Destined to rot

[hybrid_tiger]

Destined to rot just about sums it up. You really get the feeling that this club is just doomed. We don't have an identity and in the cut throat sporting industry that just spells trouble.

We have three home grounds but all are spread out so far away from each other.

Where is our home? What do we stand for?

We have largely been a mess since day one. Yes, we won the competition in 2005 and were reasonably good in 2010 and 2011 but aside from that we have been a big fat failure for our entire existence.

We have a losing culture, a culture of mediocrity.

We have had an inept boardroom since day one, our fans are probably the worst in the NRL, and our membership base and numbers are pathetic.

It's been 15 years and we still can't escape the Wests/Balmain rubbish.

Maybe I'm overreacting due to the current mess but I really don't see many positives.

We have some great juniors coming through but unless something drastic changes, I don't see how they won't be wasted.

 

[Newtown]

Br proud and stop putting the club down. Think of all the injuries we have had to so many of our top players and I really mean top players. We will come good very quickly as long as we stop cannibalising ourselves and our club. There are other clubs like Cronulla, Titans, Knights who have not won a premiership and are at the bottom of the table. Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago, have won the wooden spoon for the last 2 or 3 years and this year they may not even qualify top 8\. Canberra, like Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago but are now a basket case and favourite for the wooden spoon. All clubs go through very bad and very good periods over time but they don't panic and lose focus. Hang tight and have faith.

 

[tigermaniac]

Br proud and stop putting the club down. Think of all the injuries we have had to so many of our top players and I really mean top players. We will come good very quickly as long as we stop cannibalising ourselves and our club. There are other clubs like Cronulla, Titans, Knights who have not won a premiership and are at the bottom of the table. Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago, have won the wooden spoon for the last 2 or 3 years and this year they may not even qualify top 8\. Canberra, like Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago but are now a basket case and favourite for the wooden spoon. All clubs go through very bad and very good periods over time but they don't panic and lose focus. Hang tight and have faith.

Newtown no one is more responsible for putting the club down more than the club itself. We wish our club success, who doesn't want the best. What other clubs are doing is of no concern to me, but if you look at the strong clubs you can see that they handle their affairs differently. We are currently in a league of our own. We can only talk about what we think is happening and people know this is self imposed. How are we talk against what has happened. And as for the injured players, no one is really pointing or bagging the boys because of on field events. When the injured get back, they'll play again, here or elsewhere one day, but off field if we don't improve, the club could end. That is the concern.

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[tigermaniac]

Br proud and stop putting the club down. Think of all the injuries we have had to so many of our top players and I really mean top players. We will come good very quickly as long as we stop cannibalising ourselves and our club. There are other clubs like Cronulla, Titans, Knights who have not won a premiership and are at the bottom of the table. Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago, have won the wooden spoon for the last 2 or 3 years and this year they may not even qualify top 8\. Canberra, like Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago but are now a basket case and favourite for the wooden spoon. All clubs go through very bad and very good periods over time but they don't panic and lose focus. Hang tight and have faith.

Newtown no one is more responsible for putting the club down more than the club itself. We wish our club success, who doesn't want the best. What other clubs are doing is of no concern to me, but if you look at the strong clubs you can see that they handle their affairs differently. We are currently in a league of our own. We can only talk about what we think is happening and people know this is self imposed. How are we talk against what has happened. And as for the injured players, no one is really pointing or bagging the boys because of on field events. When the injured get back, they'll play again, here or elsewhere one day, but off field if we don't improve, the club could end. That is the concern.

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[AmericanHistoryX]

Br proud and stop putting the club down. Think of all the injuries we have had to so many of our top players and I really mean top players. We will come good very quickly as long as we stop cannibalising ourselves and our club. There are other clubs like Cronulla, Titans, Knights who have not won a premiership and are at the bottom of the table. Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago, have won the wooden spoon for the last 2 or 3 years and this year they may not even qualify top 8\. Canberra, like Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago but are now a basket case and favourite for the wooden spoon. All clubs go through very bad and very good periods over time but they don't panic and lose focus. Hang tight and have faith.

Newtown no one is more responsible for putting the club down more than the club itself. We wish our club success, who doesn't want the best. What other clubs are doing is of no concern to me, but if you look at the strong clubs you can see that they handle their affairs differently. We are currently in a league of our own. We can only talk about what we think is happening and people know this is self imposed. How are we talk against what has happened. And as for the injured players, no one is really pointing or bagging the boys because of on field events. When the injured get back, they'll play again, here or elsewhere one day, but off field if we don't improve, the club could end. That is the concern.

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"**but if you look at the strong clubs you can see that they handle their affairs differently**" - exactly - their leaders don't go jumping over fences and into a getaway car.
Don't get me wrong - but this is costing us 2 points every week lately. Teams without spirit are difficult to watch.

