Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[TillLindemann]

We are all so sick of another rebuild year.
But next year is going to be much of the same.
We can only hope to see improvement in some of our young players.
If we can steal a Penrith or Broncos young gun even better.we need to persist with madge.end of next year will be much more exciting

Maybe young Stefano will be the messiah? Don't write off 2021 yet, keep the faith!

 

[JC99]

We are all so sick of another rebuild year.
But next year is going to be much of the same.
We can only hope to see improvement in some of our young players.
If we can steal a Penrith or Broncos young gun even better.we need to persist with madge.end of next year will be much more exciting

Maybe young Stefano will be the messiah? Don't write off 2021 yet, keep the faith!

Poor bugger is going to be crucified on the forum if he doesn’t play like Jason Taumalolo In his first full season of first grade.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

We are all so sick of another rebuild year.
But next year is going to be much of the same.
We can only hope to see improvement in some of our young players.
If we can steal a Penrith or Broncos young gun even better.we need to persist with madge.end of next year will be much more exciting

Maybe young Stefano will be the messiah? Don't write off 2021 yet, keep the faith!

Poor bugger is going to be crucified on the forum if he doesn’t play like Jason Taumalolo In his first full season of first grade.

Messiah? or just a naughty big boy?

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Chad Townsend

I think we should have a chat with his manager.

Thoughts?

Plodder plus. Trindall is a far better prospect.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

Chad Townsend

I think we should have a chat with his manager.

Thoughts?

Plodder plus. Trindall is a far better prospect.

We should only be looking at front rowers in there twilight years not backs or halves

 

[TYGA]

If we have five places to fill with only a million in cap space available we are up the creek big time. Minimum contract is around 100g, so
got no idea how we could pay JAC around half our available cap space and fill up the other four spots.

I get the feeling we are snookered because a few players we expected to move on are not going anywhere.2021 is going to be a long year

I love the fox but it would be madness to spend huge money on a player in his prime when we have no hope of challenging. If it’s a 4 year deal at say 550k a year then it makes sense. But 800k is ludicrous for us anyway. May get another team a title and be worth it for them but we should stay clear.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

Holland to call it quits at season's end

AuthorAlicia NewtonNRL.com ReporterTimestampWed 2 Sep 2020, 01:53 PM



Bulldogs centre Kerrod Holland has announced he'll retire from the NRL at season's end and return to hometown Newcastle and look for employment.

Holland, 27, has played 69 games for the Bulldogs

One less problem for WTS when we play doggies he always had the knack of playing well against us.

 

[BAGNF05]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Chad Townsend

I think we should have a chat with his manager.

Thoughts?

Didn’t the club just say we have too many players in that area? We let Benji go for that reason.

 

[tony soprano]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

Brooks maybe my 100th bomb something will happen?

 

[BAGNF05]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

Brooks maybe my 100th bomb something will happen?

He’s definitely out of touch but playing with no momentum. Eiso was going backwards all night. Give him the ball after a Papalli run and watch how much his kicking game improves

 

[Tigers_Tigers]

joe ofahengue has been told by broncos he can leave. he is contracted for another three more years and even tho he is on $500,000 a year broncos would have to pay a little bit of that. for me that is a steal. Flegler is also of contract and would also be another decent signing. Also read that we are looking at signing james tamou. In my opinion he is a log and far past his best but at a good price a experienced forward would be exactly what we need. Thoughts?

 

[tony soprano]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

Brooks maybe my 100th bomb something will happen?

He’s definitely out of touch but playing with no momentum. Eiso was going backwards all night. Give him the ball after a Papalli run and watch how much his kicking game improves

It’s not going to help him following a game plan. He never kicks the ball to the corners.
He made some good kicks to save us from forwards not making meters but his attacking kicks are disgusting to say the least. Forwards have nothing to do with that.

He has zero attack everywhere on the field.

 

[PabloX]

I'd definitely prefer the Broncos boys over Tamou

 

[Needaname]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

If Twal can get a little better with his passing he’s your man, does everything else an elite lock does.

Twal is a prop, a very good one, but he is a prop.

Jake T, Brown, Taumalol, Fischer-Harris, Murray, Asofa-Solomona.... if you cannot see what those guys bring that Twal doesnt, I dont know what to say....

I would put Twal against any prop in the world, no joke, no black orange and white glasses... guy is class. But a lock he isnt... We lose in the props, and do ourselves a disservice at lock thinking he is the answer...

