Grant Meyer: A letter to the Wests Tigers Members

[Snake]

I hope you people are right about Mayer and what is going on at the moment. To me, his press statement above is calculated and shrewd. Slimy is the word that comes to my mind.

It seems clear to me that the club has achieved the outcome that it wanted all along - I don't for a moment believe that management is disappointed to see Benji go. Don't forget that this is the same club that couldn't retain Scott Prince, that shafted Hodgo (and still haven't replaced him, was it Moltzen who was 'the future' in fullbacks?), that exchanged Fifita and Gibbs for Adam Blair and lost Heighno and Ryan as well along the way.

Now it's Benji who doesn't fit into our grand plans apparently. I hope the plan works, the track record ain't much good.

I also hope that Benji does well wherever he ends up. He has been an ornament to the game and a great servant of our club and of Rugby League in general. I think we should all remember that. In an era where the game has become so 'structured' (formularised) that you can barely tell one team from another, he added the unlikely and at times miraculous.

We won't see his like again, and the game is the greatest loser in all of this.

Please Hodgo left the Tigers to lengthen his career full stop ..Oh yes he is still playing he couldn't of played another NRL season. The reason Prince was not resigned is his wife wanted to return to Queensland gets your facts right .

 

[tigermaniac]

I hope you people are right about Mayer and what is going on at the moment. To me, his press statement above is calculated and shrewd. Slimy is the word that comes to my mind.

It seems clear to me that the club has achieved the outcome that it wanted all along - I don't for a moment believe that management is disappointed to see Benji go. Don't forget that this is the same club that couldn't retain Scott Prince, that shafted Hodgo (and still haven't replaced him, was it Moltzen who was 'the future' in fullbacks?), that exchanged Fifita and Gibbs for Adam Blair and lost Heighno and Ryan as well along the way.

Now it's Benji who doesn't fit into our grand plans apparently. I hope the plan works, the track record ain't much good.

I also hope that Benji does well wherever he ends up. He has been an ornament to the game and a great servant of our club and of Rugby League in general. I think we should all remember that. In an era where the game has become so 'structured' (formularised) that you can barely tell one team from another, he added the unlikely and at times miraculous.

We won't see his like again, and the game is the greatest loser in all of this.

Please Hodgo left the Tigers to lengthen his career full stop ..Oh yes he is still playing he couldn't of played another NRL season. The reason Prince was not resigned is his wife wanted to return to Queensland gets your facts right .

I'm not prepared to make a judgement on Mayer at the moment, but with all the BS that has gone on for years, he's showing he has balls for decision making in a tough environment.

Mate I coach a U10s and do you think at that level that it's any easier to drop or discipline a player. Have a go will ya, them lets talk.

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[mtd]

meyer for CEO and PM.

If you're going to vote for him, at least get the name right.

M A Y E R

read the topic header just following suit joro.

 

[Juro]

meyer for CEO and PM.

If you're going to vote for him, at least get the name right.

M A Y E R

read the topic header just following suit joro.

Sorry, not having a go at you solely. And I did see the thread title and several other posters misspelling it. Yours just happened to be a nice short post to quote.

 

[madunit]

Didn't write anything about top four mate. The point I am making is you advocated a change in coach all last year and to now it has made no difference. Now we've got a change in CEO and we find ourselves losing one of our favourite sons …. GREAT !!!

So with the money we save we can spend it on kids who may or may not make the grade.
And we are all meant to be impressed with the new CEO !!!

Oh well, lets see what happens ..... I hope this time next year when we are leading the comp and the next Andrew Johns is showing Knuckles how stuck in his ways he is in his line of thinking that you are reminding me of our conversation tonight.

But this old Magpie goes to bed tonight very down in the dumps.

We had Benji and Sheens at the club together in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012 and never made the finals those years. What makes you think those two people are so integral to our success when the facts state otherwise?

When Lamb took over as coach the club went from 10th the previous year to 12th in his first year.
When Sheens took over as coach, the club went from 13th the previous year and finished 13th in his first year.
Potter took over after the club finished 10th and is going to go close to replicating that this year.

No player is bigger than the club.

No coach is bigger than the club. Sheens had taken a team predicted to make the Grand Final and had them finish 10th. That's a clear sign that he needed to go.

Marshall has been abysmal this year by his own standards and he doesn't look at all like he's going to improve that. I hope he does. Hope is all there is though, because the signs are it won't.

I'd rather we cut Benji given his form over the last 18 months than sign him up on 1 mill a year for 4 years and run the risk of losing the talented juniors coming through.

This wasn't an easy decision to make I'm sure, but Benji's form, hypcorisy and greed were enough to see that he was no longer interested in League. No point forcing him to play if he has no motivation for the game anymore.

 

[madunit]

Benji and his manager have today stated that this decision is not about money.

So, what's it about then?

It's about Benji not getting more money than Farah

 

[madunit]

I hope you people are right about Mayer and what is going on at the moment. To me, his press statement above is calculated and shrewd. Slimy is the word that comes to my mind.

