I’ll man up , I’ve bagged the crap out of the coach and it appears I was w w wrong

Congratulation to Lee ,Justin ,Madge and Warren Mac for a job that appears to be well done

Now lets finally get it done on the field …no excuses , no mistakes and no mercy boys

@tiger_bond said in BENJI AND THE TIGER CUB:

BENJI AND THE TIGER CUB
BRENT READ

Broken leg and brutal snub led star to Souths

LOOK away Wests Tigers fans, this one’s going to hurt.

Lachlan Ilias grew up in the heart of Wests Tigers territory , idolising his hero Benji Marshall .

Now, after a broken leg and a brutal snub from the Tigers , the star in the making will make his debut in the halves alongside Marshall for South Sydney.

“It was difficult for him – there was a lot of talk at the (Tigers) about big, big plans for him,” Lachlan’s father Arthur said. “It didn’t quite work out that way. The pathway system we could see at the Rabbitohs, I could see longevity and a clear pathway to the NRL.”

Ilias has been working closely with his manager Braith Anasta.

Copyright 2021 News Pty Limited

You thought you were screwed with the Tigers …and you have Bwaiff running your career …that made my laugh

Just calm down everyone …your expecting a 3 game rookie to completely organize the worst defensive line up over the last 10 rounds of 2020 in 6 weeks

I’m excited Laurie has signed …but don’t expect miracles from Rd 1 OK

As for Momi …he was no Steve Rodgers …but any bloke who is prepared to put his own career plans on hold to help a club he was only at for one year …is the type of bloke you want in the trenches with you

Good luck to both boys …hope Daine is a 200 + game WT and Momi has the Footy gods smile favourably on him …he is a true class act in my eyes

Any person mentioning Moylan …obviously hasn’t either watched him the last 2 years or looked at his Wiki bio to see how many games he has played from actual possible games played

PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS

i dont think getting Laurie a season early is worth getting Mansour …even if it is only for a season or two …just my opinion

I must admit I was very anti his signing …thought it was more about the fans than footy

Well I was wrong …he has been pretty good …well worth the money

Sorry Benji …

Who else wants to take their feet out of their mouths

@mike said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@pj said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Is there a pic of the badge in tigers gear?

We finally pay off a ref …and it turns out he is retired …only teh WT’s lol

To everyone that watched fairytales from Tigerland

Remember the try v the Warriors when we lost by 2 …and Madge screams about not giving up your inside shoulder …

Well that gives you a picture of our defence everyone …if players aren’t following their opposition number and are compacting the line because the middle is folding …it explains why our wingers are getting left high and dry and facing 3 on 1’s …

I know this will get confusing …but yes you need a firm defensive system …but that system needs to be fluid …even though we play our thirds of the field …we really need to be talking big time …caling who you are taking and be prepared to make positive defensive calls (being fluid )

This passive defence is a load of crap to be honest …it’s basically the opposite of relying on line speed …it’s more based on your defence being as fast as your slowest defender …OK yes you maintain a straight line …but it is so easy to bend the line and just roll over the top of side

Bring Bryce Gibbs back and have him work solely with 2-3 blokes solely based on developing 80 minutes of line speed every week …like Melbourne …Penrith …Parra

Fixing our defence is key …the less points we need to score every week to win games the easier

Defence ,Defence , Defence

Cool …a couple of debutants

Good luck Junior and Tuki

@Russell said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@DGilly said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Rumours of Mitchell Pearce coming now. Thoughts?

Absolutely NOT - he never wanted to be a Tiger - until he is spent.

Don’t believe it anyway.

We’d lose thousands of pet memberships …big no

So is Madge staying or going

So everyone stays …or is @Geo going

@demps said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

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I will now support him as I want what’s best for the team but I am disappointed.

I can’t share the same view. After almost 40 years I’m done with the club.

Come be an AC Milan fan with me?

@happy_tiger @hobbo1

You know what you can do with that AC Milan crap lol

Come and blow bubbles with Happy and @hobbo1

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@hugh1954 said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

Do you think that this is all media attempting to fast track outcomes for their own attention seeking spin that the Tigers should come out strongly to rebuff and condemn this behavior or just remain quiet and get on with the review in their own time

No they are being fed by people in the Tigers covering their tracks in the organisation. Like here it’s turned into a sack Madge discussion. Exactly what it’s designed to do. Distract from the ineptitude of people actually running the club.
People are diminishing the brand of the Tigers to cover their back sides and blaming the coach.

It’s not being spun it’s being fed. People can work out who’s playing the games it’s not Madge to a fault he’s straight down the line with most things.

If they are going to sack him do it already the brand damage of letting the media run with this is worse. They need to be sacked immediately.

