End of the day i’m not as angry that he broke the contract as what i am with the burdens he left us with. I understand the importance of family, but he ensured this club was crippled long term and then abandoned it.That’s where the issue is for me.

Christ some people are unbelievable. 31 is not over the hill for an NRL player unless their body is breaking down. I swear this site is full of 12 year olds sometimes. It’s a good deal.

Hopefully Fittler worries less about Wests Tigers recruitment and more about doing his job

The forum is still ok. Some young people have grown older and have different priorities happen in their lives and they find it harder to have the time to be here. Some of the older people have just got old and struggle with change and then without any great success there also becomes less to talk about, i mean seriously some of the conversation just goes around in circles. This club can sure sap the life out of you. Then there are a couple of people i know off the forum who just couldn’t be bothered posting anymore due to some other members continually ramming their opinions down other peoples throats. Everyone is entitled to their opinions but geez, some people are like a fart in a spacesuit on here if you don’t agree with them.

At the end of the day the mods do a great job and we have a chance to come have a say and interact with others about a common cause. I know i appreciate being able to come here and vent or celebrate, although the latter doesn’t happen anywhere near enough.

Everything he did was wrong, but, i love at least he has some feeling and anger towards his team mates being wronged, something this club has lacked for a decade +

We haven’t improved on the ladder, but the foundations are being built that weren’t even considered then which will put us in a much stronger position. Theres no quick fix, it had to come from within and that is being done. Try to keep the faith.

Looks like those of us calling Mbye out for poor performance weren’t so far off the mark after all. It would seem the coach wasn’t happy either.

Hung drawn and quartered by some. People threatening to walk away from the club. This should be a good lesson for all the disgusted forum members who never bothered to wait for both sides before passing judgement.

Its common knowledge Smiths wife has been looking for home on the GC and the family relocated to Qld when the Storm went North. Jeez i mean i would relocate to Qld too if my family would have a bar of it. If Smith plays on i hope it is with Melbourne, not because it frees up players, but because it would be 20 years in the NRL at one club and i don’t care who you like, hate, support or wish misery upon, that is an amazing achievement.

Love him or hate him nobody could ever question his drive and passion for this club and success throughout his career. I hope you have 10 games left too Robbie.

@happy_tiger said in Cricket Season Thread:

@tiger5150 said in Cricket Season Thread:

I like the Indian cricket team about as much as I love the Souff Sidnee Rabbitohs, but credit where credit is due, a fantastic effort by them.

Lessons need to be learned by Australia but wont because the problems start at the top with Langer.

In his post match interview he actually said , “yes I am disappointed but happier at the big picture about test cricket”…wot?

He went onto say that Pants innings reminded him of Ben Stokes innings against us, “and I guess in the future we could have a look at how we bowl to left handers”…really? in the future? This is part of the problem with Langer. He looks good in a highlights reel of som estupid Netflix series giving inspirational speeches with a hint of Law of Attraction woo woo but actual cricket smarts and knowledge which is what is needed at this level, he has no track record. I dont think people realise what we lost with Lehman. He was the biggest loss from sandpapergate.

Being a leftie …you didn’t like a swinging ball because you could lose where your stumps were …and a good 0ffie who could utilize drift and spin

What doesn’t Australia have bowling wise …we can’t swing it …and Lyon can spin it …but he lacks flight and drift

And as a result no intimidation factor at all.

Massive problems in this team, starting with the openers. Someone has to use some common sense at the top and try and stay out there and take some shine off the ball. Too many cracks been papered over by Smith ( in the last Ashes) saving us.

Like i said last test. India are better than us. Aus bowling attack been unable to take 10 wickets on a 5th day wicket two tests in a row. We will never know as it didn’t happen, but i highly doubt Australia would have been able to bat it out if it was reversed like India have.

@Jedi_Tiger said in David Nofoaluma:

@Furious1 said in David Nofoaluma:

Christ some people are unbelievable. 31 is not over the hill for an NRL player unless their body is breaking down. I swear this site is full of 12 year olds sometimes. It’s a good deal.

for a half it is not old for a winger maybe it is. Look at penrith moving mansour in to bring in young Staines

Well if we had Staines i’d be telling one of our wingers to move on too. Comparing Mansour and Nofo is silly as one wanted to start a new deal at 30 while the other will be finishing his at 30 with a further one year option in the clubs favour. It’s good business.

