[Sticky] Wests Tigers Signings and Rumoured Signings

@mac_tiger Think Laurie is a Smokey in the halves ..

Posted by: @jedi-tiger

2024 

Kyle Flannagan maybe for 7, if the dogs want to release him and pay some of the contract. Dylan Brown for 6  

Douhie centre 

Hastings 13

No

@helmesy just think reality is Hastings won't be the 7 

So then you look st who we have not much, subsidised fanno junior with a Dylan brown could work 

@helmesy Flano is solid without being a world beater, he also is a good goal kicker which going up by 6 gives you more wins than loses… but this is just talk and will not happen.

@snake sounds like they very may have offered him the mil . Crazy money . Like others have said he’s a middle of the road half . Def8nitely not worth a mil even in a sellers market .

Posted by: @jedi-tiger

2024 

Kyle Flannagan maybe for 7, if the dogs want to release him and pay some of the contract. Dylan Brown for 6  

Douhie centre 

Hastings 13

Eeeeeeww

@garry Totally agree he needs a bit of class next to him someone exciting

Posted by: @helmesy

Posted by: @jedi-tiger

2024 

Kyle Flannagan maybe for 7, if the dogs want to release him and pay some of the contract. Dylan Brown for 6  

Douhie centre 

Hastings 13

I don’t think too many people will be excited about getting Flanno Jnr.

 

If it meant getting a decent 6 and moving AD to centre, I would be content. His short kicking improved immensely last season and he is a very reliable goal kicker. Something we have missed for a long time.

Sheens better use Brooks to Newcastle 2023 for our advantage, if Tyson Frizell wants out then grab him (as well as klemmer) 

Blake Taafe is off contract with souths end off 2023 perhaps he can play 7

I know it’s not a major player but just saw Junior Pauga thanked the club for his opportunity and he’s signing out ….another gone 👍 the clean out continues ….

@garry hell No

Does anyone know which NSW Cup players have been released/retained?

Posted by: @forever-9th

Does anyone know which NSW Cup players have been released/retained?

I haven’t seen anything official.

STRUGGLING NRL side Wests Tigers are reportedly in the market for Super League halfbacks.

That’s according to the Daily Telegraph which has reported that director of rugby Tim Sheens is currently in the UK scouring the nation for a new talisman.

The Tigers struggled greatly during 2022 with halfbacks Jackson Hastings, Adam Doueihi, Jock Madden and Luke Brooks all failing to inspire Wests to finish in the play-offs for yet another NRL season.

And now Sheens is looking for a new playmaker to offset yet another potential exit from Concord.

That’s because the much-maligned Luke Brooks is set to depart for the Newcastle Knights after almost a year of ‘will he, won’t he?’ type debate.

“I think he’s going,” Daily Telegraph columnist Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield told Sky Racing’s Big Sports Breakfast on Monday.

“I know he’s got a year to go on his contract and I know it’s worth about $900,000 but the Newcastle Knights are absolutely desperate to sign him and they’re throwing everything at him.

“The reason being Kalyn Ponga will play five-eighth for the Knights next year but he can’t do it on his own, they need to do something about their spine.

“They don’t have a halfback and they’re trying to work out a deal with the Wests Tigers that suits all parties and I think it will happen. Tim Sheens is in the UK at the moment but I’m pretty sure Luke Brooks will be heading to Newcastle.”

It remains to be seen who could well be on Sheens and Wests’ radar with few Super League halfbacks off-contract, though the former Hull KR and Widnes Vikings boss may well be looking towards potential recruits from the ongoing World Cup.

Already, a number of stars have put themselves in the shop window, including Queensland Cup winger Jake Maizen who bagged a hat-trick for Italy against Scotland as well as free agent Josh Mansour who impressed for Lebanon against New Zealand on Sunday night.

https://www.totalrl.com/wests-tigers-eyeing-up-super-league-halfbacks/

Austin Dias has signed with Manly according to The Mole.