Did anyone notice how only males and females acquired vocid-19??? If you are one of other 57+ genders you’re laughing, for a reference see the crowd at Bondi Beach yesterday!

@bathursttiger1 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Wish we could clone TT.

How good was the TT! One of my fav players ever.

It is a surprise how many people don’t follow the game but still comment here! It looks like quite a few never saw or read about Laurie, so it surprised them that he is 181cm/81kg ! Further, according to this mob, he cannot play FB, ‘because he is too small, he isn’t ready yet’???
How many times we heard this before?

he was very good in the last few games, hopefully, he will recover quickly!

Too many ‘glass half empty’ posts here! Exhibit A: until we finally signed Laurie for this year, no one was concerned by anything else but signing him, but now when he finally signed - too many look for reasons why was that a bad outcome?

@spartan117 said in Shawn Blore:

Blore, Musgrove, Twal, Mikhale, Twal, Stefano

That’s a decent rotation of big men in 2021

Especially when we have two Twals!

if people on this forum watch WT games, they would realise that our major problem is forwards (e.g. games against Canberra, Easts, Souths).
We have to solve this problem first (e.g. buy players like Haas, Papalii, A Paasi, Taukeiaho, D Fafita etc.), and then spend money on Latrell, Addo-Carr.
Otherwise, we will build (again, and again) a building with no foundation.

For some reason, people neglect to mention how he improved his tackling and defence in general. Just a few years ago we had a huge hole on the left side, and every attack was focused on Brooks, but not anymore. Sadly our right side is as always - turnstile, falling off tackles, looking like they came to play touch footy,

Like many people here, I agree that the time may come for Marshall to retire. However, my issue is, he is much better than Mbye and JR. But somehow we keep both of them??
IMHO, ALL of them shall not be with the WT for the next season!

He can go and join LM! Similarly as in the case of Falou, his off the field antics is certainly something we can live without!
That is the reason I prefer: Tupou, Codric, Koroibete, or Radradra, and even one or both Morris bros!

@tony-soprano said in Knock-On Effect NSW Cup Team List: Round 6:

Very very impressive how do we get cini in grade.

Easy, Nofoaluma out, Cini in.️

A very good game by Liddle, 20 m break and nice offload to Rogers-Smith.
Cini, Seyfarth, Rogers-Smith all played well.
Cini shall replace Nofoaluma ASAP! Liddle shall be back to the first squad.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Shujaat Ali Khan sing Persian Sufi poets/philosophers/mystics - 13th century
M Rumi

A Khusrau

A lot of work to do.

Agree

1 Laurie
2
3
4
5
6 AD
7
8 Twal
9 Liddle
10 Musgrove
11 Tuilagi/Blore
12 LL

13 Simpkins

14 Simpkin
15 Utoikamanu
16 Blore/Amone
17 Seyfarth/ Rogers-Smith/Dias

@trippa101 said in Common denominator:

Pascoe and the board are def below par compared to other clubs. I dare say even the Chairman based on his public comments.

I know for a fact that Addo Carr did not come here because he was offended by the club not wanting to trade Tommy Talau for him - I was told personally by his manager - this was after Pascoe told a mate of mine that JAC was 100% signed - I think the club got complacent , thought JAC would come regardless, made some stupid public comments that Tommy wouldnt be traded (which could have been left out of public eye), and then JAC was put in a corner where he is perceived to be less of a player than TT and he bailed on us.

People on this forum are strong on the loyalty to the club, so why should a player want to move to another club? Especially if the club is in the most totalitarian State (lockdowns, curfews, masks, 800+ dead etc. )!
There are much better options in Sydney!
How about the WT ask a player before anything is discussed?

@tigercrb said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

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@avocadoontoast said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@851 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

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@mikey said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

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@tigerpower said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@avocadoontoast said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@tigerpower said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@avocadoontoast said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

How anyone could possibly want Folau is beyond me.

