Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

bbobb said:
I think (hope) he is commenting a bit more about the type of person than the value of family its self.

I’d say Benji is wanting a group of players who have the right motivations, being here for the right reasons and knowing the change will be challenging going forward. If the group values family and will do anything for their family, then they potentially have the right value system to see their team and team mates as family and will go the extra mile.

My feeling that this is about building culture and bringing people to the club that are values aligned to develop the culture Benji wants.
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I just can’t reconcile the contradiction here is that Benji walked out on his “work family” a number of times.

Also the family comes first thing is all well and good as long as the families are on the same page as the club. As soon as these values become misaligned it all falls apart. Ie a player will go back to qld or NZ on compassionate grounds. Or they want more money for the family so they’ll agitate to break a contract.

Benji has done well with Richo in regards to recruitment in recent times. If that flows into wins on the board then he’s doing something right I guess.
 
Tiger_claws said:
I was very fortunate to be in an induction with Cooper Cronk speaking for about 30 minutes. He said football is not even 10% of his life. When he is in footy mode he is all in 100%. Don’t think for one second Benji and the players aren’t doing extras. A little snippet was after they got embarrassed by the Sharks at Shark Park. Benji was back in the office the next morning at 4am reviewing the tape. He probably didn’t get home after that game until midnight. Thats just one moment I know of. The key is squeezing everything out of the players when they’re in footy mode. Time will tell
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Yep time will tell.
 
Buttface said:
I totally agree.
Everyone knows Fam is the most important thing in your life. To be a good family member you need to be happy, and winning makes people happier. How good do you feel when you have trained or, worked really hard to be better than everyone else and then you go out and nail it. You take that feeling home to ya fam and the whole family feel like winners. It also is a good role model for kids watching their parents work really hard, making sacrifices, (and sometimes it’s the fam making sacrifices), and then they see those sacrifices pay off. It’s just life for the rest of us.
It shites me, everyone’s family has to make sacrifices so we can go to work for a better life, and most of us don’t get to kick a footy around to get paid, so the least you can do is pretend to be putting work first just like the rest of us.
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💯 I remember Paul gallen commented on benji saying this earlier in the year…
Said he gets it but it doesn’t need to be said. It’s implied. But the great teams and players think winning is everything.

Look at michael jordan and tom Brady - winning was everything

Is their home life not great because of it - probably … but benjis job is not being a marriage Counsellor - it’s winning football games … that’s his job. If he wants to be their friend he should be the welfare coach

look at richo - he says “I don’t want to be invited to your wedding bc we’re not friends”

Benji has the opposite mindset

I reckon Richo will give him time to prove his worth but if Benji doesn’t get results first half of this year and the team is losing respect for him - Richo will punt him
 
Tiger_claws said:
I was very fortunate to be in an induction with Cooper Cronk speaking for about 30 minutes. He said football is not even 10% of his life. When he is in footy mode he is all in 100%. Don’t think for one second Benji and the players aren’t doing extras. A little snippet was after they got embarrassed by the Sharks at Shark Park. Benji was back in the office the next morning at 4am reviewing the tape. He probably didn’t get home after that game until midnight. Thats just one moment I know of. The key is squeezing everything out of the players when they’re in footy mode. Time will tell
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Surely <10% is a little bit exaggerated? He works in the NRL department of Fox Sports and is on camera a lot, consults with the Roosters and the Storm and is a director of the QRL.
I wouldnt confuse the coaching staff doing extras with the players doing them.
 
upthetigers said:
Awesome mate we need the optimistic people to balance out the negative nancies on the forum
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Its pretty simplistic stuff to label people negative nancies when the team they support has played finals 3 times in 25 years, hasnt managed so in 13 years and has just completed 3 years in a row of running dead last.
A critical eye is not a bad thing. Blind optimism is for the children.
 
Tucker said:
Its pretty simplistic stuff to label people negative nancies when the team they support has played finals 3 times in 25 years, hasnt managed so in 13 years and has just completed 3 years in a row of running dead last.
A critical eye is not a bad thing. Blind optimism is for the children.
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Not having a shot at you btw. I'm as over it as the next guy but there are reasons for the optimism the club under Richo is going in a positive direction surely you see that.

