Internal rumblings?

@Kul said:
well perhaps they feel strongly about it.
if the rumours turn out to be true then this all stems back to a the club being forced to shave the salary of a player(s) as a result of the long-service problem reported a few weeks ago in the paper. Again, if the rumours turn out to be true, then certain players (benji) have taken sides over the matter, standing up for their mates and calling for those players mentioned in the Telegraph report to take the cut themselves.
There is no official confirmation of this rumour though, so hopefully the club can come out and confirm it or deny it.

it's a sad situation
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I still fail to see any justification for playing poor footy.

What gives Benji Marhsall the right to make a call on who should be taking pay cuts? Standing up for a mate or not, it is not his call.

That's great that Benji feels strongly about it - it's great he wants to 'stick up for a mate' - but I am sorry but there are thousands of people out there that feel just as strongly about the performance of the team they support.

Time for all involved to pull their finger out and get on with the job.
 
Benji's loyalty is his downfall here.Serious lack of judgement with very serious outcomes potentially. He ought to watch his next move because even the best are dispensable from their clubs. It's chiched i know but there's never been an I in TEAM and he'll only seem untouchable for as long as the club allows. It's gone way too far already, hopefully the club have put the issue to bed this week, another bad game and well i can guarantee i won't be attending any game until this rubbish is dealt with properly.
 
@Kul said:
well perhaps they feel strongly about it.
if the rumours turn out to be true then this all stems back to a the club being forced to shave the salary of a player(s) as a result of the long-service problem reported a few weeks ago in the paper. Again, if the rumours turn out to be true, then certain players (benji) have taken sides over the matter, standing up for their mates and calling for those players mentioned in the Telegraph report to take the cut themselves.
There is no official confirmation of this rumour though, so hopefully the club can come out and confirm it or deny it.

it's a sad situation
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So why would the players have a issue with each other? The issue is between the player forced to take a pay cut and the club. It has nothing to do with any other player. If Benji feels so strong about it why doesn't he volunteer to take a pay cut for this season?

Put your handbags away and do your job you overpaid hacks.
 
@hybrid_tiger said:
@Enfield Feds said:
Nathan Brown….pffft....he was a bum at St George and he'd be a bum for us. I'd give it away if he became our coach, the bloke is a nuffy.

Very harsh, he has proven in England he's a very good coach.

Should never have coached St George as it was too early for him and he was coaching players he played against only a couple of years earlier.
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Give me a break!

The list of coach's to have come to Australia after a successful stint in England(or gone to England after a failed career here and done well there) and failed is long and distinguished. Anyone with a half a brain can coach in England.
 
@Staks said:
@Kul said:
well perhaps they feel strongly about it.
if the rumours turn out to be true then this all stems back to a the club being forced to shave the salary of a player(s) as a result of the long-service problem reported a few weeks ago in the paper. Again, if the rumours turn out to be true, then certain players (benji) have taken sides over the matter, standing up for their mates and calling for those players mentioned in the Telegraph report to take the cut themselves.
There is no official confirmation of this rumour though, so hopefully the club can come out and confirm it or deny it.

it's a sad situation

So why would the players have a issue with each other? The issue is between the player forced to take a pay cut and the club. It has nothing to do with any other player. If Benji feels so strong about it why doesn't he volunteer to take a pay cut for this season?

Put your handbags away and do your job you overpaid hacks.
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This is what annoys me no end. If he feels so strongly about it, take the cut yourself. To ask others to do so is crossing the line, to carry on like has because of it….well i'm not even going to go there.
 
@Staks said:
@Kul said:
well perhaps they feel strongly about it.
if the rumours turn out to be true then this all stems back to a the club being forced to shave the salary of a player(s) as a result of the long-service problem reported a few weeks ago in the paper. Again, if the rumours turn out to be true, then certain players (benji) have taken sides over the matter, standing up for their mates and calling for those players mentioned in the Telegraph report to take the cut themselves.
There is no official confirmation of this rumour though, so hopefully the club can come out and confirm it or deny it.

it's a sad situation

So why would the players have a issue with each other? The issue is between the player forced to take a pay cut and the club. It has nothing to do with any other player. If Benji feels so strong about it why doesn't he volunteer to take a pay cut for this season?

