Uncoached

[yeti]

Barrett couldn't coach last year either - now he can apparently.
It's never going to be great for a coach or a team when there's a change made during the season.
Some of you need to harden up. Trashing Cleary this year is nonsense. Trash him at the end of next year if you want to.
Some of us have been through this crap for 40 years or more - with just the occasional season to keep us hanging in there. You can never walk away Milky - I've tried.

 

[TrueTiger]

Say what you want…if things don't improve next year, I'm out.

No finals series in 8 years is a joke and I don't want any part of it. Done with the game.

You may not find that as easy as you think

Lol yes I'm sure we've all been down that road at some stage. Especially supporting this mob!

Every year for the last 6 for me…. I can only wonder what I'd be like to be a Storm or Cowboys supporter.... lucky buggers

No way mate,I have been a Balmain supporter and now an avid WTs supporter….I DONT LIKE THE EASY ROAD...it would get boring winning every week and not have anything to get angry at...

 

[Andyvee]

This current team is uncoachable.

What's the old saying…..You can't polish a turd.

Hopefully Cleary not only continues to build a competitive team for next year, but he overhauls and does a mass purge of the current support and training staff in all three grades.

I am getting sick of finishing my supporters season in August, would like to get into September.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

I'm not happy with the results, would have thought Cleary would have got the boys up for a couple more wins than we've seen. Keen to see how we go with his cattle next year, not prepared to start calling for the coaches head when it's quite clear he has plans in place that he cannot act on yet.

He's identifying and blooding players with a view for next year so that's promising.

 

[TrueTiger]

I'm not happy with the results, would have thought Cleary would have got the boys up for a couple more wins than we've seen. Keen to see how we go with his cattle next year, not prepared to start calling for the coaches head when it's quite clear he has plans in place that he cannot act on yet.

He's identifying and blooding players with a view for next year so that's promising.

Couldnt agree more CB….here is a list I got off the top of my head that have gone or been moved on or are injured within the last 3/4 years....and replaced by what we have...

Koro
JAC
Austin
TMM
sironen
Tapau
Hieno
Farah
moses
Simona

injured at the moment....
Ballin
Lawrence
Aloia

add Fulton early retirement and Benji moved on...

We are in a rebuilding stage that will make this club a far better place in the future....we have to be PATIENT,..I know its hard to cop what we have these last couple of years but we must stay solid...blaming the coach at the first hint of disappointment or bagging the far inferior playing group is not the way to go....Everyone at the club is TRYING,it must be hard to front up every week and copping plenty,but what we have is what we have got until next year....stay strong and dont weaken we are TRUE TIGERS.....

 

[Geo]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

 

[old_man_tiger]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

Geo do you think we are on track to look better for next year than this year? Or do you disagree?

I mean in terms of squad depth across the park.

I never thought JT was the problem, and feel justified in that view now, however, I do think longer term Cleary will be better for us as he seems to have been able to attract a few players that we might not have got under JT. Pure speculation of course, and I'm referring mostly to packer and matulino.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

No one on here maybe. I have seen the odd loose unit on social media slitting their wrists already.

 

[andrew 474]

I have no idea what Ivan is doing or thinking but , this could be part of the reason we are crap
Coach gets punted after a few games
The big 4 only 1 stays
Ivan comes in with a green light to buy up big for next year and he has with 6 signed and 2 already here
Ivan still has more players to buy Apparently , so that's around 3/4 of a team

All this must make players a bit worried , cause there is going to be a clean out right down the line

Brooks needs decent pack around him before will call for his head , he won't have a chance next year to play crap he will get punted into 2 grade there will be no excuses ,

The players who want to stay will need to,pick it up now we are rock bottom and players like young Matt has come into the team and gone pretty well up front

 

[JD Tiger]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

Geo do you think we are on track to look better for next year than this year? Or do you disagree?

I mean in terms of squad depth across the park.

I never thought JT was the problem, and feel justified in that view now, however, I do think longer term Cleary will be better for us as he seems to have been able to attract a few players that we might not have got under JT. Pure speculation of course, and I'm referring mostly to packer and matulino.

I've been thinking about WT coaches etc. I think the culture at the WT was all wrong. Too much sucking up and power to the players. To guys like Robbie and Farah over the years. They were our saviours, they were Gods, so they got everything they wanted, even having unofficial input into recruitment/ retention (e.g. Moltzen). Sheensy and the board bowed to them, and let them have free rein.

