My letter to Stephen Humphreys

[tiger4ever]

Jeez you lot are precious.

He's the CEO, he has better things to do than take coaching tips off the masses.

Lol…UNDERDOG im with you mate...its a joke...he doesn't answer it at this time because he knows its a knee jerk reaction to us not been in the 8.As he probably doesn't get any negative emails when where winning....that would not surprise me at all.

Someone will replay who knows if it would be humphreys...pmsl

 

[innsaneink]

A) He's NEVER responded to me.
B) Point taken, but it IS very rude….whats the excuse for that?

Based on the way you have approached this issue I am not surprised he hasn't responded. Anyway have a good evening.
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Dont run away!

LOL….what way have I approached this?

I think there are a lot of people still prepared to accept average, mediocre....happy to just continue to let those in charge make the same mistakes theyve made for years.

For christs sake, demand something better. DONT accept average...dont be a sheep :unamused:

 

[tig_prmz]

LOL people are happy we haven't won a wooden spoon yet.

 

[Diver]

Im a paying member and very happy with both Sheens and Hunphreys.
People forget that they trained the whole pre-season with Teddy to play fullback. After Teddys in injury it took five games to get used to a new decent structure which took them to a winning streak. Now, with more injuries, its back to struggle street and back to another re-structure. The season is on the line now and they know its do or die, im sure they'll give it their best crack - win or lose.
Id be dissapointed if Humphreys wasted his time replying whingey emails all day every day, instead of being productive for the club and the team. Get over it.

 

[tiger4ever]

great post diver….i agree

 

[underdog]

I just think it's a bit unrealistic _expecting_ a response from Stephen himself.

If you feel better venting about it, then go for it here - lets discuss it here - making team selections suggestions to the CEO is just as perceptively arrogant as Tim Sheens sticking with the same players out of position week in week out.

You don't know the mitigating factors behind the scene.

You don't know the players psyche, and the reasoning behind players being overlooked.

Player XYZ who is getting overlooked/percieved as hard done by, may be a complete dick behind the scenes, doesn't listen to the coach, may have a suspected gambling problem, bad attitude, the list goes on.

Put it this way,

If you got an email from a casual observer commenting on the way you do your job, making baseless remarks based on what THEY THINK you do at work, you'd probably ignore it as well.

I'd have a great big belly laugh to myself, and click delete faster than you can say "No FN Idea what I do"

Think about that for a sec.

 

[innsaneink]

Belong, Become, Be One!

Just dont ask questions!

 

[Blake93]

I just think it's a bit unrealistic _expecting_ a response from Stephen himself.

If you feel better venting about it, then go for it here - lets discuss it here - making team selections suggestions to the CEO is just as perceptively arrogant as Tim Sheens sticking with the same players out of position week in week out.

You don't know the mitigating factors behind the scene.

You don't know the players psyche, and the reasoning behind players being overlooked.

Player XYZ who is getting overlooked/percieved as hard done by, may be a complete d*** behind the scenes, doesn't listen to the coach, may have a suspected gambling problem, bad attitude, the list goes on.

Put it this way,

If you got an email from a casual observer commenting on the way you do your job, making baseless remarks based on what THEY THINK you do at work, you'd probably ignore it as well.

I'd have a great big belly laugh to myself, and click delete faster than you can say "No FN Idea what I do"

Think about that for a sec.

its ok Stephen, you have my shoulder to cry on
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[stryker]

Im a paying member and very happy with both Sheens and Hunphreys.
People forget that they trained the whole pre-season with Teddy to play fullback. After Teddys in injury it took five games to get used to a new decent structure which took them to a winning streak. Now, with more injuries, its back to struggle street and back to another re-structure. The season is on the line now and they know its do or die, im sure they'll give it their best crack - win or lose.
Id be dissapointed if Humphreys wasted his time replying whingey emails all day every day, instead of being productive for the club and the team. Get over it.

Nothing but excuses.

So you are telling us that because we lost a kid who has played 30 minutes of NRL in his whole career our season was rocked? That is utter BS! 2 or 3 players could have easily stepped into the breach and we may have lost anything. In fact there is no evidence to state that we would have been worse off at all. Moltzen trained all summer at halfback. Moving him has had a far greater influence on the season.

 

[Benjirific]

Jeez you lot are precious.

He's the CEO, he has better things to do than take coaching tips off the masses.

Nonetheless Underdog, he is the front for the club and thus should deal with all matters that the investors (which is what we are as members, merchandise buyers and game-attending public are,) believe to be detrimental to the club.

When people are pouring hundreds of dollars into your coffers every year, you owe them a voice… Even if it is lip service, it is still an obligation of someone within the club to respond to concerns of fans.

I think if you want to email the CEO it is completely up to you. If you're that frustrated then by all means go ahead, but to expect a direct response straight away (particularly considering he would get heaps of these every week) is a bit much.

I don't think they have an obligation to reply to every email they receive after each loss. If we were in a crisis such as Parramatta, then there may be good reason for people to blow up big time, but we are hardly at that stage yet.

