@milky said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

How is Nathan Peats not signed for 2021?

Give him 2 years (one in our favour).

Desperately need him…

For Peats sake
How can you even suggest that

The numbers speak for themselves

If Ricky was our coach he would cop a jail term after his press conference
I switched off because I could see the way the ref WANTED the game to go
There is so much bias in this game it really is not funny
They have really stuffed up our once great game
It started with the bogus cap and if that doesn’t work then the refs make sure it does

I wonder what safeguards are in place to prevent the fixing of final results
Some may tell me not to be stupid
But how after all these years has nothing changed in the decisions these guys in the middle make
Why are we always on the loosing end of penalty counts
Now 6 agains
Previous cap fines
Our CEO was even rubbed out
We get pulled up for ever minor incident and get punished for it
But the refs turn a blind eye when we should receive a call for a blatant infringement

I am truly turning against this game, it’s officiators and generally how it is run
I don’t expect help from those making the calls in the middle
But I do expect honesty
And that is not happening

@pawsandclaws1 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@PabloX said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Didn’t someone just say Dugan’s body is shot? Pass for me

CH9 - after shopping him around and obviously finding no takers for his $900k contract, Cronulla believe his knees are shot and he has a bad attitude. Shaun Johnson rebutted the bad attitude excuse now saying that Dugan participated really well in their training camp. Must be hugely embarrassing for the Sharks.

This is a shark worth $900,000 a year
Fit, Fast, Mean and someone that will beat you every time

And then you have Dugong (Dugan)

Over weight, Slow and easily beaten
$90,000

@851 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@russell said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@diedpretty said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@russell said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@diedpretty said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@tony-soprano said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@boonboon said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

From the mouth of a tigers board member. Madge asked the club about Folau over the off season and it was an unequivical NO. The chairman is a lawyer and a businessman and knows its anrgument he doesent want to be involved in given many players and supporters are religious but the club will not be signing Folau

There was an article saying there was drama with a board member leaving anyone know anything about that?

I’m no lawyer but if a nrl club gave him a contract think it would be hard for nrl to refuse. He’s no criminal. He’s a footballer who cares about all the other crap.

He’s done nothing wrong at the nrl as yet.

It was Mick Lubinskas - he didn’t leave - he was ousted from the board. The conspiracy theory is that Mick who is very pro magpies stated at the AGM that there was no way Wests Magpies would be re branded as Wests Tigers in NSW Cup or RMC while he was there. A week later he was ousted from the board of Wests Tigers and also as chairman of WS Magpies. There has been no official announcement from WT, WSM or Wests Ahfield as to why he was ousted.

Sounds like the Board got it right to me.

Of course it would to you - that doesn’t surprise me.

What are you talking about?

I don’t have surprise you at all, don’t read my posts. Simples

Are we Wests Tigers or are we still a 50/50 i.e. Half Wests Tigers and half Wests Magpies?

Thought we had got past that.

We are not a 50/50 JV, not even close, Balmain haven’t paid anything for a long time, Wests own 90%, could’ve been 100% as Balmain pay nothing. So that is why we have Wests Magpies as a reserve grade team

It’s not Western suburbs or Balmain any longer
It’s Wests Tigers and has been for almost 20 years
I don’t care who owns the joint
I followed Balmain until they merged with Western suburbs
Now I follow Weststigers
It could be owned by Kylie Minogue for all I care
Who owns it is irrelevant to a supporter
Who really thinks about the owner of a club when games are being played
As far as I am concerned Balmain doesn’t exist any more
Nor does Western suburbs
All grades should be known as Wests Tigers
They are still owned by the same people
I don’t even mind the fact that they wear predominantly wests colours
To me it’s the Name that we all associate with
I myself would like to thank the Western suburbs arm of our club for saving us all from oblivion
Some of the behaviour from the hierarchy over the years has been nothing less than childish
We are now one club
And we should act like it

@mike said in Michael Jennings:

I hope the slimes get absolutely smashed tonight.

No Sivo
No Ferguson
No Jennings
No Backline
No Hope
No win
No Premiership
Think I will get a bottle of Vodka for tonight’s games
It will be the best night I have had in ages

Hello Mitchell
I’ll be watching you

@GNR4LIFE said in Shawn Blore:

I haven’t seen the forum buzzing about a debut since a kid named Tedesco.

