@Earl said in Ofahengaue Signs/ Aloiai released:
@BAGNF05 said in Ofahengaue Signs/ Aloiai released:
@Earl said in Ofahengaue Signs/ Aloiai released:
@BAGNF05 said in Ofahengaue Signs/ Aloiai released:
@Earl said in Ofahengaue Signs/ Aloiai released:
@BAGNF05 said in Ofahengaue Signs/ Aloiai released:
You’re seeing what you want to see mate
So are you.
Matterson “I want to go to a club where I can win a premiership” 10 months later playing in a preliminary final.
He’s a flog, but I rest my case.
I’m laughing at this one. That is a pretty poor way to rest your case. That doesn’t go anywhere near proving that Wests Tigers are a rabble or incompetently managed.
I don’t view Matterson leaving as being about the club being incompetently managed. If anything he just proves to me how hard it is to manage contracts within the NRL.
One point that I would agree with is that if you are a winning footy team it’s easier to hold onto the players that you want too. That doesn’t mean you get it right. If you look at Penrith they are a winning footy team but let’s see how they manage their success going forward.
Just to expand, for a relatively young guy to make an assertion that WT are not heading towards success after an already very long run of poor performance, I have to conclude that there are some issues within the club.
…and you do understand that WT is in the business of winning football games? Our competence in this area is surely in question.
You gotta get some better ammo. What issues ? Why does Matterson stating that mean anything at all other than he wants more money.
Yes we have to win footy games. I get that. That isn’t the problem. The problem is that you and others keep asserting that management is incompetent or there are some big issues but you can’t articulate those issues clearly, rationally and objectively.
We agree completely that the more games we win the better.
Earl, You are DEAD SET RIGHT!
When you have a player like Matterson who wants money (not judging) and breaks his contract early you have a situation.
A situation that isn’t regularly seen in league before. Coach and Board make a decision not to upgrade a player under contract, which has consequences good and bad. Matterson was worth more, sure. But I get it totally that if we give him more we expose a weakness in salary negotiation, it could have opened the flood gates to future bad deals.
The board isn’t at fault for a player being greedy. Aloiai likewise this time broke a contract. The board is handed the situation. I would have kept him lawn mowing, but that would have lead to team disruption. Signing Joe O with money flowing our way is the best recovery of the situation the Board was handed.
Our Board is probably one of the better ones in Rugby League. They are just handed a team without a fixed home ground, a crowded Sydney basin, passionate fans flowing both ways, an unfair salary cap and competition who do them a disservice. (as well as the Rupert terrorgraph that kicks us every chance it gets. )
IMHO we should be looking out for more forwards. I think that most forwards don’t like being a bashing post for a team. If you had a choice of running up against say Jason Taumololo or playing with JT, I think most forwards would choose playing with the bigger pack. Luke Lewis went to Cronulla probably to play with Gallen and not be the center of attention at that team (which then developed a good culture of strong forwards). I digress.
The board isn’t responsible for players getting greedy. That’s Rugby League. What the board can do is make the best of the situation before it.