Brutal Reality - We lack talent

Given the way everyone is burying the roster, im surprised Cleary is escaping criticism. Having been the one who put it together, literally from the ground up.
 
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Given the way everyone is burying the roster, im surprised Cleary is escaping criticism. Having been the one who put it together, literally from the ground up.

Cleary could only sign players willing to join us and yes a Cronk, a Pearce or even a Watson would have been handy. Sadly we are not in the position to attract the top notch players, we are always looking a players a couple down from the top shelve.

I look at our roster and if we could added maybe Moylan or even Maloney you would have some hope of a top 8 finish, but we were never in the hunt
 
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Given the way everyone is burying the roster, im surprised Cleary is escaping criticism. Having been the one who put it together, literally from the ground up.

Cleary could only sign players willing to join us and yes a Cronk, a Pearce or even a Watson would have been handy. Sadly we are not in the position to attract the top notch players, we are always looking a players a couple down from the top shelve.

I look at our roster and if we could added maybe Moylan or even Maloney you would have some hope of a top 8 finish, but we were never in the hunt

The thing is though, when JT was coach, everyone was complaining he wouldn’t be able to attract anyone. Now, it’s the club that can’t attract anyone.
 
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Given the way everyone is burying the roster, im surprised Cleary is escaping criticism. Having been the one who put it together, literally from the ground up.

Been wondering the same thing since Geo raised it a few days back.. No answer yet though.
 
I don't get the criticism of Ivan. Taylor did basically everything wrong. Bad tactics, poor culture in the team, terrible most of the time in his media presence. Yes he tried and maybe given another opportunity he will do a better job elsewhere.

Ivan to me has done all he can do. I don't like the way his team selections are looking or some of his recruitment's but I think we need to give him a lot more time prior to judging him.
 
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I don't get the criticism of Ivan. Taylor did basically everything wrong. Bad tactics, poor culture in the team, terrible most of the time in his media presence. Yes he tried and maybe given another opportunity he will do a better job elsewhere.

Ivan to me has done all he can do. I don't like the way his team selections are looking or some of his recruitment's but I think we need to give him a lot more time prior to judging him.

Taylor has been a divisive character at every club he has been to and as a player whiteanted his coaches (Bears and Magpies).He will not get a job as head coach at any NRL club,we would have been his last chance.
 
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I don't get the criticism of Ivan. Taylor did basically everything wrong. Bad tactics, poor culture in the team, terrible most of the time in his media presence. Yes he tried and maybe given another opportunity he will do a better job elsewhere.

Ivan to me has done all he can do. I don't like the way his team selections are looking or some of his recruitment's but I think we need to give him a lot more time prior to judging him.

Taylor has been a divisive character at every club he has been to and as a player whiteanted his coaches (Bears and Magpies).He will not get a job as head coach at any NRL club,we would have been his last chance.

That would be a shame, I would love for him to be a coach of one of our opponents.
 
Some funny stuff in here, thanks for the laughs.
Wanting JT back as coach (for another club),
IC brought in these guys, JT brought in Rankin….

comedy gold.

Just remember vs Roosters we do have a chance, isn't JT helping them over there at Roosters?
 
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Someone's caught on…

It's the Gym mate …it's the Gym !

No, it's us, never satisfied always complaining, fans, …...........and the gym, ............and the general location, ..............and management, ..............and the way we treated past legends, ..............and the media, doesn't like us...........and the refs don't like us, and.....................haul away you'll hear me sing, were bound for West Australia.
 
Some excellent posts in this thread.
I saw fox sports' predicted round 1 team for the tiges and have to admit it looks pretty dire compared to almost every other team.
But a lot of posters are right: Cleary has assembled this squad with an holistic philosophy and I personally think he hasn't put a step wrong since coming to the club. He has rid the club of what could be toxic elements of the club and brought in players who seem to have added to a seachange in the attitude and morale. *
Maybe a reason he hasn't been criticised is because they haven't played an actual nrl game yet!
I'm a big IC (even his initials are cool… Get it?! I. C... 😆) fan and he has only done things to reinforce my belief he is the best thing the WT has done since 05.

Keep the faith through a very tough start to the season. I think these games are needed for the 'gelling' period anyway so it could be a blessing in disguise playing these teams first up....

* I don't think anyone can with 100% certainty say things like this unless they are actually there. We can only suppose.
 
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Someone's caught on…

It's the Gym mate …it's the Gym !

No, it's us, never satisfied always complaining, fans, …...........and the gym, ............and the general location, ..............and management, ..............and the way we treated past legends, ..............and the media, doesn't like us...........and the refs don't like us, and.....................haul away you'll hear me sing, were bound for West Australia.

Don't forget the 5 home grounds :smiley:
 
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Someone's caught on…

It's the Gym mate …it's the Gym !

No, it's us, never satisfied always complaining, fans, …...........and the gym, ............and the general location, ..............and management, ..............and the way we treated past legends, ..............and the media, doesn't like us...........and the refs don't like us, and.....................haul away you'll hear me sing, were bound for West Australia.

Don't forget the 5 home grounds :smiley:

Dang! I knew I forgot something
 
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Someone's caught on…

It's the Gym mate …it's the Gym !

No, it's us, never satisfied always complaining, fans, …...........and the gym, ............and the general location, ..............and management, ..............and the way we treated past legends, ..............and the media, doesn't like us...........and the refs don't like us, and.....................haul away you'll hear me sing, were bound for West Australia.

Don't forget the 5 home grounds :smiley:

It's - on the bus slogan..
 
From my memory McQueen was signed by Taylor.

We will never know if Cleary would have hired him.

Edit. Found a link.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2017/12/15/mcqueen-upbeat-despite-tigers-coach-switch/
 
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It seems that many of you won't be happy unless we make the 8.

You make it sound like were asking too much

I just read somewhere (unsure of accuracy) that the Broncos have only missed the finals twice in the last 29 years
 

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