I apologise upfront, that this is so long,
But As someone who has mainly read the posts on here over the last few years, I finally become so disgusted with some of the so called supporters , that I am going to air my opinion on it as well.
Just so you know, I come from the Wests side of the J\V, so you can get all the calls of "Fossil, "Dinosaur"and any other insults out of the way now. It seems to be the custom whenever anyone even mildly criticises the J\v. I realise from the tone of some posters here, that I'm one of the age group that should just roll over now and wait to be euthanased, so that our opinions dont taint the kiddies opinion of the club. Well Sorry , Tough Luck.
My second club was Balmain, so when we joined , I was quite happy about the deal . I also am aware that Balmain were in a better position than Wests (at that time).However that position apparently, has now been reversed, and while I am happy for the J\v to now carry Balmain for a while,if necessary, That should not however be a long term thing.
From what I can see (and correct me if I'm wrong) the future for Balmain is not looking good in the long term. No J\V business can survive for long if only one half of the Venture is Financially Viable .
So No! I dont see it surviving, at least in it's present structure.
An even bigger problem from my point of view , is the rubbish that is being put on our club Captain over the comments of a rating hungry grub on a trash tv show (along with his grubby mate)
Just what has Farah done that was so wrong???
He was accused of saying ( In a private conversation over 12 months ago) that "Potter can't coach,' Robbie denied saying that and on at least 4 occasions he repeated that he may have said that "Potter was struggling ) and also that "we are all struggling at the moment" Which is much different to "Potter Cant coach"
Having set himself up as a paragon of "integrity", I would have imagined that if that statement was untrue , that Tallis would have been bleating everywhere that Farah was a liar. Tallis has not denied that that was the comment at any stage at all so I would assume that it is closer to the truth.
The other problem was that Robbies Manager made a mountain out of a mole hill by even talking to Tallis on radio. (not Farah).
Rothfield than decided to hammer Wests and Farah with the biggest b\sh*t story of this year, Remember the statements that no player likes Farah and they were not going to re sign if he stayed, Hello !!! all players that were wanted have signed, Rothfield must have become tired of trying to attack Gus Gould ,as he has done over the last couple of years to no avail, and has now decided that Wests are his favourite target and Farah has the bullseye on him now.
Then the vultures in our own club started, " Farah has to go' "Hes a crap captain", "Get rid of Farah"
"He's Undermining Potter"etc.
In all the pressies this year I have not seen anything that would show any of thatas reality It has always looked like they have a reasonable Player Coach relationship. But even a joke between them about Farah talking to Potter about Moses was pulled out as evidence of a full scale mutiny against Potter
You have got to be kidding!!!!
Some people on here have very short memories.
It was only a few months ago that Farah was at least responsible to some degree in helping to change James Tedesco mind when he was all but gone , and even some of his biggest detractors were saying how good that was. Lucky that he gave an opinion then was'nt it??
For years Farah has been one of the few constantly high standard players in the Club and has always put the club first. He stayed when he could easily have left for a number of higher profile clubs and even more money .
And now we have the genius regular Farah bashers calling for him to go .Yes that's right, Let's get rid of one of the two best hookers in the game,and our most consistent player . We are obviously so awash with a terrific amount of high class experienced ,consistent players That we can give a player such as Farah to another club.
Oh That's right, we have one poster on here recently saying that soon we will have a great spine in the team Tedesco, Brooks, Moses and Cherrington.
Probably the same posters that over the last seasons were singing the praises of Luani, Well that worked out well , didnt it?
Maybe in a few seasons Cherrington may prove to be up to First grade standard ,(I hope he does)
But meanwhile It's a long way from the 20,s and we already have an extremely good Captain and Hooker and even our disfunctional Board wouldnt be so dopey as to let him go,
Potter
The ironic thing is that after all the outpourings about what a great bloke Potter is , (and that seems to be correct)He has been given a leave pass that nothing that happens in this club is his responsibility, No matter what we play like, some of our supporters think it's always someone elses fault.
I dont know whether he's a good coach or not , but as long as he is here , whenever we hit a crook patch(and no matter how we are going we always seem to find one consistently ) all the same things will be dragged up all over again ,Like him or not.
I just would like to see someone that has ideas about how the team should play and is capable of putting them on the field with some sort of structure to do that.
He's had two years (admittedly under difficulties) but how many more years are we going to waste before trying someone else?
Club Future
I have read posts about going back to Wests Magpies, dropping Leichardt Oval ,moving to Perth Etc, and read posters saying that they would not support the club if it did any of those things.
What some of you understandably want is a club to go and watch every game that you can.Cant argue with that, but does that make you a supporter,
As someone who was heavily involved with Wests over a long period, I moved away from Sydney years ago , and since Get to see the Tigers maybe 0nly three of four times a year(live ) I also watch every other Tigers game on tv each week,
If you really support this club like a lot of of you say you do it shouldnt matter where we play or what we wear of what we are called, If you live in Sydney there will still be plenty of Tigers games on there even if the club did ever move.
I just want to see this club become as good as it possibly can get,and lose the mediocrity thats become acceptable in the club .And if that means moving to stay alive or changing our name , then that's a small price to pay .
