Wests Tigers Centre of Excellence

[Wounded_magpie]

@Sabre thanks. Hopefully having these new facilities will also improve our recruitment/ retention

 

[Guest]

@Sabre thanks. Hopefully having these new facilities will also improve our recruitment/ retention

They will go some way towards it, having first class facilities will only benefit the club in the long run.

 

[Harvey]

As long as one of Benny's companies is not given the tender.

 

[tigerap]

Titans have one of the best COE around...look at their recruitment record

 

[hobbo1]

As long as one of Benny's companies is not given the tender.

Farry O’Barrel can cut the ribbon .

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Titans have one of the best COE around...look at their recruitment record

Was just waiting for someone to post a “no benefit” comment ......

 

[innsaneink]

I wonder where operations will move to... Training I guess at LO

 

[gallagher]

I wonder where operations will move to... Training I guess at LO

Maybe the blues centre at Homebush. Surely that's under used.

 

[BalmainJnr]

I wonder where operations will move to... Training I guess at LO

Maybe the blues centre at Homebush. Surely that's under used.

That sounds like our sort of place.

 

[happy_tiger]

@Sabre thanks. Hopefully having these new facilities will also improve our recruitment/ retention

They will go some way towards it, having first class facilities will only benefit the club in the long run.

They are planning to change the name to the Centre of Above Averageness

 

[2041]

Titans have one of the best COE around...look at their recruitment record

To be fair the Titans’ problem isn’t that they can’t get people to sign for them. Their problem is they sign all the wrong ones and hand them over to hopeless coaches.

 

[Tcat]

@2041 Sounds like us, with exception of Madge I hope.

 

[Roar_Power]

How good is it going to be when this eventuates in a couple of years time. I think it will make a dramatic difference to the Tigers brand. Just need to keep sponsors and the coach happy in the interim. With all the negativity circling about our 2020 cap, Matterson wanting out and $3m of unwanted players on the sideline, our resolve is going to be tested again next season...

 

[tigerap]

How good is it going to be when this eventuates in a couple of years time. I think it will make a dramatic difference to the Tigers brand. Just need to keep sponsors and the coach happy in the interim. With all the negativity circling about our 2020 cap, Matterson wanting out and $3m of unwanted players on the sideline, our resolve is going to be tested again next season...

Good time to have a membership gap year....?

 

[Spartan117]

Titans have one of the best COE around...look at their recruitment record

To be fair the Titans’ problem isn’t that they can’t get people to sign for them. Their problem is they sign all the wrong ones and hand them over to hopeless coaches.

Our recruitment policy has been legendary for almost 20years.

 

[tigeress]

Titans have one of the best COE around...look at their recruitment record

To be fair the Titans’ problem isn’t that they can’t get people to sign for them. Their problem is they sign all the wrong ones and hand them over to hopeless coaches.

Your post describes our situation perfectly:weary:

 

[2041]

How good is it going to be when this eventuates in a couple of years time. I think it will make a dramatic difference to the Tigers brand. Just need to keep sponsors and the coach happy in the interim. With all the negativity circling about our 2020 cap, Matterson wanting out and $3m of unwanted players on the sideline, our resolve is going to be tested again next season...

I agree with this. 2020 probably isn't going to be spectacular but it's critical that everyone involved with the club holds the line and works for 2021 onwards. The signs are that what the club is doing with junior recruitment is building for a much more positive future, and the single worst thing they could do is panic and do things like mortgage the future to squeeze in another "proven first grade" signing who won't make much actual difference, lose faith in the coach etc etc.

If the board have faith in the plan the CEO and coach have in place they absolutely must stick to it. The biggest problem we've had in the past 14 years is not coordinating anything. So we had good juniors during a period where our cap was a mess, signed expensive players when the existing squad was thin, paid too much to keep veterans when we weren't ready to compete and so forth.

The club we should be trying to emulate is the Raiders. They could have sacked Stewart on multiple occasions or flipped out completely when they lost any one of a dozen good young players - from Ferguson to Boyd and including Dugan, Milford and others. But they focused on a plan: bringing through young players supplemented by signing players who were being overlooked or were unwanted elsewhere (England being a major source, but also Leilua, Nicoll-Klokstad, Sezer (unwanted) and Rapana (out of the game completely)).

 

[balmain boy]

So the DA for the COE was lodged a few months back, with a value of $51.5 million.

Looks like Madge will be working out of one of 6 demountables for up to the next 2 years at the cost of a further million bucks. Maybe that's cheaper than renting somewhere completely separate for a couple of years.

Let's hope construction starts soon!

 

[BZN]

Good work @2041: sensible non-dramatic ideas in your post, which is
something we need MORE of here :fa-smile-o:

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

How good is it going to be when this eventuates in a couple of years time. I think it will make a dramatic difference to the Tigers brand. Just need to keep sponsors and the coach happy in the interim. With all the negativity circling about our 2020 cap, Matterson wanting out and $3m of unwanted players on the sideline, our resolve is going to be tested again next season...

I agree with this. 2020 probably isn't going to be spectacular but it's critical that everyone involved with the club holds the line and works for 2021 onwards. The signs are that what the club is doing with junior recruitment is building for a much more positive future, and the single worst thing they could do is panic and do things like mortgage the future to squeeze in another "proven first grade" signing who won't make much actual difference, lose faith in the coach etc etc.

If the board have faith in the plan the CEO and coach have in place they absolutely must stick to it. The biggest problem we've had in the past 14 years is not coordinating anything. So we had good juniors during a period where our cap was a mess, signed expensive players when the existing squad was thin, paid too much to keep veterans when we weren't ready to compete and so forth.

The club we should be trying to emulate is the Raiders. They could have sacked Stewart on multiple occasions or flipped out completely when they lost any one of a dozen good young players - from Ferguson to Boyd and including Dugan, Milford and others. But they focused on a plan: bringing through young players supplemented by signing players who were being overlooked or were unwanted elsewhere (England being a major source, but also Leilua, Nicoll-Klokstad, Sezer (unwanted) and Rapana (out of the game completely)).

Great comment, agree on all fronts.