Peter V'Landys please put a Pause on the Wests Tigers Playing Licence

SwervinMervin said:
How does any of the above actually improve the club? Relocating interstate, presumably to Perth, will only make it harder to attract talent. Permanent relocation to Cambelltown? How does shifting 40kms south west make the team any better. I don't see any problem splitting home games between Leichhardt and Campbelltown. Give the fans a say in major decisions? Was it Jack Gibson that said once you start listening to the fans you quickly become one of them...
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SwervinMervin I am really pleased that you are genuinely happy with the state all things happening at Wests Tigers!
Two Wooden Spoons in a row and a Coach who can't see out the 2nd year of his contract. A playing roster that has seen the club win only 3 games out of 21 games played and our 2024 Coach will have only ever been an Assistant Coach for 12 months. Throw in that the club has not played finals since 2011 and we have a Joint-Venture that elite NRL players are climbing over each other to sign on the dotted line! Everything is just wonderful at WT and I need to give myself an uppercut for thinking anything different.
 
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jirskyr said:
I can appreciate your sentiment but NRL has basically no say in anything that you have mentioned, so long as they are financially solvent.

#1 NRL cannot set a precedent of revoking or manipulating licensees who are meeting their financial and play obligations (i.e. they field a team every week, at the prescribed time and location). Last time NRL attempted to railroad a team they were defeated in court (Souths 2002).

#2 NRL also cannot and will not force a club to move interstate. Maybe you are too young, but you only have to go back to the Super League war to see how those things don't advance the game, they damage it.

#3 NRL does not have the right to demand where clubs play home football or set up home operations, so long as those operations do not directly impact another licensee.

#4 NRL has no say in the internal governance of the club and whether or not fans have input. Most clubs do not operate with fan / member voting.

So I get what you are saying, but NRL has no mechanism to do what you ask. Also, if they were going to do this type of thing with clubs that "don't win enough football" or cause trouble, they would already have done it with Melbourne or Manly or Parra or any other of the salary cap cheats of the past 20 years, or Parra or Knights or any other of the cellar-dwellers of the past 20 years.
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My post is more about the NRL bringing WT in for a bit of a chat and tactfully suggest to the big shots at Wests that maybe they need to consider making some important changes in the future. Your comments are obviously very correct but unless we bring in the armed Cavalry then life at Wests Tigers will always be "1st Pete and then Repete" for years to follow.
 
DUCK said:
Three rounds to go and I would love to see V'Landys call an urgent meeting with the current Wests Tigers power brokers. Seriously Wests Tigers supporters should no longer have to be subject to this Concord Circus. Stevie Wonder has more vision than what is perpetrated out of WT.
Questions to be asked by PV:
1. Why should Wests Tigers keep their Licence to play in the NRL beyond 2023 (unfortunately I am sure their is a legal contract that binds WT to the NRL)
2. If the answer is Yes then why should they not be relocated interstate?
3. If not relocated then STRONGLY suggest that to survive as a licenced NRL playing club in Sydney they need to permanently relocate to Campbelltown.
4. Strongly and I mean STRONGLY advise the power brokers that unless they introduce a system that allows their fans to have a say in major football decisions e.g. Board Members, Home Ground location, etc. then their long term future is at risk of playing in the NRL
The above is just a sample of what needs to be discussed, and Peter
V'Landys along with the NRL are the only body that can possibly rescue Wests Tigers supporters from losing their sanity.

PS: Maybe the BLUE WIGGLE can reconsider buying the club?
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Just remember the Blue Wiggle wanted to rebrand them the Balmain Tigers and play all their games at Leichhardt. That may not sit with your ideas re Campbelltown ?
 
DUCK said:
My post is more about the NRL bringing WT in for a bit of a chat and tactfully suggest to the big shots at Wests that maybe they need to consider making some important changes in the future. Your comments are obviously very correct but unless we bring in the armed Cavalry then life at Wests Tigers will always be "1st Pete and then Repete" for years to follow.
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Like I said I understand your sentiment but this is never happening. Imagine the furore if the NRL got personally involved in trying to arrest the slump of under-performing clubs.
 
DUCK said:
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My post is more about the NRL bringing WT in for a bit of a chat and tactfully suggest to the big shots at Wests that maybe they need to consider making some important changes in the future. Your comments are obviously very correct but unless we bring in the armed Cavalry then life at Wests Tigers will always be "1st Pete and then Repete" for years to follow.
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You are half right Duck. The NRL actually owns the brand equity of the WT( as they do with all the clubs) and I suggested last year, one way of them getting involved would be if they thought the brand equity was being tarnished by the board/ management.
I guess it comes down to their definition of “tarnished” and up to now they have not got involved and im not sure that they will in the near future. Whilst we’re angry and frustrated at the results plus the associated circus around our club, there are some who would say
” there’s no such thing as bad publicity” and the Tigers get a lot more than many other clubs.
 
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