Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[momo_amp_medo]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

 

[Balmainian]

I want Harry Triguboff to buy the WT franchise and remove the existing Board, Chairperson and CEO. C'mon Harry, if you really love the Tigers, the time is NOW. Your mate Sheensy is back. Do it!!

OK, it wasn't really a signing suggestion. Sorry.

He wanted to and they wouldn't sell.

I worked for Meriton for about 5yrs and once asked him the same question and got the same answer, they wouldn't sell.

The story I heard was he would have agreed to buy the club if they'd given him 100% control. I.e. he didn't just want to contribute huge money, he wanted to run the footy business his own way.

The Wests and Balmain owners didn't want to become redundant. You can understand it, even if they were serial losers, they were financially stable enough to retain the club and didn't want to sell it off. Usually when a club gets sold to a private buyer, it's because the incumbent owners are insolvent and need to offload their assets (e.g. Newcastle, Manly, Souths). Whilst this was temporarily true of Balmain, it has never been true of Wests Ashfield - they are flush.

Board doesn't draw a wage.

And if you paid them what they are worth .....

They still wouldn't draw a wage.

Do you ever say anything positive about Westst's? I have never seen it if you have. What a miserable life you have.

Hey! Obviously you don't read all posts.

By the way what does "Westst's?" mean.

You - whoever you are - do not have to worry about my life - whether it is miserable or not.
If you don't like my posts, don't read them. Simples Ace.

I won"t. If you don"t know what WT"s means, you are following the wrong club.

Now Now Kids

 

[crazycat]

The reality is, we're going to struggle to attract players while Maguire remains as head coach.

Or under any other coach as we have seen previously

More so with Madge unfortunately.

You could be right. I feel it’s more the decision by the club that they won’t pay overs. If we offered huge money to the players we missed they would be here IMO

From what I'm hearing out of the WT camp I'm not wrong. The club doesn't know which way is up and Maguire has only managed to survive because WT couldn't get the coach they wanted.

With the new QLD team for 2023 it just made it even harder for us to pickup quality players at the right price (even if we could). We are effectively now stuck on the new mantra of develop from within . Is Madge the coach to motivate and develop youth?

The reality is, we're going to struggle to attract players while Maguire remains as head coach.

Or under any other coach as we have seen previously

More so with Madge unfortunately.

You could be right. I feel it’s more the decision by the club that they won’t pay overs. If we offered huge money to the players we missed they would be here IMO

From what I'm hearing out of the WT camp I'm not wrong. The club doesn't know which way is up and Maguire has only managed to survive because WT couldn't get the coach they wanted.

Well he was the one who signed all the good ones currently filling our roster out . I think he’s the right guy , he just needs to accept he’s moved the “manager” role , that happens when these guys get older. The smart ones surround themselves with guys who are fresh with fresh ideas .
That’s his real issue. He still thinks it’s 2011 and he’s the fresh new coach . That’s 10 years ago. Might as well be 1980 , with the speed of which tactics and the game moves.


Agree 100% . Hope he can change and we can hire some assistants that can move from on from 2011 tactics and also be given the chance to be the next head coach and not smothered by self protection like he has done the past couple of years with Snoop and Millard. Even the KOE coach who people are impressed by came from a prior association with Madge.

Hopefully Madge now realised that self protection mode will more than likely lead to being sacked quicker than being white. Anted

Epiphany? Parting of the sea?


Is that not what he’s being doing the last 3 years? My point is if he gets the right assistants maybe we’ll see some progress.

Our only hope is Sheens and the new assistants.

I agree. With little change in roster the only improvement will come from coaching. It’s critical they sign some excellent assistant coaches in order to help Sheens get the most out of the squad.

You're just cheesed off because your endless posting to remove the coach didn't get anywhere.

Sheens wont be and will never be coach, we all know it, you're just trolling again.

Not trolling at all, if they thought Madge had any semblance of competence they wouldn’t have Sheens sitting above him and have new assistants chosen for him. Willow even said last night we only kept him because we couldn’t get who we wanted. The board has no confidence in him.

He essentially has had all his power taken away from him and he’ll just be a puppet moving forward. A coach in name only. It’s all down to Sheens and the assistants now to see if we can improve the club. If they can somehow dig us out of the hole Madge has created it will be a great achievement.

Looking forward to 2022

If that's what u need to tell yourself

I’m sorry if it upsets you Tony but It’s fairly obvious what the club is doing with the coaching moving forward. They could see having Madge in control was doomed to fail so they’ve made the necessary changes. Hope it works.

So with your model, if the club fails next season, then it’s Sheen’s fault?
You do realise, that when we are successful next year, they will probably extend Madge’s contract, don’t you?

You lost your crusade, live with it.

Well if Madge is a puppet and we fail in 2022, then it should be Sheens head on the chopping block.

Can't have it both ways.

Why should Sheens get only 1 year when Madge has had 3?

Isn’t that the whole problem?

If Madge was to go after 3, then put Sheens in and give him 3 (and he can’t get us there) then we need to keep doing it again with another coach and pretty soon we are 20 years not being in the finals?

By all accounts, the club and the coach have agreed to a long term strategy, NO one is coming atm, it takes time.

