@ said:@ said:The best thing the club can learn from all of this is to make sure that we are an organisation that key players want to play for, rather than one that has to chase them.
You can ignore what a mess we were in now - that we seem to be on the right track - but the Taylor years were a disaster and those players were stuck right in the thick of it.
They lost faith in the club they made a choice, the club made a choice we all move on.
The mistake the Tigers made was to pin their hopes and throw a lot of money at some kids who only ever had P plates on at best. We needed hard nosed leaders who played at the same level every week, not hot and cold kids.
Fingers crossed Cleary has recruited the sort of players that will turn up every week and maybe in a year or so we will be able to attract a proven skilful player to compliment what we have, but we need solid foundations not kids who's ego are way bigger than the efforts they put in
Ego/ confidence there is a fine line for young blokes trying to match it with the best week in week out and all clubs deal with that.
I dont think the club made a mistake in wanting to sign the four - they are quality players. I see the mistake was thinking that if the money was right that they would sign regardless. As I recall the discussion was never about if they would sign, it was about which one the club may have to let go. Not quite the way it panned out.