@@stevvvvveperrytheir current development talent is brilliant, they have a lot of kids coming through that will be superstars. It’s gonna take time though for those kids to debut and establish themselves.
@@ethanpettit2685 not if they go to other clubs, which is what has been happening for about 15 years now. Same thing was happening at Panthers and Parra, until they actually got their development sorted.
@@stevvvvveperry they won’t at least not any time soon, all of their significant junior talent at the club has been signed up until 2027/28. This was confirmed by the club in a Club Release.
Almost every premiership winning team has had a world class playmaker/general as their number 7. Someone to direct them around the park. The likes of Reyno, Moses, Cleary, SJ, Hughes etc. The Tigers have not really had that in this era.
Yeah would be great to have a player like Moses sadly Tigers just have never had that kind of player... If only Moses debuted at Tigers instead of Parra maybe thing would be different. Oh wait...
So many times we were looking good and improving and it all fell apart. So sad that we couldnt keep the players we needed. Plus we have no coach stability.
Every premiership winning team has 2 alpha forwards that love the hard stuff and buy into the coaches beliefs the boys will follow, ❤ I can’t keep writing this my thumbs are sore 😂
The Panthers and Cowboys wins were honestly the happiest i have been as a fan for a long time. Sadly it wasnt to last but those were a good couple of weeks.
The only thing that has been constant throughout the last decade has been the board. They need to go, nothing they have done has helped the Tigers get back into winning form only hindered.
Except the board hasn’t been constant at all. A new board was installed 5 September 2014 - Marina Go, Lucio Di Bartolomeo, Rosemary Sinclair, Simon Cook and Tony Andreacchio. As of today, only Andreacchio remains a board member. So in less than 10 years, 4 of those 5 directors have gone, to be replaced by 6 different directors.
Well actually, the board has had several changes since 2014 as noted by @WTBob2005 in his above comment. The constant has been that the board makes one crap decision after the other. Board members appear to know nothing about RL who expect overnight success. As much as I admire and respect Benji, I'm unable to see any light at the end of the tunnel.
Wests Tigers are lucky that Macarthur FC don't have it together off the field - if the Bulls could get their house in order and start winning championships it's curtains for the Tigers.
Good video, but the Gen Y and Z era's are overtly fickle and lack the substance required to endure losing seasons to build and stay at a club. If your a talented rookie, you are looking for a strong club, regardless of your junior club. But news limited's coverage of this side is where the real "bad luck" begins. Exploiting their huge supporter base and playing on the idea that rugby league thrives on bad news, This club gets negative press, as a strategy for news outlets. Sound Far fetched how do you think Luke Brooks became the most reported player in RL history, that piece of trivia has been known for a while.
The coaching merry-go-round continues, the player recruit-then-roster clean out continues, yet the results don't improve. The 2022 Tigers had a different coaching staff + refreshed roster to the 2023 Tigers but again finished last. I love Benji but don't see him lasting to 2027 in their 5-year plan.
Last finals appearance was 2011. This year they finished last. Signings for 2024 are just Aidan Sezar (who hasn't played NRL since 2019) and some rookie players who may or may not kick on. I think there's a few more years of pain ahead.
The tigers don’t need a premiership. They need to focus on getting a team together that can win enough games to get out of the bottom 8. Focus on consistently getting to 8th place first, only then does a premiership look possible
They need to get a grip on who they are as a club and accept that the joint venture isn’t working. Tigers need to go back to Balmain and invest in the local junior clubs from the inner west.
It all fell apart when they hired brian smith to do an audit of the club in around 13,14. They followed his recomendations and the results are there for all to see.
I think they need to focus on getting out of the bottom eight instead of aiming for making let alone winning the grand final. They focus on rebuilding too quickly then send em out hoping for the best
Here's my 5 point plan to fix this mess: Step 1. Send Russel Crowe to jedi mind trick Tom Cruise to spend a few billion to split up some clubs like Western Suburbs, Steelers, North Sydney Bears and Balmain Tigers. Step 2. Get more celebrities and saudi oil barons to put money into these clubs and flood them with islander talent. Step 3. Go back to Top 5 instead of Top 8 final system, Where top 3 get 1 life before Grand final (fairest system for finals ever made). Step 4. Setup an NFL/AFL style draft with rules where you can't leave club straight away. STep 5. Setup a fairer salary cap system where you are rewarded for having a better youth program so you get financial incentives to stay at club that isn't affected by Salary cap. NRL is playing in USA. It's the best rugby competition in the world including Rugby Union. It will succeed in USA soon. We need our centenery clubs strong like the Tigers and Wests. We need the Steelers and St George as well.