Jake T is considered one of the best and Twal matches all his stats, like I said before he lacks the passing game. I don’t see why he’s not a lock he offers almost everything you want in that position.

Lacks passing...and leadership....and talking, directing, running the plays...

Twal is very one dimensional and passive IMO.

I’ve acknowledged his passing and that’s easily fixed during pre season. Madge many times has mentioned him as one of our leaders at the club, and locks don’t really direct and run plays? They’re very involved which Twal is

Its more how he runs.... 10m out from the tryline, Jake T, Taumololo, Murray etc are dynamic attacking options. Twal runs like a prop and gets held up as if its an early tackle count settling run... thats the difference.

The way I see it, the front row run at faces. The backrow run at spaces.
Which one would you say Twal does better?

 

[BAGNF05]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

Brooks maybe my 100th bomb something will happen?

He’s definitely out of touch but playing with no momentum. Eiso was going backwards all night. Give him the ball after a Papalli run and watch how much his kicking game improves

It’s not going to help him following a game plan. He never kicks the ball to the corners.
He made some good kicks to save us from forwards not making meters but his attacking kicks are disgusting to say the least. Forwards have nothing to do with that.

He has zero attack everywhere on the field.

I have to disagree there, the run before a kick is important, it sets up field position and if it’s a quick play the ball the playmaker has more time and space to measure a kick. We are on the back foot most of the time since the first Panthers game this year.

 

[mike]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

How many more excuses are people going to make for Brooks’s poor form. It’s Brooks fault and nothing and no one else’s. Only Brooks can fix it. His best option is to go elsewhere.

 

[BAGNF05]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

How many more excuses are people going to make for Brooks’s poor form. It’s Brooks fault and nothing and no one else’s. Only Brooks can fix it. His best option is to go elsewhere.

I’ll continue until I see him behind two big metre eaters. Never seen it yet.

 

[mike]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

How many more excuses are people going to make for Brooks’s poor form. It’s Brooks fault and nothing and no one else’s. Only Brooks can fix it. His best option is to go elsewhere.

I’ll continue until I see him behind two big metre eaters. Never seen it yet.

His three bombs he put up whilst we had a player in the sin bin against Penrith shows how brain dead as a footballer he is. Those kicks had nothing todo with what forward pack he was behind. Brooks is not an asset but a massive liability.

 

[tony soprano]

Why is every one saying we have no cap space . We get back $ 360,000 from the nrl . Then we have Benji , McQueen , rowdy , Taylor and a couple of lower grade players of contract . I think that we would have about $1,600,000 in cap space , if any one knows any difference please correct me .

Reports from SMH were we had around a million. With Stefano joining, having to pay more for Doueihi and Joey and some other guys probably getting small increases 1 million makes sense.

Money will probably be used for a winger and fullback it seems. No good props worth spending big money on, hopefully we get someone like Bunty Afoa or Isaiah Papali’i who are solid and
Cheap.

This is the mentality the Tigers have to change or they may as well give up. Woods had to slave for years as a Lone Ranger. Until we have a big aggressive forward pack, I.e. more than just Aloiai up front, all our backs (especially Brooks) will continue to look average. The circus will roll on. If the Rorters were in this predicament that get a guy out of a bad contract at another club.

We desperately need a real elite Lock... fixes our pack up in a single move, well that and getting McIntyre and Blores gas tanks up to scratch so we can give Garner the rissole... We have forwards, we need a lock.

I know we missed Aloiai and Musgrove last week but we had zero go forward. No wonder poor Brooks is down on form. Imo Aloiai is getting there but we need a real forward leader. You think we’re gonna match JWH/taukiaho or Tamou/Fisher Harris/ Kikau or RCG/Paulo/Matterson. We’re miles back.

Brooks maybe my 100th bomb something will happen?

He’s definitely out of touch but playing with no momentum. Eiso was going backwards all night. Give him the ball after a Papalli run and watch how much his kicking game improves

It’s not going to help him following a game plan. He never kicks the ball to the corners.
He made some good kicks to save us from forwards not making meters but his attacking kicks are disgusting to say the least. Forwards have nothing to do with that.

He has zero attack everywhere on the field.

I have to disagree there, the run before a kick is important, it sets up field position and if it’s a quick play the ball the playmaker has more time and space to measure a kick. We are on the back foot most of the time since the first Panthers game this year.

I cannot believe you are still making excuses for him. This has been all season he goes missing time after time.


Do you think Nathan in our team would be doing as bad.

He’s has plenty of time to but his no 1 play The in affective bomb ?