Reflecting on my time on the forum

[happy_tiger]

**I couldn't even get up for the last 2 games .......**

I got a bit excited when we Douehi scores to get us to 20-12

see your doctor. They have pills for that now.

However, if rl got me excited like that in the first place i'd probably see a shrink

That only happens when i see Geo in the crowd KT

 

[Masterton]

I sometimes think it would've been easier to dip out with the maggies in 99, just support the comp and watch games between good teams.Just for the contest. Instead, here we are, not sure how many years on the forum but still discussing the same stuff. One positive change is there is much less infighting over colors and ownership then there used to be. I think that's more to do with the passing of time rather than then the club doing anything.

2005 was a fun year. 2011 had it moments but ultimately the club has been a failure. It's like failure is in its DNA and i dont know if that's from poor management early in the merge that we are still feeling the effects of or if merging two struggling clubs created one bigger struggling club. In a previous role, i was part of an organization that was looking at accelerating its growth through acquisition. It was generally businesses that were failing and ready to sell. Integrating these people became a nightmare and ultimately stopped the practice for us. Trying to instill a "winning" mentality into a organization is hard. It requires a complete rewire of structures, procedures...basically everything that got the failing business to the point they needed to sell. Wests remind me of that, except instead of trying to integrate into a successful business, they joined two failing business together and expected a different result.

I couldn't sit there and watch penrith and parra and hope for a good game. It's because of my tigers and what they've done I hate them so much.

I've come to enjoy those games. One of the buggers has to lose.

 

[OzLuke]

I sometimes think it would've been easier to dip out with the maggies in 99, just support the comp and watch games between good teams.Just for the contest. Instead, here we are, not sure how many years on the forum but still discussing the same stuff. One positive change is there is much less infighting over colors and ownership then there used to be. I think that's more to do with the passing of time rather than then the club doing anything.

2005 was a fun year. 2011 had it moments but ultimately the club has been a failure. It's like failure is in its DNA and i dont know if that's from poor management early in the merge that we are still feeling the effects of or if merging two struggling clubs created one bigger struggling club. In a previous role, i was part of an organization that was looking at accelerating its growth through acquisition. It was generally businesses that were failing and ready to sell. Integrating these people became a nightmare and ultimately stopped the practice for us. Trying to instill a "winning" mentality into a organization is hard. It requires a complete rewire of structures, procedures...basically everything that got the failing business to the point they needed to sell. Wests remind me of that, except instead of trying to integrate into a successful business, they joined two failing business together and expected a different result.

I couldn't sit there and watch penrith and parra and hope for a good game. It's because of my tigers and what they've done I hate them so much.

I've come to enjoy those games. One of the buggers has to lose.

fair point....but then one of them wins....