Mr egg shells caused a lot of issues, they won’t be a problem now, the club will be a far better performed club this year without him

I know one forum member who won’t be Happy with this signing, although I am unsure why. A cheap option who can play if needed, only an upside for me

Disappointed to miss the 8, most proud of our defense.
Flogging by Parra at Bankwest most disappointing.
Said he got Benji fitter than he has been.
Last weekend, said it was special and crazy day, Farah wasn’t supposed to play.
Should have been able to handle last week, but we failed.
Grub handled himself well, probably be here next year.
Matto signed for 2 years, not going, good relationship with him, will work through any problems with him.
Said Walters is signed, most likely a 9.
Roosters best team in the comp.

@weststigerman said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@cktiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Looks like Paul Vaughn might get the boot from the Dragqueens… worth a shot for 2 years?

How can the dragons tear up his 800k contract but we can’t tear up Mbye’s?

Maybe get Mbye to host a party and invite all our useless players, get rid of them all in one go

@dazza65 said in Benji Marshall:

@tig_prmz said in Benji Marshall:

Why Benji Marshall didn’t want his family at last Tigers game**

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/nrl-news-benji-marshall-filthy-with-wests-tigers-for-not-resigning/8cd9e0bb-a45e-4269-918a-825f3a6c2472

Benji Marshall may have put on a happy face for the cameras and fans following his side loss to the Eels on Saturday but the truth is the Tigers great is filthy with the club.

Marshall’s exit from the club after a rocky year with coach Michael Maguire was the main reason why the Kiwi great rejected an invitation from Tigers officials to have his family to join him on the field after his final game.

Benji Marshal goes down with an MCL injury (Getty)
While the Marshall-Tigers break-up may have appeared amicable, beneath the surface the relationship has sadly deteriorated.

The Tigers legend is upset by the club’s decision not to re-sign him, and even more hurt by the fact he read about it in the media first.

Marshall’s family didn’t even attend the game and took part in his walk of honour on his own despite the retiring Chris Lawrence being accompanied by his daughter Emme and wife Kathryn.

The Tigers got an exemption to have both families on the field but Marshall opted not to, which was in contrast to his wife and child attending and posing for photos at his 250th game for the Tigers in round 14 before he was told he wasn’t part of the club’s plans.

Marshall farewells Tigers fans
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Marshall farewells Tigers fans
The Tigers have tried to make a big deal of Marshall’s last game but the five-eighth didn’t want any fanfare made about his last game for the club. Marshall is confident he will continue his career elsewhere.

The knee injury was an unfortunate end to Marshall’s career and the playmaker has garnered plenty of positive reviews about his play this season, with Maroons legend Johnathan Thurston one of several former players dumbfounded by the Tigers’ move to drop the star.

Proves my point from the post above - sooking and sulking… its a shame

Instead of sulking he should be thanking the club, he walked out on in 2013 with 2 years left on his contract, paraded around in an Auckland Blues jersey as well.
If I was CEO he wouldn’t have been offered a contract in 2018, and he certainly wouldn’t have got one in 2019 or 2020, to carry on about not getting a 4th year out of a 1 year swan song contract makes me sick.
I have said this for 2 years, the club will improve without Benji, it’s sad but true, ego is a funny thing, reality is lost on him, no doubt the club will be to blame again for all this.

I met Tommy a number of times, I have a couple of autographed photos, but the last time I met him I got to sit down and have a beer with him. I helped him on and off the stage, he was there with Max Krilich, he signed an autograph “To Paul, thanks mate, Tom Raudonikis.”
That sits proudly on my bar.
The epitome of heart and soul, he will be sorely missed, a true legend

@rustycage said in Shuddup Gutho:

@KingGutho
Daine Laurie should audition for Home and Away #NRLTigersPanthers
8:20 PM · Jun 4, 2021

Pot calling kettle black much?

Gutho I present you Sivo and Brown, they are way past Home and Away, they are academy award winning actors

A trade to Penrith for Laurie would be a good outcome

Been discussed before, but after today, where we played a team who were 0-4 and conceded 141 points in there first 4 games, a side who we have the best winning percentage against in the league, and we dish up that.
That is not even taking in to account the Tommy factor, which alone should have inspired a win.
We have a shocking record at Leichhardt, we need to ditch the 4 home grounds and get one and stick with it.
We gain zero advantage from our supposed suburban grounds, we are wasting our time, make the call and let the fans whinge, but at least we will have a real home that the players can actually call home.
I am old and I get the heritage thing, but it is useless if it doesn’t get you an advantage, get with the 21st century Wests Tigers and get us one home ground, the nomadic days are not working and need to be abandoned.

@Aesopian said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Why Wests Tigers are furious with Fittler and NSW Blues

By Michael Chammas
November 1, 2020 — 7.45pm

NSW coach Brad Fittler put a few noses out of joint at the Wests Tigers this week following his comments that he was “disillusioned” that the Tigers could not find a spot for a young Ryan Papenhuyzen at the club.

It’s the second time in a few months Fittler has had a crack at the Tigers, criticising the club for having “an identity crisis” and questioning whether they would “become anyone of real strength” on Wide World of Sports’ Freddy and the Eighth in August.

Safe to say it didn’t go down well with Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis, who is the owner of Brydens Lawyers - the major sponsor of Freddy’s Blues.

