Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[TigerBurnsy]

But he will still be contracted. As will Brailey and Haywood.

Didn’t api say he would be open to finishing his career in Perth, let him have his payday there and bring in Harry, there’s no guarantee Haywood becomes anything close to Harry Grant

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Didn’t api say he would be open to finishing his career in Perth, let him have his payday there and bring in Harry, there’s no guarantee Haywood becomes anything close to Harry Grant

He said something to that affect. Then he re-signed with us.

 

[Red88_Tiger]

Never thought I’d see that happening, but it’s actually very true! Penrith have struggled with five eighths since Luai left, the replacements are too green and now Cleary is out for an extended period they could actually use Brooks’ experience in the halves. He slotted into Fozball very well, no reason he can’t adapt to the Penrith style of play as well. Many of our ex players have already.

Brooks also had a good year when he played under ivan

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

Well...i dunno about great.
Itd be great if we could snag him.
Thayd be great

Is this like when you hear your boss is sick and you say get well soon but you're relly lying?

"get well n truly"?

 

[Oldman]

St George Illawarra intend to make a play for Blues and Australia outside back Jack Bostock if the Kangaroos debutant becomes a free agent on November 1.

MSN

Good chance if he wants to head back to the Illawarra

 

[cktiger]

He’s 195cm tall . And an islander . And would have a shit tonne of muscle memory l/ /muscle mass .

185 on our Wests site. Still a big boy now… he got massive before.

 

[TurnStyle]

How many hookers do you want?

Who cares how many when you get the best? You make tough decisions like successful clubs.

It's the definition of a pipe dream (actually signing him), but the reality is he is way ahead of Api and would make a massive difference.

A thread recently asked: "any three players from any other club" and Grant was one of my choices.

Anyway, we can dream... 😂

 

[TurnStyle]

Anyone hearing the club is delaying the departure list due to negotiations about lay down Douhei being moved on?

Stop teasing! 🤪

 

[TurnStyle]

We have to go for Harry

Definitely. Very long odds, but at least try!

 

[Droppy05]

He's very thin mate. I highly doubt he is 106kg

He's had a course of Ozempic?

 

[TurnStyle]

He has openly said when signing on he wants somewhere halves. How realistic that is in real world WT and the NRL squad who knows

Well, players at the tigers can't just demand they play in the halves or they don't play at all!

Wait.... 🤪

 

[Droppy05]

Stop teasing! 🤪

Douhei is going nowhere.

 

[TurnStyle]

Douhei is going nowhere.

I know... 😟

 

[gregjm87]

From memory Tigers forgot to inform the auditor of the post career provision (or tried to hide it 🤷)

Yeah. I think it was simply didn't tell the auditor rather than try to hide it as Tigers were 'busted' by openly discussing it in the media.

 

[gregjm87]

If there isn't much coaching involved with defence and defensive systems , why are we so continually bad at it

I can't believe how many people think this. Defence is the most nuanced aspect of the game and needs elite level coaching more so than any other aspect.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Who cares how many when you get the best? You make tough decisions like successful clubs.

Well, you should care. You don’t just chase marquee players for the sake of it. Especially not in a position you already have sufficient depth in. We’ve been talking up Haywood for the last 6-12 months. Some have floated that he’s a future captain. Why block his path? It’s a 7 we are in need of. Not a 9.

 

[gregjm87]

Point has been made here a few times but I don't think our defence was very good to start the year. We still looked very fragile defending our red zone but it was masked because because we were dominating the yardage battle and teams simply weren't getting much of a look in.

I think to much is made of the success at the start of the season. Everyone seems to be happy blame injuries for our failures but not question the role it may have played in the wins.
Cowboys: missing Cotter, Nanai and Drinkwater playing with busted ribs was a passenger.
Knights: missing Ponga, Best and Brown
Eels: missing Iongi and Hopgood. Then lost 3 backs during the game and still scored more tries in their loss.
Raiders: missing Young, Sasagi, Savage, Papalli and lost Martin mid game.

 

[wstigers11]

I think to much is made of the success at the start of the season. Everyone seems to be happy blame injuries for our failures but not question the role it may have played in the wins.
Cowboys: missing Cotter, Nanai and Drinkwater playing with busted ribs was a passenger.
Knights: missing Ponga, Best and Brown
Eels: missing Iongi and Hopgood. Then lost 3 backs during the game and still scored more tries in their loss.
Raiders: missing Young, Sasagi, Savage, Papalli and lost Martin mid game.

2 of those games we copped a sinbin in which was the only time we looked like leaking any points & we had players missing too

the warriors game you left out was a great win over there

 

[wstigers11]

Well, you should care. You don’t just chase marquee players for the sake of it. Especially not in a position you already have sufficient depth in. We’ve been talking up Haywood for the last 6-12 months. Some have floated that he’s a future captain. Why block his path? It’s a 7 we are in need of. Not a 9.

can’t see Harry coming back anyway he’s 28 and hasn’t won a competition

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

can’t see Harry coming back anyway he’s 28 and hasn’t won a competition

Awe, he still has 20 odd years left in him to win one.