@jirskyr said in [Signing Suggestions & Rumours](/post/1096862) said:
This is the bloody Signing and Suggestions thread, go over to the Lament thread with the chit chat about old players.
Yep ..... I’m really struggling with how this thread is progressing.
Perhaps it should be retitled and split into “Signing Suggestions and follow up whinge discussions“ AND “Rumoured signings”.
I then would stick to the latter and not continually waist my time trying to find something of substance.
Interesting how we can read pages of dribble on players who the club has had no interest in but that apparently is substance worthy of entry and reading on this thread. When discussion turns to a subject related to former juniors, its "I waist my time tyring to find something of substance". Well here is a fact, there is nothing of substance in this thread.
Perhaps all this so-called signings news and your whinging can be move to a "dribble thread".
I don't get why you are annoyed, this is literally the "suggestions" and "rumour" thread. By title, it's intended to be speculative, insubstantial, guesswork, left-field. It was created to house all the ideas about potential future players.
Real and confirmed signings get their own thread at the time they become real and confirmed.
There is another intentional thread for discussing players who have left Tigers, including former juniors:
https://weststigersforum.com/topic/30065/the-wests-tigers-lament-thread
Not too hard for everyone I don't think? Stuff about unconfirmed future players is in this thread right here, stuff about old players goes in the Lament thread.
If you want to read real stuff of real substance, confirmed by the club, become a member or subscribe to the WT official website, Facebook or some such, and you'll hear only the legit and substantial stuff.
But Lament and Suggestions/Rumour - expect 95% dribble.
People are just exasperated by what is happening in my opinion
Finally realizing that our club isn't the attractive option many thought we might have become is hurting many
But reality is this the market is very dry and I'm really concerned about a comment I made about 4 weeks ago that at the time was tongue in cheek
What happens if we literally can't spend our cap in 2020 ...you can't frontload contracts if players don't want to come
Who are these people who thought it was attractive.....Wests have always been built on unfashionable players who play their guts out for the jerseys.. it’s why the Ben T’eo’s and Slmey farts are despised
It why the Fitzy’s Hodgo’s Skando’s and Gelea’s are loved..
It’s why Twal’s Garner’s and Mikaele’s will do well..cause the believe
Many believed we had turned the corner with Madge and the COE ...and know are seeing that it isn't that easy
Players won't come until they see results ...real results on the footy paddock
Ideally the situation where we are the one club with money trying to sign a big player should have come in a couple of years time, after we had got some results and people could undeniably see we are moving upwards. Timing was off, is all.
God you know we are not that bad! I’m sick of all this BS about us not being an attractive option.
Im with you Spud. For each post "Noone will come here becuase we arent pretty enough" consider say Brisbane...no big signings and still cannot close out the Fifita signing. Mitchell hasnt gone anywhere. There are many clubs without big name signings in fact I dont think there have been any "big name signings"
Brisbane did resign all the players they wanted TPJ, Lodge, Oates, Glenn, and they will retain Fifita, his efforts in Fiji will make sure of that. Maybe Su'a is the one exception. They dont need to sign from outside except maybe in the halves where they did get Croft.
I believed in Cleary, Taylor, Potter, and now with Madge I do believe but am no longer optimistic. Good on you for still being optimistic, I wish I was, but im not, and I think fair enough.
