Sending a message to the club

[tigeress]

The forum and the club are both a bit if a drag at the moment. Let's try to remember that ultimately we want the same thing.

Personally i couldn't care less about the personnel involved, i just want success. The road map for our future is not that hard to get right. I was willing to give JT a chance this year and for me it's this week or never. If we don't win i want him gone asap to try and leave enough time to salvage the year, if we do win the reality is he won't be gone for a month at least so there's no point going over the same negative stuff over and over again. Maybe that's what Russell and others mean? I'll use a less inflammatory example. I think buckets was a bad signing, and I'm an Eastwood boy who followed him from way back. However, he, like everyone else in the club, can perform in a way that changes my view. This is essentially my view. If performance improves on and off the field then all will be forgiven for mine, whether the coach is Gandalf or forest Gump wouldn't bother me in the least.

If you want to send a message to the club, I get that, it is a bad time to support wt. Maybe the best msg you can send is to not go? Or take a banner? Or organise a soccer style backs to the action protest when our 20 point lead gets run down lol

I'll probably go. And I'll probably clap every name they read out from our squad, even Taylor's. I'll stand up when the ground announcer asks us to, to cheer the boys onto the field. I'll boo the ref, I'll boo Melbourne, I'll sledge slater and he isn't even playing. When we score I'll get the same tingles I'm getting writing this, I'll look for a stranger to high five and then I'll cheer, boo and hiss some more. I'll probably pee orange and bleed black and white on the day. If we win I'll say it's all worth it. If we lose I'll say never again.
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Then I'll be there for the next game.

Well said OMT we only get upset because things aren't going the way we would like them to, and from the outside looking in it looks pretty bad, but better times are to come it's just that I'm not sure when. But I'll still be there waiting… 😛ray:

 

[tiga4eva]

I've been a Tigers fan my whole life, but have to admit I have never been so disheartened as now. We continually support a team that can't finish in the top half of a 16 team competition. That's actually pathetic, we've been dished up garbage, by the Board,players and Coaches. When does it end? For Gods sake, give us something to cheer about.

 

[Geo]

You know what i have to agree with tigermac , there comes a point in time where you say to yourself enough is enough .
When they rang me up this year and asked me if i was going to renew ? i told them exactly what had to be said and let me tell you it wasn't good for the receiver .
I said to the guy you call me up the same time every year asking for money…..basically that's what your doing ( paying for Memberships ) , i told him people pay to get Entertained and if you feel like the Club isn't heading in that direction with the cheap budgeted signings we made ? why bother.
It's a massive commitment to give up your Family time every Weekend to see what ? a continued diabolical team selection with undeserved players continually picked every week.....Nah have better things to do the Beach is 5 minutes away.

When the Club gets there act together ? they have my money .

So we not doing gold class next year… 😢 😢

It's under review :laughing:.

The next 10 Months will be massive for this Club, there is so many issues pending…...

1\. The Status of Balmain in relation to Wests Tigers
2\. Is Farah leaving 1 year early as to what his Manager stated could occur.
3\. What players are we purchasing for 2017
4\. What Brooks and Moses are doing ( not that I care) but the Club will Cop a hammering if they both leave!!!
5\. A clear view of our home ground situation?
6\. Who will be Coaching us next year?

I'm as Passionate as anyone on this Forum and I always spend at least $150.00 per year going to at least 2 home games in Sydney and Merchandise I might buy + all the costs in flights to get down there.

Gold Coast I meant damn ipad autocorrect…but :wahoo: :laughing:

 

[Goose]

I find this whole thread amusing.

Do you think the club is not signing who they think the best coach is?? or sign the players that they think will do the best job?

What do you think the message will achieve, all of a sudden you think they will see a petition and say, ohhhh sign Des Hasler and the 3 best players in the world…..lucky they signed that petition.

The other little amusing one for me is that people want a coach who doesn't play favourites, any human in the world will have preferences on all sorts of things, including who is a better player, the other is, that just about every coach we have had picks the same players that we have accused the previous coach of favouring......perhaps they are just the best players we have!

The gap between lower grades and first grade is enormous, and getting bigger with the evolvement of full time top level footy and part time tier 2 footy, the blokes in the top squad are generally better than those behind them.

So do you think we don't have anybody in the lower grades that could do a better job than Buchanan and Milone??
Do you think when a player isn't performing he is bigger than the team and above getting dropped for a stint in state cup??

I think Milone is poor, but the coach is picking the player he thinks is the best player. Do you seriously think that the coach is going to pick a lesser player (in his mind) and risk his job.

Buchannen is just a player, people like to bag him, he is not special but he is probably as good as anyone else we have.

As for dropping players who are not performing, have you noticed that very few sides make few changes, that is because the best players are in the team, outside of a few fringe players here and there. The gap between the reserve grader and the first grader is huge (most times). So dropping them weakens your side.

The coach is doing his best to win the game and any amount of protest isnt going to change what he does.

 

[tigermac88]

I find this whole thread amusing.

Do you think the club is not signing who they think the best coach is?? or sign the players that they think will do the best job?

What do you think the message will achieve, all of a sudden you think they will see a petition and say, ohhhh sign Des Hasler and the 3 best players in the world…..lucky they signed that petition.

The other little amusing one for me is that people want a coach who doesn't play favourites, any human in the world will have preferences on all sorts of things, including who is a better player, the other is, that just about every coach we have had picks the same players that we have accused the previous coach of favouring......perhaps they are just the best players we have!

The gap between lower grades and first grade is enormous, and getting bigger with the evolvement of full time top level footy and part time tier 2 footy, the blokes in the top squad are generally better than those behind them.

So do you think we don't have anybody in the lower grades that could do a better job than Buchanan and Milone??
Do you think when a player isn't performing he is bigger than the team and above getting dropped for a stint in state cup??

I think Milone is poor, but the coach is picking the player he thinks is the best player. Do you seriously think that the coach is going to pick a lesser player (in his mind) and risk his job.

Buchannen is just a player, people like to bag him, he is not special but he is probably as good as anyone else we have.

As for dropping players who are not performing, have you noticed that very few sides make few changes, that is because the best players are in the team, outside of a few fringe players here and there. The gap between the reserve grader and the first grader is huge (most times). So dropping them weakens your side.

The coach is doing his best to win the game and any amount of protest isnt going to change what he does.

Don't just sugar coat a player to support your point goose, Milone and Buchanan are both garbage and there are other options

In regards to your statement about few sides making changes that is not completely true either, again you're sugar coating things to support your point. The teams that don't make changes are the teams that are winning (Broncos, Cowboys, Eels to name a few that come to mind). The teams that are losing often change a fringe player here and there to try something different, something JT is not doing. Even the best coaches have dropped one of their regulars in the past for poor form. The only reason JT doesn't have the balls to drop Brooks is because if he does Brooks will more than likely spit his dummy and sign elsewhere

 

[tsjonathan]

I can't see Taylor lasting the year. Judging by the performances this year I can't see him lasting a few more weeks to be honest. I know I would lose my job if I turned up late for 4-5 times in a row…

 

[LCA]

The last time I looked we were -12 or so in the for/against column. Maybe we have improved in 2016? Would you prefer to be a Dragons fan?

I am no fan of Taylor….not by a long shot. But weren't the other more prominent candidates Griffin and Nathan Brown. Have either of them set the world on fire this year?

I seriously don't know what the answer is. But, I will stick with them.

See you at Leichhardt on Sunday!

 

[gallagher]

The problem is if you withdraw your membership in protest, you usually end up financially penalising the club (assuming you attend less games) and with that you attack the foundation upon which success can be built.

Sure you can make arguments that poor business leadership and management should not receive funding, but the reality is we are very much a budget club, with budget facilities and budget spending power. You take away that financial support, you cannot expect the club to turn it around with even less money than we've had before.

Sure Jason Taylor is a budget buy coach - because we don't have the money for the Craig Bellamys of this world.

That's why I retain my membership - because the club almost certainly won't get into better shape without our collective financial support. I've been through hellish years as an old Balmain supporter… even with increased expectations, I am never going to forget how lean the 90s were and how close both Balmain and Wests came to not even existing any more.

Yes, we are a budget club, but is it by choice? The owners are millionaires! Plus they also ignore hundreds of thousands every year offered to them by ANZ but CHOOSE to play games and lose money at LO and CSS.
It's madness.

 

[matchball]

While you're at it ask the club why the coach isn't getting the team he wants to play.
He doesn't want Farah but has to play him due to fan and club pressure. All in the premise of his "club legend" status. The guy is past it yet is a protected species.
Imagine if we unloaded Robbie midseason and had cash to spend on a few forwards.

Robbie is going for his hat trick.

 

[stevetiger]

While you're at it ask the club why the coach isn't getting the team he wants to play.
He doesn't want Farah but has to play him due to fan and club pressure. All in the premise of his "club legend" status. The guy is past it yet is a protected species.
Imagine if we unloaded Robbie midseason and had cash to spend on a few forwards.

Robbie is going for his hat trick.

Where is this coming from. I'm far from a Farah fan but if you watched the last couple of games it's obvious Farah is one of our best players.

 

[Tigerdave]

Petition? you'll also need to pass the hat around to pay out JT and afford a new coach (whoever this will be) and if the new coach doesn't work out, what then?

Given the track record of coaches here, I'm sure plenty will be champing at the bit at the possibility of getting shafted if things don't work out…........

That won't cost much, oh that's right there not paying on results…-are they,

Seriously though, didn't someone say that he had targets in his contract that he had to reach or he was gonski.

Yeah I vaguely remember reading something about KPI's or something…........so I guess if it did come down to that and something was in place, we may not have to pay him out.

 

[Tigermama]

Geez, it's not that complicated.

If you want to send a message to the club simply email<website@weststigers.com.au></website@weststigers.com.au>

Lol BB. Very simple :laughing:

 

[Tigermama]

New coach = Hope.
Hope he will be able to turn this team around. Bring out the best in our players.
Hope that we will make the finals.
As WT fans, we live and hope.
And then reality hits. :frowning: and we do it all over again…