Wests Tigers Confirm Coaching Staff For 2016

[yeti]

The club is doing its best to improve itself on and off the field and here we are with a coaching restructure and still people want to whinge and moan. I'd hate to see the disappointment on some people's faces when they open their christmas presents and don't get what they want.

That's one way of thinking about it. Another is to ask what makes all these recently employed coaches who were judged to be good appointments just 12 months ago so fundamentally wrong for their respective positions just one year later? On one hand the need for change after such a bad year is positive but on the other hand the evident and abject failure to select a suitable support staff to facilitate success in the first place doesnt say much for the judgment of whoever it was that appointed these people in the first place.

Couldn't agree more Tbone. Well said.

It has been suggested that it was Reddy who made the comment to Farah that he would be playing reggies if he decided to stay. It would be a reasonable guess then that his sacking is a compromise to allow Farah to continue to 'work' with Taylor if he is here next year. It is also common knowledge that both Kimmorley and Fletcher were not prepared to become full time coaches. The club has stated it's preference that full time coaches for the lower grades is required.
So all in all, I think the changes we have seen are not only explainable, but probably desirable.

 

[Newtown]

Surely the statement from Reddy to Farah would have been off the cuff and not official. Reddy would have no official power at all to make such a statement to a club captain with 2 years left on his contract. If this was the case it is very difficult to understand why Farah, WT's and the media allowed this issue to erupt out of all proportion.