Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Spud_Murphy]

Herd from a current penrith first grader that packer move to penrith is still on and will happen by June 30. He also said Waqa Blake's preferred destination is parramatta but he is frustrated with the slowness of the process with parramatta and If they dont speed up the process he will withdraw from negotiations with Parramatta and sign with the Bulldogs.

Wonder whom is the target for us then?

No one CB! As usual, it's no one. I can't believe not being able to offload Packer to Penrith was the reason we couldn't sign DWZ, but now he's going there anyway ?? Will someone please just shoot us!

 

[2005magic]

@Spud_Murphy Spite by Penrith or Packer or both?

 

[hsvjones]

Storm signing another 2 and yes we are still just waiting in the corner for any left overs... I really Don't understand how the Dogs can be signing players considering they are / were in serious cap problems just last season and said it would take a few years to fix yet here they go.... Are we that bad :worried:

 

[Madge]

@Curaeus Suspended

Wests Tigers chief executive Justin Pascoe started receiving access to his work emails this week to help familiarise himself with the club’s machinations during his absence.
He has some catching up to do. Pascoe will return to work next week having served a six-month ban over the salary cap issue that cost the club so much more than their chief executive.
The repercussions are still being felt as coach Michael Maguire tries to wade through the cap mess been dumped in his lap.
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The Tigers don’t look like a happy camp and little wonder given the speculation that continues to swirl around their players and the future of their squad.
They face North Queensland in Townsville tonight with their season at a crossroads. They were insipid in their loss to Canberra last week, in a performance that did little to douse suggestions all is not well.
Players are believed to be up for grabs, although not much grabbing is going on because rivals are reluctant to wear the salaries of some of the Tigers’ biggest names.
Captain Moses Mbye was among those who was bandied about but Maguire and the club dismissed talk that he was available should someone pick up his pay cheque.
Regardless, North Queensland were one of the sides linked with Mbye. The Queensland State of Origin utility is understood to have been offered to them by a third party.
The Cowboys at the time were focused elsewhere, having bought into the Dallin Watene-Zelezniak auction.
They ultimately missed out on a player who was also coveted by the Tigers (Watene-Zelezniak joined Canterbury) but it is understood they are close to comforting themselves with the signature of Melbourne fullback Scott Drinkwater.
Drinkwater was touted by some to be the Storm No 1 before the season started, but injury opened the door for Jahrome ­Hughes and Ryan Papenhuyzen.
Drinkwater has slipped down the pecking order and the Cowboys want him before the June 30 deadline.
Even if he doesn’t arrive then, there is every chance he will be there for the start of next season.
The Tigers hope to do some business, too, and Pascoe will return to work at a time when the club has plenty at stake, not least their hopes of playing finals football this year.
Pascoe arrived at the Tigers four years ago amid a salary cap crisis. He was at the helm as the ­Tigers went through a period of ­tumult. He eased the club through the departure of Robbie Farah, a deal that cost him six months of his career when the ­integrity unit found he had failed to properly disclose an ambassadorial deal with their former ­captain.
He was also there as the Tigers bid farewell to Mitchell Moses, Aaron Woods and James Tedesco. Those departures were meant to usher in a new dawn for the Tigers and their use of the salary cap.
Instead, they find themselves back where they began, looking to move players to create space to build a squad more to the liking of their coach.
Maguire doesn’t mind ruffling feathers and he appears to have ruffled plenty during his early days at the helm of the Tigers.
He looked as though he was pulling the right strings as the ­Tigers made a solid start to the year but recent results have been poor, none more so than their last-start loss to the Raiders.
The Tigers were never at the races. They will look to bounce back tonight against a North Queensland stripped of close to $4 million worth of talent through injury and suspension.
There will be no excuses.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/nrl/tigers-boss-returns-to-cap-chaos/news-story/e74891b162504384d78b4e3d419bd6cd

 

[851]

Herd from a current penrith first grader that packer move to penrith is still on and will happen by June 30. He also said Waqa Blake's preferred destination is parramatta but he is frustrated with the slowness of the process with parramatta and If they dont speed up the process he will withdraw from negotiations with Parramatta and sign with the Bulldogs.

