stamp of his fav school coach who’s now works at dogs.
 
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