Why? We are short on backs and the guy is as good an athlete as you will find.

Hasn’t played NRL in 10 years and would be a PR disaster. Would be a shocking decision.

If our main sponsor has left the door open then maybe it’s a possibility. Played super league last year .

I can’t see us being that stupid tbh

And PV has said no way he’s coming back despite the Christian campaign.

Not sure what the courts would say despite PV thinking he is above the law

Who cares - we are not a retirement/superannuation home anymore - unless we sign Reynolds that is.

Reynolds is 30, and despite what some people are sprouting he is not injury prone, check how many games he has missed through injury, it is not many at all.
And if people thinks he is not an upgrade, well I have been watching different games to them, he offers a lot of what we don’t have but desperately need.
Souths cap for 2023 is just about tapped out, that is the sticking point on the second year, no conspiracy theory

Reynolds is a top quality halfback with an excellent kicking game (long, short and goal). He’d be a huge upgrade on Brooks. A potential 2022 spine of Laurie, Doueihi, Reynolds and Simpkin is exciting.

Adam Reynolds is a controlling half and needs to be matched with a creative 5/8 like Walker, Laui or Johnson. Not a running 5/8 like Doueihi. Someone has to be creative.

If we bought Reynolds I would put Daine Laurie to 5/6, Doueihi to centre and look for another fullback.

You are absolutely spot on.
Reynolds is a game manager (a very good one) and is surrounded by creative players at the moment (Latrell, walker and cook).

If we were to sign him, Brooks could be a creative 5/8 without the pressure to organize. Or as you said, daine Laurie to 5/8.

Hell, I’d be on board for Reynolds and Shaun Johnson in the halves, Laurie at fullback and Douhi to centre.

Good mix of creativity and organisation.

I don’t understand this ‘our best FB to 5/8’ thinking, the same happened with Tedesco, people wanted him to play center or wing??? And get Moylan or Wighton??
Lairie is our best FB by miles, so I would look for ‘like for like’
so it we want the new 7, sign Raynolds, Johnson or Schuster.

@earl said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@strongee said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

I think we have the players personally . Laurie and AD and Simpkin and brooks , is a very good spine . I’m more inclined to look at Staggs , Jordan Riki , Xavier Coates etc . Edge strike players .

I reckon we really need another forward like Luc. Maybe Blore gets the job done. We need some more thrust on that right hand side. Garner has done it on occasions and his defense has been fantastic this year but he isn’t offering much if anything in attack.

We seem to be holding teams in the middle even Parra but our bench middle forwards are at this point just as good if not better than our starting middle forwards.

Our spine needs work though. I agree that potentially they are good but it’s going to take some time for them to get it together especially AD. AD looks great at times but he is inconsistent.

Potentially we have a good depth: Blore, Simpkins, Tuilagi Rogers-Smith, and Amone.

@blake said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

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@tigerpower said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@avocadoontoast said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@tigerpower said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@avocadoontoast said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

How anyone could possibly want Folau is beyond me.

Why? We are short on backs and the guy is as good an athlete as you will find.

Hasn’t played NRL in 10 years and would be a PR disaster. Would be a shocking decision.

If our main sponsor has left the door open then maybe it’s a possibility. Played super league last year .

I can’t see us being that stupid tbh

And PV has said no way he’s coming back despite the Christian campaign.

Not sure what the courts would say despite PV thinking he is above the law

Who cares - we are not a retirement/superannuation home anymore - unless we sign Reynolds that is.

Reynolds is 30, and despite what some people are sprouting he is not injury prone, check how many games he has missed through injury, it is not many at all.
And if people thinks he is not an upgrade, well I have been watching different games to them, he offers a lot of what we don’t have but desperately need.
Souths cap for 2023 is just about tapped out, that is the sticking point on the second year, no conspiracy theory

Reynolds is a top quality halfback with an excellent kicking game (long, short and goal). He’d be a huge upgrade on Brooks. A potential 2022 spine of Laurie, Doueihi, Reynolds and Simpkin is exciting.