Potter came, didn't bow, got outed. The Board got JT who came, saw the problem and tried to fix it, with the Board supported him initially then when the going got tough they hung him out to dry. JT never had a chance because he wasn't the right person for the job, and the people that hired him screwed him over as well.

Enter IC. (Now this enters more of the speculation whereas I would argue the previous was observed.) IC sees the problems going on from outside the club (everyone can, its not hard). He is hesitant about stepping in, he saw what happened to JT. He makes it clear (I hope) that if he comes in, he will change everything, and that he must have full control over who is recruited with no input from the Board. "Give me 3 years and if there's no improvement, then I fall on my sword. But in the meantime, let me do my job" sort of mentality.

Fingers crossed that's what going on, it certainly looks like it. Fingers crossed the Board can back off and let him do his job. Fingers crossed IC's vision comes to fruition, that he gets the right blend and it all comes together well. Now I've run out of fingers.

 

[TCL]

Wow, Ivan has inherited a team that showed at the back end of last year where it was really at.

The numpty 3 threw one liners to the press basically accusing their team mates of not having the ability to compete week in week out. Moses leaves mid year and continues to bag his team mates.

We have regular first graders (not world beaters) injured, play a number of halves variations using players that IMO should be playing at best state cup. we haven't had woods and Teddy for a number of games.

We are at least competing in our games of late with the ordinary side we have.

The only thing i would have a go at Cleary about is his selection of Lovett, that guy just isn't a 1st grade footballer. He runs with no real venom and drops the ball at least once every game. I cant recall who but someone posted "has lovett not dropped a ball in a game he has played. i would go further and say has lovett not dropped a ball in an attacking position in a game he has played.

Save the knives for next year folks. Hopefully we will only need them for carving up the opposition!

 

[old_man_tiger]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

Geo do you think we are on track to look better for next year than this year? Or do you disagree?

I mean in terms of squad depth across the park.

I never thought JT was the problem, and feel justified in that view now, however, I do think longer term Cleary will be better for us as he seems to have been able to attract a few players that we might not have got under JT. Pure speculation of course, and I'm referring mostly to packer and matulino.

I've been thinking about WT coaches etc. I think the culture at the WT was all wrong. Too much sucking up and power to the players. To guys like Robbie and Farah over the years. They were our saviours, they were Gods, so they got everything they wanted, even having unofficial input into recruitment/ retention (e.g. Moltzen). Sheensy and the board bowed to them, and let them have free rein.

Potter came, didn't bow, got outed. The Board got JT who came, saw the problem and tried to fix it, with the Board supported him initially then when the going got tough they hung him out to dry. JT never had a chance because he wasn't the right person for the job, and the people that hired him screwed him over as well.

Enter IC. (Now this enters more of the speculation whereas I would argue the previous was observed.) IC sees the problems going on from outside the club (everyone can, its not hard). He is hesitant about stepping in, he saw what happened to JT. He makes it clear (I hope) that if he comes in, he will change everything, and that he must have full control over who is recruited with no input from the Board. "Give me 3 years and if there's no improvement, then I fall on my sword. But in the meantime, let me do my job" sort of mentality.

Fingers crossed that's what going on, it certainly looks like it. Fingers crossed the Board can back off and let him do his job. Fingers crossed IC's vision comes to fruition, that he gets the right blend and it all comes together well. Now I've run out of fingers.

I agree with this. I'm guessing you mean Robbie and Benji, given you mentioned Moltz. Everything about Farah's last 3 years or so with us was managed poorly, by al parties, and I think we are paying for too many high value stuff ups right now. The only way to make this waste of a season worth anything is to build as strongly as we can for the future.

 

[innsaneink]

Did the club think think that Brooks was just going to morph into a top gun half. They stuffed up his developement, I just hope that they haven't left it to late .

Maybe he's reaches his peak… Despite all the experts predictions.
They all can't be top gun halves... Guy like Dan Mortimer, McCrone, Robson all would've had high hopes also at careers beginnings.
Gus iirc called him a boy... That's what he looks and sounds like... Maybe he just don't have it and we've backed another non place getter as per

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

Geo do you think we are on track to look better for next year than this year? Or do you disagree?

I mean in terms of squad depth across the park.

I never thought JT was the problem, and feel justified in that view now, however, I do think longer term Cleary will be better for us as he seems to have been able to attract a few players that we might not have got under JT. Pure speculation of course, and I'm referring mostly to packer and matulino.

