Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Coastie_Tiger]

Get in BJ lets get a couple more now

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

The Raiders thought Joey was a liability ha ha ha good luck Ricky with Curtis

 

[finnzo]

They managed turn jack whitons life around hopefully they can help Curtis

 

[ayritiger]

For anyone saying AD isnt a proven first grader you really didnt watch the back end of last season and the finals series that alone shows that he has proved himself and carried souths cant believe why he hasnt been signed yet

 

[avocadoontoast]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

I think you are misrepresenting the views of many on here. I don't think anyone is suggesting that AD is not a talented young footballer. And most would be happy for him to join the club. The issue is the price. If it's true that he wants a four year deal and $600k next year, then many of us think that it's too much at this stage of his career.

so why do we see things differently to the Roosters? Why do they feel like he is worth talking to assuming he’s asking the same thing.


“Many of us think that it’s too much at this stage of his career”.

At what stage then would he be worth his asking price?
We lost Moses who thought he was worth $800k. We thought that was too much at his stage of his career. Eels thought they would encourage Moses to live up to his own expectations rather than putting him down.


Just my opinion , but it looks to me that Moses lived up to his own expectations, rather than the lower expectations of WT.

Yes he always had high opinion of his talents.
But no matter how good or bad he turns out to be ... he’s not a person I want anywhere near our club. Pretty much same tag I would pin on to guys like Matterson and Mitchell.

I rate Moses really highly as a player. I think he’s got a heap of talent. But as a person he’s a shocker. Tanking like he did for us is unforgivable. Such a poor display of character.

Moses is a dead set frontrunner. Looks like a diamond when his team are giving someone a flogging but he is a peaheart sook when things aren't going the best. He's a Kyrgios of the footy field.
Don't rate him much for that reason alone.

Fair point actually. He’s never really overcome adversity. Struggles to turn a game around when they’re on the back foot like the great ones can.

 

[TillLindemann]

The NRL is today dealing with another potential off-season scandal following the overnight arrest of Canberra Raiders’ star recruit Curtis Scott.

Club officials have yet to inform the NRL integrity unit that Scott was locked up in Sydney overnight following an incident with police after a boozy Australia Day celebration.

He is facing charges of resisting arrest after being approached by police in the Moore Park area.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart was informed of the drama at 9.45am today.


Scott joined the Raiders after being granted an early release by Storm, two years before his contract expired.

It is a blow for the Raiders who released another centre Joey Leilua to the Wests Tigers over the weekend.

The former Melbourne Storm star has spent the long weekend in Sydney catching up with family and old mates.

He also had drama on Saturday night at the Clovelly Hotel where he was searched on the footpath outside the premises in a random police drug check.

He was found to have had nothing in his possession, according to his manager Sam Ayoub.

The Daily Telegraph is awaiting comment from the Raiders and NSW Police.

Only last week Scott spoke in a Fox Sports interview about why he enjoyed playing for a club outside of Sydney.

“(Signing with Canberra) was to stay out of the Sydney rat-race and the Sydney fishbowl,” he said, “It’s a good place to just concentrate on footy and at the moment, that’s the most important thing – apart from my family – that’s going on in my life,”

So let me get this straight, the tweet that went out yesterday morning regarding Scott was in relation to an incident on Sat which he was later cleared. Instead of taking caution, he has since been arrested for an entirely different situation?
Is he trying to get out of a bad contract with Canberra?

Night two, if it was as reported, was utter stupidity and might be the end of his career. You don't punch a cop and expect leniency.

But the reporting of the previous night is what irks me about the media.

Being randomly searched for drugs (presumably so were hundreds of others) and having nothing found is NOT "being involved in an incident". It is a deliberate choice of language to misrepresent what happened.

 

[cochise]

You can get of the ship now @GNR4LIFE

 

[WT2K]

No need for swimming back out to sea @GNR4LIFE

 

[Fade.To.Black]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

I think you are misrepresenting the views of many on here. I don't think anyone is suggesting that AD is not a talented young footballer. And most would be happy for him to join the club. The issue is the price. If it's true that he wants a four year deal and $600k next year, then many of us think that it's too much at this stage of his career.

so why do we see things differently to the Roosters? Why do they feel like he is worth talking to assuming he’s asking the same thing.


“Many of us think that it’s too much at this stage of his career”.

At what stage then would he be worth his asking price?
We lost Moses who thought he was worth $800k. We thought that was too much at his stage of his career. Eels thought they would encourage Moses to live up to his own expectations rather than putting him down.


Just my opinion , but it looks to me that Moses lived up to his own expectations, rather than the lower expectations of WT.

Yes he always had high opinion of his talents.
But no matter how good or bad he turns out to be ... he’s not a person I want anywhere near our club. Pretty much same tag I would pin on to guys like Matterson and Mitchell.

I rate Moses really highly as a player. I think he’s got a heap of talent. But as a person he’s a shocker. Tanking like he did for us is unforgivable. Such a poor display of character.

Moses is a dead set frontrunner. Looks like a diamond when his team are giving someone a flogging but he is a peaheart sook when things aren't going the best. He's a Kyrgios of the footy field.
Don't rate him much for that reason alone.

Fair point actually. He’s never really overcome adversity. Struggles to turn a game around when they’re on the back foot like the great ones can.

