WT Player Recruitment & Retention for 2020

[Elderslie_Tiger]

"Every character and every person that comes into the cub we've got to make sure is the right one for where we want to get to."

-Madge



I like this.

MADGE HAS A PLAN

 

[TJ21]

@Elderslie_Tiger unfortunately we all said the same thing about Ivan. I have faith in Madge hopefully he makes the right decisions

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

@Elderslie_Tiger unfortunately we all said the same thing about Ivan. I have faith in Madge hopefully he makes the right decisions

Ivan drew up the blue print and Madge is tearing it up

 

[bptiger]

who wants to take the odds that we just up grade players from the cant cup. gee I hope we don't sit on are hands till the end of next season, but we are the tigers.

 

[Tigerboy]

who wants to take the odds that we just up grade players from the cant cup. gee I hope we don't sit on are hands till the end of next season, but we are the tigers.

Have some faith bro 😤

 

[happy_tiger]

@Elderslie_Tiger unfortunately we all said the same thing about Ivan. I have faith in Madge hopefully he makes the right decisions

Ivan drew up the blue print and Madge is tearing it up

Ivan used some soiled dunny paper

 

[the_third]

@bptiger what odds are you offering?

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

So after having put the list together, I've actually only just read through it now and digested it. A few things spring to mind:

- I wonder if other sides have so few players in their top 30 locked down past next year. Just over one third of our playing group has a contract past 2020. Is it so common for sides to have such large parts of their roster unsigned past one season, and only two past two seasons? It might be a false economy since we have five spots yet to fill and they may well be longer term signings. I'll need to compare this again next year once all signings have been made.

- A lot of bodies off contract in 2020. Out of that bunch, there's only a few must-haves on that list for mine: Twal, Garner, Momirovski and Talau. I can handle Eisenhuth and Clark for depth at the right price.

- Not a whole lot of depth in the backline or forwards past this year. Really lean on centres, second rowers and props. We have reasonable depth past 2020 in the spine, or at least players that can fill the spine out ably (as opposed to having 5/8's play hooker or second rowers play 5/8.)

- I suspect Madge may even bring a kid (Simpkin possibly?) on in the 30th spot to debut after 30th June to maximise our available cap.

- Based on the above, I would think that we'd need to fill out around 10-11 spots for 2021.

 

[Snake]

@Cultured_Bogan So to that end the team finally becomes a top4 squad ... next season is the clean out of all clean outs . A 70% new squad of what the coach requires to finally cement the team in the top 8 , I must say the coming of 2021 is something to get excited about if done properly!

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

@Cultured_Bogan So to that end the team finally becomes a top4 squad ... next season is the clean out of all clean outs . A 70% new squad of what the coach requires to finally cement the team in the top 8 , I must say the coming of 2021 is something to get excited about if done properly!

I'm very keen (and apprehensive,) to see how Madge utilises the cap next year. Thinking about it, he brings a kid on for spot #30 he has $1.6m to spend on four spots for 2020. Does he chase one huge name, chase a couple of decent ones or sign a bunch of kids and front load whomever we have on the books on a big wicket for 2021?

$400K will pick you up a breakout young talent. Problem is picking up someone on that sort of cash is speculative. You could be on a bargain, you could wind up with a lemon or you could get another Matterson who spits the dummy after a proven year.

It looks as thought Madge is looking heavily toward underpinning a quality 17 with talented kids to come on through when the cap squeezes, much the way the Storm has endured years of losing good system players while maintaining their core group.

 

[Geo]

I wonder if other sides have so few players in their top 30 locked down past next year. Just over one third of our playing group has a contract past 2020

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/11/04/2020-nrl-rosters-official-squads-announced-for-all-teams/

You might find this helpful...Most sides have few players lock down beyond 2020...

Nearly all have 10-15 Roster spots to fill ...

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Talau, Garner and Twal all updated.

Wouldn't mind hearing Clark and Momo are being resigned as well.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Talau, Garner and Twal all updated.

Wouldn't mind hearing Clark and Momo are being resigned as well.

u want that before or after mitchell and luciano?

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Talau, Garner and Twal all updated.

Wouldn't mind hearing Clark and Momo are being resigned as well.

u want that before or after mitchell and luciano?

Before preferably, Mitchell should be the last major signing we should make after all our retention announcements are made.

 

[HabboTiger]

What about the eels youngster? The one they won’t release

 

[TigerSJ]

Yes correct - Utoikamanu is his name. Last i read the eels wont let him come to us until 2021. Need to add him into calculations.

 

[taika68]

Some great young Eels come over to the Tigers, hopefully we look after them.
Fainga - Fiji Rep
Field - Aus Schoolboy
Taipari- Junior Kiwi, SG Ball winner
and all the others are rep players as well.
Should be a great game when they all face Parra ....

 

[TheDaBoss]

Some great young Eels come over to the Tigers, hopefully we look after them.
Fainga - Fiji Rep
Field - Aus Schoolboy
Taipari- Junior Kiwi, SG Ball winner
and all the others are rep players as well.
Should be a great game when they all face Parra ....

Any of them illegible for CC?

 

[Fitzy05]

Just noticed a 2020 update on WestsTigers.com
Still 26 players in the Top 30.
........

Wests Tigers 2020 NRL Squad
Alex Twal
Alex Seyfarth
Benji Marshall
Billy Walters
Chris McQueen
Chris Lawrence
Corey Thompson
David Nofoaluma
Dylan Smith
Elijah Taylor
Jacob Liddle
Josh Aloiai
Josh Reynolds
Luciano Leilua
Luke Brooks
Luke Garner
Matt Eisenhuth
Michael Chee Kam
Moses Mbye
Oliver Clark
Paul Momirovski
Robert Jennings
Russell Packer
Sam McIntyre
Thomas Mikaele
Tommy Talau

Coach: Michael Maguire

Wests Tigers 2020 Development Players
Jake Simpkin
Jock Madden
Kane Bradley
Reece Hoffman
Zac Cini

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/teams/panthers/panthers-overhaul-recruitment-policy-to-avoid-repeating-errors-of-the-past/news-story/3967409345d1ec29b4f00f34b6dad3c1

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