Willie Mason

@Flippedy said:
Is he really worth it? He's a 34 year old prop, who is not even going that good where he's playing now - how well are Newcastle going? Honestly, our club is so desperate, it's embarrassing!

Flip I reckon the Knights are back on track now

They've had a huge season . I wonder how we would of coped under the same circumstances ??
 
@happy tiger said:
@Flippedy said:
Is he really worth it? He's a 34 year old prop, who is not even going that good where he's playing now - how well are Newcastle going? Honestly, our club is so desperate, it's embarrassing!

Flip I reckon the Knights are back on track now

They've had a huge season . I wonder how we would of coped under the same circumstances ??

I think it's obvious how well we'd have coped, we haven't handled our own circumstances at all! lol.

The Knights have been crap all season and are only now starting to play ok with 3 rounds left - and it's nothing to do with Mason. Ever since we didn't sign him a couple of seasons ago, he has been way overrated by many on here. Our props are heaps better.
 
No for me.
And this is a prime example of what should NOT be happening at the club - a player approaching management about recruitment. Robbie should be told - respectfully - that his job is to play and to captain the team. Period.
If he is asked his opinion about a player prospect, then fine. That's different.
 
I've supported Robbie over all the drama that has been within the club and its cool for him to mention Mason but the club should say no to Mason. We need young players and ideally wingers or centres.
 
I'm saying the same thing I said 2 years ago yes he is leaps and bounds ahead of Galloway at least he runs the ball up hard unlike that useless Galloway

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@Snake said:
That will be a done deal then what Robbie wants Robbie gets ..the only problem with that is being an old player it will be the Lote Syndrome as I like to call it get injured early and will not play again for around 2 seasons . The medical / fitness gurus at the club will see to that …then Willie leaves and plays one last season for the Bunnies and is injury free for the entire season.

So it seems to me that our club needs to do something about our strength and conditioning, and until they get that fixed we will not attract many "good" players :bash except the one's that would like to join our club to have a "rest" :deadhorse:
 
I think you will find it was a sponsor who stopped it , 3 letter sponsor I'm told it topped of the for and against to sign him and if the sponsor never got involved he would have been signed and cheap
 
Mason would be a good pickup…
If we planned to release Galloway.

Wouldn't be excited if this happened.
Massive douche.
 
@andrew 474 said:
I think you will find it was a sponsor who stopped it , 3 letter sponsor I'm told it topped of the for and against to sign him and if the sponsor never got involved he would have been signed and cheap

Was a great decision going with razor Ray instead who played about 5 games.
 
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@wtfl1981 said:
It was people power that stopped him coming to WT a few years ago.

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Rubbish. It was Steve Folkes telling management that Willie was an unsettling influence at a club.

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I seem to recall the Humpty & the board taking notice of a section of the membership base against this, loudly voicing their disapproval.
Sheens was for it iirc.

I may well be wrong memory bad

Correct. He was responding to emails sent directly to him from members. Other factors also no doubt.

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Gee some people are not for real .34 and we want to sign him . The horse bolted on big willie about 3 years ago .but come to think of it .he is the kind of player most people in here want .watch somebody post the side for next year with willie in it.
 
Big Mason might be doing well in another club atm , the minute we sign him up he will end up retiring at our club after joining the injured veterans club we have.
I dont think its a good idea funding any more retirees .. ( On our playing roster ie)
 
@1/4 chicken said:
Gee some people are not for real .34 and we want to sign him . The horse bolted on big willie about 3 years ago .but come to think of it .he is the kind of player most people in here want .watch somebody post the side for next year with willie in it.

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22219&view=unread#unread

:laughing: Nostradamus
 
@1/4 chicken said:
Gee some people are not for real .34 and we want to sign him . The horse bolted on big willie about 3 years ago .but come to think of it .he is the kind of player most people in here want .watch somebody post the side for next year with willie in it.

Very true - Mason is highly overrated by many on here for some reason - desperation perhaps? He has hardly set the world on fire, since returning to the NRL, people!
 
I remember when Lawrence axed Mason when he was at the Cowboys. Was awesome.

We are barely going to lose a player and when we were uninjured this year we were carving the best teams in the comp up. We'll be alright, just gotta have some luck. For 2016 we need to cut a bunch of injury prone players though and sign up some average to good players who are known as durable.
 
Has a good game very now and then, the rest of the time bog average.

For that reason alone he is NOT what our young guys need around them.
 
I agree with most things said about Mason but I think these last couple of years under Bennett have changed him for the better. He doesn't appear to be the destabilising influence like his days at the Bulldogs or Rooters.

The only thing that I will say about Mason is that he will come cheap. The nature of the beast when you have a few elite players in the squad taking up 80% of cap space.

Yes, we have tried these types before and have been let down but we don't have too many options. We will go for these types every year unfortunately.

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