Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tito Santana]

To be fair, what kinda name is Mavrik? Who are his parents that would name someone that 😆

Im pretty sure his dad is a fan of Top Gun. Legit.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

I think if this isn't his last season with us. Next year will be...

Watch this space, I guess.

That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.

 

[Vicious]

Every year you seem to suggest moving on players like it’s easy as pie… It’s looking like Bud will be moved on again … who else is interested in taking Hunt and Bird off their hands ?

Send them to the upcoming Rugby 360 competition, maybe a year in club rugby in 2026 to get the hang of it.

 

[Demps]

That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.

Makasini, fast tracked... ?

Still a bit to play out with Starford but I can't see him liking taking Nadens role next year as the "experienced back up".

As @jrtiger said though, the depth is looking light.

Some how we have to improve this and im thinking Tui'tupou & Mapapalangi [shout out @IronFist ] will be handy for this role, just a matter of how we fit them in.

 

[Kelce68]

I’m a little concerned about hooker next season the way things stand…I can’t say I’m too wrapped in Hope taking up a bench spot…also with limited Top 30 spots still available, I don’t want them to sign someone else …on the other hand , I don’t want Api playing 80 mins every week …don’t see a lot of other options if not Latu to be honest

I think those concerned about Hope are right to have their reservations, but I suspect Haywood will creep up on everybody for a bit-part role quicker than people expect. Won't surprise me if they give him a bench game in Cup to finish the year over the next month...

 

[Kelce68]

I think it’s looking likely we would need to offload Sullivan and also potentially Bird, Hunt and maybe To’a to allow us to add some more NRL quality to our current playing roster,

I think you're on the money, V.

I think we'll see a couple of surprising names move early in the next couple of months.

'Surprising' in that they're not the Feledys or Tumeths of the world, but I think those names, particularly Hunt and Bird, may well fall out the back door pretty quickly.

 

[mtd#2]

I agree …

Any chance you think that Latu could fill in at 9 to give Api a 20 min rest next year ?

I don't think that makes any sense if we are going to start Latu at 7. If he plays 14 then yeah sure, but otherwise it's just a disruption to his development.

 

[Dennisspicer1]

Simple question, as of now are we are better team with AD playing in the halves ?

Totally agree, I would definitely keep the halves combination we had against the Bulldogs, luai in my mind had his best game this season in his old spot,
Five eight, and Doueihi definitely proved how he likes the half spot.

 

[Dennisspicer1]

I would play him at 13…

I gotta question too…Do you think we will make the 8 next season ?

With 1 x Tino added I think we would be top tier.

 

[weststigerman]

That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.

I know To'a is not the flavour of the month, but I'm not writing him off as "inconsistent" this year.

He was our most potent attacking threat and was good defensively before his arm injury and in hindsight I don't think he should have been picked as it impacted his fend in attack and he was timid in defence.

I don't think we'll get a better option without paying overs.

 

[AdelaideTiger]

Tino as the big fish to fill spot 30 would be perfect. Put him at 13 and push Doueihi to 14, adds some more grunt to the pack that we have missed on occasions this year.
I know it's a pipe dream but dreams are still free.

 

[weststigerman]

With 1 x Tino added I think we would be top tier.

What about with Nathan Cleary?

 

[Betterdays22]

I know To'a is not the flavour of the month, but I'm not writing him off as "inconsistent" this year.

He was our most potent attacking threat and was good defensively before his arm injury and in hindsight I don't think he should have been picked as it impacted his fend in attack and he was timid in defence.

I don't think we'll get a better option without paying overs.

To'a was probably our 2nd best player over the first half of the year. The knock on him is inconsistency and injuries, unfortunately the 2nd half of the year has done nothing to disprove the knocks.

My feel is Benji likes him but is running out of patience

 

[Tom Shines]

I don't think that makes any sense if we are going to start Latu at 7. If he plays 14 then yeah sure, but otherwise it's just a disruption to his development.

he is still getting 60 mins at 7… yeah it’s a disruption but not as much as playing 14 and then coming on where exactly ?

 

[Tom Shines]

Send them to the upcoming Rugby 360 competition, maybe a year in club rugby in 2026 to get the hang of it.

pipedream

 

[Tom Shines]

With 1 x Tino added I think we would be top tier.

Good luck

 

[happy_tiger]

Wests Tigers don't have war chests, more like a Pandora's Box.

Chastity Belt

 

[426Tlgerland]

That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.

Parra centre available and better than toa for sure

 

[jrtiger]

Makasini, fast tracked... ?

Still a bit to play out with Starford but I can't see him liking taking Nadens role next year as the "experienced back up".

As @jrtiger said though, the depth is looking light.

Some how we have to improve this and im thinking Tui'tupou & Mapapalangi [shout out @IronFist ] will be handy for this role, just a matter of how we fit them in.

if there's anyone who's expendable in the backline, it's Skelton, not Starford.

Makasini's likely to start on the left wing next year imo.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

if there's anyone who's expendable in the backline, it's Skelton, not Starford.

Makasini's likely to start on the left wing next year imo.

Skelton is still less than 20 games into his career. He’s far from locked in to being an automatic selection.