**Live game thread** us vs the Knights r21

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

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[Lauren]

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It kinda reminded me of the Warriors and Titans matches, where we couldn't put them away. They didn't even have to do anything lose it...
Hate that this team can't even beat a team with Clifford and Milf in the halves. Or Tex Hoy at fullback.

It's even funnier to me that we used to win these games with someone like Mbye in the side.

 

[sleeve]

It kinda reminded me of the Warriors and Titans matches, where we couldn't put them away. They didn't even have to do anything lose it...
Hate that this team can't even beat a team with Clifford and Milf in the halves. Or Tex Hoy at fullback.

It's even funnier to me that we used to win these games with someone like Mbye in the side.

 

[sleeve]

Still astounded by the forward coaching plans,. Just more rubbish decisions that don't make sense. We need a Flannagan style coach to fix our soft underbelly . Sheens as coach with Benji in the future ? Dreamland stuff! Our 2 signings for next year were done by the sacked coach. We let our 3 best players go. We are building our team around AD and Hastings-- God help us.

 

[BAGNF05]

I'm still convinced that this team doesn't do any training.

How do you look this inept in attack?

Granted I've never played at a high level, but I kind of understand trying to create overlaps, and not letting your half hit it up on the last.

Forwards who would struggle to bruise grapes. Been our issue for a long time.

 

[TSP]

Cant argue but I would love to rid us of the old nostalgia and mates mates
Want just one club called the wests tigers
At this stage would settle for what parra have that is make the finals every year and most importantly be a desirable destination for top class recruits

Brisbane signed that Melbourne CEO and they are pumping along now from a few years ago.

The top teams and perennial successes like the roosters, they know their stuff.

Our management got us here where we are today and I think we need to evolve and adapt. That means fresh minds at the top.

Instead we get heroes from a past generation.

The jury is still out on Tim’s contribution other than be used as a stooge for the junta.

As he said, Benji wasn’t on the original list but somehow managed to convince him that he was a Bellamy in the making.

 

[Stevec]

Brisbane signed that Melbourne CEO and they are pumping along now from a few years ago.

The top teams and perennial successes like the roosters, they know their stuff.

Our management got us here where we are today and I think we need to evolve and adapt.

The jury is still out on Tim’s contribution other than be used as a stooge for the junta.

Cant form an opinion on Tim as his silence is deafening

 

[TSP]

Cant form an opinion on Tim as his silence is deafening

True, but he’s owned up to a few mischiefs:

A. The premature sacking of Madge.
B. The appointment of himself in lieu after telling everyone for months he wasn’t interested.
C. His warm reception and appointment of best mate Benji.

It’s cost the club a bomb and methinks, all high risk, no proper process and wreaks of nepotism.

Not his whole design, I would accept that, but still very concerning.

He could insisted that Madge see out the season, he could have stuck fast to the selection process and ignored the mysterious last second inclusion of Benji.

If I’m hiring an NRL coach, the top tier club competition on the planet, one single games experience in coaching, even in under 6 netball would be better than nil. But Tim thinks it’s plausible and indeed attractive to pump tens of millions of dollars into someone who is unproven in coaching at any level.

It’s anything goes now.

We can’t expect players to compete when the entire board and management are not even going to pretend to try.

Has Tim signed anyone except himself and Benji?

 

[Stevec]

True, but he’s owned up to a few mischiefs:

A. The premature sacking of Madge.
B. The appointment of himself in lieu after telling everyone for months he wasn’t interested.
C. His warm reception and appointment of best mate Benji.

It’s cost the club a bomb and methinks, all high risk, no proper process and wreaks of nepotism.

Not his whole design, I would accept that, but still very concerning.

He could insisted that Madge see out the season, he could have stuck fast to the selection process and ignored the mysterious last second inclusion of Benji.

If I’m hiring an NRL coach, the top tier club competition on the planet, one single games experience in coaching, even in under 6 netball would be better than nil. But Tim thinks it’s plausible and indeed attractive.

It’s anything goes now.

We can’t expect players to compete when the entire board and management are not even going to pretend to try.

Has Tim signed anyone? No.

My concern is this .Maybe he is having trouble attracting any top class recruits because those in high demand just not interested? If that's the case he's not mentioning it. I hope I'm wrong and a lot is going on behind closed doors and big announcements coming soon

 

[The Fresh Oil]

True, but he’s owned up to a few mischiefs:

A. The premature sacking of Madge.
B. The appointment of himself in lieu after telling everyone for months he wasn’t interested.
C. His warm reception and appointment of best mate Benji.

It’s cost the club a bomb and methinks, all high risk, no proper process and wreaks of nepotism.

Not his whole design, I would accept that, but still very concerning.

He could insisted that Madge see out the season, he could have stuck fast to the selection process and ignored the mysterious last second inclusion of Benji.

If I’m hiring an NRL coach, the top tier club competition on the planet, one single games experience in coaching, even in under 6 netball would be better than nil. But Tim thinks it’s plausible and indeed attractive to pump tens of millions of dollars into someone who is unproven in coaching at any level.

It’s anything goes now.

We can’t expect players to compete when the entire board and management are not even going to pretend to try.

Has Tim signed anyone except himself and Benji?

Robbie.

 

[tony soprano]

Still astounded by the forward coaching plans,. Just more rubbish decisions that don't make sense. We need a Flannagan style coach to fix our soft underbelly . Sheens as coach with Benji in the future ? Dreamland stuff! Our 2 signings for next year were done by the sacked coach. We let our 3 best players go. We are building our team around AD and Hastings-- God help us.

