OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

[Tucker]

I don't know how many times it needs to be repeated, but only a moron would remove the clauses (without financial gain) given the history of this club..

Take your rose coloured glasses off for a second. If you were an investor buying shares in a company, the tigers are far from a blue chip stock. The dysfunction of HBG is like a reality tv show that keeps on giving. You'd be nuts to put it all on the line if you don't have to.

He can love the club and love the vision... But that doesn't mean some numpty doesn't come along and screw it all up overnight again... In which case, he has the right to leave, because that's not what he signed up for

That makes perfect sense from his perspective.
We aren’t talking from that position, we are talking from ours.

 

[Tucker]

Our perspective as fans should be the same as the players, because we are all just a commodity.

The club just hiked my membership by 45% and I signed up during the 3 spoons. Where's the loyalty and appreciation for listening to the call when Richo wanted memberships? I was Richos biggest fan, this has left a stale taste in my mouth. They have no touch with the every day folk trying to live in Sydney, let alone pay for an over priced tigers membership (compared to the eels, dogs and panthers).

Maybe I just cut the membership, the more I think about it the dirtier I am.

There are 5 perspectives.

1. The administration who work in the shadows and only feed positive information. They are self serving to the point that their strategic goals and therefore world view are concentrated on the financial side of the club.
2. The sponsors who pay for a lot of the clubs enterprises. They are looking for networking and professional status opportunities, whilst also caring about results that may lead to embarrassment socially.
3. The coaching staff who are the ones most accountable for results. Most of their decisions are self serving to keep themselves employed. They manage both up and down to save their arses.
4. The players who are all contractors trying to get their best deal. They show loyalty when they are looked after but you must remember that their loyalty is bought by the administraction and paid for by the sponsors. They are fickle.
5. The fans who pay for the rest of the clubs expenses after the sponsors. This group are the ones who truly care about the club. Historically, loud but mostly voiceless, however now capable through the rise of social media of mobilising and enacting change. The first 4 groups tolerate their perspectives due to some level of fear but generally, don’t really respect them.

So no I don’t have the same perspective as Luai or Bula etc…
What you said about the memberships ties into the perspective hierarchy I mentioned above.