 

[Newtown]

Br proud and stop putting the club down. Think of all the injuries we have had to so many of our top players and I really mean top players. We will come good very quickly as long as we stop cannibalising ourselves and our club. There are other clubs like Cronulla, Titans, Knights who have not won a premiership and are at the bottom of the table. Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago, have won the wooden spoon for the last 2 or 3 years and this year they may not even qualify top 8\. Canberra, like Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago but are now a basket case and favourite for the wooden spoon. All clubs go through very bad and very good periods over time but they don't panic and lose focus. Hang tight and have faith.

Newtown no one is more responsible for putting the club down more than the club itself. We wish our club success, who doesn't want the best. What other clubs are doing is of no concern to me, but if you look at the strong clubs you can see that they handle their affairs differently. We are currently in a league of our own. We can only talk about what we think is happening and people know this is self imposed. How are we talk against what has happened. And as for the injured players, no one is really pointing or bagging the boys because of on field events. When the injured get back, they'll play again, here or elsewhere one day, but off field if we don't improve, the club could end. That is the concern.

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Tigermaniac, Airing our dirty laundry on the forum will only result in the media having more fun at our expense. Say nothing and just let them run out of gas. Can anybody on this forum provide a realistic solution as to how do we, just lowly fans, get the club to improve off the field?

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Br proud and stop putting the club down. Think of all the injuries we have had to so many of our top players and I really mean top players. We will come good very quickly as long as we stop cannibalising ourselves and our club. There are other clubs like Cronulla, Titans, Knights who have not won a premiership and are at the bottom of the table. Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago, have won the wooden spoon for the last 2 or 3 years and this year they may not even qualify top 8\. Canberra, like Parramatta last won a premiership decades ago but are now a basket case and favourite for the wooden spoon. All clubs go through very bad and very good periods over time but they don't panic and lose focus. Hang tight and have faith.

"We will come good". I hear this year after year but it's simply not true.

Part of the problem is that our fans are used to accepting mediocrity.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

We've had 3 good yrs in almost 15\. I think the time comes where its acceptable for your patience to wear thin.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

We've had 3 good yrs in almost 15\. I think the time comes where its acceptable for your patience to wear thin.

Yep, exactly.

 

[gallagher]

I agree.
I think the problem is that a lot involved with running the club and a lot of the fans know our place in the NRL. We're not one of the successful ones like the dogs and roosters,we never will be, nor do we want to be. A premiership every 2-3 decades will do, semi finals very couple years is just fine. We're the battlers, the under dogs and thats how we like it.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I agree.
I think the problem is that a lot involved with running the club and a lot of the fans know our place in the NRL. We're not one of the successful ones like the dogs and roosters,we never will be, nor do we want to be. A premiership every 2-3 decades will do, semi finals very couple years is just fine. We're the battlers, the under dogs and thats how we like it.

That's exactly the problem. It's probably because both Balmain and Wests were struggling when they merged, so most of the core fans were used to being losers. That has now continued with Wests Tigers so it's not much different.

Yes, we won a competition and it was fantastic but we should be striving for excellence - not happy with being successful once every blue moon. Making the finals 3 out of 15 times is simply pathetic, especially when you take into account that half the teams every single season finish in the top 8.

 

[Knuckles]

Suggesting we are going to rot is a load of rot. Most on here didn't expect the team to make the semis this year … In fact, up to injuries setting in, they exceeded my expectations.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Suggesting we are going to rot is a load of rot. Most on here didn't expect the team to make the semis this year … In fact, up to injuries setting in, they exceeded my expectations.

It's nothing to do with our position on the ladder, c'mon. It's about the club as a whole, the whole culture of the place.

 

[happy_tiger]

Look I was told this hold up with the new board is because we are struggling to find an independent woman board member

They had someone , but the deal fell through

Has anyone else heard anything about this and is it true

Surely a West Tigers Forum member can go down to NRL HQ in drag and just take the job so we can get the process started

Take one for the team

Off you go Happy…Don't forget your Scarf! :supporter:

Even a blind person could see I'd be ugliest drag queen alive :laughing:

But on a serious note , I'm sure I heard them bring it up on the ABC Grandstand show on the Sunday past while driving to work

 

[Tigermama]

Hopefully with a new board in place, a few changes with staff personnel and better training facilities we will see the club improve and flourish over time. Brighter days ahead.

 

[Furious1]

I agree.
I think the problem is that a lot involved with running the club and a lot of the fans know our place in the NRL. We're not one of the successful ones like the dogs and roosters,we never will be, nor do we want to be. A premiership every 2-3 decades will do, semi finals very couple years is just fine. We're the battlers, the under dogs and thats how we like it.

It's not how I like it. All I've wanted for the last 15 years is our club to be one everyone picks in their top 4 every year. To be confident we will be there at seasons end, yet we still can't get it right.

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