Wests Tigers Coaches

bathursttiger1 said:
From Joel Caine on SEN:

Speaking on SEN’s NRL Crunch Time, Caine mentioned the continual rumourmongering that has seen names like Cameron Ciraldo linked to the role.


“I’ve got an open letter to the Wests Tigers. ‘Dear Wests Tigers, it appears as though (Cameron) Ciraldo is not going to be the one. Whoever is going to be the one, let's challenge ourselves just to announce the coach. Get all your due diligence done behind the scenes where no one is talking about it, let’s zip our lips up and prove to people that we’re not the loose lips ship in this competition,” he said.

“The challenge is to do all the homework, decide upon the coach and announce the coach without everyone talking about it.

“Please, just do it.”

Michael Maguire was sacked after 80 games at the helm of the Tigers, where he won just 29 clashes and has been replaced on an interim basis by the prior Pathways Coaching Manager Brett Kimmorley.

Caine was critical of the professionalism at the Tigers when compared to how other clubs may go about the same situation.

“The Melbourne Storm would just come out and you wouldn’t have heard a squeak about it and they would’ve announced their coach, the Sydney Roosters would do the same,” he said.

“Wests Tigers please, just this once, tighten up the lips, show the world that you don’t have to share everything with the media, please, just for once, can we do that.”
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Agree 100% with the statement above but we have a chairman and CEO who want to play everything out in the media. No other club makes a media statement about a coach rejecting them. It is embarrassing.
Personally, I would get Flanagan in (drop the peptide issue), he knows how to change the culture of a club and develop young players. The club needs a head coach not an assistant coach to handle all the crap that will come with this job.
Kimmorley is out of his depth at this level as a coach so by bringing in Flanagan now, he can put in place the structures required to hit the ground running for 2023.
 
Think Ciraldo missed a trick if he actually rates himself as a good NRL coach of the future. If he does eventually jump in with a team high on the ladder or after Cleary finishes his contract, fair chance the natural cycle of teams means his team slide down the table over his tenure. Where does that leave his first grade coaching career?

The Tigers offering him a 5 year contract with good pathways now in place and building a war chest of salary cap space. Plus the COE now in place. If he backed himself to bring players over and develop the talent in the pathways, he takes the Tigers up the ladder, secures his reputation, then after 5 guaranteed years he’s probably even in a better position for his next first grade coach contract.

Even if he doesn’t quite make it work, he has 5 year’s increased salary guaranteed and probably walks straight back into an assistant role somewhere else given his record there.

If he can’t bring himself to pull the trigger in this scenario then maybe he isn’t the great next coach the media is pumping him up to be.
 
Time to go all in for Flanno... forget this softly softly approach. We need to show the grit that F U attitude of the suburbs that our heritage was built.
I was hoping for CC and some new age coaching. But now i would luv Flanno, Lodge and Brown and even 12 months of JWH and belt the crap out of opposition teams for a little while.
At least our juniors wouldn't be crapping their dacks about getting a fight.
 
innsaneink said:
Half of us is saying we are coach killers

The other half saying he's a coward for knocking us back

I'd say he's smart... He's in demand, he will.get a better offer, his next offer from anywhere will.be better
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Honestly I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to take on the job. We sack coaches often, our roster would be lucky to get a run at any other club, our players rarely show any effort. The club could be the kiss of death to a coach.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
I know right, what was that. Almost like he was admitting that this squad is doomed for at least the next 3 to 4 years. Imagine not making the finals for over a decade and then saying you are still 3 or 4 years away.
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Imagine that being your selling point to a potential coach.
 
I am actually glad we missed CC now but the only thing I am pissed about is we have set ourselves back 2-3 weeks..
This delays us extending players and going to market right when its the best time for it.. Even if they start talking to players like Hastings, AD etc.. they are just going to hold off until a coach is done anyway and I cannot blame them..
 
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