Mansour is rumoured on the SMH as going to Souths. I hope that is true.

I voted no but I think the following points should be noted:-

1. There is no point getting rid of him until his contract runs out unless we get a significant load off our cap. We can use him in the squad. He is a first grade quality player but not a good one.
2. We should definitely not renew his contract.
3. Doueihi will not leave if we keep Mbye. Doueihi will stay and play where it’s best for the team.

I just heard Madge’s press conference and he rated Brooks as one of the best halves he has worked with. I reckon Brooks has a lot of upsides to his game and I don’t believe he has been poor for us.

I hope he kills it next year.

@twentyforty said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Yesterday I had a 2 hour phone con with my younger sister who has just been told she has breast cancer. After losing a younger sister already to the same battle she is almost inconsolable.

Sorry to hear this. I wish your sister and your family well.

Yep. Life is pretty freaken tough at times. I don’t know how we bear some of the things we have too but we do.

Pain and suffering are inevitable. Adversity is the test of strong men.

@851 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

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@pj said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

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@jrtiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@pj said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

So sharks get hynes and good chance of finucane, dogs get ado Carr and Burton and we’re looking at Dwz. 🙄
We must be the basket case of basket cases

Canterbury have tried to buy a team and are finding out the hard way that that’s not how it works. We learnt that lesson a few years ago with Cleary. Addo-Carr and Burton are fine acquisitions but I much prefer the way we are going about recruitment.

Just because Ivan made some poor recruitment decisions doesn’t mean you shouldn’t target excellent, established players. Burton and Addo-Carr are excellent signings. They’re getting rid of Dallin because they have signed players who are an upgrade on him. The fact Dallin would walk right into our team is an indictment of our backline recruitment.

Spot on.
Josh and Burton are great buys and would walk into our team. So would hynes.
We should be after finucane big time and if we miss out, questions should be asked. Especially if we are looking at dwz

We have been missing out for a couple of years now I have asked the question many times still no answer

I know, it is depressing, IMHO Madge is far from an attraction, in fact I have seen stories on coaches players least like to play under, Madge features highly, also heard some players say it on FOX

I don’t care. We’ve never been a marquee club. Our major success happened of the back of some brilliant kids.

Madge has been the best coach I’ve seen in relation to recruitment at the Tigers. To me that is his best attribute. They seem to be building a club for the future.

I wish we had signed a couple more juniors if anything. That Walsh kid and Burton are ones I’d wish we’d gotten.

@happy_tiger said in Nofoaluma:

Cmon did you see his play the ball when he defused Manly’s kick off with the Synchronised Swimming kick when he got up

The blokes catching kick offs and is tapping the bloke on the back taking the dirty hit up as he runs by

He is carrying us out there and he is loving it.

I thought Aloiai was great and Musgrove wasn’t involved enough. I’d swap their scores.

@TigerWest said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

The Daily Telegraphreported that Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis said that the club was now out of the running.
“We are only interested in engaging with players who want to come and play for us,” he said. “And if the perception is the player doesn’t wish to come to the Wests Tigers because their manager doesn’t engage with us, well, that is fine by us. I am not going to lose any sleep over it and we move on to greener pastures.”

If he said this well done.

Brooks was pretty close to perfect tonight. He played a great game.

That kid for the warriors is what top tier talent looks like. We don’t have any players at that level. RTS is also top tier.

We are close to being good enough to beat the warriors but we have some players who just aren’t complete first graders and they got caught out.

It shows you if the team performs that we still have plenty of improvement in us by upgrading a player or two.

@hammertime said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Benji won us a grand final. Ted didn’t even get us to top 8. Benji is his era wins hands down.

I said this earlier. Tedesco might be the best player Wests Tigers have produced but he isn’t our best player or even close. I wouldn’t even consider him. Hodgo was heaps better for us.

@tilllindemann said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

America is now back to getting the most daily new cases in the world again. Europe also trending up again in both cases and deaths. This shows that vaccines are a necessary part of the toolkit, but they are not a magic bullet.