A short term, quick fix has been tried and failed in the past, but yet, you want to give it another shot, why?

When someone isn’t capable of doing their job to the standard required, changes need to be made. The club tried to secure someone else to take over from Madge but was unsuccessful in getting who they wanted. So what they’ve done is take the power away from Madge to choose his own assistants and put Sheens above him to make the key decisions.

The club knew there would be no improvement keeping Madge in charge which is why these changes have been made.

What do you think the football review was:
Lee H. Ok who is interested in head coach?

...
Tumbleweeds.

Numerous options worse then Madge put their hand up. I.e. Jason Taylor mk2.

Your right, were not going forwards. Reverse however is definately an option.

The board knows its history and has also extended Madge's contract. Unsure of how much it could pay while paying out madge it cant move this year.

This is the year of Sheens + Madge.
2023 Madge is gone unless we make finals.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

I remain positive Hartigan and Sheens can work it to attract some really good young players and maybe a capable vet to improve the roster.

 

[TigerWest]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

I remain positive Hartigan and Sheens can work it to attract some really good young players and maybe a capable vet to improve the roster.

Just plain childish, rude and ignorant to not mention the coach, fgs do you not think players and their managers won’t know.
You lost the battle, get over it.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

I remain positive Hartigan and Sheens can work it to attract some really good young players and maybe a capable vet to improve the roster.

Just plain childish, rude and ignorant to not mention the coach, fgs do you not think players and their managers won’t know.
You lost the battle, get over it.

One is GM of Football, the other Coaching Director and both senior to Maguire.

Deal with it.

 

[diedpretty]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

i feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my toes, i think its arthuritis but who the hell knows

 

[balmain boy]

Do people on here really still use pages with 20 posts per page and have to load each page rather than just scroll down the page through unread posts till you get to the bottom? It works so much easier for me, but each to their own...

Now any chance we can get back to talking about signings?

 

[TYGA]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

I remain positive Hartigan and Sheens can work it to attract some really good young players and maybe a capable vet to improve the roster.

Sheens will Hartigan has proven he’s not up to it.

 

[TigerWest]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

I remain positive Hartigan and Sheens can work it to attract some really good young players and maybe a capable vet to improve the roster.

Just plain childish, rude and ignorant to not mention the coach, fgs do you not think players and their managers won’t know.
You lost the battle, get over it.

One is GM of Football, the other Coaching Director and both senior to Maguire.

Deal with it.

All good, so all future signings will be because of Sheens, as Hartigan couldn’t get them here either?

And the coach will never be mentioned?

Grow up.

 

[weststigerman]

I feel it my bones that somethings cooking that will be ready by the end of next week.
Or then again it could be just my Rheumatoid arthritis!

I remain positive Hartigan and Sheens can work it to attract some really good young players and maybe a capable vet to improve the roster.

Just plain childish, rude and ignorant to not mention the coach, fgs do you not think players and their managers won’t know.
You lost the battle, get over it.

One is GM of Football, the other Coaching Director and both senior to Maguire.

Deal with it.

All good, so all future signings will be because of Sheens, as Hartigan couldn’t get them here either?

And the coach will never be mentioned?

Grow up.

It's flogging a dead horse mate. His only way of dealing with the fact Madge is still calling the shots is the fact that his favourites are there as well: Pascoe, Hartigan, Sheens and Brooks.

 

[mccarry2]

Do people on here really still use pages with 20 posts per page and have to load each page rather than just scroll down the page through unread posts till you get to the bottom? It works so much easier for me, but each to their own...

Now any chance we can get back to talking about signings?

Doesn’t work for me. When I don’t sign it for a week or so I have to scroll for ever to get to current jibber. Can’t see an easy way to skip when in that mode

 

[GNR4LIFE]

This is probably the most pointless thread on the forum. The only time it’s ever interesting is when Pom pops in every now and then with some info. Other than that, it’s an echo chamber

 

[avocadoontoast]

This is probably the most pointless thread on the forum. The only time it’s ever interesting is when Pom pops in every now and then with some info. Other than that, it’s an echo chamber

The Luke Brooks thread is much worse

 

[jirskyr]

This is probably the most pointless thread on the forum. The only time it’s ever interesting is when Pom pops in every now and then with some info. Other than that, it’s an echo chamber

I'm sorry that's neither a suggestion nor a rumour!

 

[Demps]


 

[TigerWest]


Looks like the good players have ears that stick out?

 

[batboy]


Surely that's not real....

 

[Demps]


Surely that's not real....

??

 

[Needaname]

Do people on here really still use pages with 20 posts per page and have to load each page rather than just scroll down the page through unread posts till you get to the bottom? It works so much easier for me, but each to their own...

Now any chance we can get back to talking about signings?

Doesn’t work for me. When I don’t sign it for a week or so I have to scroll for ever to get to current jibber. Can’t see an easy way to skip when in that mode

Yeah I don’t get what his on about either?
Unless it’s what I’ve been doing lately and that’s going to unread posts, see the latest time read and working my way up from there?

I did use to go to the bottom of the page and click on a current topic and it would take me to the last read post?

Be nice if we could open up the whole thread without pages where it just continues to scroll down.