Wow can’t believe the arm chair critics and the comments on Tamou.
I actually think if true it’s an astute pickup.
He instantly becomes our best prop & our best senior leader both of which we lack big time right now.

I get we want a barn stormer, but seriously getting the captain & prop from the premiers and one who also lead the pack to the GF for the Cowboys, is in form, will do alot of dirty work we need & one who isn’t busted with major injury concerns is something any tiger fan should be very happy about.

Geez some douche’s on this forum.

He deserves every cent of a contract we agreed with him for. He can’t help injuries. He has also carried himself trough all of his injuries, major off field drama & playing reserve grade in the most respected fashion.

I love hearing this. Madge should be rubbing the senior high playing players up the wrong way. They aren’t performing to the pay checks they signed, they are all fluff and don’t have what it takes to get to the next level or lead this young team in the direction we need them to take it.

Hopefully some of those big names pack up and get out.

We struggle to attract top line 1st graders and some on here want to treat our young talented kids with disrespect to force an issue.

What a way to totally destroy any chance at getting top junior talent.

Sorry but the person saying force Talau or give Nofo sounds like we are in panic mode for a winger… a WINGER!!! Seriously why??? He isn’t going to be that much of a difference especially now we don’t have a 80min hooker, a fullback, missing a winger and a half…

We must stop going after the first shiny object at any cost and credit to our club for finally standing firm on this.

If we miss out on JAC at least we didn’t give in at any cost to get a speedy winger… If we get him it will be on our terms.

Having been a mod here previously I fully support Willow and the other mods on this.

The amount of personal time they give to make this place work & as good as it is, isn’t small. If the mods didn’t do what they do you wouldn’t have a westtigersforum - It’s why I stopped, priorities were family & work.

People think that mods want respect because they have a right, it’s about respecting the mods who are giving their spare time to keep the forum in place.

It’s not hard to have a conversation rather than carry on like a spoilt brat.

I called him out on his post, didn’t report him & I’m not female.

It was a dumb post, hypocrisy within the same post high and well it was derogatory, not needed and just came across that he was bored so why not post something. He thought it was humor…

Re this forum leave if you don’t like it so much. The mods look after this place in their own spare time and do a great job. Not many forums survive for 15+yrs and grow like this place & it has because of the great work the mods do.

I’m in the minority on Reynolds I think he is the wrong fit for us and is exactly the type of buy we would go hard for in the past.

Yes he is a great player and would change us but next year he is 32. He is injury prone and that doesn’t ease up with age. A 2-3yr deal on high $$$ is a retirement fund.

I’m over us signing old players at the back end of the career. I want some youth & hungry players in our team.

Replace Mcqueen with Blore please

I watched the game again and some observations

• raiders targeted Liddle in defence. He may be registered with 50 off tackles, 30 of which he made before halftime but he was apart of probably 100 tackles.

• the raiders slowed the ruck down despite our forwards making more contact meters during big parts of the game not allowing Liddle to use his strength and run from dummy half

• his options to pass to didn’t exists. Mbye and Brooks both camped on the left all game at least 10 times the ball moved and play broke down as no one knew what the play was

• his runners were flat at best limiting his options even more

• his left to right passing was wobbly, not much flat and infront.

• I couldn’t count how often he was missing at hooker during the game which is what you want and shows his fitness levels are solid.

It was an 80min defensive effort game from him. He will be better for it and we have no choice but to give him a few weeks. Worrying signs as I didn’t see any signs of wanting to control the play or urgency in speeding the ruck up.

It’s scary that we are 2 weeks into the season and a rookie for the 2nd year in a row is already looking like being our best player by a mile.

This shows how bad our squad is.

Laurie has been brilliant for a rookie on a team getting thumped. He is catching bombs, running with strength, making tackles, putting efforts in for the full 80mins. Can’t wait until we get out of the rut and turn things on. He is going going to be brilliant over the next 3 seasons for us.

Look miracles can happen but we are 2 games out of the 8, will lose our next 2 games & considering our for and against is stuffed it’s a pipe dream.

Think if we win 6 of our games we realistically could win we will gain a max of 12pts thats 22pts total.

Clubs around us only have to win 4-5 games with easier draws.

I say no we won’t.

@strongee said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@mighty_tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@bagnf05 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@mighty_tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Can’t for the life of me fathom why some thinks this is a bad move. He has been in good form of late.

He is an instant uplift on our backrow. He also becomes a creative player we have been crying out for years.

Brooks, Laurie and Liddle running off him will create nightmares for our opponents. He starts after the bye and our end to the season could be a real positive one (we have a good draw to end on).

If this comes off I will be actually excited for once about one of our recruits.

