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This Guy was a WT...now look at him :-(

Similar size to Miller, just all lean and athletic (albeit he had back issues when younger). Miller has the puppy fat that he absolutely needs to lose if we wants to have a first grade career.

We were always just so amateur as a club. Paseka wanted to move swiftly up the ranks, the club told him to wait his turn and develop in Flegg (fair enough to an extent, its the opposite approach to what we have now) and we just let our best young forward go to a rival, for nothing, because "if he doesn't want to be part of what we're building then we don't want him here". I'm pretty sure if he stayed another year he would have progressed quickly and been happy to stay. We just didn't have a football department that was effective aback then.

Even now there's no link, no synergy. Benji and the CEO forming the bulk of the football department, Betsey been moved from where he's best suited (pathways coordinator) and now we have zero coordination across our grades, no one watching our youngsters playing. We're still bloody amateurs and still coming last.
 
Strength and conditioning is the common problem through all our grades. Mistakes under fatigue, and we get physically dominated.
Have said this for years - we have not had anything since Steve Folkes was here and those 2 years we played our best football. We were tough and defended with a venom.
This is what we need to go back to just not sure we have the mindset to make these changes so they are ingrained in our DNA.
 
Similar size to Miller, just all lean and athletic (albeit he had back issues when younger). Miller has the puppy fat that he absolutely needs to lose if we wants to have a first grade career.

We were always just so amateur as a club. Paseka wanted to move swiftly up the ranks, the club told him to wait his turn and develop in Flegg (fair enough to an extent, its the opposite approach to what we have now) and we just let our best young forward go to a rival, for nothing, because "if he doesn't want to be part of what we're building then we don't want him here". I'm pretty sure if he stayed another year he would have progressed quickly and been happy to stay. We just didn't have a football department that was effective aback then.

Even now there's no link, no synergy. Benji and the CEO forming the bulk of the football department, Betsey been moved from where he's best suited (pathways coordinator) and now we have zero coordination across our grades, no one watching our youngsters playing. We're still bloody amateurs and still coming last.
Talking to Paseka's brother two months ago, it was solely money.

He still liked the Tigers, but Manly offered him unturndownable money at that point of his career.

There was no ill will apparently.
 
Wasn’t he coach when NZ beat Australia in a huge upset? Wasn’t he the guy that took NSW to victory after being down 1-0? If you think he won’t be on top of the list for the next club that sacks a coach you are delusional…
He's good with an elite playing group. If you were playing a word association game, your response would not be "Wests Tigers"
 
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Similar size to Miller, just all lean and athletic (albeit he had back issues when younger). Miller has the puppy fat that he absolutely needs to lose if we wants to have a first grade career.

We were always just so amateur as a club. Paseka wanted to move swiftly up the ranks, the club told him to wait his turn and develop in Flegg (fair enough to an extent, its the opposite approach to what we have now) and we just let our best young forward go to a rival, for nothing, because "if he doesn't want to be part of what we're building then we don't want him here". I'm pretty sure if he stayed another year he would have progressed quickly and been happy to stay. We just didn't have a football department that was effective aback then.

Even now there's no link, no synergy. Benji and the CEO forming the bulk of the football department, Betsey been moved from where he's best suited (pathways coordinator) and now we have zero coordination across our grades, no one watching our youngsters playing. We're still bloody amateurs and still coming last.
The Agents know this, Which is why the juniors will walk come contract time
 

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