It seems clear to me that the club has achieved the outcome that it wanted all along - I don't for a moment believe that management is disappointed to see Benji go. Don't forget that this is the same club that couldn't retain Scott Prince, that shafted Hodgo (and still haven't replaced him, was it Moltzen who was 'the future' in fullbacks?), that exchanged Fifita and Gibbs for Adam Blair and lost Heighno and Ryan as well along the way.

Now it's Benji who doesn't fit into our grand plans apparently. I hope the plan works, the track record ain't much good.

I also hope that Benji does well wherever he ends up. He has been an ornament to the game and a great servant of our club and of Rugby League in general. I think we should all remember that. In an era where the game has become so 'structured' (formularised) that you can barely tell one team from another, he added the unlikely and at times miraculous.

We won't see his like again, and the game is the greatest loser in all of this.

different coach and management teams then, completely unrelated to Mayer and Potter.

Hodgson wanted to go and play a few years in the ESL. Hodgson has been replaced by Tedesco. He has the #1 on the back of his jumper on game day.

Moltzen was never the future fullback. He filled in there, poorly. Moltzen is a five-eighth.

Fifita and Gibbs departures was smart play by Sharks, who knew the Tigers needed to clear decks to get Blair. Gibbs was allegedly very unhappy with Sheens and quite possibly wanted out.

Heighington had wanted out for a few years, he went close to signing with Penrith (Ryan was going to join him there too). Ryan wouldn't get a gig in our side next year anyway with Tedesco, Simona, Nofoaluma and Koroibete all good enough to cover his loss.

Benji simply tried to bluff the Tigers, and when he played hardball the Tigers refused to go along with it and Benji has now dug a hole for himself that he can't get out of.

Benji's departure from the club is Benji's fault and no one elses.

I love what he did for the club and I will never forget the many hours of magnificent highlights he gave me, but this last episode has made me realise he was a great player but a very self obsessed egotistical sook.

And that saddens me greatly.

 

[innsaneink]

I'm glad you are all so impressed ….. **It all sounds akin to a speech made by a politician to win over the party faithful to me.** We have just lost the best player the Wests Tigers have had .... Sorry I can't bring myself to be happy about all the rhetoric that goes with it.

So where have you been for the last 6 or 7 years?
Its always been the same…regardless of who is in the chair

 

[Knuckles]

I'm glad you are all so impressed ….. **It all sounds akin to a speech made by a politician to win over the party faithful to me.** We have just lost the best player the Wests Tigers have had .... Sorry I can't bring myself to be happy about all the rhetoric that goes with it.

So where have you been for the last 6 or 7 years?
Its always been the same…regardless of who is in the chair

Exactly !!!!!

So why are you all over this bloke ?
Is it relief that we have someone new ?
Is it that the previous crowd got to you so much that anyone talking things up would be gratefully received ?

Sorry mate …. I just don't get it.

Don't get me wrong in that I am not going to death ride him or Potter. I hope they both do well for all concerned.

It will be interesting to see however whether the same level of optimism exists in a year or two as it does now. Or whether we are all just getting our hopes up only to be let down again .... Which is how I feel now.

 

[mtd]

I'm glad you are all so impressed ….. **It all sounds akin to a speech made by a politician to win over the party faithful to me.** We have just lost the best player the Wests Tigers have had .... Sorry I can't bring myself to be happy about all the rhetoric that goes with it.

So where have you been for the last 6 or 7 years?
Its always been the same…regardless of who is in the chair

Exactly !!!!!

So why are you all over this bloke ?
Is it relief that we have someone new ?
Is it that the previous crowd got to you so much that anyone talking things up would be gratefully received ?

Sorry mate …. I just don't get it.

Don't get me wrong in that I am not going to death ride him or Potter. I hope they both do well for all concerned.

It will be interesting to see however whether the same level of optimism exists in a year or two as it does now. Or whether we are all just getting our hopes up only to be let down again .... Which is how I feel now.

because we are seeing actions. we are seeing ballsy decisions.

 

[BodhiTiger]

Meyer is all class, how good is this!

 

[innsaneink]

I'm glad you are all so impressed ….. **It all sounds akin to a speech made by a politician to win over the party faithful to me.** We have just lost the best player the Wests Tigers have had .... Sorry I can't bring myself to be happy about all the rhetoric that goes with it.

So where have you been for the last 6 or 7 years?
Its always been the same…regardless of who is in the chair

Exactly !!!!!

So why are you all over this bloke ?
Is it relief that we have someone new ?
Is it that the previous crowd got to you so much that anyone talking things up would be gratefully received ?

Sorry mate …. I just don't get it.

Don't get me wrong in that I am not going to death ride him or Potter. I hope they both do well for all concerned.

It will be interesting to see however whether the same level of optimism exists in a year or two as it does now. Or whether we are all just getting our hopes up only to be let down again .... Which is how I feel now.

Well, Im not ''all over him''…the jurys still out on him I guess for me, he'll make some blues no doubt.

I mentioned his statement on behalf of the club re: benji was good....whats wrong with it...its a typical response- no need to get personal or nasty in the official statement - that can be and should be private if it needs be.

Imo some overdue and correct decisions are being made....I agree time will tell, but a change is what was needed and its what were getting....one thing we know for certain, .that same old way WASNT working, a different way might - or might not