OFFICIAL Club discussion with Shaun Mielekamp

ShaunMielekamp said:
Afternoon everyone, I wanted to start a thread to primarily show my personal support for the forum and the importance I see in this medium. This also can be a genuinely helpful way for the club to source feedback from time to time in an online space that will self-regulate and fuel healthy debate.

I tried to post a few days ago but appropriately the moderators ran their checks to confirm that yes this is actually me rather than someone pretending to be the CEO.
I have been actively reading the forum since I started at the club over 2 years ago and several times I was very close to jumping on and saying hi several times but decided to take the safer route.

I've seen many posts on here that wonder if the club does read the forum and it is worth knowing that some staff do at times jump on. I am a huge fan of online forums because I believe it is a key part of fan culture and debate, especially in a modern social media world where it is hard to see through the online trolls and the media agendas. At least here you know someone will call out BS and as long as people remain within the forum rules good debate and conversation can foster.

I am keen to hear from people on their views passions and opinions, but I do want to put in a disclaimer that I simply won't be able to reply to every question or comment on every topic. I'm sure you will all agree that I should be spending 99.99% of my time working as hard as I can as CEO and getting caught up too much on here with debate is not the best use of my time or head space.

Please know that I can't and won't be able to talk on a lot of topics - players and football in particular. I know you all would love me to give a blow-by-blow account of every team list, recruitment discussion, on field decisions, board discussions etc etc obviously that would not be professional and not in the best interest of the club. Plenty of things that happen at the club need to stay confidential at the club and I know that what is said on here simply won't stay on here.

I hope to jump on at random every few weeks or so but there will be times that I might not get on to reply for a few months - like I said I will need to make sure I prioritise 99.99% of my time on the day to day job and hopefully this is still and opportunity that is welcomed here on the forum.

I do have thick skin so I get that I will get some frank feedback at times, just please remember I am a human with a family.

So please know that I will read this thread, unlikely that i will be able to read all the other though. I'm still learning everyday about the very unique journey this club has been on and I can't rewrite or comment on decision made before my time. I do believe in the Wests Tigers and that includes everyone that cheers on our players and spend your hard earned money on supporting this club.

Thanks for being part of this forum and reading my long post, most of all thanks for being part of the Wests Tigers family.
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Shuan - mr m , in layman terms ,why is /are/ have we been substandard .What's been put in place to change it .
Begin from the start ,you have the floor while your here - give us the sales pitch - sell it
 
Lucky we got wins early, look like the spooners. Surely questions will be raised of the coaches? 4 tries in 4 weeks. Dont look like busting a grape!! If we have put all our eggs in on Latu why not play him in the position he will play next year?

If Benji is coach moving forward maybe the boys club needs to end. I could coach 3 hitups for a spread with out earning the right.

We need some signings asap, will finish bottom 4.
 
Fainu Brothers said:
Lucky we got wins early, look like the spooners. Surely questions will be raised of the coaches? 4 tries in 4 weeks. Dont look like busting a grape!! If we have put all our eggs in on Latu why not play him in the position he will play next year?

If Benji is coach moving forward maybe the boys club needs to end. I could coach 3 hitups for a spread with out earning the right.

We need some signings asap, will finish bottom 4.
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Every time we put him at HB he goes all WWF
 
Two questions.

When we are struggling with depth and forced to pick out of form off players like Skelton and To'a why did we release Luke Laulilii early?

If our attacking strategy is to bomb to Rinakama why did we not pick Tavana who is an actual aerial threat?
 
@ShaunMielekamp Good on you Shaun for getting on here and facing the fans. Ballsy. You can see the frustration and diversity of views from the forum. It’s hard being a Tigers fan. It actually affects mental health at times. We’ve seen the effects of mid season drama the last two years and its impact on team performance. We all hope next year we can have a season free of drama and bad press. Please be the one to change the club’s culture of mediocrity.
 
I said during the game Shaun, get on the phone first thing Monday to Brad Arthur the management at the knights and manly woke up and realised they had a dud coaching group and did something about it, the Dragons are taking positive steps forward, where this joint is just clueless and a rudderless shit show, mate your in charge do Ur job and do something about it us loyal supporters have had a gutfull of this crap year after year
 
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