Willie Mason [Discussion]

[Goose]

Yes i agree with the clontarfkid, we let Gibbs go who was playing top football & we sign Bell & maybe Mason, where does the money come from.

Bell would be on the minimum, and you need 25 in your squad, so if he was not there, so one else would count to the cap, he has no effect on your cap.

Gibbs was on reasonable money.

Mason will be offered a smallish contract

 

[Goose]

If I'm sitting in Willies shoes at the moment it seems like a pretty simple decision to make. A team with a genuine chance of winning the competition or an up an down season for an extra couple of bob in your pocket at penrith where you might scrape the 8 if you're lucky.
I honestly don't believe the question is if, so much as it is when?
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$20k on your last ever contract is a reasonable amount

 

[cunno]

Well if our culture is so good maybe we can convert him?

Surely 30 good influences are more powerful than one bad one! :slight_smile:

It depends how management handles any wayward behaviour, needs to be stamped on straight away otherwise there is potential for others to be influenced and things can go down hill from there.

 

[Joel Helmes]

If I'm sitting in Willies shoes at the moment it seems like a pretty simple decision to make. A team with a genuine chance of winning the competition or an up an down season for an extra couple of bob in your pocket at penrith where you might scrape the 8 if you're lucky.
I honestly don't believe the question is if, so much as it is when?
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Also I believe he still has house in the eastern suburbs and that probably makes Penrith a bit too far away, pretty big trip five days a week.

If he did drive the extra $20,000 would be chewed up in petrol!

 

[cunno]

If I'm sitting in Willies shoes at the moment it seems like a pretty simple decision to make. A team with a genuine chance of winning the competition or an up an down season for an extra couple of bob in your pocket at penrith where you might scrape the 8 if you're lucky.
I honestly don't believe the question is if, so much as it is when?
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Also I believe he still has house in the eastern suburbs and that probably makes Penrith a bit too far away, pretty big trip five days a week.

If he did drive the extra $20,000 would be chewed up in petrol!

He could use public transport like Joe from Manly. :stuck_out_tongue:

 

[Fraze23]

If I'm sitting in Willies shoes at the moment it seems like a pretty simple decision to make. A team with a genuine chance of winning the competition or an up an down season for an extra couple of bob in your pocket at penrith where you might scrape the 8 if you're lucky.
I honestly don't believe the question is if, so much as it is when?
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$20k on your last ever contract is a reasonable amount

I'm sure that it is a reasonable amount, but for a bloke who's just wasted his time chasing money in French rugby you'd think that there are things he could achieve with us that you can't put a price tag on. It's well documented how "tight knit" the playing group are, you can't put a price on playing good footy, with a great bunch of blokes and tasting a little success at the same time.
Not that any of this couldn't happen at penrith, this is just how I see things from masons perspective.

 

[Vicious]

I think he`d be a great signing. Bring him off the bench to get us going forward when the starting props are having a rest.

 

[Bob]

He would be in the run on side with penrith. He would also be a big fish in a small pond. At the tigers he would be fighting for a bench spot in the rear view mirror of many stars. That might be hard on the ego for mason..

Personally I think if he came to the tigers we would turn on our opinion of him quicker than Lui turned on his ummm ankle.
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[boonboon]

Remember we did look at signing mason at the start of 2010 and it was only price that was an issue then so if he is cheap I think it would be a good signing after all their are much worse human beings in the game our halfback from last year for a start and he has at least never done anything badly wrong and at 30 and his last chance he will be more grown up. As for a bad influence if our club culture isn't good enough that 1 bloke can ruin it then it was crap to begin with

 

[Defiant]

Assuming the medical is ok we have to be favourite then.

$400 more a week less tax probably won't even cover the petrol.

wow we certainly look strong on paper with willie coming off the bench and depth everywhere.

 

[Balmain_Bug]

Willie has cleverly orchestrated his mate Braith to manufacture an extra competitor in the race by suggesting the Roosters should sign him and Sonny Bill. The Roosters won't do that but what it does (albeit poorly) is put pressure on those clubs negotiating with Wille to make a decision.

 

[Brisbane_Tiger]

If we do sign him and he plays well will it change peoples opinion of him.
For me probably not but if he scores tries or makes breaks it will be hard not to like him if not for a little while.
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[Goose]

Assuming the medical is ok we have to be favourite then.

$400 more a week less tax probably won't even cover the petrol.

wow we certainly look strong on paper with willie coming off the bench and depth everywhere.

how far away do you guys think Penrith is :slight_smile:

the difference from concord to penrith outside of peak hour is about 35 mins and about 3 litres of fuel ( i do the trip 3 or 4 times a week)

people can say it is only $20k, but Im sure for most of us if we got a $20k pay rise it would be very hard to say no to

 

[Novocastrian_Tiger]

I said it before and I willl say it again, if Big Willie joins the Tigers, it will increase our chances for winning the big one significantly. He may be a peanut off the field, but who gives a flying fruitcake. As long as he gives my Tigers a better chance to win every game, I dont care. Bring on Big Willie, we will dominate with him in our team. GO THE TIGERS!!!!

 

[steven_tiger]

I'll tell you what, The Big Willie used to be bloody quick. I never remember that part of his game?

If we do sign him Sheens needs to show him that clip from You Tube to remind him just how good he can be (without the extra yard of pace).

By the way, how good is it seeing Willie bash through Slater like he isn't even there @ 35 secs.

 

[Chris]

The more I think about it the more I'm hoping he signs with us. I can just see it now, a pic of him in his tigers gear during a press conference announcing he has signed with the tigers and the caption underneath the pic saying something like…..

"That awkward moment after years of calling the tigers over rated and weak, now talking them up as the best team in the comp only because you signed with them to win one last premiership."

Watching him eat humble pie would be priceless!

 

[Tiger_Watto]

The more I think about it the more I'm hoping he signs with us. I can just see it now, a pic of him in his tigers gear during a press conference announcing he has signed with the tigers and the caption underneath the pic saying something like…..

"That awkward moment after years of calling the tigers over rated and weak, now talking them up as the best team in the comp only because you signed with them to win one last premiership."

Watching him eat humble pie would be priceless!

Or it mite say "Beware the Tiger Willie" :laughing:

 

[Tigerdale]

Hang on a minute..we supposedly couldnt afford to keep Gibbs who is in his prime & a proven & highly valued first grader,but we can afford to buy BOTH Mathew Bell AND Willie Mason,a couple of 30-somethings who havent shone for years(if ever in the case of Bell).
I simply dont get it,other than Sheens must have had enough of Gibbs antics(but is prepared to take a much bigger potential risk on Masons antics)
:wtf ??

U could buy a house with the leftover money from Gibbs' deal to that Bell and Mason are on.

It's a numbers game. If u think Gibbs deserved what he was on, given the strain on today's salary cap and the club already having players such as Marshall, Carah, Ellis, Lawrence etc, u got rocks in your head

 

[1_4_chicken_chips]

Assuming the medical is ok we have to be favourite then.

$400 more a week less tax probably won't even cover the petrol.

wow we certainly look strong on paper with willie coming off the bench and depth everywhere.

how far away do you guys think Penrith is :slight_smile:

the difference from concord to penrith outside of peak hour is about 35 mins and about 3 litres of fuel ( i do the trip 3 or 4 times a week)

people can say it is only $20k, but Im sure for most of us if we got a $20k pay rise it would be very hard to say no to

yes but willy does drive a hummer …lol...

 

[king_sirro]

Delete the idiots twitter account