The self interest in our club is astonishing. Blame the bloke whose been here 3 years when we were a massive rabble when he arrived. Nothing to see here!! Did Madge hire Cleary? Fail to retain Cleary? Fail to retain multiple dally m medal winners? Sign Packer, Ballin, Anasta, Reynolds, Mbye? No. The lunatics are free in the asylum.

I’d say self interest is certainly a factor. With the Board apparently divided, with the playing group apparently divided and now the supporter base on this forum divided, Maguire needs to fall on his sword if he cares about the club. He’s failed and it’s time to go.

We need to start healing and that cannot begin until he has departed.

Oh, good grief …spare us, please. Start “healing”? Seriously?? When a significant proportion of fans and members are pointing the finger at the CEO/Chair/Board and their incompetence and want Maguire retained?

What you’re really saying is that your credibility on here is so dependent on Maguie being punted that you’re becoming impatient waiting for it to happen.

The obfuscation is outrageous. Stop deflecting and deal with the issue of Maguire failing.

I don’t play the man (or woman) so I won’t comment on your last paragraph.

While you don’t seem to attribute Club leadership and management as having any influence in Maguire “failing”, then you’re going to be disappointed in 2022 and beyond with whomever the new coach is as they will be “failing” too if those same structural and leadership issues remain as they are, in my opinion.

Our appalling defence for example is Maguire. Conceding 30 points a game and players not knowing what they are supposed to be doing. We’re so passive in defence. He’s only had 3 years to “fix it” and you want to give him another 2 years?

We’ve steadily regressed over the last three years. That is also entirely on Maguire.

It is time for a new coach, new ideas, a much improved defence and some hope for the future.

For two years Maguires squad was hamstrung by players taking up the majority of cap space who contributed squat. No coach can have success where your highest paid players don’t contribute.
All week we have been listening to the poor Roosters with so much of their cap on the sideline yet they still fielded a team with Teddy Radley JWH Tupuonia Crichton - and got 42 points put on them. For us to get just two of those players would blow our cap out of the water and yet that is their weak side. Any of those players in our team on any given week would have significantly improved our performance. That is what our club competes against and that impacts on the coach.

Maguire was never going to be able to turn things around on the field for us individually in three years even your man Cleary said it would take 5 or so years.
This year’s side is full of inconsistencies because of their youth, inexperience and lack of leadership on the field. They finished where most predicted and based on the rosters of the sides above them you would be hard pressed to find anyone who could argue that we have a better squad.
Maguire has not got results and will be the fall guy but he is not the singular reason for our results this year, and your failure to acknowledge that is tiresome. Add to that the lack of respect our club has shown him in recent days, is a reflection of why this club is in the position we are in and why we are consistently in a holding pattern.

Madge said he could win with the squad he had?

And Luke Brooks has said this his team.

So sack them both, that is what happens when people set targets that they don not reach.

There seems to be only one head on the chopping block - yet accountability for continual failure at the club seems to escape some more than others.

Because he needs to be the 1st domino to fall. Hopefully the next coach doesn’t need to lie to get the job.

What was the lie?

That he said he could get the existing roster to finals

IMO having belief in yourself and a bunch of young athletes, so called professionals, however ignorant or ill placed, is hardly lying.

But he’s changed that narrative. For the first two years he said he could get the club to finals. Now this year when he got under pressure he came out with the “not my roster” line.

I just think that calling him a lier suggests he intentionally deceived which is not what I think his narrative is about. I honestly think he loves the club and is doing everything he can to make it better.

So do you think he genuinely believed he could get the squad into the finals? He may love the club but he loves his job more. His experience of being white anted at Souths led him to surrounding himself with incompetent assistants here who were no threat to him. That was not in the best interests of the club.

Mate, if Robbie doesnt break his leg a week out, we probably beat Cronulla and make the finals. He went close.

I dont understand the focus on this statement. He very nearly did make the finals with that squad.

Zero chance since

We got beaten by 20 by the Sharks …a fully fit Robbie wasn’t going to make that big a difference

@geo said in 2022 Membership info:

I’m still waiting for my pen…

To make your mark …X

@enmoretiger-0 said in Who Should Coach the Wests Tigers:

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@terry-t-nuts said in Who Should Coach the Wests Tigers:

I think it has always been Flanagan on the board’s wish list. As I have previously stated I would be shocked if Ciraldo joins the club. As much as I don’t think getting rid of Madge is the answer unfortunately I have been addicted to this club since 1989 and I will continue to support whoever is in charge.’ Just hope they get rid of Nofo and Brooks.

Madge should be the coach, sacking the coach now is ridicules.
The definition of stupidity is to continue doing the same thing and expecting a different out come.

Seriously not understanding your point. You are saying we should keep Madge, but stupidity is continuing doing the same thing and expecting a different out come? How do these two things go together?

