WT Ownership, The Board & Senior Management - MEGA Thread

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twentyforty said:
I’m just catching up. That sounds positive, on a few levels. Forward planning. No leaks on it. New guy possibly demonstrating success in the job. This could be the change we’ve been waiting for?
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No leaks? It’s between Mark O’Neil and the rugby guy who appears to have knocked us back. 😂
 
Needaname said:
I understand where you are coming from.
But a 3-3 split is necessary in my opinion and especially on this board as we would need at least 1 board member from either Club rep or independents list to add their vote to make up a majority count.
This is my thinking to ensure unity where you have a board wanting to work together and not having any one party with more power or control then the other.
However this is WTs I guess so a 3-3 split board is likely to operate in the opposite fashion and nothing would get done without the other side agreeing to anything.

I thought Holman Barnes and Wests Ashfield are one and the same so no I wouldn’t give 2 seats to the same entity.
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Fair enough but we saw a pattern in the past and a pattern now:

Past:
A split between Balmain and Wests.
Board dominated by Wests Vs Balmain fans.
Tim Sheens contract renewal comes up, board barely notices or has cared for a fair while.
Tim Sheens renewed (after a successful year and being targetted by Penrith).
Squad tanks next year under Sheens.

Now:
Board has more independent members.
Most of those members "enthusastic" about Footy. They will wear a Tigers scarf.
Some are ex players, which can be good and bad.
Chairman upgrades Contract of old winger from 400k to 500k.
Board approves plan for Tim Sheens/Benji Marshall to ressurect club after current coach takes us to 17th.
 
cochise said:
We interviewed at an Ambush event earlier in the year and I found him to be very impressive. It was recorded and released as a podcast episode.

This is only an Interim position, so I don't have an issue with the appointment but what I'm interested in is who he is keeping the seat warm for.
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Why would we bother announcing an interim head of football if he's only warming the seat?

I'm confused.
 
Leck said:
Why would we bother announcing an interim head of football if he's only warming the seat?

I'm confused.
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I'm hoping that it is because there is a high calibre replacement, who is currently employed somewhere else, coming in 12 months time. Key word is hoping as the history of this club doesn't fill me with confidence.
 
cochise said:
We interviewed at an Ambush event earlier in the year and I found him to be very impressive. It was recorded and released as a podcast episode.

This is only an Interim position, so I don't have an issue with the appointment but what I'm interested in is who he is keeping the seat warm for.
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Wayne Bennett
 
cochise said:
I'm hoping that it is because there is a high calibre replacement, who is currently employed somewhere else, coming in 12 months time. Key word is hoping as the history of this club doesn't fill me with confidence.
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You and me both
 
cochise said:
I'm hoping that it is because there is a high calibre replacement, who is currently employed somewhere else, coming in 12 months time.
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cochise said:
Key word is hoping as the history of this club doesn't fill me with confidence.
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Pretty much all the appointments the club has made have been high calibre ones, seemingly best available at the time.

Coaches were given 3 years to make the 8.....Pretty standard stuff in an 8/16 format.

Cleary was outside of our control.

Sheens was always interim.

In fact Benji is the only non high calibre coach appointed........rushed on because senior players regarded him.
 
Magpie_Magic said:
Pretty much all the appointments the club has made have been high calibre ones, seemingly best available at the time.

Coaches were given 3 years to make the 8.....Pretty standard stuff in an 8/16 format.

Cleary was outside of our control.

Sheens was always interim.

In fact Benji is the only non high calibre coach appointed........rushed on because senior players regarded him.
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Except we fail to get our priority target over the line time and again.

Then when we do get a plan in place, often 2nd or 3rd choice, we have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to implementing that plan.
 
cochise said:
Except we fail to get our priority target over the line time and again.

Then when we do get a plan in place, often 2nd or 3rd choice, we have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to implementing that plan.
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Who was our priority target during the last 10 years that we didn't get?

For me all our recent problems stem from a certain players mannager and the so called big 4 and when the club took the best recourse to rebuild by signing Cleary he threw us under the bus outside the club’s control.
 
Magpie_Magic said:
Who was our priority target during the last 10 years that we didn't get?

For me all our recent problems stem from a certain players mannager and the so called big 4 and when the club took the best recourse to rebuild by signing Cleary he threw us under the bus outside the club’s control.
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Bennett, Ciraldo, Mitchell, Munster, Moses all within the last 5 years that were high profile, public, priority targets that we missed. They are just the publicly known ones. Imagine the misses we didn't publicise
 
cochise said:
Bennett, Ciraldo, Mitchell, Munster, Moses all within the last 5 years that were high profile, public, priority targets that we missed. They are just the publicly known ones. Imagine the misses we didn't publicise
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Munster and Moses didn't move. Doesn't count.

Ciraldo is hopeless.

Couldn't have seen Bennett coaching here.

Mitchell was always going to Souths....they have a head start with Aboriginal players.
 
cochise said:
We interviewed at an Ambush event earlier in the year and I found him to be very impressive. It was recorded and released as a podcast episode.

This is only an Interim position, so I don't have an issue with the appointment but what I'm interested in is who he is keeping the seat warm for.
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Strikes me as somewhat odd that they appoint him as the interim now when the position has basically been vacant since Sheens took over the head coaching gig.
 
Magpie_Magic said:
Munster and Moses didn't move. Doesn't count.

Ciraldo is hopeless.

Couldn't have seen Bennett coaching here.

Mitchell was always going to Souths....they have a head start with Aboriginal players.
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You can choose to block it out but reality is they count, we made a formal play at all of them & because of that meant we didn’t focus on other options instead.

They hands down were our targets and we didn’t get them. Heck the reason Brooks stayed for 23 was because they wanted Moses thinking that keeping Brooks would help bring Moses here so they moved Hastings on instead.

Mitchell might of been going to souths but we had a massive offer formally with him which means we can’t use that cash for anyone else. Lee H was even talking about it.
 
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