Spoon, will it be ours?
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Why was she installed at Wests Tigers? Please enlighten me.
I clearly remember David Smith saying we need more women in the game when she was announced. Token appointment.
I'm ok with that if she is competently doing the job.
The whole board needs a shake up. The fact the weatherman is still around is just laughable. What a joke that bloke is.
We deserve where we are.
innsaneink
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You're quite proud of this thread aren't you… You keep telling us you made it.
You talk about bad decisions and then suggest we should've sacked JT pre season?
Lol
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Marina Go is supposedly a media professional.
All she has done for the WestsTigers media wise is retweet tweets.
How can someone coming from a media career fail so badly in our media department.
We have been dragged through the coals and I haven't heard a peep from our media professional.
Pffft.
Marina Go – the CEO at Private Media who will soon take up the role of General Manager of Hearst Bauer Media. Marina has had an extensive career in publishing and media roles, particularly relating to magazines.
What has she done for us in the media????
wonka
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If Warriors win a Holden cup match we will be last in every grade.
Has a club ever spooned in all 3 grades ?
Has a club ever spooned in all 3 grades ?
Marshall_magic
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Doesn't help that we played the Warriors, Knights and Bulldogs once this season (all three teams are garbage), but we shouldn't be anywhere near the spoon. Both Parra games, the sharks game and eve the Storm game are games we were in a great position to win and bottled. We should be well and truly out of Newcastle's reach.
That said, Newcastle have a tough run in, if we can knock over the Warriors in R26 plus win one of the other games we have left (Manly, Roosters or Cowboys), it will be enough. If Newcastle keep winning this will bring the Titans, Dogs and Warriors into play who are all pretty hopeless. I'm confident we will avoid it.
That said, Newcastle have a tough run in, if we can knock over the Warriors in R26 plus win one of the other games we have left (Manly, Roosters or Cowboys), it will be enough. If Newcastle keep winning this will bring the Titans, Dogs and Warriors into play who are all pretty hopeless. I'm confident we will avoid it.
Yeah get rid of the figure head…yet the faceless men who made the decisions and control the board remain..clueless...
Oh and Go was appointed by previous Wests and Balmain Board committee and re-appointed to Chair by the current Board in March..
I'm just glad Justin Pascoe wasn;t going to allow another season to 'drift' by..
Oh and Go was appointed by previous Wests and Balmain Board committee and re-appointed to Chair by the current Board in March..
I'm just glad Justin Pascoe wasn;t going to allow another season to 'drift' by..
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http://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2014/09/05/nrl_statement_new_wests_tigers_board_members.html
NRL was directly involved in the nomination process. They were the ones who set up the nomination committee. Balmain had no vote because they weren't financially viable.
So the NRL had the reins and Wests really had no choice.
David Smith explains this in the video that statement was linked to.
http://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2014/09/05/press_conference_dave_smith_marina_go.html
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If we do Kafta the pundits will say"its the year the Wests Tigers had to have"so they can rebuild and focus on changing the club and its culture… :blah ...its the previous management and some player that have left this club the way it is,it will change now with Ivan at the helm...getting the spoon will make a lot on here :bawling ,but its a tough competition and if you don't get your team and club in order then that is the prize at the end of the year...hopefully the next few years will be great and a spoon will never come our way again... 😱pen_mouth:
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Yet when Wests Ashfield took control and the current Board re-structured..they re-appointed Go as chair with no input from the NRL..seems odd..
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She handled this season so badly. Look how the media savaged us from the sacking of JT and all these mess inbetween.
2 of those appointed directors are media professionals yet they haven't said or done a thing. What good are they if they don't use their strengths?
That video of her being questioned at the end of that press conference is really cringeworthy.
She doesn't know anything. It's like she won the job in a raffle.
earl
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I basically agree. I think the board has handled the situation this year really well. Getting rid of Taylor was a last ditch effort to retain our so called marquee players which should have occurred a lot earlier because Cleary is 1000 times better than Taylor.