Sheens can coach agree with the other guys

 

[twentyforty]

I still think it was a huge error to sack Madge prematurely. The reasons given just didn’t make sense.

 

[TSP]

My concern is this .Maybe he is having trouble attracting any top class recruits because those in high demand just not interested? If that's the case he's not mentioning it. I hope I'm wrong and a lot is going on behind closed doors and big announcements coming soon

If those in high demand aren’t interested, we need to find out what makes them interested and deliver.

I imagine it’s different things for different players, but that’s the art of recruiting. That’s what we pay these guys to do.

Our lot recruit themselves as a priority and tell us we are a development club.

Over a century and a half between our brother clubs and we are still in development… doesn’t cut it for mine.

 

[TSP]

I still think it was a huge error to sack Madge prematurely. The reasons given just didn’t make sense.

100.

No, perhaps Tim saw himself coaching in a few years not Madge.

Then we go off on this mad frolic for the clown cicada.

No one bothers to do their homework first and we are humiliated and stomped on.

None of it was managed properly. If Tim thought it was a good idea, he’s nuts.

Madge could have brought a lot of players on properly and we could have saved about $500k.

The results since his departure (and now the collapse against a league powerhouse) have been awful. All this change nonsense after the broncos. I was almost sucked in too.

Players wanting out and new recruits having second thoughts.

 

[Cobarcats]

Dennis Burgess

Well

Possibly resigned to the fact we are letting Brooks go and we'll have to supplement his salary for another season...one way to lessen the blow for 2023 perhaps?

Exactly, this year is shot. Blooding players to see where they fit in the big picture moving forward is important and as you said we have to have that money there for offloading if required, extending contracts and hopefully to sign some back rowers....where they are going to come from is the real problem, who knows.

 

[TSP]

Well

Exactly, this year is shot. Blooding players to see where they fit in the big picture moving forward is important and as you said we have to have that money there for offloading if required, extending contracts and hopefully to sign some back rowers....where they are going to come from is the real problem, who knows.

Make a left field play for Fifita from the titans, start him on the bench and bring him in for the danger periods.

He hasn’t pulled his weight up there for sometime- a total card carrying dud. Puts in 10 minutes a game and his jobs done.

We can take him off their hands cheaply and with some work, maybe we can bring him back.

That’s one good thing about our roster, they are quite hopeless, but not genuine outright licenced duds. Except maybe Brooksy, but he tried for a couple of years, we destroyed him as much as he hurt us.

And he will love the knights.

Fifita is on massive whack for his club bankrupting salary. I bet he drives a Ferrari.

 

[stryker 69]

Make a left field play for Fifita from the titans, start him on the bench and bring him in for the danger periods.

He hasn’t pulled his weight up there for sometime- a total card carrying dud. Puts in 10 minutes a game and his jobs done.

We can take him off their hands cheaply and with some work, maybe we can bring him back.

That’s one good thing about our roster, they are quite hopeless, but not genuine outright licenced duds. Except maybe Brooksy, but he tried for a couple of years, we destroyed him as much as he hurt us.

And he will love the knights.

Fifita is on massive whack for his club bankrupting salary. I bet he drives a Ferrari.

Fifita is the biggest bludging thief in the comp.
Hard pass

 

[jadtiger]

Sheens can coach agree with the other guys

Sheens is 71 and has not coached in the NRL in a decade and nobody was interested in him here in Australia when we sacked him.His coaching record in the ESL was also not encouraging and yet here he is getting ready to coach again next year.It is hard to imagine a worse preparation than what we are doing than this except for JT or Lamb.Some of our supporters were carrying on about the wonderful recruitment he would bring to the club,at the moment he has brought nobody and there is massive conjecture about a great player who Madge got to the club for 2023 trying to find a way of not coming.
I hope i am proven wrong but i see nothing in our future but more pain and misery for at least 5 years.

 

[tony soprano]

Sheens is 71 and has not coached in the NRL in a decade and nobody was interested in him here in Australia when we sacked him.His coaching record in the ESL was also not encouraging and yet here he is getting ready to coach again next year.It is hard to imagine a worse preparation than what we are doing than this except for JT or Lamb.Some of our supporters were carrying on about the wonderful recruitment he would bring to the club,at coaoment he has brought nobody and there is massive conjecture about a great player who Madge got to the club for 2023 trying to find a way of not coming.
I hope i am proven wrong but i see nothing in our future but more pain and misery for at least 5 years.

He can coach don't over think it

 

[Stevec]

If those in high demand aren’t interested, we need to find out what makes them interested and deliver.

I imagine it’s different things for different players, but that’s the art of recruiting. That’s what we pay these guys to do.

Our lot recruit themselves as a priority and tell us we are a development club.

Over a century and a half between our brother clubs and we are still in development… doesn’t cut it for mine.

Its obvious getting a high demand player to come to concord is a hard sell
Its also looking like Papalii might renig
I think the reason behind all these setbacks is that the club perception that we are somewhat of a "basket case". Existing management are the ones who presided over this slide in image . Also we have to adopt the WESTS TIGERS brand and only that brand .You only have to read some of the comments on the forum factions thread to see the level of disunity and if prospective signings feel that it makes Tims job very difficult .Well sign a couple of players at the back end of their careers and as you say 4 or 5 more years of bottom 8 .