andrew 474
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wont come to the tigers
A lot of people sounding like Dragons fans in this thread.
Magpies legends are Magpie legends
Ditto Balmains
Ditto WTs.
There are a select few that can claim both. Claiming every player from balmain & the Magpies as WTs legends takes away from the uniqueness guys like Skando, Hodgo, Cherry, Senter, Tex, Buckets and Joel Caine own
Magpies legends are Magpie legends
Ditto Balmains
Ditto WTs.
There are a select few that can claim both. Claiming every player from balmain & the Magpies as WTs legends takes away from the uniqueness guys like Skando, Hodgo, Cherry, Senter, Tex, Buckets and Joel Caine own
Joel Helmes
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No thanks to Mitchell.
GNR4LIFE
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@Flippedy said:
No they aren't, Cochise - Wests Tigers is a whole new entity. Pearce played for Balmain and Donnelly played for Wests - neither team exists in the NRL anymore. It's time the media realised that. After 12 years we have enough real WT legends to invite to the reunions - Hodgo, Skando, Senter, O'Neill, Hill, Richards, Payten, Galea….you get the idea.
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I understand and admire what you are trying to say and your sentiment behind it. I also want to move forward as one club and believe that those trying so desperately to hang onto the past are holding us back. I just find it extremely disappointing if we abandon our past completely. Any way we are way off topic so this is a discussion for another day.
Yeah fair enough, mate, I see your point also.
Getting back on topic, Pearce would be a nice addition, especially with his newly formed combination with Robbie, but I doubt we could afford him under the cap. We would have to move a lot of others on, apart from the players already leaving, to make room for him.
A lot gets made of the combination that Farah has with Pearce, but imo its a result of Farah playing with a specialist halfback, not Pearce specificly
tig_prmz
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Brett Finch has decided not to renew his Wigan contract and will return home to Australia at the end of the current Super League season.
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The 30-year-old joined the Warriors before the beginning of the 2011 season on a two-year deal from Melbourne Storm and has impressed at stand-off.
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He had to wait to make his debut due to a neck injury but flourished in his first season in England, where he helped the club lift the Carnegie Challenge Cup last season.
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"The Wigan club has been fantastic to me and I felt that it was important to sort out my future now so that everyone knew the situation and so that the club could start to make other plans," he said.
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"There are a number of options back home that I find attractive and my life after footy needs to be given consideration."
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Finch has been linked to a handful of NRL clubs, but gave no hint of where he might be headed.
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"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in England and to play for a club like Wigan has been a dream," he said.
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"The fans have treated me so well and I will be eternally grateful to them for making me feel so welcome. I want to finish this season strongly as I am part of a special team and feel that we have every chance of winning more trophies."
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Finch has scored 13 tries in 47 appearances with the Warriors and head coach Shaun Wane admitted losing the Australian is a massive blow.
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"I know his character and he will be trying his very best for Wigan until the last second of this season. Although I am sad that he has chosen to move on, I understand completely his reasons for doing so," he said.
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The 30-year-old joined the Warriors before the beginning of the 2011 season on a two-year deal from Melbourne Storm and has impressed at stand-off.
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He had to wait to make his debut due to a neck injury but flourished in his first season in England, where he helped the club lift the Carnegie Challenge Cup last season.
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"The Wigan club has been fantastic to me and I felt that it was important to sort out my future now so that everyone knew the situation and so that the club could start to make other plans," he said.
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"There are a number of options back home that I find attractive and my life after footy needs to be given consideration."
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Finch has been linked to a handful of NRL clubs, but gave no hint of where he might be headed.
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"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in England and to play for a club like Wigan has been a dream," he said.
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"The fans have treated me so well and I will be eternally grateful to them for making me feel so welcome. I want to finish this season strongly as I am part of a special team and feel that we have every chance of winning more trophies."
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Finch has scored 13 tries in 47 appearances with the Warriors and head coach Shaun Wane admitted losing the Australian is a massive blow.
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"I know his character and he will be trying his very best for Wigan until the last second of this season. Although I am sad that he has chosen to move on, I understand completely his reasons for doing so," he said.
GNR4LIFE
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I think Finch will end up at either the Steelers or Souths
MacDougall
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@king sirro said:
Agree. Not to mention there will be some pretty talented kids in the NYC pushing through with the likes of Mitchell Moses and Luke Brooks.
851
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Would be ideal,can't see how people would knock this idea,Farah works well with Pearce,and Benji can go back to 6,Sirro is that good he could play at 3,12 or 13,yes please I say.
tig_prmz
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@keods said:
they dont have blair, ellis, lawrence, on 400K+ each*
Yeah the Storm have a lot of players on minimum contacts or close to it.
happy_tiger
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@keods said:
The problem would be this
Our forward pack would resemble
13 Glen Air
12 Trent Runciman
11 Grey Viane
10 Steve Trindall
9 Steve Crouch
8 Nick Graham
6 Extremely good reasons not to buy Pearce
redemption
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@Sabre said:
I can only assume keods (who came up yesterday with a scenario minus three players - but somehow included one of THOSE players in his own team) - is a clinical moron!
However - in good faith - I'll suggest his notion of contractual values (and how the figures he envisioned could possibly be accommodated under the salary cap) - somehow makes his/her previous input seem relatively intelligent!
A lot of these rumours coming out at present are surely based on enquiries being made by clubs who don't yet know what the salary cap will look like after the new TV deal. If it goes up a lot there will be some very, very big free agent signings in the immediate wake as teams find themselves with lots of free cash and only limited places to spend it.
However, any decent lawyer would have made sure that contracts include clauses that they be renegotiated or stepped up in the event of a higher salary cap. If you were a player you'd be pretty crazy to sign a long term deal a year out from a potentially large bump in the salary cap without making sure that you can get some of that cash if and when it becomes available.
So what's that got to do with the Tigers and Mitchell Pearce? Well, my guess is that the club has looked into the possibility of getting him after 2013 because they think there's a chance that they'll have more money to spend that would be the case under current arrangements. But, given they'll likely also have to give more to Marshall, Farah etc it may not be *that much* more. So perhaps we ought to be thinking about this in the context of it being possible that $600,000 in future cap is the same as roughly $400,000 in today's.
The bottom line, however, is that it's never possible to say whether someone is a good signing or not unless you know how much they're costing (unless they're palpably not first grade standard, I guess). And when you don't even know what the cap's going to be it's doubly impossible. So I'm not going to pay much attention to any of this stuff for at least another year.
However, any decent lawyer would have made sure that contracts include clauses that they be renegotiated or stepped up in the event of a higher salary cap. If you were a player you'd be pretty crazy to sign a long term deal a year out from a potentially large bump in the salary cap without making sure that you can get some of that cash if and when it becomes available.
So what's that got to do with the Tigers and Mitchell Pearce? Well, my guess is that the club has looked into the possibility of getting him after 2013 because they think there's a chance that they'll have more money to spend that would be the case under current arrangements. But, given they'll likely also have to give more to Marshall, Farah etc it may not be *that much* more. So perhaps we ought to be thinking about this in the context of it being possible that $600,000 in future cap is the same as roughly $400,000 in today's.
The bottom line, however, is that it's never possible to say whether someone is a good signing or not unless you know how much they're costing (unless they're palpably not first grade standard, I guess). And when you don't even know what the cap's going to be it's doubly impossible. So I'm not going to pay much attention to any of this stuff for at least another year.
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