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Sorry Earl ..I left the :unamused: out…fixed...
cqtiger
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I blame the board only in as much for wanting to sell the farm to keep the 'big 4'.
This is the one big reason we are in this mess.
But I can give kudos where they are due. The board did the right thing by bringing in Cleary when they did. The biggest credit though is giving Cleary full control of the player hiring and firing. Cleary fully understood the impact of the limited salary cap available and how four seriously overpaid players would affect it.
His first act was to review these contract offers on the table and he reduced Brooks money considerably then withdrew Moses contract to concentrate on the club captain and Tedesco. Little did he know that Woods and Tedesco had already committed elsewhere. Then the brat spit his dummy and for the next 6 weeks Moses went about screwing us behind the scenes and on the field.
It has taken Cleary a few months but he has improved this team enormously. The wins haven't come too often but we are now in every game up to the final whistle. I look forward to 2018 with optimism because of the new players coming and a full preseason with Cleary.
The boards main problem was letting Isaac Moses and the big 4 control the agenda over the last 2 years. With a no nonsense and seasoned coach in control on the field, the board can finally do their job off the field.
This is the one big reason we are in this mess.
But I can give kudos where they are due. The board did the right thing by bringing in Cleary when they did. The biggest credit though is giving Cleary full control of the player hiring and firing. Cleary fully understood the impact of the limited salary cap available and how four seriously overpaid players would affect it.
His first act was to review these contract offers on the table and he reduced Brooks money considerably then withdrew Moses contract to concentrate on the club captain and Tedesco. Little did he know that Woods and Tedesco had already committed elsewhere. Then the brat spit his dummy and for the next 6 weeks Moses went about screwing us behind the scenes and on the field.
It has taken Cleary a few months but he has improved this team enormously. The wins haven't come too often but we are now in every game up to the final whistle. I look forward to 2018 with optimism because of the new players coming and a full preseason with Cleary.
The boards main problem was letting Isaac Moses and the big 4 control the agenda over the last 2 years. With a no nonsense and seasoned coach in control on the field, the board can finally do their job off the field.
FMD Sexism, Balmain vs Wests, JT/Farah/Woods/Tedesco?
Shaddup the lot of ya!
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Back on topic. I'm not fussed, as we have lost a few close ones this year where we were rorted by contentious decisions….
Don't reckon the knights will win another game to be honest - although looks like the Ross-Dog is their Lovett - he's out and they find form. :smiley:
I think we'll beat the Cowboys and the Warriors, Cowboys hate Campbelltown, and I think the Leichhardt crowd and the "emotion" of Woodsy and Tedescos last Tigers game will get the boys over the top of the Warriors, who seriously will already be looking for the next plant flight out of town
I also don't think the dogs will win another game either.
If the knights win 2, and we win 2, and the dogs get pounded by enough points they will get the spoon.
Also, the Titans are in the running if we win 2, knights win 2, and they get pounded in their last 4.
It's a four horse race at the bottom.
Shaddup the lot of ya!
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Back on topic. I'm not fussed, as we have lost a few close ones this year where we were rorted by contentious decisions….
Don't reckon the knights will win another game to be honest - although looks like the Ross-Dog is their Lovett - he's out and they find form. :smiley:
I think we'll beat the Cowboys and the Warriors, Cowboys hate Campbelltown, and I think the Leichhardt crowd and the "emotion" of Woodsy and Tedescos last Tigers game will get the boys over the top of the Warriors, who seriously will already be looking for the next plant flight out of town
I also don't think the dogs will win another game either.
If the knights win 2, and we win 2, and the dogs get pounded by enough points they will get the spoon.
Also, the Titans are in the running if we win 2, knights win 2, and they get pounded in their last 4.
It's a four horse race at the bottom.
Back to "Will we win the spoon?".. well last week I wrote that I didn't think so. My thought process was based on the draw for us and the Knights and that I couldn't see them winning any more games. Well I obviously got that wrong - and after last night's effort against the Eels the Knights are going to make a fight of it and it looks like we are going down to the wire. The spoon may well come down to the last round against the Warriors.
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