Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Vicious said:
That won’t be hard to fix, simply tell him he’s looking at 4 years in reserve grade if he stays or deliberately miss training and get a nice little payout to go elsewhere.
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He can report for training and pick up a lazy $550 per year no problems. Reserve grade plays early so he's free most Saturday nights as well!
 
Vicious said:
That won’t be hard to fix, simply tell him he’s looking at 4 years in reserve grade if he stays or deliberately miss training and get a nice little payout to go elsewhere.
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Why would he deliberately miss training?
 
jrtiger said:
not when his parents are sooking because Galvin’s development has scared them and they think their son should walk into the side as opposed to earning it, and especially after the club had the kid training with the NRL side over preseason and paid for his surgery and rehab after his ankle injury.

there are two sides to every story, Vicious. quite frankly these are people I don’t want at the club if they don’t want to earn their place.

perspective.
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This is the problem when you want to be a ”development club”… it’s not about his parents or the kid thinking he can “walk into the side “ … how likely is it that this kid is playing in front of $1.2m a year player Luai or the new messiah Galvin anytime soon ?

Very small right ?You can’t really blame them for chasing fame and fortune elsewhere compared to being stuck in reserves here for years if he wants to play 6…and he has the option of “walking in “ to Rugby Yawnion or another club

Of course we can also get a situation where the messiah moves onto another team and the guy coming through has already left and you end up with nobody … see Tedesco/ Paps..

The “Development club” has worked for Penrith … but if the Tigers want to do the same .. then they need to build the team around Galvin …but … he needs to turn out to be just as good as Cleary and they need to be producing other talent around him in more numbers than what they are doing now …
 
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BalmainJnr said:
There is some suggestion by a poster in a NBWT thread on x about Heamasi Makasini that Onitoni maybe on his way out of WT.
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That guy is hit and miss, but does generally know more than most about juniors.

He did claim that Haumole would 1000% be at the Tigers, he's also firmly in the Fulton + Pascoe + Lee camp, so may have had some access to knowledge removed.

Find it hard to believe that a player who's injured and not even been training, would get so upset about another junior coming in to first grade that he'd just want to walk out on his contract. It's not as if he's been overlooked, he's sitting on the sidelines. He's a year away from competing for first grade so current form is irrelevant to him.

I'd back Benji to have a few words with him to calm the nerves... It may be that Luai, Galvin and Latu is too much competition for the kid to bear, but who knows what may happen with injuries, form etc. I could see Large becoming a great fullback.

We definitely can't afford to lose him or meekly give him up to another club. He's one of the very few fast juniors we have, Makasini is much more about power than pace, Large is a combo of both.
 
balmain boy said:
Find it hard to believe that a player who's injured and not even been training, would get so upset about another junior coming in to first grade that he'd just want to walk out on his contract. It's not as if he's been overlooked, he's sitting on the sidelines. He's a year away from competing for first grade so current form is irrelevant to him.
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Unless he has offers from another club that have him looking to get his noes out of joint at any opportunity....
 
balmain boy said:
That guy is hit and miss, but does generally know more than most about juniors.

He did claim that Haumole would 1000% be at the Tigers, he's also firmly in the Fulton + Pascoe + Lee camp, so may have had some access to knowledge removed.

Find it hard to believe that a player who's injured and not even been training, would get so upset about another junior coming in to first grade that he'd just want to walk out on his contract. It's not as if he's been overlooked, he's sitting on the sidelines. He's a year away from competing for first grade so current form is irrelevant to him.

I'd back Benji to have a few words with him to calm the nerves... It may be that Luai, Galvin and Latu is too much competition for the kid to bear, but who knows what may happen with injuries, form etc. I could see Large becoming a great fullback.

We definitely can't afford to lose him or meekly give him up to another club. He's one of the very few fast juniors we have, Makasini is much more about power than pace, Large is a combo of both.
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Yeah I follow that person on Twitter too, has some good intel about juniors at both Manly & Tigers. I actually thought he/she must be related to Fulton or close to the family with some of the info at times.
 
WswWt said:
Fisher Harris signing with Warriors from 2025. Wow
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Woh , warriors sign a gun , cowboys grab a dogs young gun forward , and here we sit struggling with a lack of forward muscle, no wonder we find it hard to compete, if u don’t have a mongrel pack u have nothing
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Why would he deliberately miss training?
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It’s simple, if someone plays reserve grade for 4 seasons their residual value is not good, where if they head to the UK now they could potentially be on a good contract for the next 7-8 years possibly longer.
Something has to give as Wests Tigers cannot afford to have the contract t money being paid for Sullivan wasting away in reserve grade.
 
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