I've been thinking about WT coaches etc. I think the culture at the WT was all wrong. Too much sucking up and power to the players. To guys like Robbie and Farah over the years. They were our saviours, they were Gods, so they got everything they wanted, even having unofficial input into recruitment/ retention (e.g. Moltzen). Sheensy and the board bowed to them, and let them have free rein.

Potter came, didn't bow, got outed. The Board got JT who came, saw the problem and tried to fix it, with the Board supported him initially then when the going got tough they hung him out to dry. JT never had a chance because he wasn't the right person for the job, and the people that hired him screwed him over as well.

Enter IC. (Now this enters more of the speculation whereas I would argue the previous was observed.) IC sees the problems going on from outside the club (everyone can, its not hard). He is hesitant about stepping in, he saw what happened to JT. He makes it clear (I hope) that if he comes in, he will change everything, and that he must have full control over who is recruited with no input from the Board. "Give me 3 years and if there's no improvement, then I fall on my sword. But in the meantime, let me do my job" sort of mentality.

Fingers crossed that's what going on, it certainly looks like it. Fingers crossed the Board can back off and let him do his job. Fingers crossed IC's vision comes to fruition, that he gets the right blend and it all comes together well. Now I've run out of fingers.

I agree with this. I'm guessing you mean Robbie and Benji, given you mentioned Moltz. Everything about Farah's last 3 years or so with us was managed poorly, by al parties, and I think we are paying for too many high value stuff ups right now. The only way to make this waste of a season worth anything is to build as strongly as we can for the future.

Potter went because he was a crap Coach, and Taylor should've went 12 months earlier than he did

 

[jirskyr]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

You seriously can't see any improvement in the side since Cleary took over? Didn't rate the win in Townsville or didn't think we did alright getting close to Dragons and Sharks in Origin period?

The team is not playing well but I see improvements in them, I see changes. It's not doing much for the results, and maybe that's the only measurement anyone cares about, but I would say we are defensively in games every 2 out of 3 weeks now, it used to be 1/3 weeks.

You seem to have become a mad cynic lately Geo with these sarky by-lines in every second post. You can't see any value change in the side at all?

 

[jrtiger]

It's quite simply the cattle that we have. Cleary has said from the beginning that he wasn't planning on making his mark on the team during this year, instead he would tweak a few of Taylor's tactics i.e Rushing Defence, positional changes etc. The cattle that Jason Taylor assembled were to suit his tactics and they simply were not good enough, and Cleary has his eyes set on long term success and culture change, which isn't going to happen in 3 months. As well as this, the win against the cowboys, the game against Parra that we let go, as well as the game against Cronulla where we were in the game for 60 minutes at Leichhardt were all signs that under Cleary that we are an improved side, it's just going to take time.

As for Brooks the boy is going to have a rough time this season. Woods was really the only forward that stood up tonight and we have a pathetic bench that lacks both experience and power that will change next year. He's being relied on to kick on last every time down that left corridor which is killing him and making him look one dimensional and would look better roving across the field, especially with Tui's best game being when he takes the line on. Next year with a partner in Reynolds as well as a superior forward pack and a pre season under IC the boy will thrive. No one came close to him in Junior ranks, and both his representative honours as well as his debut shows that he has the talent, but he will be guided. Once we have Matulino, Packer, McQueen and hopefully another backrower and front rower punching through the middle Brooks will be the halfback that not only takes control, but becomes the source of our points for years to come.

It's going to take time, it always was. Cleary has only put the broom through the kitchen, he's got plenty of the house to go. WTTID.
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Good Article and not far off the mark. Give it time and this means into 2018\. Some of us are too hard on Brooks. With the better pack in front of him he will be a better player. Those of us that think that Cleary was going to change things overnight should get a reality check.

Not an article mate, just my post! I am a journalism student at uni though so that might be showing up hahaha

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

I have no idea what Ivan is doing or thinking but , this could be part of the reason we are crap
Coach gets punted after a few games
The big 4 only 1 stays
Ivan comes in with a green light to buy up big for next year and he has with 6 signed and 2 already here
Ivan still has more players to buy Apparently , so that's around 3/4 of a team

All this must make players a bit worried , cause there is going to be a clean out right down the line

Brooks needs decent pack around him before will call for his head , he won't have a chance next year to play crap he will get punted into 2 grade there will be no excuses ,

The players who want to stay will need to,pick it up now we are rock bottom and players like young Matt has come into the team and gone pretty well up front

The players should be aiming up and competing for the limited spots on the bus then, wouldn't you think? Some of them just do not have it. Some of them may stay on as depth players and spend most of 2018, if not all, challenging for an ISC title and coming through when injury strikes.