We don't need any of the those clubs back at all. Lack of support for teams in Sydney already is an embarrassment to our game, get rid of some more and stop this old mentality that's holding league back
Pap signed elsewhere as he was blocked by Teddy, who departed obviously, but he wasn't to know. JMK was dogshit till Uncle Bennett got hold of him 8 years after he left tigers.
Appointing that sneering, divisive malcontent Taylor as coach was the worst decision from a long list of errors. Sacking Maguire was a close second. Pascoe and Hagipatelis appear to know nothing about rugby league. They seem to expect instant success when what we really needed was a long term rebuild period. Although I'll be a Tigers fan till the day I die I hold no hope for the future of our club.
A man only gets one mother and one football team in life. My footie team was Western Suburbs and when they went under, what was left? Wests Tigers just don't do it for me. They're not Wests. It's not just the board. It's them. They're not a club, they're a corporation, Wests Tigers Pty Ltd. The players have nothing to play for. They weren't alive in the days of Wests and Balmain. They have no real home ground. Leichardt Oval is not the spiritual home of the Magpies. On a north-south axis they're spread over half of Sydney. Their Centre of Excellence is in a suburb that is barely a whistle stop on Parramatta Road. You could write a book.
The TIGERs will RISE one day and it will be a beautiful thing….. No one wants to see any team struggling like this regardless…..we all know we need each other to remain a competitive sport…..MONEY is the root of all evil and it has tarnished the game over the years…..I hope TIGERS stay resilient and bounce back From a BRONX fan 🔥
Born and bred in Tiger territory I've been a die hard fan for 63 years so I'd love for you to be right but I don't see the WestTigers coming good in my lifetime. There's something rotten in the club and the stench emanates from the board of directors. Getting rid of Pascoe would be a good start but we know that'll never happen anytime soon.
If they had of managed there talent better, kept those players they sold off or left......they could of been the dominant team for 5+yrs, instead of cellar dwellers
I believe Marshall can do it! They should take that positivity this year beating the panthers and work out how they can keep that intensity in their game
How does a team that only has 10% of the actual club ownership get to retain its name? Should revert to the Magpies and leave the Tigers' era of failure behind.
Tigers fans need to take a leaf out of football fans in Europe and protest against there shambolic board, hold banners, boycott games even storm the pitch if they need too.
Yeah the mergers were a quick fix at the time, but we are starting to see they are not beneficial long term. Need to split up both. Keep Wests as Magpies and give them all of inner west out to Campbelltown. Relocate the tigers to Perth. Give the Steelers back Illawarra. Move Saints back to Sydney or up to QLD.
Illawarra can have dragons/Steelers, that makes sense. But to think qld/Perth or whoever should get a Sydney based club moved there is ridiculous. Axe some Sydney clubs since no one goes to watch half the games
Basically the signing of useless Adam Blair fir 800k and sending everyone else to the sharks ripping the heart out the team to fit him under the cap started thus crash and burn to never recover again 2012 don't forget also Dwyer never came back again because his arm was no longer to be used. and Robbie Farahs mum died when we were in 4th place and got flogged by the roosters never to really recover. and Teddy tore his ACL in round 1. so 2012 I can forgive for a lot of crap going on that year they had a chance and blew it at the end.
2 things have caused the issues at WT - either a) We have recruited or blooded players that have vastly underperformed and have not lived up to anywhere near their potential or performances at other clubs, and quite often vastly overpaid them for the privilege; or b) when we manage to get players to the club either through pathways or shrewd investment that actually perform at WT - they end up at other clubs for a variety of reasons. People love blaming the front office, the chair, the CEO, the coaches - but the reality is that for the it’s the players that have caused the majority of the problems through underperforming.