Even with increased vaccine take up, a hard international border needs to be part of our strategy for a long time to come. There’s no going back to normal any time soon.

I did some Internet research on this. It’s not as simple as what I thought but vaccinations are having a massively positive effect. There is a 3rd wave due to the delta virus in the UK and the US atm. The 3rd wave isn’t as bad now as the first 2 waves but this is solely due to vaccinations. The 3rd wave appears to be all about the delta variant.

Some people (the crazies) aren’t getting vaccinated and these people are suffering considerably more than the sheep who get vaccinated.

The problem with this 3rd wave is that it’s hitting younger people more often. This is probably partly because older people are more likely to be vaccinated. It may also be because the Delta variant is more contagious.

I think atm the vaccines are still giving like 80% + protection against getting infected and more like 95%+ protection against developing a serious illness. One guy I listened too stated that the US needs the world to be vaccinated because that is the way to beat this virus long term.

It’s also not like the flu in that it isn’t mutating all the time. It’ll be interesting if and when we need booster shots.

@spartan117 said in Big LL:

Luch isnt the issue, our entire Defence is an issue.

Teams roll through the centre easily and then flick it out wide for the score almost every game

I reckon he is awesome but he isn’t a good defender.

@hobbo1 said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

I think that this is happening across the US and UK right now.

@coivtny said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

@earl said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

@coivtny said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

@hobbo1 said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

Why can’t all the folks that line up for a test get needled up at the same time ?

Actually not a bad idea.

It couldn’t work like that. They have limited doses and they have to store in like - whatever degrees etc.

That’s just not right. AZ is not in limited supply and refrigeration is quite manageable. It can be stored for 6 months at between 2 and 8 degrees centigrade.

I’ll stay with this idea and state that if people were willing to take the AZ vaccine it could work.

There are still massive logistical problems with this approach. You have to record the doses people are getting etc.

I like him. He makes most first grade teams in the comp if not all of them. He is an impact player which we desperately need.

I’d be trying him off the bench.

@jag said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Centres and second rowers that can defend on my wish list. Lucy bench player only. We need to focus our recruitment on these positions for next season. We had the worst centre pairing in competition tonight. It shows on the scoreboard.

This is where we need to recruit and not care about name signings. If they aren’t centres or edge backrowers it’s probably not even worth considering because until we get some NRL level players in those positions we are going to struggle to compete.

3 Liddle
2 Stef
1 Brooks

@blacknwhite said in Tuki Simpkins:

@aesopian said in Tuki Simpkins:

Looks like we’ve trained a bit of the aggression out of him.

First few games I saw him play he’d be lining dudes up all game. Rushing up for the big hit. Not seeing much of this atm

If he wants to bang, then he needs to be fitter. He is a fair way off fitness wise. If you watch him closely he struggles to get back onside in defence as it is, turns his back alot in doing so as well. Kid has barely grown into his body. Its all on him from here, has the skill, time for the effort.

I like a big hit but you need to be defensively sound and then pull off the big hit. He needs work sure but I’d be keeping him on the bench going forward.

I like him at lock.

@le-tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

So we need centres that can defend… thoughts on Will Chambers for a year?

Personally it’s a massive no for me.

@jedi_tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@earl said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@jedi_tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@tt-01 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Next year what will be our centre pairing? I see it as our biggest weakness but with the Oli the pom and AJ back I think we have a solid, not great pair with TT as back up? Am I missing anyone?

it may have to be
centres
Gildart
Douhie

halves
Brooks
hastings

This sounds the best option but I don’t like moving AD.

me neither but what do we do if we can’t sign a decent centre

I don’t really see any other option. You either drop Brooks or Laurie and Hastings comes in or you move AD to the centres.

AD defensively today was great and he can do the stuff he does at 6 in the centres as well.

Our centres are terrible. They are both trying hard but they simply at this point don’t have the ability. They should be in reserves learning how to play.