If pride isn't a motivator, they should all be putting in for no other reason than to secure a contract elsewhere.

 

[earl]

Wow, Ivan has inherited a team that showed at the back end of last year where it was really at.

The numpty 3 threw one liners to the press basically accusing their team mates of not having the ability to compete week in week out. Moses leaves mid year and continues to bag his team mates.

We have regular first graders (not world beaters) injured, play a number of halves variations using players that IMO should be playing at best state cup. we haven't had woods and Teddy for a number of games.

We are at least competing in our games of late with the ordinary side we have.

The only thing i would have a go at Cleary about is his selection of Lovett, that guy just isn't a 1st grade footballer. He runs with no real venom and drops the ball at least once every game. I cant recall who but someone posted "has lovett not dropped a ball in a game he has played. i would go further and say has lovett not dropped a ball in an attacking position in a game he has played.

Save the knives for next year folks. Hopefully we will only need them for carving up the opposition!

Great post.

 

[colmcd]

Geez No one is calling for his head…..Just some improvement of which there has been Zero...oh well...Next Year...

Geo do you think we are on track to look better for next year than this year? Or do you disagree?

I mean in terms of squad depth across the park.

I never thought JT was the problem, and feel justified in that view now, however, I do think longer term Cleary will be better for us as he seems to have been able to attract a few players that we might not have got under JT. Pure speculation of course, and I'm referring mostly to packer and matulino.

I've been thinking about WT coaches etc. I think the culture at the WT was all wrong. Too much sucking up and power to the players. To guys like Robbie and Farah over the years. They were our saviours, they were Gods, so they got everything they wanted, even having unofficial input into recruitment/ retention (e.g. Moltzen). Sheensy and the board bowed to them, and let them have free rein.

Potter came, didn't bow, got outed. The Board got JT who came, saw the problem and tried to fix it, with the Board supported him initially then when the going got tough they hung him out to dry. JT never had a chance because he wasn't the right person for the job, and the people that hired him screwed him over as well.

Enter IC. (Now this enters more of the speculation whereas I would argue the previous was observed.) IC sees the problems going on from outside the club (everyone can, its not hard). He is hesitant about stepping in, he saw what happened to JT. He makes it clear (I hope) that if he comes in, he will change everything, and that he must have full control over who is recruited with no input from the Board. "Give me 3 years and if there's no improvement, then I fall on my sword. But in the meantime, let me do my job" sort of mentality.

Fingers crossed that's what going on, it certainly looks like it. Fingers crossed the Board can back off and let him do his job. Fingers crossed IC's vision comes to fruition, that he gets the right blend and it all comes together well. Now I've run out of fingers.

I think you're onto something here.

Lets face it, you have 16 teams in the comp and us starting almost at ground zero. Even if we are rebuilding, the other sides are built. To win a game you either need to be better then the other side, better in a specific weakpoint or lucky.
We are never lucky!
We are not better then anyone but possibly Newcastle at the moment.

While we have a good fullback and Lolohea seems to be a little dangerous. We really don't have a front bench that can challenge and our backs aren't great.

So our only chance to win is to rebuild. Fire Ivan? Not unless a better person really steps up (i.e. Craig Bellamy moves to Sydney).

Yes our attacking options have sucked too. I am heavily concerned that Ivan basically got the warriors to the finals once and was punted from Penrith. However if we become a grounds for coach rotation (which we have) then I wonder what we will become.

 

[earl]

Did the club think think that Brooks was just going to morph into a top gun half. They stuffed up his developement, I just hope that they haven't left it to late .

Maybe he's reaches his peak… Despite all the experts predictions.
They all can't be top gun halves... Guy like Dan Mortimer, McCrone, Robson all would've had high hopes also at careers beginnings.
Gus iirc called him a boy... That's what he looks and sounds like... Maybe he just don't have it and we've backed another non place getter as per

Exactly. Maybe he will come good but it won't be the club who gets him to come good. All the club can do is give him an opportunity. It's his talent and work ethic that matters the most.