Tiger5150
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You’re asking me to do your research for you?
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You’re asking me to do your research for you?
oh all right....
At the Wests Tigers, we believe that the Children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way....
Was with him 12 days ago....
Do they get on the bus
They're quickly becoming yet another club closer to a premiership than us....
The bus went to Penrith and will be bringing Luai & Turuva back to us next season.
I always am.
Its a tantalising prospect that Im sure all Rugba Loig lovers are licking their lips over.......but whilst we are being honest, Parra are not going to get the spoon.....if I had to bet my house which I gave to my ex wife, Id put the money on the Tigers for the spoon despite our recent wins. Squad full of kids, average age below 23.
you guys wont get the spoon, but you are at the bottom and about to enter a rebuild. After cleaning out our front office, appointing Richo, recent signings, recent kids debuting etc, I am very confident we are 3-4 years ahead of Parra in the rebuilding phase. i dont say that with any bravado or puffed chest, it will take us a year or two just to get to your current standard, but our trajectories are in opposite directions. Again I take no joy in saying that (maybe a little), Ive been there for a long time but I recognise where you guys are.
This 3-4 year stuff is bullshit if you’ve been funding your pathways consistently. We lost a couple of years of funding due to Covid but we are back on point. Paying overs to get talented teenagers into your top 30 is not the same as funding pathways. It is the opposite.
Literally didnt mention pathways once, I said rebuilding.
In the context of rebuilding, your quoted 3-4 year timeframe refers to pathways. ‘Rebuilding’ a top thirty can happen in the space of a year or two. It just needs contracts to expire, both to create space in your roster, and for recruitment targets to become available. In the case of Lomax we didn’t even need his contract to expire. His new coach was off him and happy to let him go at the end of the year. It’s a definite concern. Is he the new Moses/Matterson? But there’s nothing pointing to a five year rebuild. Last time we won the spoon we went on to make the finals in four straight seasons. The ‘rebuild’ took a season because our pathways were strong.
Moses is five years younger than Origin halfback DCE, and at his peak. This possibly won’t even be his last contract.
Indeed. Asking price is probably approaching Matterson and Lane salaries I'd reckon....
Yep.....we will be pushing back towards the top in the next 1-2 years again.....this year aren't pretty, but it's never as bad as it seems.....
I don’t know if I’ve Mandelaed it but I swear there’s a scene in the 2005 Bad News Bears where one of the kids says they didn’t lose the game as badly, to which one of the other kids says “Great, we’ve gone from shit to stink” and Buttermaker says
