Eternal Tiger
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That probably hurt our chances. People who know Pascoe are jealous of people who don't.
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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jirskyr
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Personally I only think it's a PR nightmare for Tigers fans who are overly sensitive.
For example Woolf reportedly turned down the Warriors job and I don't have any reaction to that. I don't have any reaction to Bulldogs not appointing a successor either.
weststigerman
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No one knew he was their number 1 choice though, for all we know they have a backup lined up. We know we don’t because we tell the media every move we make.
twentyforty
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Chicken_Faced_Killa
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But the Warriors didn’t realise a club statement. It’s a PR disaster because we realised a statement
Actually Burton hasnt taken his extension to stay at the dogs.
One of my favourite comedies when i was young.Mel Brookes is a comic genius
Tiger-ferret
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Most people won’t even know the statement was released.
Tiger-ferret
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You missed it by that much
Balmainlegend
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Burton isn’t going anywhere, manager trying to get as much money out of the dogs
Mighty_Tiger
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I wanted him here, the kid can play.
Buttface
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Translation please?
hank37w
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Where I am I get 4 Council clean ups a year and you can nominate when you want to have them.
Wish Wests Tigers had the same luxury, but then we would probably end up with 4 times as much junk.
Reminds me of the good old days when you took a load of garbage to the tip and ended up coming home with someone elses garbage
100% agree, I don't see how this was a PR nightmare, I mean 360 is going to spin this one way regardless of our statement or not. Hell might be worse if they have the news and we don't say anything.
Some fans just run around thinking that the sky is falling everytime we do anything.
Ebin_wabbo
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True, but his PO is for around 500K and we'll be significantly upgrading his contract before then
OzLuke
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running straight
balmain boy
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It's an image thing. We're seen as a loser club, that's highly undesirable by everyone. Everytime we get publicly rejected it reinforces this image that we are a club associated with failure and become even less desirable.
We need to break out of this vicious loop yet we keep setting ourselves up to fail
Jedi_Tiger
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mail on Angus Crichton he is going to Melbourne storm
jirskyr
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There are about 6 or 7 loser clubs, and the only thing they can do about it is start winning.
The style or timing of press comments ends up being irrelevant in the face of wins/losses. NRL supporters of other clubs won't start respecting you just because you do or don't make certain statements in public.
Bulldogs haven't earned respect just because Gould denies everything, including publicly-confirmed facts.
There is almost no such thing as a private rejection in NRL - the media will find out and they will print the story. Michael Chammas is already saying today that Ciraldo has definitely been pursued by the Bulldogs, despite Gould's protests to the contrary. (and don't forget Gould is aligned with Fairfax who own SMH and Ch 9).
I don't realistically see that if Ciraldo turns down Tigers and Bulldogs, that Tigers come out worse some how because we admitted in public that we were pursuing Ciraldo.
Because the only alternative, apart from a fantasy world where Tigers speculation never hits the media, is to pursue very modest or ordinary targets, i.e. never aim high, and then be less likely to receive a public rejection. For example I am certain if Tigers pursued Steve Georgallis to replace Madge, they could have done a very quiet very fast deal, and it wouldn't be a "PR nightmare", but we'd have signed a very ordinary coach.
