OFFICIAL Q&A Club discussion with Shaun Mielekamp

ShaunMielekamp said:
I appreciate the feedback - We will keep working and building here to deliver the best match day we can. C-town next year will have a huge emphasis on this. My motherhood statement is that we need to turn match days into events and events into festivals.
As far as never tear us apart it did show some promise for a while, these initiatives only ever work long term when they align with on field success. I did have to take a breath myself with never tear us apart because not only was Port using this but the Newcastle Jets as well. the team here were passionate to give it a go and I will always back passionate staff to have a crack at something new.
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Thanks for your thorough reply Shaun, really appreciate the time you’ve taken to interact with members and fans on here. I really like your direction of turning match days into events, and events into festivals. When I’ve been to festivals, what you get is a lot of one thing, e.g. rock music festivals = lots of different music acts. To that, can I suggest the best way to turn match days into festivals is having multiple grades/games to accompanied the nrl men’s game. Many on here have suggested the same, and in an ideal world - each match day would feature at least 3 grades/games. I know V’landys was spruiking this a few seasons back but it seems to have fallen away. That scheduling change would do a lot I feel to make match day feel like a festival.
 
And… I would like to remind you what the nrl chair said in 2019 when selected to take on the role: “we need to improve our refereeing… That’s our single biggest problem at the moment. You can’t have fans walking away thinking they’ve been ripped off, so we need to fix our systems and do whatever we can, that the fan walks away happy and content that they’ve had a fair crack. And not walk away that he’s been ripped off.”
Needless to say I feel ripped off after the cowboys v tigers result, and feel as though there’s been many results in the last 7 sevens that I feel ripped off about. My question is, what can I do to support change at the officiating level of the NRL?
 
Hey Shaun.

Flegg making finals and the girls on a tear. I would love to see the club do a lot more promotion and put their shoulder behind these two sides.

We have an Instagram group with all the podcasters and Tigers social media accounts and are keen to push to try to get as many fans as possible out to the rest of the games.

What say the club open the gates for the last two rounds for the girls and try to pack out Cambo and Leichhardt as much as possible? It's already cheap but if you just open the gates and promote doing so you could get thousands of long suffering Tigers fans along and really generate some energy for the NRLW side who deserve it.

And get some of the NRL players, Luai, Bula even Benji to do some social content to encourage fans to get out and back them?

Get the PR message out and really try to get people who haven't had a team to root for in the finals to adopt these sides.
 
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Hi Shawn,

Thanks again for coming on here and communicating with the fans as it does go a long way.

One thing that has always been frustrating to me is how often this clubs gets the wrong end of the stick from the ref's / Bunker. I know the normal response is we need to do better etc etc.. But sometimes like Saturday it's just beyond a joke and they wonder why fans are turning off.
We know we need better backup players etc but all us fans want is a fair go and I for one was very happy that Benji spoke out at his PC (club might not like it due to a poss fine) the other night. It's not just sticking up for the Players but IMO it's the fans that it hursts the most as we live and breathe it.

It's the same as suspensions - Api got suspended for like 3 weeks early in the year and the player got up after the penalty and was right to go and the same weekend another game a worse hip dropped happened and no sin bin or suspension for that player.

Question re recruitment:
We have done a great job with the re-signings but are we expecting any more extensions or new players announced before Nov 1 ? (Would love to hear we have wrapped up Sam F as he is a top talent.)

Congrats to all the teams that made the finals and the NRLW women have been excellent this year. Well done to all involved.

Thanks again
 
Hi Shaun,

Is it right we only have 6 middles signed for next year (May, Pole, Sione, Hunt, Twal and Seyfarth) and CTP on dev contract. Out of the middles used this year only Royce has had a significant injury with May, Pole, Sione and Seyfarth pretty much playing the whole year and and Twal only missing a handful. Chances are it won’t go so well next year. Are we looking for forward depth with NRL experience for 2027?
 
Hi Shaun,

Just a question around the presentation event. What's the thinking behind it being on a Tuesday night? That's certainly ruled me out, as it would mean at least 2 days off work to come from rural NSW. I guess this is just another weird Wests Tigers decision that has me again rethinking if my wages are worth spending on a Wests Tigers Membership in 2027.🤔☹️
 
Suzie-Q said:
Hi Shaun,

Just a question around the presentation event. What's the thinking behind it being on a Tuesday night? That's certainly ruled me out, as it would mean at least 2 days off work to come from rural NSW. I guess this is just another weird Wests Tigers decision that has me again rethinking if my wages are worth spending on a Wests Tigers Membership in 2027.🤔☹️
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Ridiculous!
Same with being a top tier member, They'll put functions on a Wednesday morning at 9am.
Who the hell can squeeze in a Football team engagement on a mid week morning?
They already get the Weekends usually, Seems like it's also ever sorted only a couple weeks prior
(Sometimes not even)

Certainly makes it very harder to justify.
 
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