Recent content by Papacito

You make some good points. But injuries happen to every club. It's part of the game. There were a few tables online about injuries and we weren't any worse off than other clubs. Luai? Benji signed him and it's arguably backfired in a massive way. That's on him. We all have rose coloured...

Marshall has been around for a while now. His fingerprints are all over the roster. This year's team is almost entirely Benji and Richo signings. Except for the Fainu brothers - who were signed by Scott Fulton. Bagging a club legend like Benji seems sacrosanct on the forum. But, there comes a...

Personally, the Super League stuff is ancient history. I reckon all those western Sydney clubs are doing some good work to develop the sport and make the community a better place. They also seem to have come a long way from chucking young people on the scrap heap when they don't make the elite...

From memory Terrell May is part of the leadership group? Yikes

Lol, your bait is attractive but this fish is going to keep swimming!

AD is one of my favourite players but if the team's leadership group has any backbone, they'll be standing up at training this morning and telling the rest of the playing group that AD is gone and for anyone who supports him to stand up and make themselves known. But to be honest, it might ring...

I don't usually think that sacking the coach is a good idea, but something seems seriously wrong here. Why would AD just refuse to play over a position change? I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't other issues that have been bubbling beneath the surface for some time.

I'm interested what club you are talking about? Penrith is a textbook example. The leagues club owns the football club. The leagues club board and the football club board are the same. It's exactly the opposite of an independent board. Sharks are almost identical to Penrith. Same people on...

It's a good point. But the governance responsibility of all directors is to Wests Tigers Pty Ltd legal entity first and foremost.

In theory you could tick the profitable box without ticking the less reliant box too?

On one hand people want HBG less involved, but at the same time want them to spend more money? That usually results in giving up a board spot (i.e Balmain's). The only realistic way the club ever achieves a genuine semblance of independence is to be a profitable business that's less reliant on...

- Members agree to form a joint venture private company to run the NRL brand and team - Private company is formed, members give up direct say on the joint venture but have a say via their board members - Board is made up of major funders (Wests Ashfield, Wests Campbelltown, Balmain) - Wests...

Nice to see Tupou get a run. he did some good stuff in reserves.

Plus you need a core of respected senior guys that stay with the club to make sure it sticks. Otherwise it becomes like one of those motivational posters on the wall that gets ignored.

I don't disagree @BlackWhiteGold - culture goes a long way. I can only really talk from companies I've worked at but culture shifts like sand in the desert. It's usually a people thing than a company thing. You get a new CEO and management rolling in, new people, and things change quick. The...