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.

Replace Mcqueen with Blore please

Seriously some people just want to complain at everything.

Madge is giving the kids a go, he is actually trying something and seeing what they are made of. It’s important to then make a call if they stay or leave.

I like what he is doing atm with the kids.

He owes us nothing & has been bloody loyal to us when any form of talent ran out the door bar him and Brooks.

If he can grab a great payday for his last contract he should, he deserves it.

Just hope it’s with us but not 900k

@TigerSJ said in Knee injury may force Matulino to hang up boots:

I don’t get it. If a player feels he must retire because he can no longer fulfil his playing commitments and this is backed up by medical evidence of his long term injury - how can the NRL rule otherwise. The Club should be entitled to deduct him from the cap total - it seems pretty simple to me.

Issue is money.

If Mats retires he forfeits the $$ owed to him, if he is medically retired he gets paid that amount & we get cap relief.

I don’t want him leaving and think he is future captain material. He is one we could build the club around.

If our club is serious about changing the culture and winning we need to prove we can resolve differences with players and keep the good ones at the club.

This will be a great test for Madge and Pascoe, but also a crucial call on how we manage our future.

This thread is going to get boring now.
Who is the next player to take another 100 pages ?

Never in doubt, glad to see him running around with us for the rest of his career.

@Harvey said in JAC:

@BAGNF05 said in JAC:

@tigersfan05 said in JAC:

@cochise said in JAC:

@tigersfan05 said in JAC:

@Speed2burn said in JAC:

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The kennel must be pumping atm if a Dogs supporter is sniffing around here for laughs. A Dogs supporter giving us grief about our signings…that’ll do me.

The kennel is riddled with fleas…

Ooooh we are a salty bunch aren’t we?
I guess you would be cranky missing finals for a decade

Says the deluded 15th placers making an account to defend his abolishment of a club

But the tigpies have finished 15th twice this decade alone?

Impossible, it is the 1st year of the current decade.

If you are feeling clever, read on:
The literal definition of ‘decade’ is ‘A period of ten years’. (Referenced from Oxford English Dictionary).
No one said it MUST be 2010 to end of 2019. It can simply be a rolling 10 year period.

I’m confused, a Dogs fan with a dictionary? Now I’ve seen it all.

Wondering where he stole it from.

It was out on the nature strip

@jadtiger said in Wests Tigers sign James Roberts till 2022:

@Newtown said in Wests Tigers sign James Roberts till 2022:

James Roberts reveals he considered walking away from footy amid an emotional 2020 season
By George Vlotis
13 hours ago

Star Tigers recruit James Roberts has revealed he considered walking away from rugby league amid an emotional 2020 season that saw the former Souths speedster grapple with demons from his past.

Roberts had a trying season - marred by injury amid the already taxing conditions of a global pandemic, the 28-year-old spent time in rehab to get on top of his mental health. Sidelined for South Sydney and with a bleak outlook, Roberts revealed he was a whisker away from walking away from the game for good.

“I was just thinking about throwing it all in and giving up and getting a normal job, just get away from everything,” Roberts told Nine News. "I was just going through the motions. I didn’t love myself. I just had no self-belief by the end of it and just didn’t know what I was doing really. I was just lost. "I’m always going to have those demons and my childhood traumas are going to pop up now and then, I’ve just got to stay on top of them. “That’s something I’m working on now, just my mental illness stuff and just talking about whatever is bothering me and trying to be as happy as I can be.”

With a new lease on footy and great opportunity under former coach Michael Maguire at Wests Tigers, Roberts said he was excited to re-ignite his career and get back to basics.

"I wanted to start over again I guess and I wanted to be challenged. Be around a younger group and work my way back into the team again and get out of my comfort zone. “I know he’s [Maguire] going to challenge me and push me to where I want to go, I just need to buy into it as well.”

I love his self criticism and honesty which is a rare commodity in a footballer.I have never been a fan of him but i sincerely hope he beats his internal issues and becomes a success as a man even if it is not on the field with us.He deserves it

One doesn’t beat then, he needs support and understanding to be able to speak openly when those demons hit him hard - which will happen.

It sounds like he however has the ability to talk and speak with confidence when something isn’t right. That’s a very positive step for him.

@Snake said in David Nofoaluma:

@JC99 said in David Nofoaluma:

Lee on the radio this morning seems very confident about retaining Nofa. Said he won’t let Nofa play in another jersey in the NRL and wants him a Tiger for life, and Nofa feels the same. Confirms he’s been offered a contract and that they’re well into negotiations.