What the hell are the dogs going to pay him, they are in worse cap strife than us, and just signed DWZ and Stimson

 

[swag_tiger]

Any truth to the news we have re-signed Thompson?

 

[851]

The Tigers were never at the races. They will look to bounce back tonight against a North Queensland stripped of close to $4 million worth of talent through injury and suspension.
There will be no excuses.

The author of that article is surely wrong, missing $4 million of talent, we have a about $3million we are not using

 

[avocadoontoast]

The Tigers were never at the races. They will look to bounce back tonight against a North Queensland stripped of close to $4 million worth of talent through injury and suspension.
There will be no excuses.

The author of that article is surely wrong, missing $4 million of talent, we have a about $3million we are not using

Book value of $3m, market value of $3k

 

[Madge]

@swag_tiger Heard that aswell...not sure if its true or not.

 

[weststigers]

Storm signing another 2 and yes we are still just waiting in the corner for any left overs... I really Don't understand how the Dogs can be signing players considering they are / were in serious cap problems just last season and said it would take a few years to fix yet here they go.... Are we that bad :worried:

I think they cleared a bit by getting rid of Mbye, Klemmer, Reynolds and Woods immediately.

 

[supercoach]

@Cultured_Bogan ..someone old and slow

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Herd from a current penrith first grader that packer move to penrith is still on and will happen by June 30. He also said Waqa Blake's preferred destination is parramatta but he is frustrated with the slowness of the process with parramatta and If they dont speed up the process he will withdraw from negotiations with Parramatta and sign with the Bulldogs.

What the hell are the dogs going to pay him, they are in worse cap strife than us, and just signed DWZ and Stimson

It does make you wondér, especially when they also picked up the likes of CHN, Napa, Sue, Christian Crichton and Nick Meaney before the start of the season. I sure wish our cap problems were this bad! ?

 

[2005magic]

Herd from a current penrith first grader that packer move to penrith is still on and will happen by June 30. He also said Waqa Blake's preferred destination is parramatta but he is frustrated with the slowness of the process with parramatta and If they dont speed up the process he will withdraw from negotiations with Parramatta and sign with the Bulldogs.

What the hell are the dogs going to pay him, they are in worse cap strife than us, and just signed DWZ and Stimson

It does make you wondér, especially when they also picked up the likes of CHN, Napa, Sue, Christian Crichton and Nick Meaney before the start of the season. I sure wish our cap problems were this bad! ?

As has been said many times here and on other team supporter boards, there s absolutely no trust in the NRL cap administration by either the clubs or the NRL's oversight of such.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

@Cultured_Bogan ..someone old and slow

Jamie Buhrer, SKD, Michael Jennings, Blake Ayshford, Michael Gordon and Trent Hodkinson are all off contract and looking for a nice place to segue into retirement. Old Gal might want to go another round as well - come on Tigers, hop to it and snap em up!

 

[Tbone]

@Spud_Murphy all a bit green for us. Give them another year or two to ripen on the vine before we swoop in.

 

[Tigerlily]

@Spud_Murphy all a bit green for us. Give them another year or two to ripen on the vine before we swoop in.

So true...

 

[851]

@Cultured_Bogan ..someone old and slow

Jamie Buhrer, SKD, Michael Jennings, Blake Ayshford, Michael Gordon and Trent Hodkinson are all off contract and looking for a nice place to segue into retirement. Old Gal might want to go another round as well - come on Tigers, hop to it and snap em up!

We will have to wait for Jennings, he re-signed for another year

 

[851]

The Tigers were never at the races. They will look to bounce back tonight against a North Queensland stripped of close to $4 million worth of talent through injury and suspension.
There will be no excuses.

The author of that article is surely wrong, missing $4 million of talent, we have a about $3million we are not using


Book value of $3m, market value of $3k

Sad but true

 

[gallagher]

@Cultured_Bogan ..someone old and slow

Jamie Buhrer, SKD, Michael Jennings, Blake Ayshford, Michael Gordon and Trent Hodkinson are all off contract and looking for a nice place to segue into retirement. Old Gal might want to go another round as well - come on Tigers, hop to it and snap em up!


We will have to wait for Jennings, he re-signed for another year

Don't you just love parra?

 

[Viking Warrior]

@gallagher imagine the deal we Will get when Jennings is 36 yo.