Aaron Wood$’ coffee date with Bulldogs players highlights the deep troubles at Wests Tigers
APRIL 21, 2017 5:01PM
Paul Kent
The Daily Telegraph
AARON Wood$’ appearance at a coffee shop on Wednesday with Sunday’s opponents, otherwise known as Canterbury players, underlines the deep troubles at Wests Tigers. Coach Ivan Cleary must be finally realising how deep the problems at his new club go. A small revolt is happening at the Tigers. Wood$, James Tede$co and Mitch Mo$es are gone, Tim Grant and Kevin Naiqama are considering their options and several others are also questioning their future at the club.
Wood$ and the Skinny Flat White gang highlight how deep the frustration at the Tigers is.
While Cleary was putting deadlines on players Wood$ and Tede$co, Wood$ was speaking to his manager Isaac Mo$es who told him he had not heard from the club in regard to Wood$ in almost a month.
How is this any negotiation? And so why a deadline?
Was Cleary even aware?
The Tigers might have a plausible explanation for this but their refusal to communicate it is deeply damaging the club and adds to the reputation of dysfunction that is developing. There is a smell on the Tigers. Who would want to play there? There is more at stake than playing talent now. From the outside looking in the Tigers appear a troubled club. Once that assessment becomes popular opinion around the league it will become increasingly harder to recruit players. And the club is already clearly having problems.
Generally the only way clubs get their way out of trouble once in this situation is to go into the market hard and pay overs. Either to one player, who hopefully others want to play alongside and so will help bring talent, or a group of players, which is highly expensive. Enter Cooper Cronk, with Gareth Widdop as his sidekick. The club has no other option.
What a garbage article from Kent .
He never mentioned that the offers had been in the table for months .
As for Grant and Naiqama , they wouldn't get a look in at my local club to play A Grade .
They're luck they've got a gig at all :brick: