Fixing the Knights and Tigers

[Big Pete]

[h=1]Wests Tigers forced into embarrassing 11th hour backflip that may see Farah become one club player[/h]
TWO months after under-pressure Tigers coach Jason Taylor attempted to punt Robbie Farah out of the club’s Concord headquarters, new CEO Justin Pascoe has offered the Tigers hooker a four-year contract for life after football.
Under Pascoe’s proposal, Farah would remain a Wests Tiger for life, finishing his career in the black, white and orange before stepping into an ambassadorial role when he stops playing in the NRL.
The Tigers have now been forced into attempting to perform an embarrassing 11th hour backflip in relation to Farah, who has now officially requested a release from the club.
The embarrassing backflip comes after the club attempted to spin the idea that Farah was hugely unpopular, bad for the club’s culture and holding the Tigers back in terms of salary cap spending room.

Nothing could be further from the truth. On the back of the Farah fallout, rookie halves Luke Brooks and Mitchell Moses are being shopped around to rival clubs as a package deal for 2017.
And young gun fullback and local junior James Tedesco is no guarantee to stay beyond his current contract after the way his great mate Farah has been treated.

Brooks and Moses have been granted until the middle of the year to inform the club whether they intend to remain at the Tigers in 2017, a ridiculous scenario.
Tigers legend Ben Elias blasted the club this week for the way it has handled this entire disaster, with fans in danger of turning away given the poor state of affairs.
Coach Taylor is clinging on to his job but is under increasing pressure amid continued talk of a restless playing group.
If the Tigers have a poor start to the season then on the back of the Farah mess, Martin Taupau demanding a release to Manly and other rumblings, Taylor will be the NRL coach most likely to be the first sacked in the new year.

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[Big Pete]

That's where I believe the perception is coming from.

A few things...

It was written by James Hooper who is a rumour mongerer and loves to put his spin on things to tell a good yarn.

There seems to be a ton of articles where Farah was willing to leave the club, but he wanted his $1.8 Million over 2 years in full from the Tigers and Wests weren't prepared to meet him halfway.

And of course the NRL weren't about to let some other club sign him on a different sort of deal.

My take?

The place was a basket case. Pascoe has been brought into clean things up and it's going to take more than 6 months in the job to change things.

 

[Kimlo]

That's where I believe the perception is coming from.

A few things...

It was written by James Hooper who is a rumour mongerer and loves to put his spin on things to tell a good yarn.

There seems to be a ton of articles where Farah was willing to leave the club, but he wanted his $1.8 Million over 2 years in full from the Tigers and Wests weren't prepared to meet him halfway.

And of course the NRL weren't about to let some other club sign him on a different sort of deal.

My take?

The place was a basket case. Pascoe has been brought into clean things up and it's going to take more than 6 months in the job to change things.

That seems like a much fairer assessment of the situation. To blame Farah for the Tiger's problems, IMO, is a copout. They've got a million problems to sort out, the place has been a basket case for a long time now.

Taylor is also a proven shit coach. Taking away his half season with Parra (coaches always seem to do well in that situation), he had 42% win record at Souths over 3 years and has now had 32 games at the Tigers for a 31% win rate. Nothing about his coaching style has ever struck me as him being a quality coach. He has a 39% career average taking away his half season with Parra.

Let's compare that with some other coaches:
Geoff Toovey 58%
Anthony Griffin 52% (53% when he was sacked)
Michael Maguire 68% (63% in the NRL)
Ivan Cleary 49%
Bennett 62%
Bellamy 66% ****** Salary cap
Hasler 59%
Neil Henry 46%
Ricky Fucking Stuart 48% (38% since he left the Roosters)

You get the idea.

He seems to do well as assistant coach but head coach isn't his thing. Being assistant at the Roosters made his resume look really good and the Tigers went for him and to be fair, there isn't much in the way of great coaches so any coach is a risk.

Someone like Griffin would have done better at the Tigers but I don't remember if the timeline would have allowed that to happen.

 

[Fozz]

The Knights are a long term project. The fallout from the Tinkler reign is going to take awhile to go away. I think Brown has the right idea in identifying young talent and bringing it through. They do need to cut some dead wood though, Mullen being the chief one with his injury history.

Tigers....blow them up and start from scratch. Moses and Brooks aren't living up to the hype, Lawrence never turned out to be a good player, Farah is a cancer. Build around Tedesco and Woods. Management is to blame too, how the have salary cap troubles with that list is amazing.

 

[Unbreakable]

I think if they're going to build around one of the young halves, it's gotta be Brooks. Moses thinks he's top shit and is asking for as much as Corey Norman. Not sure who to suggest they go after to play Five-Eighth alongside him, it's gotta be a steady player, Luke Keary maybe.

 

[Morkel]

Griffin would be good at the Warriors.

 

[Cult]

Send them to Perth.

 

[broncoboy]

For the tigers to move on i believe the first thing they need to do is get rid of farah and play Matt Ballin at hooker ( I know hes not as good but he is solid and would free up some salary cap), then i believe they should drop brooks and buy Blake Green (who's really impressed my this year).

 

[Spoon]

But who would buy Farah?

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[Sproj]

Bulldogs, they have an unlimited salary cap as they but everyone and anyone they want and need a hooker cos their current one is not.