Lee & JP finally lose the confidence of the Board??

tony soprano said:
If the club has any football sense.

With the decision they have already made it should be.

Benji focus on coaching and not recruiting

Let Fulton have full autonomy with recruitment

benji, your job is to keep the players happy and coached.

for those who will came back that will say Fulton is not that important, remember, he has the best contacts with players and player managers, that anyone has had, at this club, in a long time. From football operations perspective, things should not be changed at a governance level that will upset that football model.

You have to protect the person that gets you in with players we did not have access to. Benji really in an unknown commodity.
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He has the best contacts? The bloke is a a myth

He seriously just tried to sign Sean Keppie. I hope Benji can overrule him for as long as possible until he gets sacked.

The head coach should be overseeing all decisions made on top 30 spots. It's Benji's team. Fulton needs to go ASAP
 

NRL news: Benji Marshall the real winner from Wests Tigers review needs​

Nobody is denying the need for the underperforming Wests Tigers to undergo a review, but rather than target the face of the club change needs to start elsewhere, argues BRENT READ.

I spent nearly an hour on the phone to the Wests Tigers independent reviewers earlier this week. Won’t reveal everything that was said but it wasn’t as bad as you think.

I certainly didn’t sense it was a witch-hunt designed to lop off the heads of chair Lee Hagipantelis and chief executive Justin Pascoe, as some have suggested.

Yes, there are problems at the Tigers. They have been in free fall for a decade. But let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.
For starters, at least from my end, there were lashings of sympathy for Hagipantelis, who just wants to see the club succeed and has poured millions of his own money into making it happen.

Yes, Lee is in the media a lot but someone has to stand up and explain the club’s direction to the fans. Someone has to take charge and front the fourth estate as the club lurches from one crisis to the next.
If not Lee, who? Now his own board has turned on him after a request for him to stand aside as chair. It got me thinking about the Tigers and the faceless few who make up their boardroom. Maybe that is where change needs to start.
Wests Tigers board chairman Lee Hagipantelis. Picture: Getty Images


Wests Tigers board chairman Lee Hagipantelis. Picture: Getty Images
They’ve turned over coaches and players. Perhaps it is time to look at the people who preside over them. Toss them out and start again.
Bring in some who are more qualified and attuned to the modern game. Real estate agents and former players don’t really cut it any more.
You need to have a boardroom with a specific set of skills and being a member of Wests Ashfield shouldn’t be the overriding factor.

So if we’re going to make changes at the Tigers, let’s start at the top. Lee, as an independent director and significant backer, shouldn’t necessarily be cast aside but others certainly should.
There needs to be change within the club as well. The sense is that Pascoe is on borrowed time, but even if he stays, the Tigers need to hurry up and appoint a head of football to give Benji Marshall the support he needs.

They are being left behind, a point Marshall no doubt made in his interview with the reviewers. Marshall was among the club officials who fronted the independent review. Oh, to be a fly on the wall.
Benji Marshall is the winner Wests Tigers need. Picture: Getty Images


Benji Marshall is the winner Wests Tigers need. Picture: Getty Images
He apparently wowed them with his take on the club and his plans for the future. He looks set to emerge with more power than ever, and so he should. Marshall is a winner and if anyone can save the Tigers, it is him.
When all is said and done, this will be Benji’s club. Marshall needs to be backed to the hilt and there is a private belief among many that as much as this is about shaking up the club’s leadership, it will also end up confirming Marshall as the man with his hand at the tiller.
The ripple effect will be interesting. Recruitment guru Scott Fulton was brought to the club in the main by the board, and more particularly Hagipantelis and Pascoe. If they go, the obvious question is where does it leave him?

All will be revealed soon enough. The results of the review are expected to be handed to the Holman Barnes Group at the end of the month and could be made public as early as mid-November.

Should make for interesting reading. Big changes are coming and while some have criticised the review, my only sense is that it has arrived too late. Maybe it should have been done years ago as the club wallowed in mediocrity.

The hope is that the review can create some blue sky for a club that has been shrouded in dark clouds for too long. If the Tigers can get it right, they will explode. For all their incompetence in recent years, they are a huge club.

They need to nail it and the review will hopefully set them on the right path. Not sure whether my thoughts will make the final cut, but I was happy to help.
 
Roar-y said:
He has the best contacts? The bloke is a a myth

He seriously just tried to sign Sean Keppie. I hope Benji can overrule him for as long as possible until he gets sacked.

The head coach should be overseeing all decisions made on top 30 spots. It's Benji's team. Fulton needs to go ASAP
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Lol

List me the Fulton Signings v benji signings.

Benji can only recruit last year's ploders.
 
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The bloke that hired me has long gone....people come and go all the time, it has to be that way, cant be any other way

What a weak argument this is...oh poor diddums might get his nose outta joint

Spare me
 
Roar-y said:
He has the best contacts? The bloke is a a myth

He seriously just tried to sign Sean Keppie. I hope Benji can overrule him for as long as possible until he gets sacked.

The head coach should be overseeing all decisions made on top 30 spots. It's Benji's team. Fulton needs to go ASAP
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I don't see Benji making the best decisions either to be honest.

The chase for Mitchell Moses, then Shawn Johnson, then ANYONE was just farcical. Ok maybe we had to try, but it was a joke.

Will Sezer/Sullivan work? NFI. For some reason we did not target Newcastle who had first grade halves ready. I don't think Schulster would be the right player for us... I also realise it's slim pickings.

I want Benji to get runs on the board, as a coach before he starts signing more players. Fulton has contacts in Manly and knows many people in the NRL. Understand were as popular as Construction workers singing britney Spears at Karokie in bikini's.
 
tony soprano said:
Anyone else think mark O'Neil is only a matter of time.
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If he gets fired, then maybe he comes into contention.

Understand it was X harrassment that got him kicked out of here. I kinda get why a board would be reluctant to bring him back.

Also understand that Parramatta ain't that well run either. Yes they have a better position on the ladder, but that's Brad Arthur's doing.

No one will like this suggestion, I could see Benny Elias doing some good here providing there was a check and balance on him. Elias has succeeded in the commercial world and actually has a good rep as a businessman. Single signatory, no way.... But the guy has a Tigers heart.
 
crazycat said:
I don't see Benji making the best decisions either to be honest.

The chase for Mitchell Moses, then Shawn Johnson, then ANYONE was just farcical. Ok maybe we had to try, but it was a joke.

Will Sezer/Sullivan work? NFI. For some reason we did not target Newcastle who had first grade halves ready. I don't think Schulster would be the right player for us... I also realise it's slim pickings.

I want Benji to get runs on the board, as a coach before he starts signing more players. Fulton has contacts in Manly and knows many people in the NRL. Understand were as popular as Construction workers singing britney Spears at Karokie in bikini's.
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This ☝️☝️
 
Roar-y said:
He has the best contacts? The bloke is a a myth

He seriously just tried to sign Sean Keppie. I hope Benji can overrule him for as long as possible until he gets sacked.

The head coach should be overseeing all decisions made on top 30 spots. It's Benji's team. Fulton needs to go ASAP
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They’re all overruling each other. Benji tried to re-sign Brooks.
 
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