Lets saviour this moment of Blore
To be honest, Tedesco didn’t bring the excitement to this club that Blore has managed to do in one debut game
Blore has really come from nowhere
Lets hope he can bring his game each week
He obviously loves the game
Even though he took Brown on and won that battle, he had the class to run up to Brown after the game to shake his hand
This kid gets it
War on the field
Gentleman off it

@Spud_Murphy said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@Cairnstigers said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@Elderslie_Tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Ch 7 reporting Dogs making big $$$$ offer for Storms Brandon Smith.

Who would be a better fit for our team
Addo-Carr or Brandon smith

Ado-Carr, we need speed very badly.

That’s why Madge is looking at Proctor
Sign him and all of a sudden all our players will have plenty of speed

The officiators cost us the game for their inactions
If Latrell gets 3 to 4 weeks now then he should have been sent off during the game
Souths get the 2 points
We get nothing again
And the next 3 or 4 teams souths play get all the advantages

Yeah that seems fair Nrl officials
Thankyou and well done
This is one of the main reasons people don’t go to games any more
Us supporters want a fair go
Fix the bull---- and the crowds will come back

I watch nrl on channel 9 and listen to the ABC
if you want us supporters to spend our hard earned $ by buying a subscription then fix the bloody game you drongo’s
Or I will continue to keep my money

@GNR4LIFE
If you compare both LM and Jac to chess pieces they would both be Queens
They can both move quick and can cause a lot of damage to the other side very quickly
Not much would stop them if they worked in tandem
Nothing beats speed
Of course our forwards need to do a job and being a year older and wiser I think players like Aloiai Twal Mck Garner Clark and Mikaele will be much better and Hungrier for success
He’ll if Packer can perform we will be ok in the forwards
In 2005 it was our ability to score points that won us our premier ship
If teams scored 28 points against us we scored 30
LM and Jac will allow us to do that
If we can manage to snare them both this off season then get them both
Next off season we can tidy up the forwards if we need to
You would think that if LM and Jac are signed elsewhere for 3 or 4 years then we will miss the boat again
Sign them up now
See how we go in 2020
Use part of our $5 million in free cap(apparently) in 2021 to upgrade our forwards
Rome wasn’t built in a day but it has to start someday
This is the time
I look forward to good news
Please make it happen tigers

Some government funding for our club to help stimulate the building industry would help and get people back to work

On another note
Maybe Members and Businesses can help with the purchase of a tile with the members number imprinted on it
Imagine a huge wall with mosaic tiles that make the colours and picture of our Tigers emblem as you enter the club
A 25mm x 25mm tile that fills a wall 8 meters x 8 meters at a cost of $20 per tile ( donation ) would
raise over $2,000,000 for the club
It is something we can all be part of and be proud of
I would happily donate $200.00 for 10 tiles to be part of it
I wonder if the club has thought of anything like this so some of us silent supporters and members can be part of the build
It could be taken further by having a wests tigers
“Wall of Fame”
It could be part of the wests tigers website and we could all put in as little or much information about ourselves for other members to read
It could also be used as a networking tool for like minded people
Just a thought

@conepuncher said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

I don’t understand the push back saying this is a new low.

It’s obvious we can’t attract marquee talent. JAC, Latrell etc all refused to come here. Hastings had issues years ago yes, but just like any other NRL player with issues in their past, he’s likely changed and grown up.

We have to improve our squad. We can’t attract marquee talent, and we can’t keep signing mediocre has beens. A young half who has been shredding up Super League is a risk we have to take.

