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WESTS Tigers have cut a $6 million, 10-year deal to move at least four games per season to ANZ Stadium.
In a significant bottom line development for the warring joint venture club, new CEO Grant Mayer has brokered the agreement for the Tigers to shift from Allianz Stadium to the door step of Sydney’s western suburbs starting next year.
The Sunday Telegraph can also reveal the Tigers have appointed Mick Potter’s assistant coaches for next season, with David Kidwell and Todd Payten poised to be announced as part of a new-look structure at Concord.
With Potter fighting to save his job a month ago after a player-led revolt against the first-year NRL coach, the Tigers are hoping the additions of Kidwell and Payten will provide a better coaching platform to get more out of the club’s talented roster.
This season will go down as an unmitigated disaster but with an outstanding crop of emerging talent including Curtis Sironen, James Tedesco, Luke Brooks, Tim Simona, David Nofoaluma, Nathan Brown and Marika Koriobete, the Tigers have reason to believe there is a new dawn fast approaching.
At the same time, a seven wins, 17 losses season has been deemed completely unacceptable by Tigers powerbrokers.
Coach Potter would almost need to win the opening 10 games of next year to have his two-year contract extended, with results to determine if he can survive until next September.
New CEO Mayer’s decision to move at least four home games per season to Homebush makes a lot of commercial sense, with the club still intending to recognise its Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies foundations.
Under Mayer’s new plan, The Sunday Telegraph understands the club will play four home games at Campbelltown Stadium, three games at Leichhardt Oval and four at ANZ Stadium.
What the Tigers will do with their final home fixture is still to be determined.
Wests Tigers are hoping for a brighter future. Picture: Brett Costello
The other significant development happening behind-the-scenes at Concord is the restructuring of the joint venture’s problematic board room, which is notoriously divided 5-5 along Balmain and Western Suburbs voting lines.
Tigers chairman Mike Bailey and deputy chairman Nick Di Girolamo approached NRL boss Dave Smith for advice on how to better structure the club’s 10-member board room at the start of this season and are inching closer to a resolution.
The Sunday Telegraph understands Smith has recommended the Tigers reduce the board to seven members, including three newly-elected independent directors, along with two from Balmain and two from Western Suburbs.
On the field, Benji Marshall’s departure means the club will invest heavily in the immensely talented crop of local juniors in conjunction with established stars Robbie Farah, Chris Lawrence, Aaron Woods and Keith Galloway.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/besieged-wests-tigers-cut-big-money-deal-to-move-home-games-to-anz-stadium/story-fni3gpz1-1226714318878
In a significant bottom line development for the warring joint venture club, new CEO Grant Mayer has brokered the agreement for the Tigers to shift from Allianz Stadium to the door step of Sydney’s western suburbs starting next year.
The Sunday Telegraph can also reveal the Tigers have appointed Mick Potter’s assistant coaches for next season, with David Kidwell and Todd Payten poised to be announced as part of a new-look structure at Concord.
With Potter fighting to save his job a month ago after a player-led revolt against the first-year NRL coach, the Tigers are hoping the additions of Kidwell and Payten will provide a better coaching platform to get more out of the club’s talented roster.
This season will go down as an unmitigated disaster but with an outstanding crop of emerging talent including Curtis Sironen, James Tedesco, Luke Brooks, Tim Simona, David Nofoaluma, Nathan Brown and Marika Koriobete, the Tigers have reason to believe there is a new dawn fast approaching.
At the same time, a seven wins, 17 losses season has been deemed completely unacceptable by Tigers powerbrokers.
Coach Potter would almost need to win the opening 10 games of next year to have his two-year contract extended, with results to determine if he can survive until next September.
New CEO Mayer’s decision to move at least four home games per season to Homebush makes a lot of commercial sense, with the club still intending to recognise its Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies foundations.
Under Mayer’s new plan, The Sunday Telegraph understands the club will play four home games at Campbelltown Stadium, three games at Leichhardt Oval and four at ANZ Stadium.
What the Tigers will do with their final home fixture is still to be determined.
Wests Tigers are hoping for a brighter future. Picture: Brett Costello
The other significant development happening behind-the-scenes at Concord is the restructuring of the joint venture’s problematic board room, which is notoriously divided 5-5 along Balmain and Western Suburbs voting lines.
Tigers chairman Mike Bailey and deputy chairman Nick Di Girolamo approached NRL boss Dave Smith for advice on how to better structure the club’s 10-member board room at the start of this season and are inching closer to a resolution.
The Sunday Telegraph understands Smith has recommended the Tigers reduce the board to seven members, including three newly-elected independent directors, along with two from Balmain and two from Western Suburbs.
On the field, Benji Marshall’s departure means the club will invest heavily in the immensely talented crop of local juniors in conjunction with established stars Robbie Farah, Chris Lawrence, Aaron Woods and Keith Galloway.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/besieged-wests-tigers-cut-big-money-deal-to-move-home-games-to-anz-stadium/story-fni3gpz1-1226714318878
