Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

king_sirro said:
Apparently direct swap with Javon Andrews. Same salary too lol.

Seriously though, I wax on about Latu because I see so many similar traits as Isaiya and I just know how important those traits are to a teams attack. If we could get Katoa I'd be over the moon. He is an unbelievable half. That would allow Latu to play his natural position of 6 and those two would open up ridiculous space for Bula, Averillo and May.

We could go Latu and AD next year and the best performed one partners Katoa in 28.
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Agree AD needs to be out of the 1/2 position.
His arm grabs-turnstile defence was below KOE sruff.
 
Vicious said:
We will not even be a consideration if we offer Katoa 1.2 million, he will receive 1.5 million offers and will get a minimum of 1.2 from much higher profile clubs than us.
As good as Katoa is, he is not bullet proof, I have watched a few games earlier this season where the Dolphins were not winning the yardage battle and Katoa was virtually non existent.
Considering we desperately need to add some real quality in regards to players who run the ball aggressively and/or defend with good line speed and aggression as well as add some more players with genuine speed and/or be good on the air, we realistically cannot and will not need to spend 1.2 to 1.5 million on a halfback or 5/8.
I have no doubt whatsoever if we put the right players around them, the halves we currently have in Doueihi, Latu Fainu, Javon Andrews and Jock Madden will get the job done.
Case point the Warriors, who seriously believes a halves combination of Te Maire Martin and Chanel Harris-Tabitha is high class? They are both good, willing, handy players, but there is nothing exceptional about them and as bad as our halves were last night, if you swapped the halves around it would not have changed the result.
We have had some bad edge defensive efforts this season which includes our edge second rowers regularly being out of position leaving us short on numbers, but last night was as bad as any of them. A good NSW Cup team, probably even our own NSW Cup team would have been making numerous line breaks we were that bad.
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Our NSW Cup side got flogged today----from a WARRIORS NSW Cup side. That theory bubble just burst
 
19. Heath Mason ❌️ Jack Attard ✅️
20. Kitt Lualilii ❌️ Ethan Roberts ✅️
21. Will Craig ❌️ Tino Tavana ✅️
22. Mavrik Geyer ❌️ Jared Heywood ✅️
23. Tristan Hope ❌️ Josese Lanyon ✅️
24. Royce Hunt ❌️ Suli Pole ✅️
25. Solomone Saukuru ❌️ Wilson Decourcy ✅️
26. Jeral Skelton ❌️ Josh Schuuster ✅️
27. Starford To'a ❌️ Juniour Tupou ✅️
28. Bunty Afoa ❌️ Shawn Blore ✅️
29. Luke Laulilii ❌️ Javon Andrews ✅️
30. Jerome Luaii ❌️ Peter Taateo ✅️

19 - 30 of the top 30, important pieces.
Any suggestions ?
 
Tiger Stripes said:
Why can't Benji see that? Or his advises tell him?
I think Benji has surrounded himself with clones of himself [echo chambers - yes men].
Someone above Benji needs to get some fresh assistants for Benji that can get the fog out of his head.
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Does this person exist?

Sorry to tell yas... it's the Benji show.
 
Tom Shines said:
Nah- The gap between NSW Cup ( reserve grade) and the NRL has never been bigger … watch Madden dominate this week …like Latu did last week ..
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I'm not sure if this supports or refutes your argument but Madden absolutely did not dominate today. He was outplayed by the Warriors halves and Andrews who, while quiet, managed a couple of try assists and would have had another if Tupou wasn't asleep.
 
TV Ted Ellery said:
I'm not sure if this supports or refutes your argument but Madden absolutely did not dominate today. He was outplayed by the Warriors halves and Andrews who, while quiet, managed a couple of try assists and would have had another if Tupou wasn't asleep.
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I predicted Madden would play well :.: so I was wrong there .,.

I’ll stand by my opinion on the NSW Cup standard is not what it was
 
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Demps said:
19. Heath Mason ❌️ Jack Attard ✅️
20. Kitt Lualilii ❌️ Ethan Roberts ✅️
21. Will Craig ❌️ Tino Tavana ✅️
22. Mavrik Geyer ❌️ Jared Heywood ✅️
23. Tristan Hope ❌️ Josese Lanyon ✅️
24. Royce Hunt ❌️ Suli Pole ✅️
25. Solomone Saukuru ❌️ Wilson Decourcy ✅️
26. Jeral Skelton ❌️ Josh Schuuster ✅️
27. Starford To'a ❌️ Juniour Tupou ✅️
28. Bunty Afoa ❌️ Shawn Blore ✅️
29. Luke Laulilii ❌️ Javon Andrews ✅️
30. Jerome Luaii ❌️ Peter Taateo ✅️

19 - 30 of the top 30, important pieces.
Any suggestions ?
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Overall Red looks good, green looks poor and no better. Not sure of exact suggestions, however need more NRL quality so some of our current players can be depth and not regularly in the NRL squad .
 
Dr_Ice said:
Overall Red looks good, green looks poor and no better. Not sure of exact suggestions, however need more NRL quality so some of our current players can be depth and not regularly in the NRL squad .
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Yeah, desperate.
Not a lot of quality available.

Need some early releases.
 
Bit late to the forum today due to work & I am both angry and disheartened.

Collectively our men's teams lost to the Warriors 32 to 116 this round. NRL beaten by 26, Cup beaten by 24 & Flegg beaten by 34.

This is unacceptable!

Was looking forward to our lower grades today but the same attacking & defensive systems we apply in NRL are applied through the grades, and guess what, it's the same issues through the grades. Our red zone attack is sideways & we get caught in defence on the edges so many times with a final overlap.

I have no passion to write any more today - this club just saps the energy out of me.
 
kade7 said:
i think the press conference goes ahead on monday

benji mentioned it last night
this has all been released by jarome and his team
its all

it was quite amicable i believe where it has soured is that parra didnt want to carry the one million $ tag and were hoping tigers would bend , discussions happening for well over a week

club only will contribute 200k, if a deal cant be done, jarome could find himself on the bench /cup (this was the club stance)

jarome is trying to push the agenda and force us to pay more
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The Tigers sure know how make enemies and burn bridges with players.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
Bit late to the forum today due to work & I am both angry and disheartened.

Collectively our men's teams lost to the Warriors 32 to 116 this round. NRL beaten by 26, Cup beaten by 24 & Flegg beaten by 34.

This is unacceptable!

Was looking forward to our lower grades today but the same attacking & defensive systems we apply in NRL are applied through the grades, and guess what, it's the same issues through the grades. Our red zone attack is sideways & we get caught in defence on the edges so many times with a final overlap.

I have no passion to write any more today - this club just saps the energy out of me.
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The women's team are 2 from 2 and played well today

The only time the cowgirls troubled us was when they had around 80% of ball for a15 minute period
 
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