Adam Reynolds is a controlling half and needs to be matched with a creative 5/8 like Walker, Laui or Johnson. Not a running 5/8 like Doueihi. Someone has to be creative.

If we bought Reynolds I would put Daine Laurie to 5/6, Doueihi to centre and look for another fullback.

To site John Mc ‘You cannot be serious!’

@jd-tiger said in Too many project players:

@kazoo-kid said in Too many project players:

@jc99 said in Too many project players:

It’s a whole lot better than a team of washed up has beens… can’t remember the last time we had such a young team with so much potential.

Best teams get a core group and stay together for a while, the aim is that this will be the start of that. Pretty hard to sign a full team of established players and with our struggles to sign a marquee player this is the way to go

Having so many players with potential is a positive, not a negative.

Melbourne Storm are case and point. You can argue their salary cap cheating helped them get where they are today, but you can’t argue with the fact that they created their superstars, they didn’t sign them. Last marquee signing they made was Michael Crocker in 2006.

Not all clubs are equal. We don’t all have the same geography, history and resources. You have to do the best with your situation. We can’t sign marquee players. That’s just how it is. This is our only way out.

Not all of these players will make it, as sad as it is. We keep the ones that do and move on to the next batch of youngsters. And you keep cycling through until your squad is stacked with these great players you developed yourself.

Sad but true.

Well said mate, and I don’t like what you’ve said, but I totally agree with you.

As disgusting as it sounds, Souths is our blueprint. They went from a useless perennial bottom feeder of a club to a regular top 4 team. They used Russels funds, some experienced players to steer the ship in Asotasi, and bought a superstar in Inglis. Then they got lucky in finding the Burgii. Then it was largely juniors who they were able to now keep due to being a desirable team to play for.

Hopefully Tamou can be the experience our forwards need, we already struck out with Packer, we’re due some good luck.

I would like to share your optimism, however, it looks like there is nearly a rule: ‘most of the players Storm, Panthers, Easts, Souths sign came out much better players than those signed by Titans, NZ, Cowboys, Buldogs, Tigers’

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@tigerblood93 said in Thomas Talau:

Jesus some of are fans have the shortest Memory! The kid is 20, played less than 20 games in 3 different positions.he has one of the best try scoring rates in the team. Averaged 4th in Meters per game last year for us. Played the first game of the bench this year then the next inside nofa and the last 2 on the oppsixs edge inside AJ. Let him play in a position consistently and I think we will see him at his best. He’s a genuine tackle breaker, unfortunately our attack is a bit clunky and hasn’t given our edges early ball. Let’s not forget the storm wanted him before and after they asked for nofa. They had Momo in there squad and they still requested Tommy.
This week he’s playing wing! I garuntee you he makes 100+ meters and runs hard. I’m putting him down for a try this week!

It’s sickening we let momo and JAC go for this bloke. Once again the club all in on the wrong bloke.

Did we?

I watched JAC on vossey show last night said as a kid in situations where you make a wish as a kid he’d wish to play for the wests tigers. I can’t make any positive comments that front office could not get that done!

We desperately need another quality winger.

Did you miss the part where he said he’d already signed for Storm and then Jason Taylor handed him his debut anyway?

The whole thing about JAC we just have to bury is he signed for Storm before he even put his first grade jersey on for Tigers, and the only reason that happened is because Storm were desperate for a fast winger when Koroibete left for Union.

Tigers were negotiating with JAC but he’d literally only been at the club 1 offseason and a few matches before he went somewhere else.

re Talau though, JAC has nothing to do with it. JAC signed for Storm in 2016 (starting 2017), Talau didn’t sign for Tigers until 2018 (starting 2019).

