Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

clontarfkid said:
Know her..very ,VERY sharp and very sweet..
I thought JT was much maligned tbh..did a great job developing the big 4 to put them in a marketable position to do what they did...got WTs to 9th...was very aware of the history of why and how his very able predecessor failed ...and saw history repeating itself with his own career at WTS..which is why he axed a club legend
..and was also a victim of what was at the time a very divided Board which destabilised the club and significantly contributed to how events unfolded at the time
Im not here to defend him and have no relationship with him whatsover,but simply stating the facts
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Taylor was a hopeless man manager who thought he could build our squad like the Roosters with zero depth and guys like Joel Edwards, Kyle Lovett, Nathan Milone and JJ Collins. while he was aware of the challenges faced by WT and had a plan to fix them his ability to put plans into action was diabolical. throw in the Farah debacle and the absolutely pathetic showing against Canberra in the last round of 2016 and there was a reason why he never worked out.
 
Not to defend Taylor, Maguire or Potter too much, but...

Each of them came in on top of a semi-rebuild of the previous coach. This left them all with the remenents of a missed project started by someone else & were given very limited time & resources to turn the whole thing around.

Taylor in particular walked in with very, very limited cash resources & recruited accordingly. Maguire walked in with half his salary cap tied up in Cleary purchases. Potter was handed the remains of the beginning of a new Sheens rebuild.

While they all 'failed' in their respective ways, I'm reasonably confident that given the right time, power & resources, all of them could have turned things around.

Tim Sheens has stepped in with the Tigers now in a position were there are few lingering contracts that weigh the club down & his task is to, hand in hand with the next coach in Benji, ensure that the squad Marshall is handed is ready to BE Benji's squad- not a rebuild.

Think of it what you will, but this might just be the way to transition in the future, instead of throwing rookie coaches into the fire to fix the last guy's problems.
 
Cultured_Bogan said:
It's going to be hilarious if Ciraldo doesn't pan out.
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Cleary is a great man manager.
He knows what he's doing I think.
Great juniors and a great atmosphere

Ciraldo is riding off of Cleary's
lapels at the moment to be honest.
Going to be interesting to see
If he can replicate anything close
to panthers, especially with Gus
and Craig Laundy breathing down
his neck. Decent squad though.
 
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Tito Santana said:
As previously noted I’m Eastern Suburbs based. I was just smashing a sandwich at Paddington Reserve and who wandered past me but none other than Jimmy the Jet just lurking in a Tshirt and shorts. Funnily enough it was on Oxford Street. It made me wonder if he really does “have more speed than Oxford Street”.

Arriba!
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Should have tugged on his ratty 😝
 
Tito Santana said:
As previously noted I’m Eastern Suburbs based. I was just smashing a sandwich at Paddington Reserve and who wandered past me but none other than Jimmy the Jet just lurking in a Tshirt and shorts. Funnily enough it was on Oxford Street. It made me wonder if he really does “have more speed than Oxford Street”.

Arriba!
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Only dealers on Oxford Street now are scarf dealers and eggplant dealers
 
tiger_scott said:
Wish we'd got him a few years earlier. He was an excitement machine. Would've loved to have seen him running the length of Leichhardt a few times for us!
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Unsure on that. He clearly had speed earlier in his career and could be a total GUN in some games. Flip it his attitude improved a hell of a lot at the back end of his career, the guy has been through a stack of trouble.

Well a gun for 1 season is better then a wash-up for 3 seasons. McGuire's coaching did nothing for him though, actually that's the NR1 reason to fire McGuire a proven defender's stats went way down.
 
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Cultured_Bogan said:
It's going to be hilarious if Ciraldo doesn't pan out.
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Gould wld be one of the most opinionated and challenging "managers"to work for, in any industry,and its testimony to Clearys temperament that he survived so long working for him
Possibly a one-off.
Dunno whether Ciraldo has the same temperament tbh
Gould(via Laundy)has got the cattle,but It will only take a year of underperformng results and..boom!
 
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