Put your handbags away and do your job you overpaid hacks.
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I think that's the point mate.
If the rumours (which the club hasn't confirmed) are correct then whole thing is to do with robbie and gibbs not taking a cut that was caused by the club's unfortunate mismanagement of the cap, thus resulting him another player (benji's mate) being put at a disadvantage. So i guess this would have polarized the players: those who think Robbie and Gibbs should take the cut and those who thing others should (be it benji or others).
Pure speculation and rumours.
 
Umm these are just rumours, this thread is turning into a great chinese whisper!!!

Just get on with the footy Wests Tigers :unamused:
 
It was the clubs stuff up - they should pay!! It shouldn't be a players issue. The club should have to wear the brunt of it when the NRL asks questions. Why should this issue become you know who's, Benji's, Farah's and Gibb's problem??
 
@Kul said:
well perhaps they feel strongly about it.
if the rumours turn out to be true then this all stems back to a the club being forced to shave the salary of a player(s) as a result of the long-service problem reported a few weeks ago in the paper. Again, if the rumours turn out to be true, then certain players (benji) have taken sides over the matter, standing up for their mates and calling for those players mentioned in the Telegraph report to take the cut themselves.
There is no official confirmation of this rumour though, so hopefully the club can come out and confirm it or deny it.

it's a sad situation
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It's a pathetic situation. The issue is between the player and the club, not Benji. And, assuming this "rumour" is true, the team taking all this baggage onto the field is even more pathetic. Pathetic-er again is the Club not sorting the issues out before they got to this point.

Pathetic.
 
@Chris said:
How many people blamed Sheens for last week's catastrophe?
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I still do. His job was to make sure they were mentally prepared for the game. He should of had a good hard talking to those involved and told them he expects them to have their minds on the task at hand or face playing in state cup next week. Instead the same players are named again and it seems no punishments were in place for those that didn't perform.

That said - good on Benji for standing up for this player, I am spewing at the result of the game and as a supporter I would not be happy if I heard players deliberately didn't put in.
 
@Chris said:
How many people blamed Sheens for last week's catastrophe?
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I think you'll find that most of the ramblings about Sheens are a result of the last four years, and not specifically related to Sunday's performance.

As for the internal problems, this is a management issue that has been very poorly handled and shouldn't have been allowed to get this far. I expected better from Humphries. I can see both sides of the argument, but the player in question has been treated a little poorly IMO and I can't blame some other players for being unhappy.

BTW why can't we name the players in question here? This isn't an official forum and it will eventually all come out into the open anyway. It's not like we are accusing them of anything untoward. Kul??
 
Because we don't have solid proof and as we know, certain members of the media come to these forums looking for a story and if we named names then there could be irreversible damage caused by certain people here trying to make a name for themselves here.
 
@Chris said:
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@Chris said:
How do you know that he knew about the problems at that point in time?

He knew about it. If he didn't then he is getting deaf in his old age.

I'll ask again, how do you know he knew about it?
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Was Tim not with the players an hour before the game? Did he not know a player wasn't going to play? Did he not ask questions about why? And if it was the first he heard about it - why the hell didn't he know what was going on between his boys the last few weeks?? Does he not spend any time with them? If the rumours are correct I am sure he knew about all the inquiries into this pay issue and had heard plenty of opinions given how close he is to Benji in particular.

It is niave to assume he didn't know about it. And like I said - if he didn't know about it then that just adds to my list of things I dislike about his coaching. It was all going on right under his nose.
 
@Chris said:
Because we don't have solid proof and as we know, certain members of the media come to these forums looking for a story and if we named names then there could be irreversible damage caused by certain people here trying to make a name for themselves here.
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The irreversible damage has already been caused and this isn't going to go away.

It will eventually make its way into the papers whether someone reveals names on here or not.

Not hard to work out who it is in any case.
 
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