Would we really want a grub like Latrell at our club

And Addo-Carr seems to have lost his form and we are also talking almost another year for him to slide further

We may have finally got lucky here
But time will tell

@jedi_tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@conepuncher said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

https://mobile.twitter.com/danny_weidler/status/1383866606703366152?s=21

Danny Weidler reporting Hastings returning to the NRL next year with Tigers front runners to sign him.

what are we going to play Hastings as a ball playing 13 ?
Brooks is better than Hastings as a 7 and Mmbye is doing a good job.
We would be better making a play for B Smith as hooker for 20 then bring on Simpkin and B Smith goes to 13

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BREAKING: Jackson Hastings is set to return to NRL in 2022. Sources in UK say he wants to return home. Wests Tigers remain the front runner and unless there is a last minute hitch that is where he will play next year and beyond

@hobbo1 said in Gerrard Sutton:

@cairnstigers said in Gerrard Sutton:

@hobbo1 said in Gerrard Sutton:

@supercoach said in Gerrard Sutton:

At some stage you have to pay the 10 grand and come out with both barrels firing. That ways it gets maximum attention and maybe next time the grub is referring our game he might not ride the top weight hands and heels over the line.

Remember Fulton’s cement truck comment with Harrigan, he said later it was the best money the club ever spent

This ^^^
Until McGuire blows his stack and cops the 10k we will forever be shafted by the refs …

Someone should start a go fund me page for Madge now so he can let loose once and for all

I want to see him explode at all those tall poppies who seem to dictate the results

These people need to be held accountable and need to explain how they come up with the decisions they do
The pressure needs to start at the very top
I have not seen any improvement in the game or the officiating for a very long time
And it needs to start here at the top to improve our game

Being on the wrong end of penalty counts and six agains can not be consistently against us without reason
It seems we always loose in these areas
And some refs penalise our team much more then other refs
Why is this
Do they not like our jersey colour ?

We have had different coaches and different players but the perceived bias against our team never changes
I want to know why

I can sit and watch a game and call it when I think we got away with something that should have been pulled up
But I can also call when the opposition gets away with something that should have been pulled up
I consider myself a very fair person and I am a very good judge of our game
I don’t believe I am biased at all
Almost every game I watch we seem to be on the receiving end of dud calls

As Pauline Hanson says
PLEASE EXPLAIN

He needs to blow up big time
Tip the desk over
Tear down the backdrop banner
10k is chicken feed

As for the 6 agains …
If the refs are mic’d up why the hell can’t they tell the console operator in the bunker what it was for , so it can be put up on the screen?
Then at least we could wear those decisions a bit better …

Exactly
I want to know why
But also it needs to be more consistent
Why can they introduce an imaginary line for the 10 meters like in NFL
We don’t need to see that on TV but it could be officiated more accurately with someone making those calls upstairs rather then the on field ref
Also the time it takes to get off a player
It can be accurately timed upstairs
Some teams get away with murder in these areas
We all just want fairness

@hobbo1 said in Gerrard Sutton:

@supercoach said in Gerrard Sutton:

At some stage you have to pay the 10 grand and come out with both barrels firing. That ways it gets maximum attention and maybe next time the grub is referring our game he might not ride the top weight hands and heels over the line.

Remember Fulton’s cement truck comment with Harrigan, he said later it was the best money the club ever spent

This ^^^
Until McGuire blows his stack and cops the 10k we will forever be shafted by the refs …

Someone should start a go fund me page for Madge now so he can let loose once and for all

I want to see him explode at all those tall poppies who seem to dictate the results

These people need to be held accountable and need to explain how they come up with the decisions they do
The pressure needs to start at the very top
I have not seen any improvement in the game or the officiating for a very long time
And it needs to start here at the top to improve our game

Being on the wrong end of penalty counts and six agains can not be consistently against us without reason
It seems we always loose in these areas
And some refs penalise our team much more then other refs
Why is this
Do they not like our jersey colour ?

We have had different coaches and different players but the perceived bias against our team never changes
I want to know why

I can sit and watch a game and call it when I think we got away with something that should have been pulled up
But I can also call when the opposition gets away with something that should have been pulled up
I consider myself a very fair person and I am a very good judge of our game
I don’t believe I am biased at all
Almost every game I watch we seem to be on the receiving end of dud calls

As Pauline Hanson says
PLEASE EXPLAIN

@mike said in Dad Humour:

How old were you when you realized that “Dammit I’m mad” spelled backwards is “Dammit I’m mad”?

