The Wests Tigers Lament Thread

[Jedi_Tiger]

I don't know why they got rid if the NYC. That was ideal for game day. Full coverage on fox too I think.

the game made a bad decision there for sure it was a good comp

 

[gallagher]

I know, we really do have bigger problems than just that dont we lol
that is annoying that in some cases it is just the one nrl game on gameday

Women's game might change that in years to come. I assume they are heading for a team for each nrl club.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Women's game might change that in years to come. I assume they are heading for a team for each nrl club.

yeah I hope they don't stuff it up like women's afl some of those teams are not competitive as the talent is there for 18 teams

 

[gallagher]

yeah I hope they don't stuff it up like women's afl some of those teams are not competitive as the talent is there for 18 teams

They're going about it the right way, slowly building. The AFL also just went out and bought a lot of females from other sports to make up the numbers. At least our girls are genuine leagies

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

They're going about it the right way, slowly building. The AFL also just went out and bought a lot of females from other sports to make up the numbers. At least our girls are genuine leagies

100% the games are pretty good in the nrlw some of the players are pretty decent increasing up to 10 teams is a good start

 

[Needaname]

Wests tigers don't fund the KOE team though.

In a round about way they do though. Well WTs are funded from WA and typically the WM KOE team features WTs contracted players financed by WT / WA.

 

[Needaname]

I don't know why they got rid if the NYC. That was ideal for game day. Full coverage on fox too I think.

Made the decision to cease the NYC around the same time the NRLW was established.

 

[Stevec]

Wests tigers don't fund the KOE team though.

You bring up the we've got the money line a lot when you go to bat for your magpies

 

[twentyforty]

This was doing the rounds on WhatsApp earlier. How times change! Or not.

How cultural change brought Wests Tigers back from the brink

At almost the precisely the same point last season, the Wests Tigers were also deeply invested in an NRL match in which they played no part.

www.smh.com.au

How cultural change brought Wests Tigers back from the brink​

By Adrian Proszenko​

Updated September 3, 2016 — 4.53pmfirst published at 4.45pm
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At this point last season, Wests Tigers were also deeply invested in an NRL match in which they played no part.
Had Newcastle beaten Penrith in that round-26 encounter, the Tigers would have been wooden-spooners. This is what happens when your destiny is determined by others.

A year on and Tigers fans lent their support to the Cowboys on Saturday night – albeit for 80 minutes – as North Queensland beat Gold Coast to give the joint venture outfit everything to play for at Leichhardt Oval on Sunday.
The Tigers have exceeded all expectations this season.

Happy days are here again: Mitchell Moses celebrates his vital try against the Warriors with Dene Halatau.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES

Much has happened since that fateful Panthers-Knights clash. Coach Jason Taylor has made good on his promise to drop Robbie Farah in one of those career-defining decisions that has been justified. The Tigers fullback is now the NSW fullback after James Tedesco found form and fitness at the same time. And the joint-venture outfit was in contention for something other than the spoon coming into the final round of the season.
Yet perhaps the greatest turnaround has occurred off the field. The sometimes antagonistic relationship between Wests and Balmain has matured to the point where the latter is still invited to participate, despite its inability to contribute financially. The membership tally is expected to tick over the 15,000 mark for the first time come kick-off on Sunday, a record rise for a club that had never broken five figures.
Game-day attendances, if the faithful pack Leichhardt, will represent the biggest increase of any Sydney club in 2016. Those numbers have helped contribute to this one: the Tigers are poised to be $700,000 net better off this year than last.
"Everything we are doing here at Wests Tigers is about operating ethically and honestly with the sole aim of winning back the trust of our fans and making them feel proud to be a part of the Wests Tigers family," chief executive Justin Pascoe said.

"For me, personally, especially coming from an AFL background, I couldn't be happier with what we've been able to achieve this year.
"But we're a long way from where I want it to be."
Like every other club, the Tigers have a strategic plan. "United team, shared dream" is the mantra for the three-year road map that will take the club into 2017. However, these are more than just statements scribbled on a page.
"When I came to the business a year ago, I personally believed the business wasn't mature enough or developed enough to look too far into the future," Pascoe said.
Which is why the strategic plan was broken up into 67 items. The progress of each is monitored via a traffic light system: red shows that work on that item is yet to commence, amber that it is in progress and green signifies it has been completed. By the end of October, there will be a green light next to 51 of the key objectives.

