@avocadoontoast don't think he will play Brooks in reserve grade not until after the bye anyway
Nofa hasn’t been a 1st grade winger ever since he got his ridiculous 5 year deal.Even if the transfer fee is $3mil, the club needs to do everything it build a winning club.
Transfer fee don't affect the cap, just the clubs bottom line. So in my view, pay the transfer fee, and bring Williams and Welsby as soon as possible
This is exactly how I see it too. No point going on about how good we're going financially if we don't use it to improve on field performance.
We have Brooks and a couple of others that could go the other way. I think I’m on board with Eddie - Nofa is not an NRL standard winger any longer. If I were him I’d be looking for a UK deal, get the $ and see the world.
@avocadoontoast don't think he will play Brooks in reserve grade not until after the bye anyway
He’ll keep his spot because there is no one else. Hopefully something happens and he gets back to a least serviceable form.
Agree we should be making a strong approach to Williams. If we can't get him i'd go for Blake Taafe - would be cheap and behind Ilias in the pecking order.@avocadoontoast I don't know mate but clubs don't generally pay bucket loads on transfer fees.
I agree welsby and Williams would be great but can't see it happening
I don't see any other option. Sheens made a massive error persisting with Brooks when he was ready to go to Newcastle, so now he has to rectify the problem he created. There are no good options available for next year currently in the NRL so they have to simply pay whatever it takes to get Williams across ASAP. I'd also be throwing money at RTS. Make those two changes and we're winning more games than we're losing. Not sure who plays 6, probably Wakeham. AD and Brooks to stay in reserve grade.
@frullens we might be going well as a club financially but probably not well enough to pay huge transfer fees. Remember the complaints by the club over Batemans 250k ? Welsby will easily be 3 times that and so would George Williams
What's the point of doing well financially if we can't pay transfer fees? What are we using the money on that's more important?
I think the major issue is that "financially better off" and "free cash" are two separate things. So although Tigers are in a better financial position than they used to be, they are using that money to invest back into the club, pathways and community, and as such there isn't a lot of cold hard cash left over.
It's like the difference between owning 3-4 houses and putting all your savings into the mortgages, vs owning 1 hours but having $250K available cash to buy a Ferrari.
I am guessing that many clubs don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars at their disposal, that isn't already earmarked for something else.
@tiger5150 yea that’s why I said the bench in another post . Or you move Bateman into 13 and AJ on his edge.. Or a bench of AJ , Simpkin , Blore , Twal .
there’s a lot of diversity there.
Agree we should be making a strong approach to Williams. If we can't get him i'd go for Blake Taafe - would be cheap and behind Ilias in the pecking order.@avocadoontoast I don't know mate but clubs don't generally pay bucket loads on transfer fees.
I agree welsby and Williams would be great but can't see it happening
I don't see any other option. Sheens made a massive error persisting with Brooks when he was ready to go to Newcastle, so now he has to rectify the problem he created. There are no good options available for next year currently in the NRL so they have to simply pay whatever it takes to get Williams across ASAP. I'd also be throwing money at RTS. Make those two changes and we're winning more games than we're losing. Not sure who plays 6, probably Wakeham. AD and Brooks to stay in reserve grade.
I thikn Tigers sounded Williams out during the offseason and reportedly baulked at the transfer fee. I dont think that fee would be less now the season has started in fact I dont think they will let him go at all.
@frullens we might be going well as a club financially but probably not well enough to pay huge transfer fees. Remember the complaints by the club over Batemans 250k ? Welsby will easily be 3 times that and so would George Williams
What's the point of doing well financially if we can't pay transfer fees? What are we using the money on that's more important?
I think the major issue is that "financially better off" and "free cash" are two separate things. So although Tigers are in a better financial position than they used to be, they are using that money to invest back into the club, pathways and community, and as such there isn't a lot of cold hard cash left over.
It's like the difference between owning 3-4 houses and putting all your savings into the mortgages, vs owning 1 hours but having $250K available cash to buy a Ferrari.
