@tigerbalm said in [Inside look into Tigers Management/Negotiations](/post/1473330) said:
Happy to see this thread. Great listen. It really just highlighted the fears that I had about Pascoe and the organisation in general. The guy has to go.
It’s not Pascoe in isolation, he is competent in his role. It’s the management structure in general and the lack of focus and attention in regard to what i would call the ‘football operations’ department.
Our management has identified a gap. Hence the appointment of Sheens.
But I am concerned that we have asked Sheens to head up this division with no actual structure in place and no plan of how that division should operate.
From what I can understand, there have been a number of new positions created with appointments prior to the Sheens appointment.
I’m still stuck on the way Pascoe publicly introduced Sheens’ appointment. His job description was vague. It sounded like “hey Sheens has agreed to come back, we just need to agree on what his tasks and areas of responsibility are.”
If they knew, they weren’t saying, or they didn’t know? Take your pick? I think they didn’t know and still don’t because now he has a new job title?
It’s hard to know what’s going on ?
The usual practice when developing an organisation is to chart positions with job descriptions according to the needs of its overall objectives. Then you look for people to fill those roles. It may take time to find the right people, but when you do that’s when the magic happens, as those people interact with each other and roles are modified in accordance with consideration to the strengths of each person.
I realise many organisations have opted to find people first , then find a job for them, but taking that literally is hit and miss and takes too long imo.
We are quite literally 10years behind the Panthers.
Gus even said we won’t see the benefit of this till 2030. I don’t know Sheens personally nor Gus but I am asking to the forum if anyone does because as stated above the club has decided to get Sheens back to the club just to be involved. Become a mr football if you like and solve all the problems.
Is anyone confident that Sheens has equal experience to do this, just as Penrith did in 2011 when Gus was appointed as General Manager of Football. There was no title of that nature before that. Now a lot of clubs have jumped on board and appointed similar people in a similar role, us included. But this was also Hartigans position and despite his supporters I don’t see enough in his resume to confirm he was the person we needed to appoint for such an ‘encompassing’ role.
It’s been said many times that we have players who are just happy to play nrl, be known as an nrl player, that’s their apex destination.
What if our decision makers are of the same mindset?
What if our CEO, Chair, fellow board members share that mindset ? It makes sense to me that culture is driven from the top down and as such changing 2 or 3 players, a coach is not going to fix the problem. When the coach moves on we are left with the culture driven decisions.
We don’t need any more proof of this.
We turn good players into ordinary ones.
We can’t hang onto our home bred talent who become champions at other clubs.
How many of our decent players have left angry with us?
I know it’s a nice cliche, one man can make a difference, but when he’s up against the odds?
Sheens didn’t survive last time he tried to change things?
