Rumoured and Confirmed Signings and Other Assorted Crap VIII

[strider]

Tonga was a Kearney signing and he no longer runs the show

new coach may not want him and it's his team now

yeah SK was cleaning out the old broken down shit .... oh hang on

 

[strider]

Hock is from Wigan dude.

Ok that theory didn't last long !:lol:

I'm sure Leeds would pass on the cash to Wigan :lol:

 

[emjaycee]

That's life, I'm on contract too, if I don't perform, I'll get the sack too (although I prob won't get another job in exchange...).

I understand how it works just don't like it.

 

[Eels Dude]

I didn't see Tonga complaining when the Cowboys let him out of his contract with them a year early so he could return to Sydney and play alongside his brother. It works both ways. These days players and clubs get out of contracts all the time. Of course the club would have to fork out some cash if they release him early and a player isn't going to want to hang around at a club that make it clear they don't want him. In those cases its best for both parties the player moves on.

 

[TheRam]

Maybe we should be looking at picking up someone like this. We have done a lot worse.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/ca...ld-return-to-nrl/story-fndujljl-1226513339439



Cage fighting Tai Tuivasa says he would return to NRL

• by: Nick Walshaw
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• November 09, 2012 12:00AM

Ex-Rooster Tai Tuivasa says he would consider a return to the NRL after quitting to take up the fight game. Picture: Brett Costello Source: The Daily Telegraph



TAI Tuivasa had played only a handful of Toyota Cup games this year when he walked out on the Roosters.

He told them he would rather fight.
Since then, this imposing 140kg teenager has won all five cage fights. By knockout. Each in the first round.
Which is why every NRL scout should have a listen to what he says next.
"Would I come back to league? Oh, definitely," Tuivasa said. "Having watched what Sam Kasiano achieved with Canterbury this year, yeah, you start to think maybe you could do it too.
"This season, it was my second with the Roosters but things just weren't working out. I'm a Mount Druitt boy. I was too far from family.
"But maybe if there was a way for me to work through those issues ... "
Now for those NRL scouts not yet scrambling for their mobile phones, know that Tuivasa is a second-generation fighter who, despite taking up the gloves aged four, has been kept from competing by his father Tony.

Instead, young Tai played league - noticed first by Penrith, who whisked him into Harold Matthews a year ahead of time before Roosters recruitment guru Peter O'Sullivan swooped in 2010.
"And I still have no doubt Tai's an NRL player," O'Sullivan said yesterday. "Yes, he has some weight issues but the kid is incredibly athletic, skilful and has a good footy brain.
"He can make it, but he has to want it. We put a lot of work into him here at the Roosters but his heart just wasn't in it."
So instead of starting an NRL pre-season this December, Tuivasa is instead slated for a mixed martial arts bout against retired NRL bad boy John Hopoate.
But first tonight, at a St Mary's event dubbed Gladiators III, the teenager will concede almost 15 years to take on Sydney mixed martial artist Erik Nosa.

 

[Stagger eel]

Lots of shenanigans going on.

Sticky says Izzy wants to play for us.
We talk to Gareth Hock from Leeds.
Wtonga tweets that he has some big decision.
Today rumours that Leeds are talking to Wtonga

Maybe the Wtonga issue is two fold.

1) so we can use his cash to pay Izzy, and

2) a swap deal might negate the need for a transfer fee for Hock ?

Write one on Schuberts - you might find that he is the hold up....

just sayin ;-)

just on Hock, Wigan are being very challenging at the moment and I think there might be more truth to that Tonga rumour than meets the eye

 

[The Colonel]

We had him before the Roosters. Discipline issues big time

 

[Joshuatheeel]

just sayin ;-)

just on Hock, Wigan are being very challenging at the moment and I think there might be more truth to that Tonga rumour than meets the eye

A tonga for hock swap maybe?

 

[hindy111]

Tonga had no good ball and wasnt in the team when we started to attack.Stilla very good player .
That said if this is his last year im happy to release to give morgan a shot

 

[Someone]

Shane Shackleton > tigers

 

[Eels Dude]

He had some good ball, he just kept on trying to take on the defence himself instead of passing to his winger.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

He had some good ball, he just kept on trying to take on the defence himself instead of passing to his winger.

He made a couple of breaks and passed to his winger but he was not there, thus ball went over the side line - so I gather he gave up - it seemed like there was relationship / knowledge between tonga and his winger

 

[Stagger eel]

Tonga's best game for us was the Melbourne one right up until he got injured, he absolutely gave their outside men no room..

 

[Stagger eel]

We had him before the Roosters. Discipline issues big time

yeah the kid was a nutcase..

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Back in the 1980s we signed the world arm-wrestling champion. But that turned out to be a RLW April Fools Day joke.

 

[Stagger eel]

Back in the 1980s we signed the world arm-wrestling champion. But that turned out to be a RLW April Fools Day joke.

we also signed a world boxing champion, unfortunately that wasnt quite a joke..

 

[Suitman]

we also signed a world boxing champion, unfortunately that wasnt quite a joke..

No, but he played like one.

Suity

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

we also signed a world boxing champion, unfortunately that wasnt quite a joke..

Yeh, I'd blocked that out of my memory.

 

[EelDredd]

So whats the latest on Folau and Hock? Will we have to lose a few players?

 

[Utey]

I understand how it works just don't like it.

Amen.