Link to the chat here: https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=778736

So Noffo gets paid what he wants as the chairman will not allow him to play elsewhere … another foot in mouth moment by this guy ! Nothing has changed at this club there are reasons why the club has not played finals for a decade … these comments by the Chair a case in point no matter if there is a winger that could move you to the next level just have friends in the right places !So over these crap media comments …

Did you listen to the interview?

Geez some fans here are being ridiculous

Because it’s all quite and the club is doing things the right way everyone gets nervous & panics.

Last year everyone was freaking out about the leaks etc.

The clubs days of signing players on overs is gone. He won’t be getting anything close to 500k.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he signed soon to a 3yr deal with 1yr option in our favor.

Who knows maybe the club slowed talks down due to other player activities… just a thought…

@twentyforty said in David Nofoaluma:

@Tiger-Tragic said in David Nofoaluma:

@twentyforty said in David Nofoaluma:

@Tiger-Tragic said in David Nofoaluma:

@twentyforty said in David Nofoaluma:

@Tiger-Tragic said in David Nofoaluma:

@twentyforty said in David Nofoaluma:

@Tiger-Tragic said in David Nofoaluma:

@twentyforty said in David Nofoaluma:

@Earl said in David Nofoaluma:

@Leck said in David Nofoaluma:

Maybe if we did that on both accounts, players like Teddy, JAC and Pap would still be here.

We could have kept JAC and Pap but we didn’t make the right decisions. We offered Tedesco a fortune. We easily offered him as much as the Rorters did. He just wanted out because he is a piece of work.

He took his mum to the Dally M award night! He’s a good guy focussed on his career. WT need to learn a lesson from those events and become the club where players can have an optimistic view of achieving their personal ambitions. It’s not rocket science, and if we had good people ourselves who cared more about the future of the club, than they did about their own self importance, then we would be that club today, already.

Can you name the people at WT who are not “good” and who “care more about their own self importance”?

No I can’t and I wouldn’t.

Well, I don’t understand the point you were trying to make.

It is obvious to anyone who has had some involvement in OD that the teamwork that we are so desperate to see on the park, didn’t exist back of house. If you think it has been a shining example then perhaps you could tell us why we don’t enjoy the same high level of success with the football team? I really would like to know?

Hmmmm …you make some pretty wide intuitive leaps there my friend. I don’t have any “informed” impression of the quality of OD (whatever that is …) but, given your hostile response to my suggestion that you name names, I don’t think you do either!!

You could have shown insight. Instead, you chose incite. Sad, really.

I can’t help the way you view things. I’m not in the least hostile to your insults, they mean nothing to me.
Seems you would feel better if I hung someone. Well, as I told you I have nobody to hang and if I did? I would not because it would be counter productive. Have a good day. And don’t go trying to upset anyone on here.

Man, you’re just clickbait. Nothing more.

Do you honestly think Nofa will re-sign?

Yes

@avocadoontoast said in Wests Tigers sign James Roberts till 2022:

JTJ is the signing i’m most excited about. We’ve been after some pace in the backline for so long.

As a typical Wests Tigers supporter we are use to heart attacks, rocks and diamonds.

I’m really excited but at the same time very worried about him being here.

I just hope during the 1st few games we start strong and give him space to hit the ground with confidence.

Potential wise he could be the difference between 9th and top 8 he can be that good but he is on a KPI contract for a reason.

We will need to be patient with him given how long he has been away from the game.

@cochise said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@Mighty_Tiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@cochise said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@Hangonaminute said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Gebbie is our man imo

He hasn’t even made training yet for his trial and train contract.

If Gebbie plays a game in 1sts this year will be lucky.

He has raw potential but has some massive challenges to become an nrl player. Putting him in at fullback would be a disaster as no one would understand him or he wouldn’t understand everyone else.

The last I heard the club was putting him on a train and trial contract with the view to a development contract for 2021.

Yeah that was implied last year but alot has changed.

If he isn’t in the country yet then we need to consider until he gets here + 14 days isolation & then learn our ways.

He will be raw as and will take a while to just get use to things here let alone be ready to play.

someone else could be impressing right now and snatch the dev contract from him also.

@cochise said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@Hangonaminute said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Gebbie is our man imo

He hasn’t even made training yet for his trial and train contract.

If Gebbie plays a game in 1sts this year will be lucky.

He has raw potential but has some massive challenges to become an nrl player. Putting him in at fullback would be a disaster as no one would understand him or he wouldn’t understand everyone else.