OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - Official

[crazycat]

Missed a lot of footy and coming back from a shoulder injury.

More then happy to have Penrith pay for him while his body recovers.

 

[crazycat]

I look at Luai & I see Bateman in the halves.

No. Not the same type of player.

But they have that competitiveness that makes up for whatever deficiencies they have elsewhere.

I think what Luai brings most is the focus to not let the team drift out of a game the way we often do, particularly if we have a couple of bad decisions go against us.

We have a few players now, with that edge. But none other than Api are on the ball all game.

Luai offers that. If he can pass that on to Galvin & Fainu as well, that is culture changing.

Its interesting as we have had:

Fainu
Galvin
Sullivan

Walk in to the squad. Really only one of those players have proven their worth yet.
Luai is a top shelf player, but a top shelf 5/8. ... We have taken a gamble, definately Luai is quality and will add attitude and leadership to the team. I expect good combinations with Api.

Flip it, we hired Josh Reynolds on attitude.

It's a risk that Luai will perform in our team, a risk I think is the right one.
It's a larger risk that Luai will be our halfback. That is a massive skill transition. Yet I think Luai can do it.

 

[SeanT]

Marshall and Pascoe were so desperate to keep the discussions quiet, they left the club’s Centre of Excellence at Concord in separate cars – at different times – to throw people off the scent. ...... Along with Pascoe, Marshall had largely kept the Tigers’ board of directors in the dark about the movements as they did their best to stop their chase of Luai filtering into the public domain.


That's an embarrassing reflection on our board of the time.

There has always been leaks and i wonder why coaches never worked harder to stop it. Keep everything in house.

Anyone talks to the press out of context gets the sack.

 

[SeanT]

Its interesting as we have had:

Fainu
Galvin
Sullivan

Walk in to the squad. Really only one of those players have proven their worth yet.
Luai is a top shelf player, but a top shelf 5/8. ... We have taken a gamble, definately Luai is quality and will add attitude and leadership to the team. I expect good combinations with Api.

Flip it, we hired Josh Reynolds on attitude.

It's a risk that Luai will perform in our team, a risk I think is the right one.
It's a larger risk that Luai will be our halfback. That is a massive skill transition. Yet I think Luai can do it.

Eh he played halfbac in the juniors. Just the long kicking game is the only issue.

Look at the storm with hughes. Hes a fullback/5/8th turned into a halfback. He still is a runnr though.

Galvin Luai and api will be dangerous.

 

[Spartan117]

Watching Jerome tonight, man what a competitor.

We will be amazing in 2025

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

he is just what we need in 2025 him and Galvin will be a great combo

 

[Telltails]

Had a great game. Was targeted in defence and for the most part was tough as.

 

[Snidest 0]

Had a great game. Was targeted in defence and for the most part was tough as.

Much beter than the 7....

 

[rugbygoated]

Eh he played halfbac in the juniors. Just the long kicking game is the only issue.

Look at the storm with hughes. Hes a fullback/5/8th turned into a halfback. He still is a runnr though.

Galvin Luai and api will be dangerous.

his long kicking is improving quite a lot this year. I can see him being our halfback kicking long from our end but I'm still looking to see if he can vary his kicks and last tackle plays. He nearly kicked a 40/20 against us last week

 

[jrtiger]

looks like our guy is going to be Penrith’s 7 for the next little bit with Cleary out for eight weeks and Schneider doing a PCL. I’m expecting things to be a little rusty, but I can’t say I’m not excited.

 

[BirchgroveTigers]

looks like our guy is going to be Penrith’s 7 for the next little bit with Cleary out for eight weeks and Schneider doing a PCL. I’m expecting things to be a little rusty, but I can’t say I’m not excited.

Yep, absolutely perfect for us tbh. Really not hugely worried about Luai not being one of the top 5 or 6 halfbacks very quickly. Hopefully I’m right!

 

[rugbygoated]

looks like our guy is going to be Penrith’s 7 for the next little bit with Cleary out for eight weeks and Schneider doing a PCL. I’m expecting things to be a little rusty, but I can’t say I’m not excited.

I don't think he'll go too well at Penrith as the game manager if he is picked there. Ivan doesn't think he's a halfback. He goes better as an unstructured halfback rather than a traditional halfback based on his junior games, debut and Samoan campaign. Just trying to imagine how Edwards and Yeo play on the left side more compared to right side which they have done for years whether it is Cleary, Cogger, O'Sullivan, or Schneider. I don't rate the new guy Cole either. I think the system will break down, it's not about the quality of player, but how well a player fits into the system

 

[jrtiger]

I don't think he'll go too well at Penrith as the game manager if he is picked there. Ivan doesn't think he's a halfback. He goes better as an unstructured halfback rather than a traditional halfback based on his junior games, debut and Samoan campaign. Just trying to imagine how Edwards and Yeo play on the left side more compared to right side which they have done for years whether it is Cleary, Cogger, O'Sullivan, or Schneider. I don't rate the new guy Cole either. I think the system will break down, it's not about the quality of player, but how well a player fits into the system

I don't think professional rugby league players of Edwards and Yeo's calibre are going to struggle with switching to the left edge as opposed to the right. they're just mirrored sweeping and squaring movements.

the ball being in Luai's hands as much as it usually would be Cleary's is very exciting from a WT perspective. even if he is a little shonky it's a good yardstick to get an idea of where he's at both for him, the club and us fans.