Hagipantelis has asked club officials to reach out to Fittler to find out if he has a problem with the club. The Tigers haven’t had a player represent NSW in the past three years under Fittler, who overlooked Dally M winger of the year David Nofoaluma.

Going by the talk out of rugby league circles, it’s not the only thing that Hagipantelis has to be upset about. This column understands the Blues major sponsor hasn’t heard from NSWRL chief executive Dave Trodden since March, prior to the COVID interruption. Trodden is under a bit of pressure, with an email doing the rounds of several clubs questioning his leadership.

Trodden’s name was mentioned as a potential replacement for Todd Greenberg as NRL chief executive earlier in the year, but there are very few people at head office who have good things to say about the NSW boss.

Foxx having second thoughts

There’s been another twist in the contract saga of Josh Addo-Carr, with the Storm winger indicating he is happy to remain at Melbourne next year should the club not be provided a suitable replacement.

Addo-Carr had signed a heads of agreement with the Wests Tigers that he would link with the joint venture in 2021 should he be released by the Storm. However Melbourne’s premiership triumph may have triggered a potential change of heart.

About time someone from the club spoke up, rather convenient our sponsor also sponsors the blues. Freddy might be a little uncomfortable now, and I hope the hell he is, idiot keeps taking pot shots at the club, people in glass houses Freddy old mate

@elleryhanley said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

@tigersj said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

If you watch the 1st episode of the Fox show, Madge is in the box yelling MOVE UP or GET UP on numerous occasions. I can’t believe he coaches them to have no line speed and to stand there and watch in their own 20.

And yet he does not drop the blokes who fail to move up…

Ultimately, he has had 2.75 years to get it right. I yell ‘move up’ also when I watch. Does that mean I should be the coach?

It his job not just to yell it out, but actually get them to do it…

90% of them are ‘his’ recruits…‘he’ has had 2.75 years.

Yet people keep saying it is not on him.

It is 100% on him, and he 100% should go

@snake said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

@starswithstripes said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

So many times we ran in circles, backwards, sideways with no structure. Execution was poor and predictable. I don’t get it when we say we are training really well but we can’t reproduce that on game day. It’s like we train at first grade level and play at reggies level.

It’s a very badly coached side no form or function … the club needs to move or next season will be a bigger disaster.

It is blatantly obvious to all but the Madge fans, he said we had a side capable of making the 8 when he arrived. He said he would fix the defence, he has failed big time, lets stop wasting more seasons and punt him now

Another game we concede 40 or more, what a joke

@snake said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

Do us all a favour Maguire walk away PLEASE !

This x a million, so over it

@njlm78 said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

Why don’t we score trys like that? We’ve seen 100 like that scored against us.

We had 4 sets on their line in the first half and never looked like scoring, then Talau dropped it. Our attack is bog average, and our defence is worse

@bagnf05 said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

Hate to have a reliable edge defender like Finucane!!

He is a middle mate, he would get murdered on an edge

@cktiger said in Wests Tigers v Manly *LIVE SPOILERS:

Talau is just not a reliable first grader

A Madge favourite, makes these errors every single week

@finesttigers said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@teddy23 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Get the cheque book out for Harry Grant!

We’re gonna have a cash flexibility of nearly 2.5 mil if Mbye leaves…. free to talk to clubs November 1st

Grant was idolised and closed to worshipped at the Tigers by us fans, goes back to Melbourne and even when he was fit he was benched… I remember one game he was named to start then a late change brought him to the bench, Brandon Smith seems to be very very close to the boys at Melbourne and they’re a culture based team

If we throw 1mil a year at him (I’d do it in a heartbeat) for like 5 years and just be aggressive…. Melbourne would be forced to match it or get close and with a fall back option of Brandon Smith they may be inclined to not go with us and may just choose to retain Smith on less

Grant will be the best 9 in this game for the next decade or so and would be worth every penny, we’ve had Mbye on 900k…. I think Grant at 1mil would be a major upgrade

Dogs and Dragons have drained themselves out of the race, and I can’t see any other teams with cap space that could go with us in terms of matching the deal…. All these players signing with rivals may be a blessing in disguise as they have no more cap space left

Then from Grant we can start building our team and it will help our chances of acquiring other stars as we’ll still have a lot of money left, in addition to the junior pathways this club has and the solid young core also

Come back Grant and be the man to lead this young side to the finals as our future captain!

I’m still not convinced that very good players atttact other very good players, i believe it’s mainly about the money/length of contract, for many years, we had arguably one of the most popular and entertaining player (B Marshall)with skills rarely seen before (please see some of his highlights) but during this players presence in the team there were still not any or many good signings, so i don’t believe good signings would attract other good signings.

Well I am convinced we can’t attract good signings, so things have to change to arrest this major issue

@telltails said in Litmus test for Madge...:

Keep chipping away…

They are facts mate

@tigerneddyk said in Team vs Manly Round 19:

@elleryhanley said in Team vs Manly Round 19:

They are going to be comin at our edges all day, but our best edge defender in Blore is left out. Work that out…

Is Luke Garner related to Madge somehow? Is Madge his uncle becuse why he keeps getting picked in front of the gun young forwards we have when he is out of form is beyond me… Kelma has been killing it, Seyfarth and Blore are guns…. Give them a gotdamn go for crying out loud!

I have been saying this for 18 months now, Madge bangs on about accountability, but only applies it to a select few