jirskyr
Well-known member
I've been overseas for a while, come back to the middle of this storm in a teacup about Farah and Potter and the Tigers board.
OK so Potter's position is under pressure - no surprises, we came 15th last year and he is a 2nd year coach. Take a step back for a minute and tell me how many coaches the past 2-3 years have not had to absorb a fair share of pressure. Stuart, Bennett, Griffin, Price, Elliott, Furner, Henry, Flanagan, Brian Smith, McClennan, Kearney, Cartwright, Stone, Sheens, Sharp… the list is as long as my arm. Really the only coaches who are riding somewhat comfortably are Toovey, Cleary, Hasler, Maguire, Robinson and Bellyache. NO STORY.
So Potter's assistants might want his job. Probably true of 95% of assistant coaches. NO STORY.
So Farah in private said 15 months ago that Potter couldn't coach / was struggling / had room for improvement. He's the team captain, he's a leading player, he's opinionated, he's arguably our best player. He's entitled to an opinion and it was expressed in private. NO STORY.
So Tallis revealed Farah private conversations, and Farah fired up. That is a small story, granted. Tallis is pushing a media angle, Farah has been burned. It happens to people in the media all the time. People will be more careful talking to Tallis from now on, and even if Tallis is 100% accurate, what he is saying makes no difference to anything. NO STORY.
So Grant Mayer made supportive comments, that in hindsight he could have made a little earlier if he'd predicted the media attention. There is something to be said for not always swinging your bat every time the media pitches a story at you. NO STORY.
So Farah took a day off training to deal with media pressure he has received. He's a big boy, he'll cope. He might be doing it hard, but he knows people who have been through worse, consider the Benji assault case, Laffranchi assault case, Robert Lui assault case, Tedesco signing story... these examples blow the past week well out of the water. NO STORY.
So Tigers board is dysfunctional and the two sides of the merger are not ideally represented. This has been the case for 10 years, NRL have stepped in and a new board structure is imminent. Until then we can't make too many bold moves re the board. NO NEW STORY.
So Tigers still haven't resolved Rozelle Village issue. Until it is either sunk forever or given a lease of life, nothing has changed since that sorry place shut down years ago. NO NEW STORY.
So I don't get it, why is this getting so much media traction and why are the forum members on here driving these topics so hard? Are you just bored because we aren't playing great footy and there have been some long gaps between games? Are you sad to see the team in negative press, even if there really isn't much to it? Do you just love a good conspiracy theory or just want to voice an idea you've developed about what is going on?
I don't get it, the sum total of all this is NO STORY!
OK so Potter's position is under pressure - no surprises, we came 15th last year and he is a 2nd year coach. Take a step back for a minute and tell me how many coaches the past 2-3 years have not had to absorb a fair share of pressure. Stuart, Bennett, Griffin, Price, Elliott, Furner, Henry, Flanagan, Brian Smith, McClennan, Kearney, Cartwright, Stone, Sheens, Sharp… the list is as long as my arm. Really the only coaches who are riding somewhat comfortably are Toovey, Cleary, Hasler, Maguire, Robinson and Bellyache. NO STORY.
So Potter's assistants might want his job. Probably true of 95% of assistant coaches. NO STORY.
So Farah in private said 15 months ago that Potter couldn't coach / was struggling / had room for improvement. He's the team captain, he's a leading player, he's opinionated, he's arguably our best player. He's entitled to an opinion and it was expressed in private. NO STORY.
So Tallis revealed Farah private conversations, and Farah fired up. That is a small story, granted. Tallis is pushing a media angle, Farah has been burned. It happens to people in the media all the time. People will be more careful talking to Tallis from now on, and even if Tallis is 100% accurate, what he is saying makes no difference to anything. NO STORY.
So Grant Mayer made supportive comments, that in hindsight he could have made a little earlier if he'd predicted the media attention. There is something to be said for not always swinging your bat every time the media pitches a story at you. NO STORY.
So Farah took a day off training to deal with media pressure he has received. He's a big boy, he'll cope. He might be doing it hard, but he knows people who have been through worse, consider the Benji assault case, Laffranchi assault case, Robert Lui assault case, Tedesco signing story... these examples blow the past week well out of the water. NO STORY.
So Tigers board is dysfunctional and the two sides of the merger are not ideally represented. This has been the case for 10 years, NRL have stepped in and a new board structure is imminent. Until then we can't make too many bold moves re the board. NO NEW STORY.
So Tigers still haven't resolved Rozelle Village issue. Until it is either sunk forever or given a lease of life, nothing has changed since that sorry place shut down years ago. NO NEW STORY.
So I don't get it, why is this getting so much media traction and why are the forum members on here driving these topics so hard? Are you just bored because we aren't playing great footy and there have been some long gaps between games? Are you sad to see the team in negative press, even if there really isn't much to it? Do you just love a good conspiracy theory or just want to voice an idea you've developed about what is going on?
I don't get it, the sum total of all this is NO STORY!
