Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[gallagher]

If that all happens, this club will either fold or be told to relocate.

Hopefully Adelaide

 

[supercoach]

Macabre viewing. Only positive is, we're likely to hit rock bottom shortly.

Don’t remember how many times I have said we have hit rock bottom, but the Lee and Justin show can always find a lower level

 

[Red88_Tiger]

All recruitment should happen in the off season and up until June
Just gives player managers the feeling of being relevant right up to finals when in reality every fan would be much better off without all the drama

 

[Tcat]

The Management have killed this club. Fold the joint.

 

[Nadz4483]

Every news article i read on here, they always mention "this masthead".... wtf does that mean hahahaha

 

[Tucker]

Hopefully Adelaide

😁

 

[gallagher]

Every news article i read on here, they always mention "this masthead".... wtf does that mean hahahaha

It just refers to the papers name. Sydney morning herald is a masthead.

 

[tony soprano]

How?
He is not working with the footy department.
Just running out and signing any good player who will talk to you is not what the procurement process for recruitment is all about.
The coach will end up with a hodgepodge of players filling out a squad that cannot be blended into a team.

He's sandbagging a pool of good players. Better than we have

 

[weststigerman]

One positive I see in all this. Player managers won’t be able to use WT as pawns any more.

Player manager: “WT are offering 600k per season”

Competing club: “bahahaha we all know he’s not going to go to that circus”

Player manager: “yeah you’re right, sorry”

 

[Tucker]

Listened to a grab of a show with Joel Caine on it from yesterday he talked about the Benji and Sheens stuff. One thing stood out from what he said which was why didn’t we appoint Sheens as head coach and employ Benji as his assistant no promises just learn and take it from there. If he’s good enough he can coach if he isn’t someone else steps in no issues. It’s really common sense stuff, imo if that was discussed Benji would have knocked it back because of his media gig.
Look at all the other assistants doing their time, Ryles,Hornby,Young what makes Benji the messiah that he just walks in no experience and everyone just falls in-line, I think the concerns from the player managers with youngsters on their books have valid concerns when you look at it like that.
Benji could be a good coach in time but he doesn’t have any runs on the board to be throwing his weight around. The club thought he would be a player magnet maybe it’s having the opposite affect.

Whilst I agree with all of this and railed furiously against the appointment of Sheens for 2 years whilst back dooring Benji in for a further 3 years…we cannot let the club exist purely at the mercy of player managers.
If Fulton thinks he can wield power through threatening us, we should all be against that and on the side of the current coaches.

 

[Tucker]

He's sandbagging a pool of good players. Better than we have

Who?
I mean where is this being quantified?

 

[GCfan]

Im Looking forward to getting done by Brooks/Manly next year by 50 at Leichhardt.

It’s turned into a humorous game of “what can Pascoe survive” for me.

You’ve gotta laugh out you will definitely cry.

 

[Red88_Tiger]

All recruitment should happen in the off season and up until June
Just gives player managers the feeling of being relevant right up to finals when in reality every fan would be much better off without all the drama

Leaking to the media in the offseason has less effect as most fans are switched off or less invested
I really don’t like player managers control on the game.

 

[balmain boy]

I heard this two weeks ago when I said people in the game said they didn’t like our vision

I texted Lee and emailed Justin and said “vision vision vision”

And look at the media today … it’s all about our vision

Also I was at a family function today and my cousin used to coach bulldogs reserve grade recently and said he’d heard benji might not last and NO ONE on the game respects OLD BOYS getting a leg up to coach.

No one!

State of origin would been to differ. It's exclusively an old boys club, at the highest level of the game. No one had an issue with it

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

Whilst I agree with all of this and railed furiously against the appointment of Sheens for 2 years whilst back dooring Benji in for a further 3 years…we cannot let the club exist purely at the mercy of player managers.
If Fulton thinks he can wield power through threatening us, we should all be against that and on the side of the current coaches.

I do agree, I think they all already control clubs to differing degrees. We’re just easy pickings for them because of our lack of success and poor management.
I was actually initially on the other end of the spectrum I thought it was fantastic I bought into the Wests Tigers DNA garbage.
It clearly isn’t working and probably won’t work, before we know we’ll be staring down the barrel of another 5 yr plan with all our good juniors coming through picked off at will.

 

[Fraze23]

There's a piece of me that wants Pascoe and Lee to continue just to see what they get up to next. It's fascinating viewing..

They should make a documentary on it.

 

[Dennisspicer1]

The players have a short span of football life. They're not looking for apprentices but masters of the craft.

Have you got one in your pocket,??????

 

[Dennisspicer1]

Well they employed Fulton so if they backtrack it will make them look stupid. But they have endorsed Benji every step of the way so that causes equal hassle.
The answer imo is who can do the most for the club moving forward, and only they can decide that.

Its them that have caused us to be in this bloody position, by employing fulton, prior to this happening everything was tough but something we were working through.

Now, since fulton comes to our club, there has been negative shit occuring affectively stopping
Tim & Benji from being able to do things they need to be doing.

And we have plenty of Forum members asking for Tim & Benji to be sacked, What on earth 4.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

A decision made by Wests Tigers management shouldn’t be used in an argument to prove a point.

Sheens Got us to within a field goal of a grand final in 2010 too and hasn’t coached all that much since. His record speaks for itself.

Sheens record certainly speaks for itself.

Before this season he hadn't coached in the NRL in over a decade (because no other club is that stupid) and out of his previous 15 years coaching in the NRL he made the finals 3 times.

 

[Dennisspicer1]

This is what happens when pascoe and Lee strategy keep changing

First, let stop hiring coaches without WT DNA

Second, we want a recruiter to get the best players in Western Sydney.

I get strategies can be fluid but in this scenario you can't have both. So what happens next?

Also, operationally the contracts offered to tim and benji does not fit with both strategies.

The money spent on payouts could of been spent on kids, so they truly screwed themselves.

Would be cheaper for fulton to go, but it will send recruitment back.

What recruitment.