We have real issues in defence and his current team gets lapped by 50 every other week.

He is more effective tackler than Lucy and miles better than Seyfarth.

Seyfarth is awesome . And brings huge energy. He’s just a muddle who had to fill in in the edge . The kid will wear blue one day .

No doubt about it he is improving at a great rate but isn’t in the same class yet as TPJ, he has a few years of growth to go.

@bagnf05 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@mighty_tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Can’t for the life of me fathom why some thinks this is a bad move. He has been in good form of late.

He is an instant uplift on our backrow. He also becomes a creative player we have been crying out for years.

Brooks, Laurie and Liddle running off him will create nightmares for our opponents. He starts after the bye and our end to the season could be a real positive one (we have a good draw to end on).

If this comes off I will be actually excited for once about one of our recruits.

We have real issues in defence and his current team gets lapped by 50 every other week.

He is more effective tackler than Lucy and miles better than Seyfarth.

Can’t for the life of me fathom why some thinks this is a bad move. He has been in good form of late.

He is an instant uplift on our backrow. He also becomes a creative player we have been crying out for years.

Brooks, Laurie and Liddle running off him will create nightmares for our opponents. He starts after the bye and our end to the season could be a real positive one (we have a good draw to end on).

If this comes off I will be actually excited for once about one of our recruits.

I just hope we see

Mbye give JTJ some early ball, I just want to see him get a sniff of space.

Our forwards need to hit hard and drive hard by running onto the ball not being flat and getting hit 3mtrs off the ball.

Seyfarth no silly hold downs or rolls
Lid’s no mistakes in attacking positions
Tamou actually perform as a forward and hit the ball up

Laurie run off Seyfarths hip, he has an offload and this would be a cracker of the game to use it

Bomb to Ken’s wing

@formerguest said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

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@cochise said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

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@tigerwest said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

@jedi_tiger said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

do you think Douhie will hang around if he can’t play 6 in the next year or so ?

If he’s under contract, then yes.

But that’s not to say he won’t be playing 6 in the

I agree pick him where it fits the team but if he wants to play 6 and say a cowboys come with a good offer and a 6 position then he may kick stones and request a release. He seems to see.himself as a 6 not a centre

Then he needs to improve his game play as a 6.

agree he is a better centre than a 6 especially with Hastings coming next year.
Hope he stays and makes a fist of centre

He missed 6 tackles yesterday

Wouldn’t it be great if he had a big scary human next to him wearing number 11 or 12 who could help in defence. Jamie Soward hardly ever made a tackle because he had Beau Scott. Our halves are left to fend for themselves.

Huh, Doueihi would look like a big scary human in appearance to the comparatively rather demure Beau Scott and as a relative giant of a half, Adam should require little or no help whatsoever.

Issue is he needs alot of support as he is a massive liability in defence. Doesn’t mark up & doesn’t hit with his shoulder. Brooks has him all over defense wise & he has alot of work to correct his approach to defence if he is going to be an effective 5/8th or center.

@balmain-boy said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@bagnf05 said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@boonboon said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

HSS was the best player from the Raiders Flegg winning team in 2019. They have lots of centres thpugh so prob looking for opportunity esp given injury as has Croker, Kris, Scoot, Timoko and its looking like Charnze in front of him. Can play centre, wing and played fb in the flegg gf in 2019. Would offer good utility value and quality depth

Croker’s done, Kris is only fresh. Scott is a drop kick, If he’s a good player he’d back himself to make it in Canberra in my opinion

He was Flegg player of the season 2 years ago. Last year was a write off for all juniors. He’s been injured to start the year.

If I were to compare him to a current NRL player I’d say Gutho. Not super fast but not slow, just an a solid athlete with a good footy brain and can play anywhere 1-6. Mostly played as a fullback

Fair assessment I think.
The kid has a lot of footy infront of him thats for sure, would be a nice addition that will put pressure on our backline for next year if true.

Like how we are building the squad atm, sure isn’t fast as we would like but at least we aren’t going all in on retirement funds.

@gnr4life said in Maumalo feeling good in new colours:

Would have been interesting if they were playing us. Would he still have played?

We play the Warriors in 6 weeks

@moh said in **live game feed** vs the Eels:

Laurie needs to be on the hip of Seyfarth wherever he goes

100% Laurie and Brooks need to support.
Seyfarth & Stefano both look likely to offload.

@tigerpower said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

From the kennel

“By the sounds of it dogs and tigers agreed on terms for next 1.5 years but DWZ and tigers couldn’t agree beyond that, he was wanting too much. So whole deal fell through”

Lol bet they are filthy & so will some of the new recruits. 800k for next year he would be on more than JAC.