"We've got a process of following through on the next stage of the business," Pascoe said.
"We think this brand is enormous and the opportunity to be a power in the NRL is real. It will take continuous hard work and there's a team behind the scenes willing to do that.
"The board has been very supportive and progressive."
Those who committed to the journey at the club's lowest ebb have enjoyed it the most. The Tigers were in need of a major sponsor after Harry Triguboff finally lost patience. Brydens Lawyers are sponsors or membership partners of five NSW-based NRL clubs but for its principal, Lee Hagipantelis, filling the void left by long-time backer Meriton was as much an emotional as financial investment.
"I've been a Tigers supporter all my life," said Hagipantelis, who briefly flirted with the idea of buying a stake in the club.

"I've never made any sponsorship agreement or investment that I didn't gain some personal level of return from. It's not all about dollars and cents. For me to align my brand with the team that I follow is priceless.
"I'm extraordinarily happy with the performance of the team and the direction the club is going in."
Some of the credit must go to Taylor. The former Magpies halfback inherited a salary cap mess that would make Parramatta's "Gang of Five" wince. Regardless of where Farah plays next year, the Tigers will be paying a fair chunk of the NSW hooker's salary. While the issue should have been managed better, you can't argue with the results.
"He's evolved as an individual and a coach," Pascoe said of Taylor.
"That's showing on the field. It's a testament to him, it's a testament to the playing group and all the coaching staff."

Whether the Tigers achieve the most important goal set out in their strategic plan, making the top four by 2017, remains to be seen. That light is currently on amber. But there is an optimism now that wasn't evident when officials were sweating on the Panthers beating the Knights a year ago.
"I can't tell you the number of people who contact me on social media who think it is unbelievable how our team has transformed in a relatively short space of time," said Tigers chair Marina Go.
"What they've seen is the enthusiasm, passion and heart that comes from a culture that has been transformed.
"The job isn't done, but as a board, we are extremely pleased with where we find ourselves on the path of our strategic plan. It's exciting for us."

😂 We had a goal of top four in 2017, but finished one win off the spoon. And to top it off Pascoe and Go we’re talking it up like we were top four 😂

 

[innsaneink]

Yep they all just talk shite

 

[twentyforty]

Yep they all just talk shite

The 2016 3 year road map with the 67 items (goals to achieve) operating under the traffic lights system seems to have been abandoned? But we know Go got a green light.
The 2022 3 year plan is now in full swing. I hope it’s on the freeway without lights and tolls.😫

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

😂 We had a goal of top four in 2017, but finished one win off the spoon. And to top it off Pascoe and Go we’re talking it up like we were top four 😂

Marina Go lol what a great job she did at wests tigers involved in appointing Taylor lol Also doing a fantastic job at Netball Australia lol

 

[happy_tiger]

Hey there Dennis . . . .. when those from the Wests side of things bring up stuff like this, they are told to grow up and get over it.
If you want to be selective, let me show you what selective can sound like:
The Magpies side of the merger has never been fairly represented. Fact.
In the general media, the team is mostly referred to as the Tigers. Fact.
And lets face the fact that if not for the WESTS Ashfield club generously paying Balmain's debts, Balmain would be bankrupt. WESTS generously gave them a bail out, and a voice on the board. For zero economic gain. Balmain could not meet their financial contractual obligations to the merger, remember ?
Why is it so hard for you Balmain supporters to properly respect and acknowledge what WESTS Ashfield so graciously did for your club ?
Personally Dennis, I've been happy with the merger since it still gave me a team to support.
Us older blokes have a lot more skin invested, and so are probably the ones that get narky about it. I've got a dozen WT jerseys, and only 2 Magpies jerseys.
But let's be fair here mate. It's a bit rank to pull out personal opinion of what might have happened 23 years ago, while conveniently forgetting to acknowledge that Wests Ashfield saved Balmain's back side a few years ago. They could insist that all junior teams be Wests Magpies branded, but they don't. It is their money, after all. You shouldn't resent a team playing as WESTS, because, you know . . . the bills.
I'm expecting the standard backlash from this post. But before you all go nuts, please look at the post that I'm directly replying to. Please look at the quotes that I'm directly replying to.
Just trying to even up the ledger.
Now you can go nuts . . . .