Also, just a point, you are not an 'investor' as a member, you are a customer. There are two investors in Wests Tigers and they are Balmain Tigers RLFC and the Wests Group. Investors own part of the business and get financial returns.

 

[Diver]

Im a paying member and very happy with both Sheens and Hunphreys.
People forget that they trained the whole pre-season with Teddy to play fullback. After Teddys in injury it took five games to get used to a new decent structure which took them to a winning streak. Now, with more injuries, its back to struggle street and back to another re-structure. The season is on the line now and they know its do or die, im sure they'll give it their best crack - win or lose.
Id be dissapointed if Humphreys wasted his time replying whingey emails all day every day, instead of being productive for the club and the team. Get over it.

Nothing but excuses.

So you are telling us that because we lost a kid who has played 30 minutes of NRL in his whole career our season was rocked? That is utter BS! 2 or 3 players could have easily stepped into the breach and we may have lost anything. In fact there is no evidence to state that we would have been worse off at all. Moltzen trained all summer at halfback. Moving him has had a far greater influence on the season.

You must have only read the first few sentences of my post, as I clearly said it took five games to use to a new structure. I never said it rocked our season. You are right in saying there were other players that could have easily stepped in, but they struggled until the point that moltz got shifted there - so we then lost a half - so you're right again as that had another impact on the structure of the team…. I just cant see how thats Humphreys or Sheens fault.
Anyway, as i said in the opening in my first post - im happy!

 

[underdog]

I just think it's a bit unrealistic _expecting_ a response from Stephen himself.

If you feel better venting about it, then go for it here - lets discuss it here - making team selections suggestions to the CEO is just as perceptively arrogant as Tim Sheens sticking with the same players out of position week in week out.

You don't know the mitigating factors behind the scene.

You don't know the players psyche, and the reasoning behind players being overlooked.

Player XYZ who is getting overlooked/percieved as hard done by, may be a complete d*** behind the scenes, doesn't listen to the coach, may have a suspected gambling problem, bad attitude, the list goes on.

Put it this way,

If you got an email from a casual observer commenting on the way you do your job, making baseless remarks based on what THEY THINK you do at work, you'd probably ignore it as well.

I'd have a great big belly laugh to myself, and click delete faster than you can say "No FN Idea what I do"

Think about that for a sec.

its ok Stephen, you have my shoulder to cry on
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:roll

Believe me champ, if I actually was Stephen Humpheries I wouldn't have the time to get on here and make 2700 odd posts.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I've emailed Humphries twice, once negative and the other positive. He replied both times.

 

[Flippedy]

Resistance is futile!!!

 

[happy_tiger]

It looks like your cover has been blown Underdog umm …... I mean Stephen

Next thing they will work out I'm Sheensy and Flip is Robbie 😱pen_mouth: Ooops

 

[tig_prmz]

I've emailed Humphreys twice, once negative and the other positive. He replied both times.

if it was this year, could you please copy paste it on here? would love to see the replies.

 

[Tiger_Watto]

A good friend of mine is an ex-CEO and he told me once he would receive over 1000 emails after a loss, and around 200 after a win 😕 from fans to whine about something wrong at the club.

He would reply to some, but he said he simply wouldn't have time to reply to them all.

 

[alexaki]

I've emailed Humphreys twice, once negative and the other positive. He replied both times.

Twice for me too..both after foor form, to his credit he replied the first time but not last weeks….he'll get one more email from me this year when we officially bow out of the semis and boy will he cop it between the eyes in the next one...I have much more to offer him than torn up membership tickets.....

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Jeez you lot are precious.

He's the CEO, he has better things to do than take coaching tips off the masses.

Nonetheless Underdog, he is the front for the club and thus should deal with all matters that the investors (which is what we are as members, merchandise buyers and game-attending public are,) believe to be detrimental to the club.

When people are pouring hundreds of dollars into your coffers every year, you owe them a voice… Even if it is lip service, it is still an obligation of someone within the club to respond to concerns of fans.

I think if you want to email the CEO it is completely up to you. If you're that frustrated then by all means go ahead, but to expect a direct response straight away (particularly considering he would get heaps of these every week) is a bit much.

I don't think they have an obligation to reply to every email they receive after each loss. If we were in a crisis such as Parramatta, then there may be good reason for people to blow up big time, but we are hardly at that stage yet.

Also, just a point, you are not an 'investor' as a member, you are a customer. There are two investors in Wests Tigers and they are Balmain Tigers RLFC and the Wests Group. Investors own part of the business and get financial returns.

I worded my original post wrong. By "investor" I guess I meant we "invest" a helluva lot of money and emotion into the side and expect a good return on the field. I didn't mean it in the literal business translation!

In any case, I have email Humphreys on a few occasions, some positive, some negative and he has always responded to me.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I've emailed Humphreys twice, once negative and the other positive. He replied both times.

if it was this year, could you please copy paste it on here? would love to see the replies.

It was 2010, I think. I'll see if I can find them.