Christ some people are unbelievable. 31 is not over the hill for an NRL player unless their body is breaking down. I swear this site is full of 12 year olds sometimes. It’s a good deal.

@Tiger5150 said in Cricket Season Thread:

@Furious1 said in Cricket Season Thread:

India is better than us. That is all.

How do you parse that? We lead by 94 first innings, and second innings they were 5/334, we were 6/312. Split match between them as far as I see. I back our tail against theirs.

Benign track and India fought hard but I dont see how they dominated at all during the game.

I should have elaborated. I’m talking in general. It’s far from their strongest line up and yet we are struggling to get over them on home turf. IMO if both sides are at full strength they are better than us at the moment.

India is better than us. That is all.

@innsaneink said in New fixture for 2021 trial match schedule:

Only 7 weeks to footy time

Who’s going to this?

I’ll be there if work roster is right

@happy_tiger said in Cricket Season Thread:

Beautiful ground …pity about the unbeautiful racist fans …10 years

What was said? All ive seen so far was a guy being called “shiraz”. It has to be stamped out and they should be banned if anything racial was said. I just hope India takes the same strong stance when Australia tours over there.

One side has never been able to accept the other side winning 4 years ago. Now that side won’t accept the current victors. It’s a diabolical place being swallowed up by it’s own internal fighting. Nothing “United” about the U.S. and to be fair it’s hard to ever see it being united.

Anyway that will be my limited contribution to this topic.

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Man if this going to Souths stuff is real , we really should have traded Nofa to Melbourne for JAC . I was totally against it , as I thought Nofa deserved to be treated as a top guy and all that that entails . Seriously though , if Nofa did have intentions to go , he should have let us know when we were pursuing JAC. , as he was the one guy that would have got that deal over the line .

What if he didn’t want to go?
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Totally , but from all accounts we didn’t even ask him , as we treated him with the utmost respect . Ok , even from a funds allocation . We offered less than the dogs , in which we could have matched thier offer , as I’m assuming that was because we had funds allocated for Nofa.

That wouldn’t have changed our offer, that is not how the club operates.

Wouldn’t it just have been sums though . Ie you want 2 elite wingers of which your willing to commit 600+500 so 1.1mil . If you pay one 700k , and say a mansour type 350k , wouldn’t you theoretically come out exactly the same ?

The idea is to get as many players under value as possible, that does allow you to over spend on some key players that turn your team into a contender. A winger, even JAC, are not the players you over spend on. You use that money on the true elite in the game that are transformational for your team.

Mate I love your passionate support of the club but can you wait until we have some success, maybe make the eight, with this magical strategy before singing about it so much. We’ve won nothing more than a couple of floggings of Brisbane and Canterbury lately.

lol, Just pleased we aren’t making the mistakes of the past and over paying people to come here. Look at the mess that created before. JAC very early on had decided that he didn’t want to come here.

My big thing is it’s not about the overpayment as much as the people we selected. We went with Mbye, Reynolds, Packer and BJ. Whoever thought those blokes were worth big money was plain wrong, had they overpaid four different players maybe we’re not in such a state.

I agree with that, the issue is if you are overpaying guys like Nofa or even JAC there is no room to move when those right guys become available.

I still won’t place BJ is the same category as the others, he does some dumb things but can also turn a game and I expect a much better year from him in 2021, it was also only a 2 year contract so its a lot lower risk gamble than the other were. In saying that that contracts have sunk us for the past 3 years.

It’s all opinions but I think JAC is the type of guy you get value for, he’s no shrinking violet. BJ on the other hand was horrendous considering his pay packet, I hope he makes up for it a bit this year but I really don’t see it, the guy has as always been an enigma. Common sense trumps data sometimes.

Time will tell but i think he will have a good year. Pretty sure next year is an option in the clubs favour and he has already come back to training much fitter this year. Last year when he was given the ball early he was destructive but he was nowhere near fit enough to make any long lasting contributions in any games and with lack of fitness comes fatigue and ultimately poor decision making. He has always been a loose cannon, but throw in fatigue, poor form and family issues and it was an explosive mix.