I am guessing that many clubs don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars at their disposal, that isn't already earmarked for something else.
If a club hasn't made finals in 12 years wouldn't the most important thing be to try and improve onfield performance in some way?
We'd have to offer Taffe a multi year deal but I would do it. The guy performed amazingly well as a rookie during 2021 finals (including GF) but hasn't got a go since then.Agree we should be making a strong approach to Williams. If we can't get him i'd go for Blake Taafe - would be cheap and behind Ilias in the pecking order.@avocadoontoast I don't know mate but clubs don't generally pay bucket loads on transfer fees.
I agree welsby and Williams would be great but can't see it happening
I don't see any other option. Sheens made a massive error persisting with Brooks when he was ready to go to Newcastle, so now he has to rectify the problem he created. There are no good options available for next year currently in the NRL so they have to simply pay whatever it takes to get Williams across ASAP. I'd also be throwing money at RTS. Make those two changes and we're winning more games than we're losing. Not sure who plays 6, probably Wakeham. AD and Brooks to stay in reserve grade.
Taffe is managed by Sam Ayoub who I think is on the nose with Sheens at the moment so cant see him coming to WT.
And Brooks hasn't been a 1st grade half for the same amount of time, or longer, yet Nofa was dropped, loaned out, dropped again, and all the while brooks is stinking it up in 1st grade, and that is why we are a poor side right now, not everyone is accountable for their formNofa hasn’t been a 1st grade winger ever since he got his ridiculous 5 year deal.Even if the transfer fee is $3mil, the club needs to do everything it build a winning club.
Transfer fee don't affect the cap, just the clubs bottom line. So in my view, pay the transfer fee, and bring Williams and Welsby as soon as possible
This is exactly how I see it too. No point going on about how good we're going financially if we don't use it to improve on field performance.
We have Brooks and a couple of others that could go the other way. I think I’m on board with Eddie - Nofa is not an NRL standard winger any longer. If I were him I’d be looking for a UK deal, get the $ and see the world.
And Brooks hasn't been a 1st grade half for the same amount of time, or longer, yet Nofa was dropped, loaned out, dropped again, and all the while brooks is stinking it up in 1st grade, and that is why we are a poor side right now, not everyone is accountable for their formNofa hasn’t been a 1st grade winger ever since he got his ridiculous 5 year deal.Even if the transfer fee is $3mil, the club needs to do everything it build a winning club.
Transfer fee don't affect the cap, just the clubs bottom line. So in my view, pay the transfer fee, and bring Williams and Welsby as soon as possible
This is exactly how I see it too. No point going on about how good we're going financially if we don't use it to improve on field performance.
We have Brooks and a couple of others that could go the other way. I think I’m on board with Eddie - Nofa is not an NRL standard winger any longer. If I were him I’d be looking for a UK deal, get the $ and see the world.
Good attitude = stay in the side.
Poor attitude = get dropped.
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@frullens we might be going well as a club financially but probably not well enough to pay huge transfer fees. Remember the complaints by the club over Batemans 250k ? Welsby will easily be 3 times that and so would George Williams
What's the point of doing well financially if we can't pay transfer fees? What are we using the money on that's more important?
I think the major issue is that "financially better off" and "free cash" are two separate things. So although Tigers are in a better financial position than they used to be, they are using that money to invest back into the club, pathways and community, and as such there isn't a lot of cold hard cash left over.
It's like the difference between owning 3-4 houses and putting all your savings into the mortgages, vs owning 1 hours but having $250K available cash to buy a Ferrari.
I am guessing that many clubs don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars at their disposal, that isn't already earmarked for something else.
If a club hasn't made finals in 12 years wouldn't the most important thing be to try and improve onfield performance in some way?
That's my thinking
Every year we font make the finals- every year it will become more and more expensive to attract talent - until we hit a point where no amount of money would attract decent players.
Paying money now to turn on field performance around - is an investment in the future.
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Don't know how true it is I heard Papali is keen to go back to NZ due to family issues. I wonder if something will be worked out with warriors for 2024, maybe we get Metcalfe from them ?
