Big Shake Up Needed NOW.

[pHyR3]

Jeez, I went into that game thinking we could give em a run for their money. You know, stay within 20 or so. But we were so weak up the middle….abysmal. Wasn't sad, wasn't angry. I sat there feeling nothing. Anyone else feel like that? I get over the moon when we win in a nailbiter and sweat like crazy but there....I just gave up.

For me I think we need to do a LOT of things to make this a prosperous club which i KNOW it can be within 3 years.

1) Sack Simmons.
2) Blair out, Utai out, Tuqiri out, Reddy out, Ayshford out, Moltzen out, Lawrence out, Braith out (maybe), Iosefa out, Spence out. We need a MASSIVE clean out to solve this problem so we can throw big money at someone like Ellis to tighten up our middle and don't have dead beats costing us money and points. Go below salary cap for a few years if need be like the Roosters did.
3) Clean out of the divided board. We shouldn't be fighting amongst ourselves so we need an independent board that serves wests tigers not some archaic club structure.
4) Clean out conditioning and medical staff. This many injuries is not normal especially when they are often muscle, ligament and tendon related. I can understand broken bones and fractures being a contact sport but these injuries are to do with the way we train and condition ourselves.
5) Get away from this 'boy's club' attitude in the staff. Need to hire pros not mates. I dont want someone's good mate being in charge of coaching or conditioning. Hire every person like they hired Potter. Best man available for the job.

We can do all that at the end of the season then we can come back in 2014 with a good chance of avoiding the bottom 4.

 

[stryker]

Too late, this club is rooted.

 

[iofthetigers]

Sack Simmons & put potter on notice.

 

[Snake]

Simmons should be sacked tonight not to enter Concord again . The board has to meet ASAP to OK the biggest clean out in Weststigers history .

 

[bp_tiger]

gee at last people are getting it right simmons is a grub and he should be driven to the front door NOW. POTTER NEEDS TO SACK 60% of the team or he should jump in the car with simmons.
I can understanding people saying it is not his team and all that, but for a side to defend like we did tonight says the coach has no impact on them at all.
the team is a disgrace to us as supporters, we all deserve better than this rubbish.

 

[stryker]

Simmons should most definetly be sacked. He is an imbecile of the highest order. Whoever OK'd his resigning should follow.

 

[pHyR3]

gee at last people are getting it right simmons is a grub and he should be driven to the front door NOW. POTTER NEEDS TO SACK 60% of the team or he should jump in the car with simmons.
I can understanding people saying it is not his team and all that, but for a side to defend like we did tonight says the coach has no impact on them at all.
the team is a disgrace to us as supporters, we all deserve better than this rubbish.

i think the second half showed he DOES have impact on them. We were soft through the middle which potter rectified at the half. Royce screwed up our defensive structure and capabilities in the offseason and through the week.

 

[happy_tiger]

gee at last people are getting it right simmons is a grub and he should be driven to the front door NOW. POTTER NEEDS TO SACK 60% of the team or he should jump in the car with simmons.
I can understanding people saying it is not his team and all that, but for a side to defend like we did tonight says the coach has no impact on them at all.
the team is a disgrace to us as supporters, we all deserve better than this rubbish.

i think the second half showed he DOES have impact on them. We were soft through the middle which potter rectified at the half. Royce screwed up our defensive structure and capabilities in the offseason and through the week.

Its funny you know , Bellamy may be head coach , but he looks after the defence

Maybe we get an attacking coach and Potter takes over the defensive coach duties in 2014

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Simmons should most definetly be sacked. He is an imbecile of the highest order. Whoever OK'd his resigning should follow.

Why on earth he was hired again last year is beyond me. Another Sheens decision.

The man has failed everywhere he has gone. Won a spoon at Penrith. Responsible for our awful defense. Sacked from St Helen's after 12 months. Yet strolls back in again. Unbelievable.

 

[cktiger]

People forget he's not the one missing easy tackles.
The best defensive plan in the world won't work with a team of shirt grabbers and head hunters.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

People forget he's not the one missing easy tackles.
The best defensive plan in the world won't work with a team of shirt grabbers and head hunters.

We have a defensive plan? Must have missed it all these years.

The only time in the last nine years our defense has been good is the two years the useless garden gnome was over in the UK running St Helens into the ground.

Coincidence? No.

 

[WTDiehard]

Simmons was our defensive coach in 2005 when we won the comp. I suppose the fact we could score 30-50 points ourselves back then nullified the other teams attack.

I really believed that Potter was the right coach for us.

I wonder if he has the players on his side….cause they don't seem to be playing for him ATM. I think those same players would be scared to put in continual performances like that under a Bellamy or Bennett.

If Potter loses the players.....he's in trouble. In saying that though, we need a cleanout of the dead wood anyway.....next year will be Potters makes it or break it year.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Simmons was our defensive coach in 2005 when we won the comp. I suppose the fact we could score 30-50 points ourselves back then nullified the other teams attack.

Our defense wasn't good in 2005 either.

 

[Muffstar]

So what is Georgallis role in the club ? Also the players don't look fit, so I think a broom with a long handle needs to be wielded next year.

 

[Irvine]

I am glad someone else said that I thought it was just me..they don't look fit.

I thought Georgie did Defence and Simmons did Attack. Whoever it is it's still Potter who is in charge.

Newsflash Potter this is NRL 2013.

 

[boonboon]

Assistant coaches aren't the problem every- Kearney changed his assistants at parra. The problems are strength and conditioning, head coach perhaps and missing injured players. We need better recruitment, better fitness and better luck

 

[spearby]

People forget he's not the one missing easy tackles.
The best defensive plan in the world won't work with a team of shirt grabbers and head hunters.

200 % the players are not putting in :deadhorse: :deadhorse:

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Simmons was our defensive coach in 2005 when we won the comp. I suppose the fact we could score 30-50 points ourselves back then nullified the other teams attack.

Our defense wasn't good in 2005 either.

Good enough to win a premiership. You don't win a flag if you can't defend.

 

[mykidsrule]

:deadhorse:

Sack Simmons & put potter on notice.

In my opinion Potter was always on a hiding to nothing from the start!! He arrived and has ,had to work with everything that was from the Sheens era. He has inherited all Sheens staff plus the new arrivals that Sheens had already signed before he got given weekly pension payments from the club(WHAT A BALLS UP THE WAY THE CLUB HAVE FAILED TOO DEAL WITH THAT). I believe that Potter needs to start by replacing the men around him first and foremost,we need a clean out of the coaching staff ranks and let Mick start a fresh with a new coaching team(one that he puts in charge). Until the club man up and Pay Sheens out fully,the aura will linger for a long time too come.