Lol what was Madge meant to do, reserves are hardly making a push for anyone to be ousted.

@Geo agree we need him but boy at some stage he needs to look after himself and think life after footy.

These injuries as bloody tough to come back from in normal life let alone come back to a sport where odds are high he will get hit in the head again.

I wish him all the best

Thoughts

Defence is fine for most game, first time for a while have see constant hard hitting/pushback defence

Jennings is having a shocker at the moment

Benji needs to play more direct not sideways

Brooks needs to take the lead more

Matto, Twal and Thommo best on ground for us.

Halftime view from me

• forwards are burnt already
• benji poor options are killing us
• garner is trying and in defense solid
• mikalea & twal are out most effective forwards
• matterson needs more ball
• nofo nothing has changed in defense - stay on your man!!!

Well done Kul, love the new site

Feedback from me is that scrolling down makes it hard on a mobile.

From a UX perspective it would be great to have page options with limits of posts per page. On threads that are large & newsworthy people remember page numbers and then want to continue rather than start at the end then scroll up the page.

In a live match thread it will work better with pages rather than scroll as well.

I like many of the features the new site format brings except that one.

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Isn’t the crux of the issue related to us asking for 30% of the payout being removed from the cap due to damage to sponsors/brand which the NRL agreed, but we then advised of an intent at a later stage to keep Farah at the club post playing career?

If the above is true we have a case to answer and stuffed up regardless if Farah actually signed something or not as our intent would be proven we weren’t ethical and attempted to use a loophole in a dumb way.

As to Pascoe - cmon teams have stuffed up in a huge way that gained premierships which didn’t cost them major heads to drop.

Pascoe is one of the best things to have happened to the Wests Tigers, lets hope our sponsor heads up a legal support to fight this one.

That has been covered by Wests in their statement. The role was offered to Robbie by Pascoe as he believed Farah had been screwed over by Taylor and the board. There was no intent of gain by Wests or Pascoe - in a way it was offering the olive branch for all the rubbish that happened.

You’re missing the point that we actually gained a financial salary cap advantage when he left us. If that occured we stuffed up.

Isn’t the crux of the issue related to us asking for 30% of the payout being removed from the cap due to damage to sponsors/brand which the NRL agreed, but we then advised of an intent at a later stage to keep Farah at the club post playing career?

If the above is true we have a case to answer and stuffed up regardless if Farah actually signed something or not as our intent would be proven we weren’t ethical and attempted to use a loophole in a dumb way.

As to Pascoe - cmon teams have stuffed up in a huge way that gained premierships which didn’t cost them major heads to drop.

Pascoe is one of the best things to have happened to the Wests Tigers, lets hope our sponsor heads up a legal support to fight this one.

Dean Caldwell was a stunning junior talent but his body couldn’t handle stepping up.

Dicko was another, best hitter in the lower grades but his body gave way.

Geez the kid stepped up bigtime
New fullbacks, halves partner, edge runners and hookers all year and still showed maturity and growth beyond previous years

Is he the best in the game no, but we would be nuts not to pay top dollar for a young half who is on the rise.

We won’t get better on the market - he is worth 900k based on market value of halves at the moment.

Twal size is against him as a lock, we need to groom a future front row rotation. Twal and Zane are it for me. Stil think we are a prop short.

I actually like Matterson as a lock, after watching some of his games this hear back the last few weeks it showed he is a 5/8/centre/backrower - he can ball play late and runs decent lines + can defend.