Wests Tigers Coaches

Aceshigh said:
In all fairness it is what it is , time for us to embrace and get on board
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You’re entitled to your view and thanks, but I think it’s a bit too early for dancing on the corpse of the club.

This is not just another typical reincarnation we are all sick of.

The rebirth is not just another baby ready to be trampled on in a few years.

This time, the thing that has emerged out of the clubs womb is not only dead, it’s not even human. No one can kill it.

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There’s not going to be another generation of Wests Tigers supporters either. Kids are too embarrassed to wear the colours.

The once proud colours, the greatest union of all nrl clubs with the best fans on earth, now symbolises, greed, incompetence, arrogance and rancid, rampant and vile nepotism.

The club is all but done and sadly, it’s been on our watch.

Noddy is a ten times better coach than Benji and he can’t even win a game.
 
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Aubanon said:
Ciraldo made it clear to the club late last year that he wouldn't negotiate with us while we had a coach in place.

We sacked the coach - Ciraldo subsequently said no and here we are.
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The moral of the story is never to trust anyone associates with the Penrith Panthers - they cannot be trusted.

It's not all bad though - I think we dodged a bullet. A coach with loyalties elsewhere? No thanks.
 
Aubanon said:
Ciraldo made it clear to the club late last year that he wouldn't negotiate with us while we had a coach in place.

We sacked the coach - Ciraldo subsequently said no and here we are.
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Then we should have told ciraldo we couldn’t take the risk and should never had pursued him in the first place.

We wouldn’t have lost anything.

Months later, we are a lot poorer have been publicly humiliated and the joke of the game. We’ve sacked a coach, paid him out and haven’t won a game.

We ransomed ourselves to an assistant coach who hasn’t won anything.

Tim Sheens has only just got here and seems to me, he’s a bull that brought his own China shop with him.

But he’s cashed up and has a good job now, his young mates fixed up.

We’ve got nothing… but more misery.

You watch poor Noddy walk as soon as he can. The poison chalice. He didn’t deserve to get run over. Not after his effort.
 
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tigre said:
Michael Carayannis on ABC Grandstand said WT will be looking to add another assistant with David Furner, Nathan Cayless and Ben Gardiner in the mix.
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While heroes like John Wilson have to pay for parking?

Because he’s not an old mate.
 
A few people have expressed their disappointment at not going after K.Woolf. I think he will make a solid assistant but head coach i don’t think so. Tonga where very ordinary prior to the 2017 world cup under his coaching and he was lucky to hold the role. My wife is Tongan so we attended several games in 2014/2015. He got extremely lucky when Vaai Taumololo and co, protested against the NZRL handling of Bromwich and Proctor situation they defected to Tonga giving him a fantastic squad. Before anyone rattles off his record at St.Helens please check their performances prior to him arriving their. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and i have mine. One thing I know is us Tigers fans deserve success.
 
Twodogs said:
The moral of the story is never to trust anyone associates with the Penrith Panthers - they cannot be trusted.

It's not all bad though - I think we dodged a bullet. A coach with loyalties elsewhere? No thanks.
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I was ok with him to the extent that we could have exploited his knowledge and contacts, but this May business and the excuses suggested a very low set of personal standards amongst many Panthera.

The good oil is that after a number of weeks of trying to hide Mays grand final outburst, the sponsors started threatening to walk out. Twas only then that May was shot.

There were a few good men amongst their ranks before the gun was raised to their heads.

For all his squawking over the years, Brandy Alexander was having absolutely none of it. He didn’t give a tinkers cuss whether Ivan was Mays stepfather or Nate his his brother.

Ciraldo had his chance to man up and support victims of sex crimes, but he cowarded out.

Lee did a great job suing Mays ass into the next world. I bet he enjoyed every letter of demand he sent. Working with victims of domestic violence every month or so, I sure did.

No one at my workplace would make excuses for Tyrone May. We all think the Panthers management are mostly garbage people. Even the dogs supporters.
 
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TSP said:
You’re entitled to your view and thanks, but I think it’s a bit too early for dancing on the corpse of the club.

This is not just another typical reincarnation we are all sick of.

The rebirth is not just another baby ready to be trampled on in a few years.

This time, the thing that has emerged out of the clubs womb is not only dead, it’s not even human. No one can kill it.

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There’s not going to be another generation of Wests Tigers supporters either. Kids are too embarrassed to wear the colours.

The once proud colours, the greatest union of all nrl clubs with the best fans on earth, now symbolises, greed, incompetence, arrogance and rancid, rampant and vile nepotism.

The club is all but done and sadly, it’s been on our watch.

Noddy is a ten times better coach than Benji and he can’t even win a game.
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But benji is not going to be coach , sheens is the coach, so not sure what ur point is
 
tony soprano said:
Sheens mentions already identified the spine.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1548195675548286976
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Pretty interesting that he has identified it already. Obviously a lot can change, but:

I would think the number 6 is Douiehi.

However, a lot of guessing over who he might be thinking for the other positions.

Fullback...Laurie would have to be the frontrunner. Tupou outside the box as a fullback maybe (might explain him playing a lot of cup there?) Not sure outside of those guys...Cathane Hill from Balmain SG Ball, Luke Laulili'i or Kanaan from Harold Matthews?

Half... Brooks or Hastings you feel would be who he is thinking.

The number 9 could be hotly contested...Tannous, Simpkin and Da Silva. Even Rua. All got potential.
 
I predict Benji won't work.

My choice would have been John Morris. Experience in a dud club developing juniors and incorporating average veterans to have success. He seemed to have all the qualities we needed.

I like Benji, I usually go for the hardworking types like Twal, but Benji is my favourite player. Just that flair and speed and exuberance was something special, and I doubt we'll see the like of it again.

I don't see it working as a coach, though. He's all flair and speed and instinct. I felt in games he was ill disciplined and went for too much which often cost us and blew our momentum. Same for Robbie. He was also good at turning that around, but we had many below average years under Sheens, Robbie and Marshall and I'm not sure there's enough understanding of how to be successful consistently there.

Players like Trent Robinson were very intelligent players with limited physical ability. You could see they were intelligent and club leaders. Robinson was my favourite player when I watched lower grades. I think Benji has matured but I wonder how much. I wonder how he'll go with putting the team needs ahead of himself. I always felt he overtalked to the media to our detriment, adding unnecessary hype and pressure to players. You can see he's trying to help, but big talk usually led to disappointing results and performances.

I really like Benji, I thought we should have signed him again before he went to Souths, and I've never shared the bitterness that other fans have for him. I think he is an engaging talker and the media and players seem to like him. I also think his desire to coach is genuine and I believe he's given up easier work for more pay with less pressure for a job that puts his reputation on the line. Again I admire that.

I also don't mind the model of a junior coach working towards taking over as head coach, though there seems few examples where that has worked, so this would also be breaking new ground. I also don't mind Benji's inexperience, I'm just not sure he's the right person to do it. Can he, like Bellamy, give his forwards a role in the team that gives them confidence and they believe in? To me, Benji seems to soft for that and he'll need to learn to have more edge and hardness about him in the next two years when talking to players.

At the end of his career he'd learnt how to play effectively despite being slower and more limited physically, I hope he has learnt from this and will know what he's good at as a coach and what he should leave to others. I'm just not sure he will and unfortunately I don't think it will work.
 
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