Jahream Bula #269

[earl]

Like many others, I agree that Cronk comes across as arrogant, but instead of spending too much on a new Assistant Coach, surely we could get more value out of Cronk as a consultant working with our halves and Billy Slater working as a consultant with our fullbacks, outside backs and attacking structures.

Maybe. Sometimes the best sportsmen don't make the best coaches. We should though definitely be giving the players special support.

Honestly if this isn't happening though it's almost unprofessional. I'm not stating you need Cronk or Slater but surely you need coaches that can work on an individuals skills.

 

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

Said on the BTR podcast “I want to stay here (at WT’s) for as long as I can & I want to win a premiership here” come on sonnn 🟠⚪️⚫️

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

And I want to win a premiership? Does it really matter where. Love the talk though. Hope he is the real deal.

 

[Moh]

Such a mature young dude.

Good to hear the support our wellbeing team has offered him, and the tidbit about Benji's influence on him. Real nice insight.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

Just like Teddy back in the day and Moses. Same script.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

To be altruistic myself - I would take the money. Football is business. Api knows. Bula doesn't feel it. He wants too. If he sticks with Wests Tigers for the next 5- 10 years. There might be a chance. What would you do if you were Bula?

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

Said on the BTR podcast “I want to stay here (at WT’s) for as long as I can & I want to win a premiership here” come on sonnn 🟠⚪️⚫️

Ah, to be young, naive and not jaded by playing for/following WT.

 

[Moh]

To be altruistic myself - I would take the money. Football is business. Api knows. Bula doesn't feel it. He wants too. If he sticks with Wests Tigers for the next 5- 10 years. There might be a chance. What would you do if you were Bula?

It's hard to speak on behalf of someone within the club - from the outside looking in, and if that was my son/someone I cared about deeply, I would advise they leave in all honesty.

But he might feel differently for what he feels the club has given him, and he may choose to repay their time and effort into him.

 

[tiger05premier]

Just like Teddy back in the day and Moses. Same script.

Your too negative mate

He is a real man

Not a mercenary

 

[earl]

What would you do if you were Bula?

Stay at the Tigers. No question.

I'm going to earn as much money as anywhere else and status doesn't concern me.

If it was my son I'd advise him to do exactly the same.

 

[crazycat]

To be altruistic myself - I would take the money. Football is business. Api knows. Bula doesn't feel it. He wants too. If he sticks with Wests Tigers for the next 5- 10 years. There might be a chance. What would you do if you were Bula?

Which is why we have to be a club!

If it's the Tigers Business vs 16 other businesses, then it comes down to Pascoe vs unkle Nick and the Throughbreads...

Yea, we got to match money. But we will keep players the same way Penrith keeps players. By being a Club!

 

[Mccarry]

It's hard to speak on behalf of someone within the club - from the outside looking in, and if that was my son/someone I cared about deeply, I would advise they leave in all honesty.

But he might feel differently for what he feels the club has given him, and he may choose to repay their time and effort into him.

I hear you. That was my first thought too. Now trying to consider it from a work perspective.

A little less than a decade ago I left a winning division to lead a poor performing division (same parent company- different market)

Rebuilding this division almost from ground up, through to years and years of consecutive success that we now have is the most satisfying thing I have done in my professional career.
I’ve done both - won in an elite business and taken the pain to build something…

It’s not even a question for me. Building is way more satisfying if you have the backbone.

 

[Siberian Kitten]

I hear you. That was my first thought too. Now trying to consider it from a work perspective.

A little less than a decade ago I left a winning division to lead a poor performing division (same parent company- different market)

Rebuilding this division almost from ground up, through to years and years of consecutive success that we now have is the most satisfying thing I have done in my professional career.
I’ve done both - won in an elite business and taken the pain to build something…

It’s not even a question for me. Building is way more satisfying if you have the backbone.

Are you interested in a job rebuilding a troubled NRL club by any chance?

 

[earl]

It’s not even a question for me. Building is way more satisfying if you have the backbone.

I'm with you but I'm not sure it's just backbone. I think we are in the minority as well.

 

[Moh]

I hear you. That was my first thought too. Now trying to consider it from a work perspective.

A little less than a decade ago I left a winning division to lead a poor performing division (same parent company- different market)

Rebuilding this division almost from ground up, through to years and years of consecutive success that we now have is the most satisfying thing I have done in my professional career.
I’ve done both - won in an elite business and taken the pain to build something…

It’s not even a question for me. Building is way more satisfying if you have the backbone.

From a regular job perspective, that's true.

In the NRL you have a limited window of opportunity for success, and so much out of your control as a player. You can't control what the board do, what the coaches do and who comes in and our of the club.

He can stay, be the hardest worker at the club, but it will mean little when he's surrounded by mediocrity.

 

[twentyforty]

I hear you. That was my first thought too. Now trying to consider it from a work perspective.

A little less than a decade ago I left a winning division to lead a poor performing division (same parent company- different market)

Rebuilding this division almost from ground up, through to years and years of consecutive success that we now have is the most satisfying thing I have done in my professional career.
I’ve done both - won in an elite business and taken the pain to build something…

It’s not even a question for me. Building is way more satisfying if you have the backbone.

I’ve done something similar, so agree with your thoughts there.
Interested to know though, what is it that makes the club look like it’s rebuilding? I would have thought rebuilding means having a plan, a vision and staying the course?
The behaviour of the club is far too erratic and reactionary with consistent turnover of players and staff I would have thought?
What are the signs?

 

[bbobb]

And at WTs he has the chance to shine as he makes more try savers than any other fullback due to our flimsy front line defence. I’d be keen as well 😎

 

[Tucker]

What would you do if you were Bula?

I’d give them one more contract period to get their shit together as payback for their belief and support in me.
This kid could potentially be anything if developed the right way. If we keep fumbling and bumbling along…he has to leave and go to a good system.

 

[twentyforty]

I’d give them one more contract period to get their shit together as payback for their belief and support in me.
This kid could potentially be anything if developed the right way. If we keep fumbling and bumbling along…he has to leave and go to a good system.

I’d do the same. Maybe a 3yr with exit clauses. If we keep changing the spine his opportunities will be limited. He’ll become a target like Brooks.

 

[Blocker1963]

Got plenty of time for Bula, a full pre-season, bulking up and gaining experience. Watching all games, one thing he doesn't get credit for, I never seen him drop one high ball, that a big improvement on what we had before.