Robbie Farah..Discussion Thread.....

A very tough and emotive decision, but the right one IMO.
He's nowhere near his $900k pricetag in 2015, and will only decline further in '16 and '17.
We're in desperate need of cap relief, so it's a no brainer to get his contract off the books if at all possible, especially with Cherrington looking like he'll be ready for FG sooner rather than later.

Successful NRL clubs are those that manage their cap the best - we're obviously eons behind in this respect. The sooner we can get rid of these bad contracts the better - especially as the club does seem to be genuine about this ambition for top 4 in 2017.
This will give us some wriggle room for 2016, and ensure we're strong players in the market for 2017.
 
It is correct that Farah, especially this season, was more passionate playing SOO than for WT.
Also if the rumours are true, he was involved in departure of TS and MP. There are rumours that Farah and Taylor did not start and are not on the same page ATM.
It can be argued that Farah is not worth $ 900k a season, for such a money he must dominate the game like Tedesco, or Thurston at Cowgirls. His effort this season was worth $ 400k max.
If this is correct it is a good move by both sides.
On the other hand, we loose another experienced player, who even if he's not any more at his best, is certainly still one of our best players. Question is also if we have adequate alternative in Cherrington/Little/Halatau, especially in defence.
Anyhow, probably his best move would be to continue his carrier overseas.
 
I do find it ironic that a significant bunch of forummers run the line "it's business, take the emotion out", but they will jump up and down watching the game this weekend, happy as Larry if we win and very disappointed if we lose.

So watching the team play is an emotional experience, but the makeup of the team is not? You don't care who it is representing us, so long as they are wearing a WT jersey?

I don't like this decision one bit. I understand the explanation, but I don't support it. Farah's had maybe two ordinary half-seasons in 10 years and some supporters are so quick to see the back of him, because he is 31 and we are running last. We have two state-rep players and we are ready to offload one of them because someone decided to pay him a bit too much money a few years ago.

I also fear that this is the action of a new board / coach / GM that wants to sure up it's own position at the expense of a player. Why not get rid of a stalwart if it buys you a few more years in the job?

For all those who are happy that Farah might leave: I hope you are ready for the backlash if Farah comes roaring back into form in another set of NRL colours.
 
Tony Adams saying there is a lot more to this. Basically says Robbie is not liked by the club hierarchy, and has gotten too many noses out of joint.

Make of it what you will, but he is one journalist who is usually close to the mark.

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Well if Farah goes, I hope we are buying someone who can tackle, as there will be a shortfall of 35 to 40 tackles a week that no one presently at the club will be interested in taking over. This club is so dumb,
We will still be paying a big part of his contract, and we will be losing one of the few experienced quality players that we have.
We've already thrown our two halves to the wolves by not having any experience with them. And maybe stuffed up Brooks' and Moses chances of even remaining in first grade. And now I suppose we are going to add another inexperienced kid who also can't tackle , to bring our total of targets to three . Cherrington has at least another year ( or more )to go before he's ready.

Those who are whinging about Farahs form this year, until Origin he was one of our best players, the injuries that he acquired were in Origin (separated shoulder) and in our (games broken hand) , when , by the way , if our Coach had of carried out his big announcement that no one would be played with injuries. ( ask Nofa and Simona about that too) he wouldn't have ended up with the hand injury that kept him out of so many later games

The timing is typical of this club, stupid, as most teams that could afford him would probably have organised their 2016 teams already.
I hope Farah stays right where he is and tells the club to pay his contract out in full ( as he is entitled to do)
It's obvious that with the treatment of Tedesco last year, and now Farrah , that we don't deserve players like them , we deserve the plodders that we no doubt will retain
 
WOW i'm trying to process all this 😱pen_mouth: just read this now .

I have mixed feelings about all this , as much as Farah's best is past him he is the heart and soul of this place and sends the wrong message to other players in the Club that would maybe like to remain Loyal and be a 1 Club player .
What i'm saying is obviously other players will be looking at the situation and thinking to themselves the Club has chewed him up and spitted him out with 2 years still to run .

Farah isn't silly and he will make sure that his Contract money is honoured , our Club will be paying a percentage of his Contract make no mistake about that as no Club will come in and pay the supposedley 1 Million per Season his supposed to be getting…..he would be lucky to be worth $500,000 at the moment.

# I will always be greatful for the hand Farah played in Tedesco Reneging his deal with the Raiders.
# The joy and passion he brought to our household and at Stadiums
# The great Love, passion and affection he openly showed towards our Club
# The games he sole handly won for us .

Form wise i think the Club is making the right decision in trying to release Farah to another Club but i just thought i would never see Farah play for another Club.
Now i am starting to understand why his form has been so bad for so long , Maybe he has never gotten over the Tallis and Potter events that happened.
I will put my hand up and admit that i have bagged him at times for the pathetic performances he has shown the last 2 years but we don't always know the ins and outs of what is really going behind closed doors.

There is no winner in all this and can't help to think that despite him being past his best and the Club taking steps to try and purchase key players sonner rather than later , that it is sending the wrong message to other players in our squad who might want to play out there Careers with the Wests Tigers are now thinking no pay cuts to stay loyal to the Wests Tigers.

Anyway enough of my dribble and would like to Thank Robbie Farah for everything that he has done for this Club , you will no doubt go down as a Wests Tigers great .