I’ve heard from someone who quoted from his manager mouth jac would of come if we released talau to storm

@jirskyr said in Thomas Talau:

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@mike said in Thomas Talau:

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@tigerblood93 said in Thomas Talau:

Jesus some of are fans have the shortest Memory! The kid is 20, played less than 20 games in 3 different positions.he has one of the best try scoring rates in the team. Averaged 4th in Meters per game last year for us. Played the first game of the bench this year then the next inside nofa and the last 2 on the oppsixs edge inside AJ. Let him play in a position consistently and I think we will see him at his best. He’s a genuine tackle breaker, unfortunately our attack is a bit clunky and hasn’t given our edges early ball. Let’s not forget the storm wanted him before and after they asked for nofa. They had Momo in there squad and they still requested Tommy.
This week he’s playing wing! I garuntee you he makes 100+ meters and runs hard. I’m putting him down for a try this week!

It’s sickening we let momo and JAC go for this bloke. Once again the club all in on the wrong bloke.

Did we?

I watched JAC on vossey show last night said as a kid in situations where you make a wish as a kid he’d wish to play for the wests tigers. I can’t make any positive comments that front office could not get that done!

We desperately need another quality winger.

Did you miss the part where he said he’d already signed for Storm and then Jason Taylor handed him his debut anyway?

The whole thing about JAC we just have to bury is he signed for Storm before he even put his first grade jersey on for Tigers, and the only reason that happened is because Storm were desperate for a fast winger when Koroibete left for Union.

Tigers were negotiating with JAC but he’d literally only been at the club 1 offseason and a few matches before he went somewhere else.

re Talau though, JAC has nothing to do with it. JAC signed for Storm in 2016 (starting 2017), Talau didn’t sign for Tigers until 2018 (starting 2019).

I’ve heard from someone who quoted a direct convo with jac manager jac would of came here if tigers did a swap with talau

we should have pushed hard for talau swap with JAC last year and like what Penrith did to mansour if you don’t go you will likely be playing Reggie’s
they didn’t cop too much flack for doing that

Penrith told Mansour cos they had Staines. You think we should have told Tommy out of spite

no told to go to get JAC not out of spite he was what storm wanted.

No. If Tommy said no, you said the club should tell him he’d be in reserve grade. Even though there’s no suitable replacement, like the Panthers had. That’s spite

Melbourne wanted Talau FACT
Wests tigers said No to deal
we should have said yes and if Talau did not want to go to Melbourne you tell him you end up in reserve grade, with that he agrees to go to a premiership team and we would have had JAC

Thats a great way to attack young talent.
Have a track record of trading them with threats of reserve grade. Seriously no club would do that in this day and age… and what happens if he still says no play him reggies just to make a point… its dumb to do especially for a club that’s struggling. It’s simple if Talau didn’t want to go he couldn’t have been forced to go.

Penrith told a SOO and kangaroo in mansour to pack his bags I’m sure we could have done the same to Tommy.
it would have been 2021 as Melbourne were not asking about talau until the very end of 2020 season over we could have blooded Hoffman etc if Tommy talau kicked stones if he had said no and we had Roberts and Laurie and Kepoa so we would have had some replacements if he had dug his heels in and said no

I am more than happy with Laurie, and so far he is much better option at the FB and JAC would not be happy to stay on the wing.

@cultured_bogan said in Wests Tigers Team v Cowboys Rd 5:

@jc99 said in Wests Tigers Team v Cowboys Rd 5:

@cultured_bogan said in Wests Tigers Team v Cowboys Rd 5:

Two major changes happened that I wanted: Mbye to centre and Kepaoa dropped.

Twal and Offa need to be swapped.

Simpkin and MCK to swap.

Twal isn’t someone you want coming off the bench, really good work horse but won’t break a game open. Ofahengaue is really suited to coming off the bench with his play style.

Move him to starting prop then and bring Musgrove off the bench, he would bring impact off the bench with Mikaele and Stef.

Agree, Musgrave, Utoikamanu, and Amone are more of impact players, so I would start with Tamou/Twal, and Ophenague as lock.