Well it’s news to me so 52 years old

But I remember when I realised what
“Red rum” spelt backwards was
It was during the movie called “The Shining” with Jack Nicholson in 1980

It’s what I wanted to do on Saturday night

@geo said in Kepaoa:

@fade-to-black said in Kepaoa:

if we did scrape into 7-8 we would be cannon fodder against the good sides

Dunno wouldn’t mind playing Souff’s in a finals game…

Mate I would have to take my misses out before the game
And I don’t mean for dinner either
If I knew she was a souths supporter I never would have married her
She hid that one from me
Is that grounds for a divorce

@wt2k said in Rd 6 spoilers:

15th woohoo

Is that better than 9th

@tigertye said in Game Charges v Souths:

@jc99 said in Game Charges v Souths:

Also Latrell got charged for sliding in with the knees after Garner scored. That means we should’ve got an 8 point try which would’ve massively changed the game

I’ve had a idea on how this could be fixed for a while that I think is really simple. The suspension is served by the player only against the team the offence happened. Regardless to whether that player changes teams.

So if Latrell is suspended for 3 games for an incident, he is suspended the next 3 times he plays us. This way the advantage doesn’t go to the following week/s team.

What about this

If a player / Mitchell is on $30,000 a game and he gets a 3 game suspension then he should have the option to pay the player he made the offence on, 3 x $30,000 a total of $90,000 compensation and play the next week
Or take the 3 game suspension

If he wants to take the 3 suspension and still get paid, the Club, souths should be able to deduct that $90,000 from his contract payments (optional), but Mitchell still misses the 3 games from suspension and the full original contract amount still goes against souths cap

That will force the players to change or force clubs to instruct their players to change because either Mitchell wears it or the club does

This could be added in all players contracts to stop malicious acts like that from Latrell and others

Players will learn quickly

@hobbo1 said in Rd 6 spoilers:

@tiger_steve said in Rd 6 spoilers:

@hobbo1 said in Rd 6 spoilers:

@tiger_steve said in Rd 6 spoilers:

Hetherington sent off for a careless effort. Mitchel with a deliberate elbow to the head?? Nothing!

That wasn’t a send off
Mitchell’s was 🤬

So based on this weeks officiating, Hetherington should have elbowed the bloke in the head - he’d still be on the field

It’s farcical
Hetherington’s was a lazy arm
Mitchell’s had intent

One was a loose swinging arm
One was a stiff back handed forearm/Elbow

@camel2281 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@cairnstigers said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Fox Fox

Despite putting in their best performance in a year on Thursday night, it seems even the biggest stars at the Broncos are not safe.

The Australian’s Brent Read told Triple M on Saturday that there’s set to be some “big changes” at Red Hill.

“There’s been some whispers around in the last couple of weeks that there’s about to be some big changes at the Broncos. There’s been some agents that have been told ‘just hold fire, we’re going to make a call in the next couple of weeks on what we do and who we move’,” he saud.

“I expect there’ll some guys to be tapped on the shoulder potentially in the next week or two at the Broncos.”

Read believes Brisbane’s starstudded forward pack are in the firing line as the Broncos try to find money to throw at Kotoni Staggs and up their chase for South Sydney’s Adam Reynolds.

“They’re very stacked in the middle of the field. They’ve got about $3 million in Payne Haas, Tevita Pangai Jnr, Matt Lodge and Thomas Flegler,” he said.

“They tried to move Lodge in the off-season, they weren’t able to do it but I suspect one of those guys will be on the move because they need to free up cash, not only to keep Kotoni Staggs but I suspect to step up that move for Adam Reynolds in the coming weeks

Tavita would be my pick
Probably good mates with Ofahengaue
Could possibly help us retain Simpkin and Simpkins
We could end up having a Qld and Indigenous flavour to our team

Imagine this

Musgrove
Simpkin
Stefano
TPJ
Garner
Ofahengaue

LJ
Blore
Amone
Simpkins
Tamou
Mikaele
Liddle

It would be the strongest forward rotation in the competition

With Laurie at the back and Doueihi in the halves we are starting to look very strong and I think the game against souths shows what we are capable of if we can play consistently
Add TPJ and a new Centre and Wing with speed and we will have our team

I like TPJ when his head is switched on.

BTW he’s a NSW man. He grew up in Newcastle

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