@geo said in [Tigers board to undertake post\-season review](/post/1480083) said:
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TIGERS LEGENDS TORCH TIGERS
Balmain champions Steve “Blocker” Roach and Benny Elias are fed-up at the lack of DNA at the club the pair both shed blood for in the wake of the Wests Tigers missing the finals for a tenth straight season.
Roach, who played 185 games for Balmain, has questioned where the history of Wests Magpies and the Balmain Tigers has gone and the direction the club’s decision makers are taking the joint.
Elias, who played 234 games for Balmain, is steaming about the way the Tigers wood duck front office refuse to make the findings of the internal football review public after coach Michael Maguire was given the green light to pilot the club for a fourth straight season.
“The Balmain Tigers have been around since 1908 do they not realise that? It’s the same for the Wests Mapgies,” Roach said
“I feel sorry for the Wests Magpies side just as much. They’ve had a hugely proud history but they get the same treatment as us.
“All we want to know is what’s the direction of the club? How are they going to fix the mess that is the current NRL team?
“We’re called the Wests Tigers. They put the magpie on the shoulder and the Tiger on the chest but it’s like they just want to be a new club.
“It’s like they’ve forgotten the working class roots of the foundations of both clubs. How do they unify that?
“It’s like they’ve wiped us from history.
“Another thing that I question about the DNA is the only world class recruit the Wests Tigers have signed in the history of the club is Gareth Ellis.
“What does that say about the club’s recruitment and retention over the last 20 years and what the Wests Tigers stand for.
“On the flip side of that it seems like we don’t have our ducks in a row in terms of how we keep all the great talent out of two of the best rugby league nurseries in the world in the inner west and Campbelltown.
“These are all the sorts of things that I thought would need to be addressed.”
Wests Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis is the right powerbroker to take the Wests Tigers forward but clearly some hard decisions need to be made.
Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe is under mounting pressure to retain his position as angry members and fans grow tired of six seasons of corporate management handbook jibberish.
Fans simply roll their eyes when the spin about the off-field success of the club starts because unless the Wests Tigers are going broke no one cares what the profit and loss sheet says.
Here’s the score in terms of where the Tigers have finished during Pascoe’s tenure from September 2015 onwards; 9th (2016), 14th (2017), 9th (2018), 9th (2019), 11th (2020) and 13th (2021).
What members care about are wins and losses and watching a side that at the very least does its best to hold its hands up and fight every game.
Which is why Elias wants the much-hyped football club internal review made public.
“We need a forensic audit into that review. The members are entitled to that.
They should make the review public,” Elias said.
“They make ICAC inquiries public. They make ASX listed company reports public.
The Wests Tigers members deserve to know what the report found.
“What’s the hope for the members, supporters and ex-players leading into next season?
“If they’re fair dinkum and they’re true to the people who’ve supported the club for the last 10 years of heartache then the public are entitled to see whatever the findings of this football committee review were.
“If they want to do a proper review go and get a set of independent eyes like a KPMG.
“The reason I’m so frustrated is because I love the club.
“Some seriously hard decisions need to be made.
“They were prepared to do a documentary on what goes on inside the four walls and the Tales form Tiger Town on Fox League gave everyone a birds eye insight into the club.
“But they won’t show us what was in the review. Why not? What are they hiding? There comes a time when people need to be held accountable.
“Publish it on the website and then everyone understands why these decisions are being made.
“Until such time as we have an open book then the situation is never going to improve.”
Not sure if serious..
Quoting two blokes who aren’t happy campers with the club atm? Wouldn’t expect much else?
I would of thought reviews are in house, with confidentiality attached?
Do other clubs open their reviews to the public?
Would be on a hiding to nothing, if they did.
Yeah, about time we kept the media out of our business. The media has an agenda against us as we are an easy story and club they can crap on. Time for us to shut up and put in a strong and unified off season. Part of our review should be a complete media shut out unless there's something obviously positive for them.
The NRL has media requirements for all teams.
Our requirement should be that they don't crap on us constantly.
Any story about us generates revenue.
The revenue hasnt helped our cause.
Not for us.
Yep. That's why we give them nothing/ very little and they take they're negativity elsewhere.
