Wests Tigers 2016 Thread

No Worries wrote:
GIVE THIS BLOKE A HIGH FIVE !!!

Lauren Brant and Barry Hall confirm they have a baby on the way. Sounds like Lauren has a fetish for retired footy players.

Didn't know they were a couple, but she must like a footy players D though. I wonder what happened in the jungle?

2017 Trial Match Schedule

Saturday, February 4 to Sunday, February 5

NRL Auckland Nines (Eden Park, Auckland)



Saturday, February 11

St. George Illawarra vs. Wests Tigers (WIN Stadium, Wollongong, 7:40pm)



Friday, February 17

Wests Tigers vs. North Queensland (Campbelltown Sports Stadium, 7:00pm)

Event Details — Gates open: 6:30pm, Kick-off: 7:00pm

Tickets — On sale: 9am, January 9

FREE for 2017 Wests Tigers Members or $10 entry for General Public.

Been told tigers will feature on Fox 501 Sat 7th for those interested
10am 2010 Rnd 5 vs cowboys
11:30 2003 Rnd 12 vs dogs
12:30 2006 Rnd 4 vs Storm
1:30 2000 Rnd 13 vs warriors
2:30 2005 Semmi vs Saints
3:30 2011 Rnd 13 vs Knight
4:30 2009 Rnd 21 vs Manly
5:30 2000 round 21 vs Parramatta
6:30 2005 Grand final
7:30 Team review (2016 review & 2017 preview)

Think I was at all those matches live except the 2010 Cowboys and 2000 Warriors.


Was the 2006 Storm game the Slater stamp on Skandalis? - might have to record that game just for that so i can reaffirm my hatred.

Beating the Dragons in 2005 is perhaps my favourite league game ever, great build up and atmosphere.

How is this possible???




Not too worried about losing lovett but "over the cap"

I guess thats what happens when you employ primary schoolers in the salary cap dept. and choose to pay Robbie 700K to play for another club. We got rid of Siro too, JAC, Buchanan, cherrington, halatau (ret) as well.

we couldn't afford Idris or ET but brought them anyway putting us over the cap.

There's obviously a bit more to this story.

Lovett is contracted, so we can't just tell him to leave. His salary for this year still counts towards the cap, unless he voluntarily gives it up, or finds another club willing to pay him.

But our cap management is very poor.

if we keep Moses/Teddy/Brooks/Woods will we be able to afford another 14 players to take the field with them?

Surely this is in an effort to keep Moses Ted Brooks together.
Lovett sucks, not a big loss at all but one would think he isnt on much coin in the first place anyway.

What an absolutely inept group of blokes managing their salary cap.

Maybe they need to bite the bullet and let Brooks go

Million dollar question, who has the worse salary cap accountants, the Tigers or the Eels? The answer will probably be the Eels but we're not far from them

Pieman wrote:Surely this is in an effort to keep Moses Ted Brooks together.
Lovett sucks, not a big loss at all but one would think he isnt on much coin in the first place anyway.

What an absolutely inept group of blokes managing their salary cap.

Well things are obviously pretty fucking dire when you have a Knights supporter bagging your off-field competency!
Anyway, for what it's worth and in this instance, I tend to agree with said Knights fan....

Without knowing the precise financial situation of the Tigers, to me it reeks of throwing all your eggs in the one basket.
And don't get me wrong, sometimes that works (if it is a JT).....but not when it's a shitty basket that is heavily supporting Luke Brooks.

Pieman wrote:Surely this is in an effort to keep Moses Ted Brooks together.
Lovett sucks, not a big loss at all but one would think he isnt on much coin in the first place anyway.

What an absolutely inept group of blokes managing their salary cap.

The stupid things is, unless they find someone willing to take him on, they don't actually save any money - either real cash, or within the salary cap.

They still have to pay him this years money, and it still counts in the cap.

Id like him at the Broncos if the Tigers are paying.

Bren wrote:Id like him at the Broncos if the Tigers are paying.

Whilst getting a handy player for free is somewhat attractive, he'd probably be fairly well down the backrow pecking order at the Broncos and isn't the sort of big bopping prop we really need.

Most teams have settled their lineups for this years and probably don't have cap room so the best bet will be for him to go to super league if he can be off loaded there at short notice. I bet the tigers are wishing they got a bit more money for Robbie now

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

Pieman wrote:Surely this is in an effort to keep Moses Ted Brooks together.
Lovett sucks, not a big loss at all but one would think he isnt on much coin in the first place anyway.

What an absolutely inept group of blokes managing their salary cap.

Well things are obviously pretty fucking dire when you have a Knights supporter bagging your off-field competency!
Anyway, for what it's worth and in this instance, I tend to agree with said Knights fan....

Without knowing the precise financial situation of the Tigers, to me it reeks of throwing all your eggs in the one basket.
And don't get me wrong, sometimes that works (if it is a JT).....but not when it's a shitty basket that is heavily supporting Luke Brooks.

I wanna hear ya actually say the name, you know you want to, say it, say "I agree with Pieman".

Milchcow wrote:Think I was at all those matches live except the 2010 Cowboys and 2000 Warriors.


Was the 2006 Storm game the Slater stamp on Skandalis? - might have to record that game just for that so i can reaffirm my hatred.

Beating the Dragons in 2005 is perhaps my favourite league game ever, great build up and atmosphere.

Awesome to be able to say that Milchy.

My memory of the Dragons 2005 Final was listening to it on the radio in my car as I was out bush and having to touch the aerial the whole fucking time to get reception! Was worth it

flasSId* wrote:

I wanna hear ya actually say the name, you know you want to, say it, say "I agree with Pieman".

My keyboard physically won't allow that particular combination of letters

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

Well things are obviously pretty fucking dire when you have a Knights supporter bagging your off-field competency!
Anyway, for what it's worth and in this instance, I tend to agree with said Knights fan....

Without knowing the precise financial situation of the Tigers, to me it reeks of throwing all your eggs in the one basket.
And don't get me wrong, sometimes that works (if it is a JT).....but not when it's a shitty basket that is heavily supporting Luke Brooks.

Well considering newcastle have just signed the best young talent in the game, at a bargain price, we are doing pretty good.
Letting a guy like Tariq sims go was an excellent move, swapping uate for buhrer - he's a genius.
Starting to keep young local guys, fitting in worker vets, newcastle is def moving in the right direction.

With the amount of player turnover the tigers have had over the last few years, it is beyond belief how they are still fucked by the salary cap.

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

My keyboard physically won't allow that particular combination of letters

you agreeing with me on this makes me think that I must be totally off the mark with it