@diedpretty said in [The Wests Tigers Lament Thread](/post/1351453) said:
Boy the Daily Rag is putting the boot in today. Have a good laugh.
Story 1
The Wests Tigers are once again a club fighting for credibility with one win in seven matches in 2021 and a decade-long finals drought. Ahead of Sunday’s clash with St George-Illawarra, David Riccio turns the spotlight on the club’s polarising recruitment.
Revealed are the Test, State of Origin and Dally M medal winners who are among 25 players the Tigers developed, recruited and ultimately let go over the past eight years.
1. James Tedesco (Roosters)
2. Josh Addo-Carr (Storm)
3. Isaac Liu (Roosters)
4. Mitchell Moses (Eels)
5. Aaron Woods (Sharks)
6. Ryan Papenhuyzen (Storm)
7. Marty Taupau (Sea Eagles)
8. Tevita “Junior” Tatola (Rabbitohs)
9. Ryan Matterson (Eels)
10. Ray Stone (Eels)
11. Paul Momirovski (Panthers)
12. Sauaso Sue (Knights)
13. Matt Lodge (Broncos)
14. Jeremy Marshall-King (Bulldogs)
15. Taniela Paseka (Sea Eagles)
16. Moses Suli (Sea Eagles)
17. Te Maire Martin (retired at Cowboys in 2020 due to head knocks)
18. Benji Marshall (Rabbitohs)
19. Curtis Sironen (Sea Eagles)
20. Bayley Sironen (Warriors)
21. Ava Seumanufagai (Bulldogs)
22. Corey Thompson (Titans)
23. Esan Marsters (Cowboys)
24. Josh Aloiai (Sea Eagles)
25. Matt Eisenhuth (Panthers)
They are really reaching with a lot of these....
1: Teddy had a contract on the table for months, MONTHS, but he Moses, Woods and Brooks wanted to hold the club to ransom for more money..............now, they won't exactly winning games for us, we didn't make any finals with these 4 players......
2: Yeah no argument about JAC, it was dumb of the club, but how about having a go at the Sharks for letting him go first?
3: Who? seriously, how many other clubs lose juniors to other clubs?? You crapped on about JAC yet he was with the Sharks and they didn't want him.
4: Moses, this clown tanked it, literally tanked it in his last couple of games for us and it was blatantly obvious too
5: See Teddy, Woods wanted more money............how many times after leaving us did he play for NSW and Australia? Pretty quiet on that front eh?
6: Hard to pin Pap on the club. The club thought Teddy would have signed and it wasn't fair to Pap to have him languishing in lower grades if he could get a better deal.
7: Marty, again...........I mean seriously, he left the Dogs, so why aren't they in the spotlight over this? I was disappointed to see him go.
8: Again, another junior which happens to every single other club. You've mentioned several players who started at clubs other than the Tigers......
9: Matterson, see above, left the Roosters......and we didn't just let him go, he wanted out.
10: Ray Stone..lol seriously?? how does this guy get a mention at all?
11: Momo and as stated, originally from the Roosters.......but that's fine apparently, grind that axe against the Tigers....again, would have been fine with Momo staying, but we needed a fullback this year............are you going to do an article on the Panthers now losing Laurie?
12: Sue.........come on seriously?
13: Lodge........former Storm player and yet they get a green light letting him go.........however, he did himself in, it wasn't the club.
14: Marshall-King.........really? he's hardly set the world on fire.
15: Paseka, again another junior, because apparently this doesn't happen to other clubs
16: Suli, oh come on that's just laughable. Parra junior, sacked, indiscretions with us, sacked, Dogs, sacked.........are we seeing a pattern here?
17: Te Maire, you just stated why he was let go in the article..........no club (bar the Roosters) can keep them all.
18: Benji................*sigh* sick of seeing this crap on Facebook "waah why did the club let him go?"...........if you actually watched how he played last year, you'd get your answer
19: Young Siro wasn't cutting the mustard with us, it just wasn't working for him or the club here.
20: Even younger Siro, he wasn't setting the world on fire and hasn't been since he left.
21: Ava, former Eel......Sharks let him go as well...
22: Corey, yeah I would have preferred Corey to stay, but as stated, he wanted to go to be closer to his family, pretty harsh to pin this one on the club. Also, originally a Dogs player.
23: Esan................if credibility in this article wasn't well and truly gone before.............it's gone now
24: Josh, former Eel, something happened, big dispute, he didn't want to stay.
25: The Huth! He wasn't setting the world on fire for us either and a former Eel
So, in this list we have 1 original Shark player, 3 Eels, 2 Dogs, 1 Storm and 2 Roosters........so 9 players out of your "let's put crap on the Tigers" article all came from other clubs, but they get a free pass apparently letting these players go.