Why bother with a review??

Tom Shines said:
Just wondering if any of the club insiders here have any idea when the recommendations from the review are going to be acted on?

I mean … like everything else at the club… it’s likely to be played out over some time and with all the gory details of potential sackings reported in detail in the media… would have thought that the time to do that might be now - three months before the season starts and in the lead up to the holiday season?
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Yes Tom. The privelaged few will speak soon. Gold membership.
 
TIGERS said:
Can someone please point me in the direction of some historical evidence that an end of season review is actually a good thing for this football club?

What was the last one?? 2014, Brian Smith??? Did that really change anything??? We ended up with Jason Taylor as a result for goodness sake. They're just to build up a rap sheet to justify changes and sack people. Even worse its just another entry point for more backstabbing and whispers.

The fact of the matter is we can't recruit ANY talent without paying overs, and the talent we do produce gets poached. Thats it. There is nothing more to it. Sure, we improve a bit as a team here and there, but we also can't improve at a rate that is fast enough because we end up dudded by long, multi year contracts.

Until you find a way to get around that core and fundamental problem with the already existing 10 year hoodoo around your neck, things will never change. As long as we are in that cycle you're just re-arranging the same furniture within the same framework.

In terms of corporate governance, who could we possibly bring in that could do a better job than what we have now?? You've got factions and infighting at the board no matter whom is at the helm. Will a new chairman stop leaks to the media? Would a new CEO make the club more lucrative to play for? Will a new chairperson not be subject to the same simmering lack of trust between Wests and Balmain.? I like Lee Hagipantelis. He's a committed benefactor. He's trying things. He has a personality. He's a fan. He's seems to have a better grasp of footy than Marina Go and Mike Bailey ever did. The club has excellent facilities and good sponsorship. We are back at our traditional grounds as a result! He fronts the media more than any other chairperson as far as I can see and communicates bravely and well.

I could be wrong tho.

Is there any real evidence or track record of reviews actually having a positive effect?
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Tucker said:
This thread needs to be preserved forever.
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I'm sure it will.

If you think this is the end of the Wests Tigers being a political hotbed that at times eats itself alive, you're sadly mistaken. From my perspective its really just more of the same.

I'd by lying if I said I didn't think that on the surface, Shane Richardson isn't an upgrade on Pascoe, or that Barry O'Farrell's connections in NSW are not as useful to our club in comparison to our now former chairman.

but come on... This was a total hatchet job!! The replacements were clearly lined up, they're already in place. Bang! Done. I have yet to see any telling points or 'findings' with respect to corporate structure or why the NRL advised structural overhaul made to our board in 2014 is now outdated and needs reform. It's clear the review that was ostensibly there to inspect the structure of the club but it was really an excuse to put in place the (admittedly decent) personnel that Wests had lined up and wanted. Which was my original point.

So I don't see this as the great circuit breaking event in terms of how our club makes decisions. (Just yet). I get anxious when I see new faces at our club trying to mostly import what has worked at other clubs. That just doesn't work here. Shane Richardson won't have Rusty around to make the recruitment phone calls just like Madge didn't. I hope that is understood by the incoming administration, otherwise we are still on the merry go round.
 
TIGERS said:
but come on... This was a total hatchet job!! The replacements were clearly lined up, they're already in place. Bang! Done. I have yet to see any telling points or 'findings' with respect to corporate structure or why the NRL advised structural overhaul made to our board in 2014 is now outdated and needs reform. It's clear the review that was ostensibly there to inspect the structure of the club but it was really an excuse to put in place the (admittedly decent) personnel that Wests had lined up and wanted. Which was my original point.
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This is one of the rare times I would say this is a positive. You reap what you sow. Hopefully the plan is for Richardson to be here a long time.
 
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