Holiday culture .same as the titans . Even during our glory years , turning up on D was a choice it wasn’t compulsory , or always going to make a difference whether we won or lost , because of The skilled list .
Our culture sucked/sux , and the more we tried to fix that by implementing cultures that work in places like Melbourne , the worse our culture got . Because then it was confusion mixed in with a soft underbelly .
And too many guys here to play nrl , like Robbie said not here to play for the tigers .
We have to create/ foster a love of the club , which should lead to more wins .
Luke gives a toss . He’s there every time a team makes a break . Every time one of ours does .
But he’s not putting up back page articles or having his mates on 360 talk about how amazing he is , so eventually the narrative around him has skewed to what he doesn’t do so much , that no one ever notices the 90% of the time he does what he’s supposed to do . All of us sitting waiting for him to mess up .
We have all been manipulated by the fox media , even the guys who support him , like me .
To what agenda ? Honestly I think its either deflection from the heinous stuff teams like south’s and Cronulla get up to on the weekend , or , they want to take him away because he’s one of the rare 6 guys in the comp right now wio can actually play halfback .
Also to finish , it’s been stated now by a few retired footy players , Benji very recently , that you shit brooks down , the tigers have nothing.
Which is true. So every time he gets the ball they jam in on him , ruin his space , and yep we fall in a heap , and so does he .
You can’t jam in , if latrell is out the back , or Turbo , or and this one hurts because we wanted to and should have kept him , but got hosed over by Tedesco and his management , Papenhuyzen .
When we had the big 4 , we decided not to pay Tapuau , had guys like Curtis Sironen and Moses they were bigger than the club ,Simona fixing games etc. The culture was a joke , IMO created by not only by the power vacuum when benji left and sheens got booted , but by the young kids watching that power and entitlement run through the club to begin with .
Hopefully the last 9 years has made us realise ,yes we have lost the tigers identity . But returning it to the boys club , isn’t good either . It has to sit somewhere between accountability , and freedom to do what you want .
From the outside looking in , the issue is we swung the pendulum from one side to the Complete other , and we have spent 9 years putting square pegs in round holes .
