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You've got to love the selective memory of people.
No scandals at the Bulldogs. I must have dreamed the Salary Cap scandal and the Coffs Harbour fiasco.
But then again you have the Roosters, anyone remember Todd Carney and Mitchell Pearce? Didn't they have to sack their Recruitment Manager because he was involved in a betting on games?
I think the Tigers need to improve their perception and then the reality will change as well.
Absolutely agree with you. Thing is these are young men, the Coffs Harbour thing occurred when Tedesco was 11 years old. Luke Brooks watched the Tigers win a comp when he was 11 years old. There are kids in SG Ball today who weren't even born when Wests Tigers was incorporated.
Also agree with others, there are many contradictions in what Tedesco is saying, many of them. He's a good kid and a great footballer, but he is also a little naive in the way you expect a 24 year old can be.
Some examples:
- Roosters and Dogs are always going to be strong. Well no, they are not. Roosters in their history had long periods of being easy-beats. Everything in footy is temporary, even the great reign of Uncle Nick will end at some point and everything will change, maybe not within your contracted football. Both those clubs have won comps and come last in the NRL era. Dogs are absolutely, at this time Round 5 2017, not a club on a definite up.
- Said clubs are apparently run strongly from the top down. Well Dogs also cheated and were caught, don't always confuse good governance for a willingness to cheat and push the rules to your advantage. Maybe that doesn't matter, but you don't want to be caught up in the Storm / Dogs / Parra cheating scandals when they drop.
- Also wrt clubs run strongly from the top, that is hard when player power becomes an issue. Player blocks can destabilise management and… well funnily enough there is a player block right now and Tedesco is part of that. You can be 100% guaranteed if Tedesco commits to the Tigers today, half off the rumour and "stability" issues are eliminated. So James part of the instability is your procrastination - you are permitted your time to decide, but don't take the high ground when your delays are part of the issue. Your last contract decision was a mess as well, it's not exactly your strong suit.
- The "stability at other clubs is tempting". You mean stability like at the Dogs, where they are ready to release most of their roster? That's an overhaul James, nothing stable about an overhaul.
- "I think we need to make a few good signings" plus "our roster is quite strong at the moment" plus "we just haven't been consistent". Those are mutually exclusive I'm afraid. If the roster is strong, you don't need to make additional good signings, unless you mean re-signing the current strong roster. And yet that same roster is also consistently inconsistent, last on the table. If we are going to be honest James, and I'm all for it if you want to, call out players in addition to the management. Certainly take aim at what you think the club is doing wrong, but don't spare the players as well, tell us who you need to ship in order to improve the roster. Hmm didn't think you'd go there. It's easy to point fingers away from your own group.
And then yes, I agree with many, typical Fox Sports / DT sensationalisation. Tedesco has been a bit contradictory but he's not been overly inflammatory. By this I mean his comments, a little misguided, but also fairly close to the mark and not entirely unreasonable, perhaps to just choose his statements a little more carefully.
