Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Droppy05]

But atleast where the family club. lol ,,All the boys love coming to training they say. What they do there god knows. They play like a park footy team.

They love the easy money. that's all.

 

[Droppy05]

BA and Madge are twins….in their coaching style…

How many Pacific Islanders are playing for Leeds??..not many I’d say

There’s the difference

That' a good thing.

 

[king_sirro]

Who are these coaches that took time away and came back with success?

Be interested to compare that too the success coaches with lower grade apprenticeships and then sustained success go. My guess is on balance they do better.

He took a year. Thats not bot time away, thats taking a breath

 

[king_sirro]

Which is why they shouldn't be on top 30 contracts!!! Our backline is full now, and it's by far the worst in the comp. Herbert, Tupou, Taotua, Tavana are all not first grade standard. Turuva would be a backup player.

That leaves us with only May, Averillo and Makasini as first grade standard outside backs and a whole heap of emergency backups.

We somehow need to find a first grade winger, someone tall and fast to go with Makasini on the left wing. Possibly Bula if he can find some pace from somewhere.

Bloody Bula, how frustrating he is. He definitely is very fast. When Weekes got away against Canberra I said to my mate "Bula will catch him easy" and he did. Missed the tackle, but pace wise he is very fast. Then last week he gets on the outside of Suli about 5 times and Suli gets him every time. Maybe his initial excelleration is poor and thats why he looks like he could break through but never does.

 

[Terry T.Nuts]

Bloody Bula, how frustrating he is. He definitely is very fast. When Weekes got away against Canberra I said to my mate "Bula will catch him easy" and he did. Missed the tackle, but pace wise he is very fast. Then last week he gets on the outside of Suli about 5 times and Suli gets him every time. Maybe his initial excelleration is poor and thats why he looks like he could break through but never does.

He is cooked with injuries, shouldn't be playing much like half of our squad sadly who are busted. Also Kade7 hate to burst your bubble mate but Benji ain't going anywhere, he is here till 2030 when unless a miracle happens the NRL dissolves the club.

 

[Tom Shines]

Sloan might be trying to get out of his 2027 Super League deal … unfortunately he has way too much speed for us to be interested in him ..

 

[Fish88]

phoenix and max both into the top 30, absolute min contracts

aware we are sniffing around kurt mann, but i had also heard that a while back, thing that doesnt happen due to the brailey signing

schuester impressing club officials, believe he will be on a t&t nextyear

Again we just put kids into top 30 that are nowhere near first grade ready. We need first grade standard players now with experience and some leadership. We do this every year 🤦‍♂️

 

[Tom Shines]

Again we just put kids into top 30 that are nowhere near first grade ready. We need first grade standard players now with experience and some leadership. We do this every year 🤦‍♂️

If they are in the Top 30 … I suspect they are being paid more than the minimum ….which would require them to be in the Top 30

 

[UnderTheBus]

it’ll be Brad Arthur, he will win the super league this year, and when Benji is sacked mid 2027, he will be announced as coach for 2028

Whoever the coach is in 2028 stands a fighting chance of success that season. The one and only year we have a genuine home ground advantage for most of the season (Leichhardt). Next year is going to be horrendous.

 

[Vicious]

Sloan might be trying to get out of his 2027 Super League deal … unfortunately he has way too much speed for us to be interested in him ..

No room, we are happy with Turuva, Tupou and Tavana.
Our opponents will be terrified of all 3.
Makasini is our only contracted winger for 2027 that I can see genuinely striking a bit of fear into our opponents.
Khan-Pereira who had scored a try per game at a struggling club was available this time last season, we were not interested.
Sloan who clearly has speed and x-factor that we desperately need was available for quite a few months this season before deciding to sign for a UK Super League club due to lack of interest from NRL clubs.
Good recruitment opportunities regularly pop up, but we clearly do not understand we are badly lacking speed and x-factor across the park.
It looks like no attempt will be made to improve our back row stocks either. We desperately need someone to be an option as an impact player off the bench, but also be a hard running physical presence as an edge option who is a genuine attacking threat whenever Samuela or KPP are out injured.
I’m a fan of the potential of Ethan Roberts, Tony Sukkar if we keep him and also the younger Phoenix Godinet, but if we are being serious none of them would be the first choice back up edge back rower at any other NRL club just yet.
Sukkar and Roberts are both very good second choice back ups if we have both edge back rowers out injured and both look to have the versatility to potentially be as good maybe better if used as middle forwards, but we need someone our halves/playmakers can rely on to hit holes at speed and be a genuine tackle bust and line break threat all day long should we be missing Samuela or KPP through injury.
Kelma Tuilagi is currently available and fits this description perfectly and if not him someone you have previously suggested in Joe Chan is also currently available and would also provide us with good NRL experience and attacking punch when required.
Surely these types of players would not cost a lot of money to recruit, but would significantly improve our depth.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

No room, we are happy with Turuva, Tupou and Tavana.
Our opponents will be terrified of all 3.
Makasini is our only contracted winger for 2027 that I can see genuinely striking a bit of fear into our opponents.
Khan-Pereira who had scored a try per game at a struggling club was available this time last season, we were not interested.
Sloan who clearly has speed and x-factor that we desperately need was available for quite a few months this season before deciding to sign for a UK Super League club due to lack of interest from NRL clubs.
Good recruitment opportunities regularly pop up, but we clearly do not understand we are badly lacking speed and x-factor across the park.

Speed not only in attack but also defence.