True the players create the on-field result. But there must be something going on when WT dud players become stars elsewhere (Ben Teo) + WT most promising young players leave for less money elsewhere (Tedesco, Luke Garner) + can't sign superstars even when paying overs (Latrell, Munster) + WT players who want to stay are shown the door (Moses, Hastings, Farah, Benji).
@@mcviper270 That’s a part of it - and of course having far less money to spend of facilities during the worst of the “Balmain going broke” saga didn’t help. But no club in the NRL has its problems so grossly pointed to off field like Wests Tigers does. Luke Brooks is emblematic of that. He was given every possible chance afforded to a player - and yet his best game is probably still his debut. The only time he ever looked decent was when he had 2 veterans running the show for him. Even this year - Koroisau aside, and possibly Klemmer, but the other recruits have been very ordinary (Papalii, Bateman), most of the ‘young guns’ have stagnated badly (Blore, Talau, Matamua, Pole) and we get the same old from veterans that is okay, but not good enough really (Nofo, Brooks, Twal, Joe Ofa). And yet, who’s getting the blame - the chair and the CEO……
The problem isn't any fault of the players. Your management is recruiting and over paying players who come from winning sides an are seen as expendable by there former team. A decent player looks great when he's playin on a gun team, than when they are offered big coin multi year deals, why wouldn't they take it. Obviously something in the development side of West management is no good if they can't take talented juniors to the next level. It all comes back to management, they decide players, facilities etc
Wests-Tigers doesn’t work. There’s too much difference between the people from both areas. Nobody understand the west tigers or wants to be a part of it. The tigers have an identity crisis as a club, they traded thier heritage for what ? A joint venture full of spite and indifference ? The players don’t understand who the club is, they have a home game in Leichhardt, Campbelltown, ANZ, Commbank and training at concord ? Wtf is that ? A footy club will thrive if it actually trains in its territory and plays its home games in its territory !! But the tigers are just too all over the place, that’s not to mention the teams players come from all over Sydney, and could a rats ass about the tigers as a club or the area they are supposed to represent. I say bring back the Balmain tigers and disband the joint venture, it clearly doesn’t work and just pisses people off. Too many kids that love rugby league not getting a run in the inner west and Balmain. Tigers need to go back their territory and keep playing at Leichhardt, and stop wearing white and black jerseys; The tigers are orange for gods sake, play in your clubs colours and be proud. It’s basic stuff that the management of the club has completely screwed up by making the tigers all over the shop. Keep it simple stupid 👍👍 Tigers need to get back to being who they actually are, a heritage team from Balmain and the inner west.
Why would they do that when they represent two of only four foundation clubs left in the NRL. More history in that club and the areas they represent than 14 other teams in the comp mate. (excluding bunnies and roosters).
@liamzammit2246 Both clubs gave up on their own foundation status a quarter of a century ago when they merged. It's Wests Tigers - established 1999. 1 premiership - 2005. They have zero claim on any premierships or trophies or that Balmain or Western Suburbs won previously.
The more the Magpies own, the more they absolutely destroy that merger. The wrong club got the reigns! The magpies should've died in 1999. Hopefully this abomination of a club gets cancelled and they get moved to perth! Up the Warriors!
When is the board getting the sack. How many coaches do we have to go through and these clowns are still running the show. The Prime Minister of Australia can be sack but not the untouchables. Lee the fish rots from the head. I'm sick of saying next year will be better. Good luck next year lads🐯🐯
Absolutely correct. They've made one pathetic decision after another. As much as I respect and admire Benji, he'll need a miracle to last more than two seasons as coach, most likely through no fault of his own.
@@paulgrey8028 mate if I was Benji I would not have came back after the back till stabbing board is sacked that sack him. The knights would never sack Andrew Johns you don't do that to great of your club
Do St. george illawarra dragons ❤🤍 *The NRL era hasn't been great for the joint venture. At least we got 2010. Should have more. Can't believe we lost St. George bank sponsorship. & jayden Sullivan. Ryles rejected the coaching offer. Jack de belin stood down at his peak & Losing Jason saab & Tristan sailor years back wasn't great either. The real tragedy was 99 or not getting a GF while barret was captain (we had an all-star side) but couldn't get the cup until Wayne came down. Tough team to love sometimes*. 😅❤🤍