We finally have the cattle so Benji will be judged fairly in 2025. If he can't deliver he needs to go back and get a proper apprenticeship.
 
bbobb said:
I think (hope) he is commenting a bit more about the type of person than the value of family its self.

I’d say Benji is wanting a group of players who have the right motivations, being here for the right reasons and knowing the change will be challenging going forward. If the group values family and will do anything for their family, then they potentially have the right value system to see their team and team mates as family and will go the extra mile.

My feeling that this is about building culture and bringing people to the club that are values aligned to develop the culture Benji wants.
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I don’t disagree with you

I reckon lots of players would love hearing family over football

But when the other team is hungrier and you get pumped when in week out - you get despondent and then you’re not happy at home and football

Benji doesn’t need to say it publicly that’s my point

He’s setting himself up to have an easy target on his back if he starts losing

Think about soldiers at war

They do things because they are drilled to believe it’s country over anything else

If the commander said your family is more important than the mission - then when shit gets real - the soldiers probably think about walking away … if the soldiers believe that the mission is more important than family (bc the mission helps the family) than the soldier goes to die for the mission

Footy is no different

Winning football games puts food on the table and increases the earning capacity for winning players and makes them happier humans bc footy players get their highs from winning - it’s all linked to being happier at home

But benji preaching this stuff - is bad. I’m telling you. When the shit gets real - I reckon Craig Bellamy’s style of shouting in the coaching box even when he’s winning by 50 with 1 minute to go - creates more success on the field - then benji “turn your phone off when you get home bc when you retire family is going to be there for you”

That’s just my opinion

Let’s see
 
bbobb said:
I think (hope) he is commenting a bit more about the type of person than the value of family its self.

I’d say Benji is wanting a group of players who have the right motivations, being here for the right reasons and knowing the change will be challenging going forward. If the group values family and will do anything for their family, then they potentially have the right value system to see their team and team mates as family and will go the extra mile.

My feeling that this is about building culture and bringing people to the club that are values aligned to develop the culture Benji wants.
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Dogs were named the family club due to Mortimer's, Hughes all at the club at the time and Chris Anderson and Steve folks marrying Peter bullfrog moore's daughters
 
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upthetigers said:
Not having a shot at you btw. I'm as over it as the next guy but there are reasons for the optimism the club under Richo is going in a positive direction surely you see that.

We finally have the cattle so Benji will be judged fairly in 2025. If he can't deliver he needs to go back and get a proper apprenticeship.
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We have recruited well. We did ok recruiting the past couple of years as well. I actually need to see results before praising leadership.
Benji has been judged fairly so far.
He asked the club to be coach, not the other way round.
I’m looking forward to the new season. I think we’ll have a decent to good year.
 
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Tucker said:
We have recruited well. We did ok recruiting the past couple of years as well. I actually need to see results before praising leadership.
Benji has been judged fairly so far.
He asked the club to be coach, not the other way round.
I’m looking forward to the new season. I think we’ll have a decent to good year.
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I will be happy with 10th-12th still being in contention for the finals a long way into the season.

If Bula and Galvin go to the next level this season watch out we're every chance of making the 8.

There are so many unknowns, so I understand your cautiousness. I just think Luai has already proved himself, it's inevitable he will have a massive impact on this club. He will actually help Benji greatly with coaching, formulating gameplans etc he is like another assistant coach with a wealth of knowledge from the best system of all time.

Go the Mighty Tigers!!!
 
It's amazing and a good sign in the near term that WT have managed to land so many decent signings yet we still have a lot of coin going to dead wood that the club will sooner rather than later manage to offload giving the club a decent war chest to get three or more gun signings under their belt during 2025-26.
 
Tigerdazz2 said:
Captain: Api or Romey? Or maybe dual captaincy?
Thought's ?
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Thread 'Oh Captain, My Captain - 2025'

Who are we thinking gets the gig? For a long time I was adamant that Api had done nothing wrong to have the role taken off him. I thought it was a good option to have he and Luai share the role. But I do wonder if there is a correlation between Api’s captaincy and all of the bone headed plays he’s good for. Does he try too hard knowing he’s the leader? He was the obvious choice the last two years, but we had no one else. And I really don’t know if he’s suited to the role, even if he’s sharing it. I’d be really tempted to take it off him. Not as punishment, but just a responsibility he no...
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