 

[Tom Shines]

No room, we are happy with Turuva, Tupou and Tavana.
Our opponents will be terrified of all 3.
Makasini is our only contracted winger for 2027 that I can see genuinely striking a bit of fear into our opponents.
Khan-Pereira who had scored a try per game at a struggling club was available this time last season, we were not interested.
Sloan who clearly has speed and x-factor that we desperately need was available for quite a few months this season before deciding tj sign for a UK Super League club due to lack of interest from NRL clubs.
Good recruitment opportunities regularly pop up, but we clearly do not understand that we are badly lacking speed and x-factor across the park.

Why would Khan Peieria have come here when he had an offer to go to a premiership contender?

Would we need to have paid him massive overs?

 

[Vicious]

Why would Khan Peieria have come here when he had an offer to go to a premiership contender?

Would we need to have paid him massive overs?

It took a fair bit of time after the Titans dropped him back to Qld Cup and it was well know they were looking to offload him, before the Warriors showed any interest in him.
It’s yet another case of “If you snooze, you lose”

 

[magpies forever]

Benji gone by round 8…??….even if he has a better than 50% record after 8 rounds…?.?….interesting and why would they do it?

If they want him gone why wait till round 8, sack him at years end……

I would suggest Rd 8 is his time to have shown change and get results. The last half of this season has been diabolical and coach and staff have too much failure in this result. New support staff (not yes men), a tactician, and new attitude.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

The Warriors buy well and augment their local talent with selected acquisitions. It is a blueprint for success and we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We should have a recruitment office in South Auckland as well opening the purse strings for junior development.

 

[Tom Shines]

It took a fair bit of time after the Titans dropped him back to Qld Cup and it was well know they were looking to offload him, before the Warriors showed any interest in him.
It’s yet another case of “If you snooze, you lose”

He signed a week into the offseason … he wasn’t on the shelf that long

We also didn’t have any money to sign anyone according to Richo at the time

 

[Vicious]

He signed a week into the offseason … he wasn’t on the shelf that long

We also didn’t have any money to sign anyone according to Richo at the time

As I have been saying for ages, that is our biggest problem, way above anything else.
We made out that the lure of playing with Luai was attracting players. I am not saying it didn’t have some appeal particularly to players within his circle, but we overpaid them to get them to sign with us and the end result is in unbalanced playing roster with terrible depth once we get injuries.
Who else but us woukd have paid 450k for Turuva and who knows what we have agreed to pay him for his recent contract extension, it certainly wouldn’t be less than the 450k we were paying him previously.
I bet Khan-Pereira is not getting even close to 450k and I’m sure Sloan would have been very keen to stay in the NRL for far less than 450k.
So we are now drastically overpaying Bula, Terrell, Turuva and then we wonder why we have no cap money left to recruit some players with genuine x-factor.
Another 2 years of Api on a rumoured 700k, you can already see that is going to age real well. Hopefully we are getting some good long service player concessions on that contract.
I reckon Benji had a theory of keeping these players with us at any cost knowing they were all fan favourites and it is now starting to backfire on him before their new contract extension periods even commence.

 

[Tom Shines]

As I have been saying for ages, that is our biggest problem, way above anything else.
We made out that the lure of playing with Luai was attracting players. I am not saying it didn’t have some appeal particularly to players within his circle, but we overpaid them to get them to sign with us and the end result is in unbalanced playing roster with terrible depth once we get injuries.
While but us woukd have paid 450k for Turuva and who knows what we have agreed to pay him for his recent contract extension, it certainly wouldn’t be less than the 450k we were paying him previously.
I bet Khan-Pereira is not getting even close to 450k and I’m sure Sloan would have been very keen to stay in the NRL for far less than 450k also.
So we are now drastically overpaying Bula, Terrell, Turuva and then we wonder why we have no cap money left to recruit some players with genuine x-factor.
I reckon Benji had a theory of keeping these players with us at any cost knowing they were all fan favourites and it is now starting to backfire on him before their new contract periods even commence.

We can speculate all we want … I suspect AKP is on $450 a year minimum … you aren’t moving to NZ for three years on chump change ..he is one of the quickest players in the comp , and a lot of other teams value that

I suggested Sloan the last time he was on the market and I tell ya 90 percent of people thought it was the worst idea they ever heard .

Turuva is playing shit now … but the whole team is … even players you like eg AD …I have no idea to explain such a wide spread malaise compared with the early season form … it’s pretty unprecedented

 

[Vicious]

We can speculate all we want … I suspect AKP is on $450 a year minimum … you aren’t moving to NZ for three years on chump change ..he is one of the quickest players in the comp , and a lot of other teams value that

I suggested Sloan the last time he was on the market and I tell ya 90 percent of people thought it was the worst idea they ever heard .

Turuva is playing shit now … but the whole team is … even players you like eg AD …I have no idea to explain such a wide spread malaise compared with the early season form … it’s pretty unprecedented

Injuries started to slude, but injuries are more than likely going to happen every season.
The one thing that keeeos most players on there toes is the fear of being dropped if they are not playing well.
In most positions who do we have that we can bring in for players not performing up to standard?
Benji recently said it himself that we need tj improve our depth, then a couple of days later we upgrade Nax Taotua and Phoenix Godinet to our top 30.
No offence to either of these players, both have undoubted talent and will hopefully make big strides towards becoming genuine NRL players over the off season. But the fact is they are currently not close to being NRL quality and when you are in a position that Wests Tigers are currently in, we should not be dealing with maybes, we need depth players who are proven and we know will apply pressure and be able to replace starting 17 players who are injured or out of form.

 

[Flippedy]

Sloan might be trying to get out of his 2027 Super League deal … unfortunately he has way too much speed for us to be interested in him ..

Sloan has speed, but that’s about it. He certainly hasn’t set the world on fire with Saints who are happy to get rid of him. He would just be another defensively weak winger if were to play with us.