OFFICIAL Q&A Club discussion with Shaun Mielekamp

[user118245]

Hey Shaun, anyway I can stop relating to this video every bloody week?

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

I don't know what to do with the time that I usually dedicate to watching footy. I am not supporting another club so I don't know what to do.

Do what we all do mate, curse till the end of the season then enjoy watching the finals.

Have a stress free summer hoping we get some new recruits and hope to God the next season is better, sound familiar.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

From Reddit. Words not mine.

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It's really distressing being a Tigers fan. Actually harmful to my mental health. I can always find a reason to watch - today it was Andrews - and then I'm just shattered again. And then you see the players smiling and laughing while you fear on the verge of tears of frustration. Then you have to come in here to dipshit Raiders fans putting the bolt in because some Tigers fans were a little over exuberant after thinking the tide had turned after 14 years.

All just feel really bad. All for a dumb sport because my [This word has been automatically removed]ing Dad was born on the peninsula and I was raised in Chatswood so Tigers and Bears are my only options.


Edit: People can tell me to just take a break but it's hard, rugby league has been a passion my entire life. I remember posting on the old rleague.com forums in 1999 when Laurie Nichols died. Been a long time of following the club and engaging with online rugby league communities. It's really getting me down but has always been one of my passions silly as it sounds."

I get that it sucks. but we are all desensitised to it by now, surely? I don’t mean that in jest either. If you are that deep into it, you need to step away. Not saying it shouldn’t affect you, but it shouldn’t have such a negative impact that your life stops functioning. Save that misery for unrequited love. That’s real pain.

 

[upthetigers]

This club is not for those that suffer from mental illness. People have such passion for their team suicide is a thing, as extreme as that sounds over a ridiculous game, for some its their entire existence.

........Meanwhile, its blatantly obvious the club doesnt give 2 shits about its fans. Thats the part that really hurts the fans.

It's just a game but when you have a mental illness you are looking to escape reality. You want that escape to be pleasurable, it's a coping mechanism.

 

[tigertragic]

Hi Shaun

I hope the club will be reviewing the support coaching staff as our attack is woeful and our defence is woeful. Other than John Morris none have coaching experience or a winning coaching background.

It can’t continue to be a 2005 boys club

 

[Garrry]

Hi Shaun
The Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall asked or told Adam Doueihi to play a different position and didn't agree with the coach and was absent on game day does Adam still get paid for the week ???