Who would you rather?

[Tigerboy]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

LOL. You’ve just described a choice.

“Poisoning the minds of teammates...” pffft

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

LOL. You’ve just described a choice.

Only if you want to split hairs. Anyone with a brain knows there was only one choice and the club made it.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

LOL. You’ve just described a choice.

“Poisoning the minds of teammates...” pffft

Why was he released then?

 

[Tigerwould]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

LOL. You’ve just described a choice.


Only if you want to split hairs. Anyone with a brain knows there was only one choice and the club made it.

RUOK?

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Latrell as a centre awesome as a fullback fitness and positional play will likely see him moved halfway theough the year
bj and douhie good bys for price

 

[McQueen_Magic]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

If we had a choice matterson would be here. Hence why we held off for so long. Matterson had stopped turning up to training and was lying the mental health card.

To the Original question, Joey is two leagues above Esan. Matterson at this point in his career is a better player than Lucy, but they are very different players. I’d go the Leuiluas in a choice s attack is a struggle of ours.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

If we had a choice matterson would be here. Hence why we held off for so long. Matterson had stopped turning up to training and was lying the mental health card.

To the Original question, Joey is two leagues above Esan. Matterson at this point in his career is a better player than Lucy, but they are very different players. I’d go the Leuiluas in a choice s attack is a struggle of ours.

There’s a lot of bitterness over Matterson, and rightly so. And the bitterness is starting to affect people’s judgement on him as a player. I’ll just say this, if halfway through last year you had a poll of who you’d rather, Matterson or Luciano, it would have been unanimous in Matterson’s favour. 100%. People would have even been asking who Lucy was.

 

[supercoach]

No brainer having BJ in front of Masters, but you really can’t compare Matto with LL, two different style of footballers. I would have been happy to have either one of them. Matterson might be a low life, but he could play and will go well for Parra this year

 

[gallagher]

I would have liked all four

 

[Tiger_Steve]

I would have liked all four

Really not convinced on Esan. This year will tell probably

 

[gallagher]

I would have liked all four

Really not convinced on Esan. This year will tell probably

He didn't have a great year but he's a classy player. Better than anything we have bar BJ.

 

[hank37w]

Cannot agree there.
Going on last years form I would take Momo over Esan.

 

[TigerSJ]

I think it was around mid season or just after when something changed with Matterson. I remember posting that i thought he had gone off the boil a bit and he wasn’t playing with the same intensity as he had been. There had obviously been some disagreement with Madge or change in his role in the team. He didnt ever tank it Moses style, but his heart wasnt in it - so the eventual outcome was that he wanted out. What do you do as a club in that position- in the end we had to let him go and move on. As for Masters, he was very average all season and even then, if BJ plays close to his best, he is far more dangerous than Esan.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

I would have liked all four

Really not convinced on Esan. This year will tell probably

He didn't have a great year but he's a classy player. Better than anything we have bar BJ.

We’ll find out starting this week I reckon. He’ll probably score 2 and set up 3!!!

 

[gallagher]

I would have liked all four

Really not convinced on Esan. This year will tell probably

He didn't have a great year but he's a classy player. Better than anything we have bar BJ.

We’ll find out starting this week I reckon. He’ll probably score 2 and set up 3!!!

They playing us are they??

 

[gallagher]

Cannot agree there.
Going on last years form I would take Momo over Esan.

On the back end of the season,I agree.

 

[05TIGZZ]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

LOL. You’ve just described a choice.


Only if you want to split hairs. Anyone with a brain knows there was only one choice and the club made it.

I have a brain and I believe the club handled this very very poorly. Your right there was one choice , you stay contracted to the tigers unless the eels give us a player we want.

 

[rustycage]

Bj and Luci
Because they want to be here

This is the only acceptable reason. Madness to ask this question before we’ve even played a game.


If the question was along the lines of "who is the best WestsTigers backrow/centre ?" I could understand your point. But it's not.
Recruitment has to work this stuff out before they sign players

The club had no choice but to release Matterson. He backed them into a corner. It wasn’t a choice for them to have the Luilea’s over Matterson.

The WTs did have a choice. Matterson was only in his first year of a three year contract.
This happens to clubs on occasions, take Cronulla for example.

You’re wrong. It was either hold him to the contract and run the risk of him poisoning the minds of teammates, or cut their losses and move on.

LOL. You’ve just described a choice.


Only if you want to split hairs. Anyone with a brain knows there was only one choice and the club made it.

I have a brain and I believe the club handled this very very poorly. Your right there was one choice , you stay contracted to the tigers unless the eels give us a player we want.

They did. They gave us Luciano. It's just you can't see that.

 

[crazycat]

I was thinking a lot about this and likeminded choices.
Matterson, Marsters and Matalino (Retired)
being replaced by
Doulei, and both Leilua's.

Honestly it's a trade for forwards for Backs. BJ is an interesting center, but I like the way when fired up he can get to the line and provides something different in attack. While loosing Matterson if he was disgruntled would be a good idea, we get BJ disgruntled from Canberra. Ricky is a definite character who will work people hard. Madge is the same I just hope Madge has better people skills to handle this. (wondering if Jason Taylor is around to give a people skills management course?

If so can someone sponsor him for Easts?)

BJ going into center I think will be a top move for us. You need top shelf talent or talent that can go up a gear if you are going to make the finals. If BJ works hard he will be that talent, but lets face it he left Canberra for a reason. I hope he can prove himself when he is here.

Likewise Doulei (i'm calling him Doolies? I can't type that name). A lot of potential, good games for Lebanon and probably our best choice at Fullback. Will he Gell there and live up to the Hype? who knows.

This leaves our front row. Loosing Matalino and Matterson being replaced with L Leilua and Zane Musgrove (dinnit we sign him last year and the player was naughty??). Mats was about as good as one of these two. Matterson's work rate gets replaced by impact. That's good we need impact.
But we have lost that Liam Fulton like work rate that seriously helps us win games.

Overall we swapped forwards for backs and I hope our new forwards step up to the mark.

 

[Tigerwould]

Impact and offloads is what we need on the edges.
We also need a lock that is as busy as Matterson was.