Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Leck said:
What do we do with Javon?

He has a lot of potential, and he's still only 19. His Cup stats this year are looking pretty impressive.

- Games: 14
- Tries: 5
- Goals: 46
- Points: 112
- Try assists: 17
- Line-break assists: 18
- Offloads: 20
- Tackles made: 186
- Tackle efficiency: 83.4%
- Running metres: 976 (69.0 per game)
- Kicking metres: 1,789 (127.8 per game)
- Goal-kicking accuracy: 70.8%

His stats are better than Latu's when he was at Blacktown Workers, and Jamie Humphreys were even better when he was playing in the halves at the Workers too.
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We give him exposure to first grade asap and continue to develop him from there
 
crazycat said:
Does it matter?

Sure we have our junior team and little kids who play for the Berala Bears or whatever have a club logo on their shirt.
We have Api and AD or whoever's bored do some training with them occasionally at Lidcombe oval.

They leave, they stay... It doesn't matter that much. The key point is that the 'junior' has some positive association with the club.

Ideally we have the next GI, Cronk and Payne Haas stay with this club from Juniors to 35. It ain't happening, people will move around. It's actually a good thing as the guys experience other coaches and different playing techniques.

Far more important is that the experience here is quality and that way when their contract comes up for renewal, we get a sympathetic lookin.


Ofcourse I want the next GI to stay at our club forever. It won't happen, so who we get in our orbit make it a quality experience.
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I don't think you have the full context. It seems to matter to all the people that wanted to dive in and correct me about a list of pathways players I listed....in response to Vicious saying we neglect the South West...they wanted to argue about them not being "real" juniors.

My simple question is, how do we define a junior and how do we define a pathways player? It seems to matter to these people so let's define it.

Once we do that, we can verify his comment about neglect against the other clubs pathwats and see if it has any merit.

This Magpie victim mentality from some old farts about not being respected and neglecting the area is a total load if crap...
 
weststigers said:
I don't think you have the full context. It seems to matter to all the people that wanted to dive in and correct me about a list of pathways players I listed....in response to Vicious saying we neglect the South West...they wanted to argue about them not being "real" juniors.

My simple question is, how do we define a junior and how do we define a pathways player? It seems to matter to these people so let's define it.

Once we do that, we can verify his comment about neglect against the other clubs pathwats and see if it has any merit.

This Magpie victim mentality from some old farts about not being respected and neglecting the area is a total load if crap...
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I am not going tj spell it out to you, but there are plenty of South-West juniors and a few Balmain District juniors currently playing NRL for other clubs.
I understand not every local junior is going to work out and every club has some of their local juniors playing at other NRL clubs, but if we are fair dinkum about winning over the South-West we need to focus on it and ensure we keep a much higher percentage of NRL players from that region with us than what we currently are.
It’s called attachment by identity and it’s very important for Wests Tigers potential future success.
 
Vicious said:
Did you watch the 2025 Gtand Final by any chance?
His off the cuff style of play has quite obviously been restricted by our old mate Maguire’s coaching style.
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Did you notice Reece Walsh’s performance in that game ?he kinda dominated… daylight second and third

What’s your coaching background out of interest ?
 
Tom Shines said:
Did you notice Reece Walsh’s performance in that game ?he kinda dominated… daylight second and third

What’s your coaching background out of interest ?
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I was at the 2023 and 2025 GF as my wife is a fanatical Bronco’s supporter.
I have been an assistant coach in teams that have produced NRL players,played alongside people who went on to become NRL players and have had family members that have played NRL, what about youself?
 
Vicious said:
I was at the 2023 and 2025 GF as my wife is a fanatical Bronco’s supporter.
I have been an assistant coach in teams that have produced NRL players, what about youself?
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Ok .. you attended the game .. does it change what I said ?

What team did you coach mate?
 
Tom Shines said:
Ok .. you attended the game .. does it change what I said ?

What team did you coach mate?
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Multiple ranging from u/7’s up to u/19’s I don’t think it’s required to name the clubs, but they were in the Balmain District and one in the Canterbury district.
 
Vicious said:
Multiple ranging from u/7’s up to u/19’s I don’t think it’s required to name the clubs, but they were in the Balmain District and one in the Canterbury district.
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Assistant ? What does that mean at the junior level …what are your duties ? Royce Simmons style laying out the witches hats ?
 
Tom Shines said:
Assistant ? What does that mean at the junior level …what are your duties ? Royce Simmons style laying out the witches hats ?
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Assistant means assist the coach and was all I wanted as I did not want to over commit myself due to time constraints I have with work and family etc.
I’ve also coached soccer/football at high levels in the Sydney NPL and likewise opted to be an assistant for the same reasons.
 
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What are peoples thoughts on Cherry Evans for 2027, wouldn't command that much $$ and plays right H/S and the general /experience half we desperately need.
 
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