Simpkin on the radar

The Agenda: How Wests Tigers could solve Parramatta Eels’ hooking crisis

Wests Tigers hooker Jake Simpkin has landed on the radar of a rival club, with Parramatta desperate to solve the problem that could kill its premiership dream.

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  • Think he's been thrown in by his manager 

  • Fine signing. Watching Yates yesterday in Cup gave me no confidence at all, seems like a Lock in a hookers body. He is OK but being OK in that level is awful in FG.

    Simpkin is there to be a back-up, nothing more. Hands is showing signs of fatigue, his runs after the offload yesterday i felt was based on fatigue, he just ran.

  • Parramatta's premiership dream ended after Dylan Brown had an error in judgement which cost the team 7 weeks of his services and including Ryan Mattersons first 3 games missing because he wouldn't pay a minimal fine and the selection of Gutherson for Origin 3 to play for a total of 3 minutes as well as the recent weeks of suspension for Sivo and RCG. It's basically season over. 

    • It seems a lot of selfishness has effected us, go figure.

      • Yes I tend to agree and yet they're supposed to be professional athletes getting paid to act and perform as professionals on and off the field

    • We lost 1 game in Dyl's absence so far, so how did our dream end with him being out? Mind you we had 5 players (our whole spine out ) that game we lost 

      • We had 6 out. Our spine, RCG and Greig (2 of our best  props this year)

      • I guess 1 game lost equals 2 points lost and where would Eels be now with another 2 points points

        • We wouldn't have won that game even with Dyl brown there. Origin hurts a lot of clubs, it was our turn this year . We just need to recover from it 

  • Simpkin would be a good back up. Would prefer Talyn De Silva but no way Tigers would let him go. Anther one might be the Titans 9 - Randall, who is stuck behind Verills. 

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