LEICESTER TIGERS 2020/21 SQUAD/TRANSFERS/CONTRACT THREAD Part 2

[JP14]

Hamilton is leaving Bristol, might be a good return as he’s never kicked on elsewhere and can cover 6,7,8. Wouldn’t be demanding a massive wage. Seems Liam Gill is going Japan.

Shame he’s left and has been unable to find a stable club since leaving us I thought he was quite rated at Bristol, never mind.

[kk20gb30]

Hamilton is leaving Bristol, might be a good return as he’s never kicked on elsewhere and can cover 6,7,8. Wouldn’t be demanding a massive wage. Seems Liam Gill is going Japan.

Shame he’s left and has been unable to find a stable club since leaving us I thought he was quite rated at Bristol, never mind.

Financially, and in terms of ability I personally believe that we could never really justify his re-signing.An awful lot of players are going to struggle to find a home and contract right now.For the games livelihood we really do need to get back to playing .

[JP14]

Agreed.

[Wayne Richardson Fan Club]

Hamilton is leaving Bristol, might be a good return as he’s never kicked on elsewhere and can cover 6,7,8. Wouldn’t be demanding a massive wage. Seems Liam Gill is going Japan.

Shame he’s left and has been unable to find a stable club since leaving us I thought he was quite rated at Bristol, never mind.

Financially, and in terms of ability I personally believe that we could never really justify his re-signing.An awful lot of players are going to struggle to find a home and contract right now.For the games livelihood we really do need to get back to playing .

I liked Hamilton as a player, he always put a shift in, it was a shame he left when he did, but not really a player for now.
Hopefully the long term uncertainty over wages & squad sizes will focus the minds of younger players re education & their futures.
I would suggest the Championship will be full of loan players when that restarts.

[Longshanks]

Shame he’s left and has been unable to find a stable club since leaving us I thought he was quite rated at Bristol, never mind.

Financially, and in terms of ability I personally believe that we could never really justify his re-signing.An awful lot of players are going to struggle to find a home and contract right now.For the games livelihood we really do need to get back to playing .

I liked Hamilton as a player, he always put a shift in, it was a shame he left when he did, but not really a player for now.
Hopefully the long term uncertainty over wages & squad sizes will focus the minds of younger players re education & their futures.
I would suggest the Championship will be full of loan players when that restarts.

Agreed. Fell into the category of "a bit small" for a back row forward at the highest level - where have we heard that before?!

[TigerBoy1880]

Could it be popcorn Friday?! The clubs have announced that Will Spencer is moving on. I wonder if today is the day our new arrivals are announced!

[RagingBull]

Spencer was announced as moving on like a month ago with the other leavers.

[JP14]

Nah it won’t be Popcorn Friday, “a replacement of quality is in inbound...” though for Spencer. Even if the club were going to announce the signings this week, it’s not currently the right atmosphere at the moment with everything that is going on, hence why Bath’s announcement of Spencer was discreet compared to other signing announcements that clubs like to go for these days.

[Mark62]

Nah it won’t be Popcorn Friday, “a replacement of quality is in inbound...” though for Spencer. Even if the club were going to announce the signings this week, it’s not currently the right atmosphere at the moment with everything that is going on, hence why Bath’s announcement of Spencer was discreet compared to other signing announcements that clubs like to go for these days.

Bath announced 3 today along with Will, Ben Spencer and Juan Schoeman.
I’m reading Ben Spencer on a 3 year deal not a loan.

Tigers will announce any signings between now and June 30th. Who knows why the delay but I’m sure they have their reasons

[MurphysLaw]

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Nah it won’t be Popcorn Friday, “a replacement of quality is in inbound...” though for Spencer. Even if the club were going to announce the signings this week, it’s not currently the right atmosphere at the moment with everything that is going on, hence why Bath’s announcement of Spencer was discreet compared to other signing announcements that clubs like to go for these days.
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Bath announced 3 today along with Will, Ben Spencer and Juan Schoeman.
I’m reading Ben Spencer on a 3 year deal not a loan.

Tigers will announce any signings between now and June 30th. Who knows why the delay but I’m sure they have their reasons
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Maybe to coincide with the launch of the new kit?

[Rutlandtiger]

At a time where the organisation is going through a redundancy consultation process and employees may lose their livelihoods then "popcorn" events may not be appropriate.
With the announced cost challenges then all employees including playing staff will come under the spotlight.

[ABClub]

The Jaguares allowing players to discuss other options will also have complicated the contract situations as well. Tigers have been in talks with Julian Montoya for a while about joining for 2021/22 season when his Jags contract expired. Signing him a season earlier to secure him long term would probably mean a back row signing being sacrificed though - Thompson and Kalamafoni out, only Brink in currently.

The upside is that Montoya and Mamukashvili would be a huge leap forward in a position where we have fallen behind just about all the other Premiership clubs.

[Mark62]

At a time where the organisation is going through a redundancy consultation process and employees may lose their livelihoods then "popcorn" events may not be appropriate.
With the announced cost challenges then all employees including playing staff will come under the spotlight.

Totally agree a sense of compassion is required

[Mark62]

The Jaguares allowing players to discuss other options will also have complicated the contract situations as well. Tigers have been in talks with Julian Montoya for a while about joining for 2021/22 season when his Jags contract expired. Signing him a season earlier to secure him long term would probably mean a back row signing being sacrificed though - Thompson and Kalamafoni out, only Brink in currently.

The upside is that Montoya and Mamukashvili would be a huge leap forward in a position where we have fallen behind just about all the other Premiership clubs.

I’m not saying he ever should, but I’m fairly sure I’ve seen Montoya playing on the back row. Maybe when he was the only forward replacement left other than the props.

[ABClub]

The Jaguares allowing players to discuss other options will also have complicated the contract situations as well. Tigers have been in talks with Julian Montoya for a while about joining for 2021/22 season when his Jags contract expired. Signing him a season earlier to secure him long term would probably mean a back row signing being sacrificed though - Thompson and Kalamafoni out, only Brink in currently.

The upside is that Montoya and Mamukashvili would be a huge leap forward in a position where we have fallen behind just about all the other Premiership clubs.

I’m not saying he ever should, but I’m fairly sure I’ve seen Montoya playing on the back row. Maybe when he was the only forward replacement left other than the props.

It was only January of last year that Ken Owens outplayed our back row (I think it was Williams, Evans and Mapapalangi with only Will having a notable game) from number 8 for Scarlets.

As you say it would be a long way from ideal but given squads will be smaller next season it wouldn't be the end of the world if Montoya or even Jake Kerr played a game at blindside. Rob Webber debuted for Wasps at openside in an injury crisis and won man of the match.

6.Liebenberg, Lewis, Lavin
7.Taufua, Reffell, Gough
8.Brink, Coghlan, Smith

The numbers are there it's 5 of them being recent academy grads that's the worry. I believe that Lewis is ready to start Prem games in a balanced pack with a strong lock pairing in front of him. I'd happily see Tommy Reffell skipper games as Ben White has this season as well. I think he's a terrific player who always makes positive contributions - similar to Will Evans it must be said.