As I have posted previously player agents and players now know the Tigers are open for business !
As I have posted previously player agents and players now know the Tigers are open for business !
Correct. Let’s hope though that we aren’t just leverage. I am confident though that a big fish will land.
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Brad Arthur has confirmed Isaiah Papali'i will be leaving the Eels for the Tigers after the GF.
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@tigertownsfs they might not re-sign Douhie, Hastings, Brooks until one of Moses, Munster, Dylan Brown makes a decision
The more I think about AD & HAstings, I really start to think that we over rate these two based on the fact that we are so bad that they are our shining lights and hopes. If we got one of those players, IMO AD, JH and probably Brooks are all surplus.
Brad Arthur has confirmed Isaiah Papali'i will be leaving the Eels for the Tigers after the GF.
I don’t think this will stop the journos still making stuff up on this topic.
The info we have is that the Staines/Peachey swap will be announced after the Grand Final.
Maybe Nathan Brown too.
Added speed with Staines and impact with Brown and I might be feeling a bit more confident of our competitiveness this time next week.
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@helmesy Staines / Peachey swap will be good and if we can land Nathan Brown for second row we are looking good.
1. Staines
2. Nofo
3. Naden
4. Douhie
5. Ken M
6. Laurie
7. Brooks
13.Hastings
12. Papali
11. Nathan Brown
10. Stef
9. Api
8. Joffa
@helmesy Staines / Peachey swap will be good and if we can land Nathan Brown for second row we are looking good.
1. Staines
2. Nofo
3. Naden
4. Douhie
5. Ken M
6. Laurie
7. Brooks
13.Hastings
12. Papali
11. Nathan Brown
10. Stef
9. Api
8. Joffa
Brown hasn’t played on an edge in yonks. He’ll be coming to play 13 (with Laurie and Hastings in the halves) or on the interchange as a middle forward.
@helmesy Staines / Peachey swap will be good and if we can land Nathan Brown for second row we are looking good.
1. Staines
2. Nofo
3. Naden
4. Douhie
5. Ken M
6. Laurie
7. Brooks
13.Hastings
12. Papali
11. Nathan Brown
10. Stef
9. Api
8. JoffaBrown hasn’t played on an edge in yonks. He’ll be coming to play 13 (with Laurie and Hastings in the halves) or on the interchange as a middle forward.
Option 2
In memory of Geoff Chisholm (1965-2022)
@helmesy Staines / Peachey swap will be good and if we can land Nathan Brown for second row we are looking good.
1. Staines
2. Nofo
3. Naden
4. Douhie
5. Ken M
6. Laurie
7. Brooks
13.Hastings
12. Papali
11. Nathan Brown
10. Stef
9. Api
8. JoffaBrown hasn’t played on an edge in yonks. He’ll be coming to play 13 (with Laurie and Hastings in the halves) or on the interchange as a middle forward.
Option 2
Agreed, bench impact and experience.
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Spencer Leniu. We need him. Combined with Api, IP and a healthy Stefano and Blore, it would give us a pack that could compete week in week out. I worry it’s one of Nathan Brown or Spencer Leniu though.
Achievable starting 17 in 23. Probably missing a utility on the bench but lots of ability in the backline to cover
1. Laurie
2. Staines
3. naden
4. douhie
5. ken
6. Brooks
7. Hastings
8. stephano
9. api
10. lenui
11. Blore
12. Papi
13. Nathan brown
14. Pole
15. Twal
16. joffa
17. rua
Wests Tigers step up bid to snare Klemmer as Bulldogs circle
Newcastle enforcer David Klemmer has been taken on a tour through the Wests Tigers’ facility as the club looks to add some aggression to its pack.
The Herald can reveal the Tigers have opened discussions with Klemmer about joining the club as early as next season.
The 28-year-old was given a private tour of the Tigers’ impressive new Concord facility last week as they try to lure him to the joint-venture club. The Tigers are considering offering Klemmer, who at his peak was considered the best prop forward in the competition, another two years on top of his contract for next year.
Sources with knowledge of the situation told the Herald that the Canterbury Bulldogs have also expressed interest in Klemmer returning to the club he debuted with in 2013.
The Newcastle Knights are open to releasing Klemmer from the final year of his deal even though he won the club’s players’ player award at the their end-of-season awards night.
The Tigers are adamant Klemmer’s potential arrival at the club is not part of a swap deal for halfback Luke Brooks, who at this stage remains a key part of new coach Tim Sheens’ plans next year.
The Knights have been circling Brooks for the past 12 months but the Tigers haven’t budged. They rejected release requests from Brooks’ management last year.
Brooks is coming into the final season of his four-year deal with the Tigers. The contract was designed to gradually increase in salary each year, with the embattled No.7 set to earn almost $1.1m in 2023.
Sheens has a big decision to make during the summer as he mulls over his starting halves with Jackson Hastings, Adam Doueihi and Brooks all contending for two positions.
The Bulldogs have also shown interest in Klemmer’s services, however they will have to offload players to accommodate the former NSW and Australian forward in an already stretched salary cap.
Like Brooks, Klemmer is in the final year of a four-year deal with the Knights. His final year is worth about $800,000. He joined the Knights from the Bulldogs in 2020, but is open to returning to Belmore despite leaving on a sour note under the club’s previous administration.
Phil Gould and Cameron Ciraldo want to bring back some Bulldogs DNA to the club and have discussed Klemmer’s return. It comes as the club signed off on a 12-week train-and-trial contract for cult hero Josh Reynolds.
@salty no swap for Brooks woukd hurt some on here...
Klemmer would be a good move
we better not take Thomson off Dogs to free up room for klemmer