He's a blouse. Watch him closely in a game, he is always very timid when it comes to being sat on his arse in attack. Skips around like a pre-pubescent schoolgirl after he has gotten rid of the ball as well. It's quite amusing actually.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

The NRL is today dealing with another potential off-season scandal following the overnight arrest of Canberra Raiders’ star recruit Curtis Scott.

Club officials have yet to inform the NRL integrity unit that Scott was locked up in Sydney overnight following an incident with police after a boozy Australia Day celebration.

He is facing charges of resisting arrest after being approached by police in the Moore Park area.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart was informed of the drama at 9.45am today.


Scott joined the Raiders after being granted an early release by Storm, two years before his contract expired.

It is a blow for the Raiders who released another centre Joey Leilua to the Wests Tigers over the weekend.

The former Melbourne Storm star has spent the long weekend in Sydney catching up with family and old mates.

He also had drama on Saturday night at the Clovelly Hotel where he was searched on the footpath outside the premises in a random police drug check.

He was found to have had nothing in his possession, according to his manager Sam Ayoub.

The Daily Telegraph is awaiting comment from the Raiders and NSW Police.

Only last week Scott spoke in a Fox Sports interview about why he enjoyed playing for a club outside of Sydney.

“(Signing with Canberra) was to stay out of the Sydney rat-race and the Sydney fishbowl,” he said, “It’s a good place to just concentrate on footy and at the moment, that’s the most important thing – apart from my family – that’s going on in my life,”

So let me get this straight, the tweet that went out yesterday morning regarding Scott was in relation to an incident on Sat which he was later cleared. Instead of taking caution, he has since been arrested for an entirely different situation?
Is he trying to get out of a bad contract with Canberra?

Night two, if it was as reported, was utter stupidity and might be the end of his career. You don't punch a cop and expect leniency.

But the reporting of the previous night is what irks me about the media.

Being randomly searched for drugs (presumably so were hundreds of others) and having nothing found is NOT "being involved in an incident". It is a deliberate choice of language to misrepresent what happened.

They'll claim it was a case of mistaken identity the cop approached him in an aggressive manner and looked like Dylan Walker

 

[Fade.To.Black]

They managed turn jack whitons life around hopefully they can help Curtis

Meh. Anyone that punches and kicks a public officer is a scumbag.

 

[finnzo]

They managed turn jack whitons life around hopefully they can help Curtis

Meh. Anyone that punches and kicks a public officer is a scumbag.

I would like to hear the full story before marking judgement there is plenty of crook cops out there who knows what happend but I would say the most likely outcome is that Curtis was been a bloody idiot

 

[jadtiger]

I wonder if Turdberg will write him a referance to take to court.Probably not he is not a souffs player

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Curtis Scott, jaysus, what are Raiders doing, he's a new Todd Carney.

He'll go nuts in Canberra.

 

[Fade.To.Black]

Curtis Scott, jaysus, what are Raiders doing, he's a new Todd Carney.

He'll go nuts in Canberra.

Sounds like he already has. They should send him to that country town Carney was forbidden from. Goulburn was it?

 

[AusTigers]

Bj confirmed signed . Wests tigers Twitter.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Curtis Scott, jaysus, what are Raiders doing, he's a new Todd Carney.

He'll go nuts in Canberra.

Sounds like he already has. They should send him to that country town Carney was forbidden from. Goulburn was it?

Wasn't Scott arrested in Sydney?

 

[twentyforty]

https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2020/01/27/joseph-leilua-joins-wests-tigers/

 

[twentyforty]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

I think you are misrepresenting the views of many on here. I don't think anyone is suggesting that AD is not a talented young footballer. And most would be happy for him to join the club. The issue is the price. If it's true that he wants a four year deal and $600k next year, then many of us think that it's too much at this stage of his career.

so why do we see things differently to the Roosters? Why do they feel like he is worth talking to assuming he’s asking the same thing.


“Many of us think that it’s too much at this stage of his career”.

At what stage then would he be worth his asking price?
We lost Moses who thought he was worth $800k. We thought that was too much at his stage of his career. Eels thought they would encourage Moses to live up to his own expectations rather than putting him down.


Just my opinion , but it looks to me that Moses lived up to his own expectations, rather than the lower expectations of WT.

Yes he always had high opinion of his talents.
But no matter how good or bad he turns out to be ... he’s not a person I want anywhere near our club. Pretty much same tag I would pin on to guys like Matterson and Mitchell.


There would be very few nrl players who don’t have high expectations of their own ability. If their club doesn’t see that as a quality worth fostering Then obviously there will be conflict. At the same time I can understand that coaches want coach able players.

It’s not his expectations that I have a problem with.
You Just need to wind back the clock and see how he acted during the lat few months he was with us. Unforgivable!

There has been a host of players tanking and behaving badly at various times during the last decade. I agree their behaviour was embarrassing and reflected poorly on those players. That unfortunately was a symptom of the culture being developed by the club at the time. I know it’s convenient for fans to lay blame on the departing players, but ultimately the responsibility for managing player behaviour lies at the feet of the clubs leadership, which begins at board level.

 

[nrlsurvivor]

https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2020/01/27/joseph-leilua-joins-wests-tigers/

Leilua signing on the Tigers website = official. Yeah baby. Thanks to the Tigers staff who worked on the long weekend to post the press release. I can not stress out now.