But I think you'd have the same issue if we had become the Balmain Magpies ...teams are generally known as their emblems ......Eels ...Storm ...Cows ....Dogs ......just easier and lazier I guess

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

But I think you'd have the same issue if we had become the Balmain Magpies ...teams are generally known as their emblems ......Eels ...Storm ...Cows ....Dogs ......just easier and lazier I guess

if you look on the nrl website with the ladder every other club is listed by the mascot e.g. Bulldogs, Raiders, Sharks etc
Wests Tigers are named Wests Tigers not Tigers

 

[gallagher]

You bring up the we've got the money line a lot when you go to bat for your magpies

I doubt you could show where I do that a lot. I only go into bat for them when someone wants to boot them out, for a 'gesture'.

 

[happy_tiger]

if you look on the nrl website with the ladder every other club is listed by the mascot e.g. Bulldogs, Raiders, Sharks etc
Wests Tigers are named Wests Tigers not Tigers

Just to remind all of us our position ...long way for some of us older folk to see

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Just to remind all of us our position ...long way for some of us older folk to see

maybe another 20 years when all the balmain and Magpies fans are long gone perhaps we can be called Tigers on the nrl ladder and perhaps have unity

 

[TheDaBoss]

The Aussie way of shorting down words

Names , places etc


Hell we refer to Penrith as riff , Dragons as Saints, Bulldogs as dogs


Everyone I know refers to Wests Tigers as Tigers or tigs

 

[cochise]

Hey there Dennis . . . .. when those from the Wests side of things bring up stuff like this, they are told to grow up and get over it.
If you want to be selective, let me show you what selective can sound like:
The Magpies side of the merger has never been fairly represented. Fact.
In the general media, the team is mostly referred to as the Tigers. Fact.
And lets face the fact that if not for the WESTS Ashfield club generously paying Balmain's debts, Balmain would be bankrupt. WESTS generously gave them a bail out, and a voice on the board. For zero economic gain. Balmain could not meet their financial contractual obligations to the merger, remember ?
Why is it so hard for you Balmain supporters to properly respect and acknowledge what WESTS Ashfield so graciously did for your club ?
Personally Dennis, I've been happy with the merger since it still gave me a team to support.
Us older blokes have a lot more skin invested, and so are probably the ones that get narky about it. I've got a dozen WT jerseys, and only 2 Magpies jerseys.
But let's be fair here mate. It's a bit rank to pull out personal opinion of what might have happened 23 years ago, while conveniently forgetting to acknowledge that Wests Ashfield saved Balmain's back side a few years ago. They could insist that all junior teams be Wests Magpies branded, but they don't. It is their money, after all. You shouldn't resent a team playing as WESTS, because, you know . . . the bills.
I'm expecting the standard backlash from this post. But before you all go nuts, please look at the post that I'm directly replying to. Please look at the quotes that I'm directly replying to.
Just trying to even up the ledger.
Now you can go nuts . . . .

I wouldn't say there was zero financial gain for Wests Ashfield, Wests Ashfield agreed to take over funding of Balmain jnrs and give Balmain representation on the board as part of the Amalgamation of the Wests Ashfield and Balmain Leagues. In this amalgamation Wests Ashfield got control of Balmain Leagues which is now part of Wests Ashfield, this will include ownership and control of any Leagues club on the Rozelle site.

I am not saying that Wests Ashfield didn't save Balmain, but to say there was no gain for Wests Ashfield is not correct.

 

[gallagher]

maybe another 20 years when all the balmain and Magpies fans are long gone perhaps we can be called Tigers on the nrl ladder and perhaps have unity

Do you think it s the fans that have asked for that? Or the club? I generally only call us the tigers. I think it's the club that holds these things as important.