By continually blaming the coach and sacking them, we have done that for 10 years.
Madge is the first coach we have had that is not a rookie coach. The roster was a mess and still has some way to go, people with more understanding of our situation than me have confirmed that Madge is not the problem, Gould.
Getting behind Madge now will send a message to the players who do not want to put in/step up etc.
Invest in Juniors, look how are junior teams are going, do not change course now.
I am sure Sheens would be putting this view to the board.

Potter is the only Rookie coach since Lamb, and Lamb is the only other rookie in our history. You can’t just make stuff up.

Really? you think Taylor was not a rookie?
Also Junior was a rockie coach also

Taylor coached at Parra and Souths …

@weststigerman said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

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@hobbo1 said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

Does the rules actually stipulate that an NRL team have a coach ?
I’d just let the players coach themselves.

Hahah yeah.

“Here you go fellas, you have a crack this year, and if you don’t make the eight, you’re all out the door!”

I think I like that idea.

Can you imagine all 17 at post game pressers …they’d be throwing each other under the bus lol

@demps said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

Wonder what dramas today will bring…

Nothing that will put this club in a better light …thats for sure …probably have all these boardmembers showing up with fake beards and fake voices …maybe even drag

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Anything said about who our coach will be.

Keen to know myself… Fingers crossed we know this week

The Pom has indicated that Madge would hold his coaching position.

The Pom might be off the mark on this one.

I hope so mate, Ciraldo is the bloke we need, even though you don’t like the idea of a rookie coach. He has Penrith as the best defensive team in the NRL, he has respect among the players, and he could attract some quality players. He basically is everything Madge is not, and we need

Barrett had the Panthers attack looking pretty good too…didn’t transcend to the Bulldogs.

Barrett can attract players, Madge could only dream of, and Penriths attack revolved around Cleary, Penriths defence doesn’t revolve around one player, so completely different

Is it Barrett who can attract them, or the Dogs? Is it Madge who can’t attract players or is it Wests Tigers?

I think it’s clearly the WT Club. The leadership, management, resources and structures of the Club; a reluctantly merged, partisan, divided and unaccountable Board that runs the joint is the problem.

Jack Manning-Bancroft got panned by many on here for exposing the artificial and convenient nature of the WT narrative since the merger. It’s superficial rubbish. Three-word slogans that even Tony Abbott would baulk at.

By contrast, did you read the comments of Trent Robinson after the Roosters were booted out ingloriously at the hands of Manly? He said that the resilience, courage and efforts of the 2021 squad would strengthen the Club into the future; not the “team”, not “him” as coach, but the Club.

That’s what we don’t have. And, it’s got nothing to do with the coach.
It’s the shambolic, incoherent and selfish leadership of the Chair, CEO and Board that stifles any positive future for the Club, in it’s current state.

If Madge is gone, it will be interesting what the club does for the next coach I.e open the purse strings, that they never afforded Madge.

Is this a joke, he got to offer Latrell over a million a year, JAC, TPJ, Finucane got offered good coin, there were more, he had money, but no decent player wanted to play under Madge

If we had landed Latrell we would have had no money for anybody else. It would be one star (who is often lazy) surrounded by a team of minimum wagers. It’s a different story now that Mbye and Packer are off the books.

I’m not sure how it is different …we will still an inept plodder farm

What’s the Easts Reserve grade? Why has Souths been able to pull a replacement for Latrell and we had to move everything to get a decent fullback in Diane Laurie?

The ability to attract top shelf players when coming 13th! Are we joking?

What concerns me is the players that do come here are not developing. No, were never going to superstar hire ourselves out of the spot were in. What we need to do is identify why we have what would be an alright forward pack crumble in so many situations. How come, after a year of fewer disturbances then other teams we still are not defending?

When we have 13 guys that are playing for each other and holding their own, then we can hire whomever we want and give them $1mil to get them. But while were a mess, players are not going to come here. They see Josh Reynolds, Mbye, Packer and think “those guys haven’t developed. I am worth 1 Million now, but if I join the Tigers I will be on the scrap heap”.

This club is all about names …names from another era almost …Roberts , BJ , Tamou ,Ballin …they struggle with tense …lets try something different

Instead of looking at a player and saying they have PLAYED SOO …how about looking at players who are PLAYING SOO

If a Porsche is for sale for $5000 …there is a reason for it …

@willow said in STREAMING FINDS and RECOMENDATIONS:

@carltonleach said in STREAMING FINDS and RECOMENDATIONS:

There’s a movie on Netflix it’s called 12 strong. It may have been mentioned before but definitely recommend it!!

Not a bad flick.

Yeah pretty good movie

@hugh1954 said in Madge Maguire - Mega Thread:

I have the same problem myself…always have trouble getting rid of my loved automobiles even when they are always breaking down costing me more, not performing,and have me attracted my their shiney outside, that people admired in the past

At least they got you from A to B for many years

These lemons can’t get off the showroom floor …