I am just as frustrated as the next Tigers supporter!! Nor do I think Hunt and Rankin will be stars, but in reality, all clubs make these type of signings. I don't think they should be promoted as "top notch" signings as WTs try to make out, they should barely rate a mention to be honest.
In the modern era of salary cap, depth signings are just that - there for depth in case your halfback, hooker etc goes down, gets suspended etc. Unfortunately, for many teams, not just ours, these signings are not really there to put pressure on the incumbent. Just look at the Austin / Moses situation - Austin could have stayed and tried to put pressure on young Mitch (or vice versa), but Canberra offered him a starting job and the rest is history. I believe the problem more lies around the salary cap and more specifically the 2nd tier cap.
It is easy just to say "go and get some young bloke from Roosters who wants a go" but it doesn't always work out like that. Some kids would rather stay in a successful organisation and therefore you may have pay them a lot more cash to come across. Then we start paying overs and get into more salary cap trouble and the cycle continues.
At the end of the day all we want is for Tigers to be a success, so for the mean time I will trust in the powers to be. But rest assured, if I don't see some form of improvement soon then I will be happy for JT to be shown the door!