Thanks for the Memories :bawling
 
BTW what is the record for the most number of posts within 1 day of a topic? This isn't the Lote Tuqiri thread, but we are at 10 pages in under 4 hours.
 
@jirskyr said:
BTW what is the record for the most number of posts within 1 day of a topic? This isn't the Lote Tuqiri thread, but we are at 10 pages in under 4 hours.
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If this was announced say on Saturday ? by Sunday Night there would be 50 pages on this Topic i reckon.
 
Also question the timing, as we effectively have our grand final this weekend to avoid the spoon.

I was confident of beating a depleted warriors at home, but with this news I don't know what sort of mindset the players will come out with.

This should have happened months ago, not now.

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@Abraham said:
Also question the timing, as we effectively have our grand final this weekend to avoid the spoon.
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Agree with this - bizarre.
Only explanation is that somehow it had leaked (Ritchie tweeted about it before the WT statement), so we thought we'd get a statement out ASAP.
He obviously got the tap on the shoulder a while back and has already had the feelers out, but I assume they wouldn't have wanted to announce it until a deal was done (a la Galloway).
 
@goldcoast tiger said:
Well if Farah goes, I hope we are buying someone who can tackle, as there will be a shortfall of 35 to 40 tackles a week that no one presently at the club will be interested in taking over. This club is so dumb,
We will still be paying a big part of his contract, and we will be losing one of the few experienced quality players that we have.
We've already thrown our two halves to the wolves by not having any experience with them. And maybe stuffed up Brooks' chances of even remaining in first grade. And now I suppose we are going to add another inexperienced kid who also can't tackle , to bring our total of targets to three . Cherrington has at least another year ( or more )to go before he's ready.

Those who are whinging about Farahs form this year, until Origin he was one of our best players, the injuries that he acquired were in Origin (separated shoulder) and in our (games broken hand) , when , by the way , if our Coach had of carried out his big announcement that no one would be played with injuries. ( ask Nofa and Simona about that too) he wouldn't have ended up with the hand injury that kept him out of so many later games

The timing is typical of this club, stupid, as most teams that could afford him would probably have organised their 2016 teams already.
I hope Farah stays right where he is and tells the club to pay his contract out in full ( as he is entitled to do)
It's obvious that with the treatment of Tedesco last year, and now Farrah , that we don't deserve players like them , we deserve the plodders that we no doubt will retain
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Agree GCT - everything about this decision is dumb. If he stays we know what sort of character Robbie is - not sure he can move on - so cant be good for team unity. If he moves on in our competition he will not get anywhere near what he is being paid here, and we will still be paying for him to play somewhere else. And if there is one thing you can guarantee he will have a point to prove and will have a form resurgence ( plenty of footy left in Robbie yet) leaving egg on our faces once again. Can only assume that someone wants him out real bad.
 
@foreveratiger said:
…............Now i am starting to understand why his form has been so bad for so long , Maybe he has never gotten over the Tallis and Potter events that happened.
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That's a fair bit of baggage to carry, especially if maybe others on the team haven't gotten over it either. I read in another thread that apparently Halatau apologised to Potter for what they had done to his coaching career.
All speculation but one man does not make a team.
 
Now we have rid ourselves of the club's two greatest ever players, well done! (sarcasm)
The purpose of this is to show everyone in the club who is boss.A clip board and some mumbo jumbo about how losing doesn't mean we aren't improving and meeting our goals - a new coach and a new board, and the players will just fall into line. (More sarcasm)

This move will make us a weaker side than we are now. We are looking like wooden spooners this year, how much lower can we go?

Robbie symbolised the Tigers and stood for heart and commitment, it will be a tragedy if he leaves the Tigers.

I have the solution - Sack Jason Taylor, make Robbie Farah head coach!
 
@Telltails said:
Some of you are talking about players as if they are simply commodities. The effect on morale by this decision will do more damage than any other decision made to date. I expect clubs to start approaching Woodsie, Tapau, Tedesco, and any of our other regular first graders - and we all know a contract these days means nothing. The only reason that we still have Tedesco is because of Robbie. Free up more money –- what player is going to want to sign with West Tigers when it is well documented that we are broke, and we are running last. The Captain is gone watch the troops jump with him. Dark days ahead.
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Not sure about that. The word is that the younger players seem to just fall into line with anything Farah would say, bordering on submissive behaviour. Off the record, I heard an ex player state he had never seen anything like it, hence they all fell into line with the nature of Potter's exit.

Farah leaving could see some of these young players express themselves way beyond anything we have seen from them to date. Whilst Farah spoke did the talking with Tedesco, it was the reminder of playing with Brooks and Moses that kept him at the club.

Further, we are not broke. We were a basketcase in 2002 and we managed to sign Prince. It's always darkest before dawn….
 
@Chris said:
This is a perfect example of why the salary cap needs to exclude players from the cap who have come through their junior ranks and allow them to be one club players. Irrespective that it's Robbie Farah, I think that the NRL should try and save the "One Club Player" breed because the way they're going, that breed will be non existent for our kids and their kids to see.
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It's a good point, but the salary cap is also there to save clubs from themselves. If he was exempt from the salary cap, we could be paying him truckloads with revenue remaining the same. Clubs would very quickly start going backwards, especially those with large junior bases.
 
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