Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Demps]

Watson
Manase Fainu
Tyrone May
Suli Pole

Need some wingers and centres for depth and starting

 

[Tito Santana]

Watson
Manase Fainu
Tyrone May
Suli Pole

Need some wingers and centres for depth and starting

Need backs.

 

[Odessa]

Watson is a good high effort player with spark. He’d be perfect for the short term. Gives us a genuine option for API when needed and can cover multiple other spots to a decent degree.

Allows Haywood to not be rushed and for Fainu to focus on his best aspects. Can’t go wrong with this signing but yes like others have said would hope it isn’t a 3/4 year deal.

Isn't he off to the Dragons before PNG ?

 

[Demps]

Need backs.

100%

For 2027, depending on Maka,
We need FG options. As well as back ups

1. Bula
2. Sunia
3.
4. Taylan
5.

 

[Leck]

100%

For 2027, depending on Maka,
We need FG options. As well as back ups

1. Bula
2. Sunia
3.
4. Taylan
5.

Latu has to be developed, otherwise we've wasted our time with his progress.

Then there's Karnib, Van Drie and also Kanaan that are the future. Excellent juniors that we might lose.

Conner Watson is a great player but he will ultimately be another band aid, but not the solution.

 

[Demps]

Latu has to be developed, otherwise we've wasted our time with his progress.

Then there's Karnib, Van Drie and also Kanaan that are the future. Excellent juniors that we might lose.

Conner Watson is a great player but he will ultimately be another band aid, but not the solution.

Agree.

Do you consider Karnib & Kanaan wingers?

 

[Fainu Brothers]

I think a decent centre/wing is Simrani from Parramatta. Not sure his contract status

 

[Odessa]

I think a decent centre/wing is Simrani from Parramatta. Not sure his contract status

He doesn't like contact was a dragons junior I watched him a few times in the lower grades

 

[Fainu Brothers]

I think a decent centre/wing is Simrani from Parramatta. Not sure his contract status

Cheapie

 

[Fainu Brothers]

Wilson as a back up winger would be alright as well. Plenty of speed

 

[Lestronge]

Watson for A year is perfect . It puts Heywood on the perfect timeline .its exactly what I was advocating we do with cook

 

[Demps]

Wilson as a back up winger would be alright as well. Plenty of speed

We need depth, badly in this department.

Wilson is a handy player

 

[terriaa]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/sunday-serve-why-origin-teams-blew-off-nrl-and-channel-9-event/news-story/6db66be8cfbd293281029a96f654056e

FAINU FAM EYE REUNION

The brother of jailed former NRL star Manase Fainu has spoken about his dream for the siblings to reunite on a rugby league field – just months before the talented hooker is eligible for parole.

Samuela Fainu, one of three brothers contracted to the Wests Tigers, has opened up on the family’s desire to see Manase try to resurrect his career, which came crashing down when he was accused of stabbing a youth leader during a brawl at a Mormon church dance in 2019.

He was stood down under the NRL’s no-fault stand-down policy and eventually imprisoned, with a judge saying, “I hope he will be able to fulfil his impressive promise and pick up his career where he left off”.

Fainu is due for parole in October, the same month he will turn 28.

He has already started day release and has tried to keep fit as his brothers Sione, Samuela and Latu play for the Tigers.

If Manase wants to resume his rugby league career, the NRL will have to clear his registration if a club was interested in taking a punt on him.

“As a family, we are extremely close and it has been difficult for us to be separated from Manase for a number of years,” Samuela said.

“There’s not a day goes by that he’s not in our thoughts.

“My brothers and I have started our own NRL journeys on a path he blazed for our family and he could have been there in person.

“Of course, we’ve spoken about the potential to one day play NRL together, but for so long it has just seemed like a distant dream.

“If Manase wants to pick up his rugby league career when the time is right, we will be right behind him.”

There have only been two sets of four brothers who have played in a top grade rugby league match: the Normans in 1910 and the Burgess clan in 2013.

“It’s our dream to see all the boys play together in the NRL one day,” mum Lile Fainu said. “It’s something they’ve always wanted to do, and we know Manase would love nothing more than to return to the field when the time is right.”

Manase was such a huge talent. I am sure I read the NRL wouldn't register a contract while he was on parole, so that would make him in his 30s before he could play. Russell Packer played after his sentence, not sure if he played during his parole period. He really turned his life around, hope the same for Manase.