Heading into the 2016 season, I’d take Greg Inglis over any fullback in the world. I consider Inglis to be the best fullback in the game for the last few years, especially since Billy Slater started to suffer injuries and started to lose a step or two. Now, I think James Tedesco is the best…
Put yourself in Jason Taylor’s shoes for a moment. Taylor took over a coaching role at the Wests Tigers that was not all that great on paper. He took over an aging side that wasn’t very well put together and one that wasn’t having any success at all. He was going to be working with…
It is time for Robbie Farah to leave the Wests Tigers. The club needs to move on from him and the drama that seems to surround him. They have a young side that is in a completely different phase to the one Farah finds himself in towards the end of his career. Farah’s presence is…
As I watched the Canberra Raiders absolutely thrash Wests Tigers on Saturday I started to things about the clubs recent history and how that would effect the decisions made about the future direction of the club. Having won just 2 of their 8 games so far this season, the Tigers at times have shown glimpses…
Triple M in Sydney is reporting that Wests Tigers half Mitchell Moses took a tour of the Penrith Panthers facilities as he looked to make a decision on his playing future. James Hooper reported that the Panthers are very interested in signing Moses, but his asking price is very high and the Panthers are not…
It was the most predictable story heading into the 2015 season. At what point would we see the headline “Taylor vs Farah”? To say that the Wests Tigers are a badly run club is an understatement. They are a basketcase. Now to be fair to the Wests Tigers, they have plenty of company. Most clubs…
Mitchell Moses was very lucky to remain on the field after this high tackle on William Zillman in the Wests Tigers win over the Good Coast Titans on Saturday night. Take a look at the footage and make your own mind up as to whether it was a send off offence or not: Personally I…
I remember seeing pictures on TV of a packed Balmain Leagues Club on Grand Final day. I remember the spirit the Tigers had. The Tigers had a special group of players at the time, players that their supporter base really connected with. The Balmain Tigers went close, as close as you can get, but ultimately…
Well, Blocker didn’t hold back on this one! News Limited is running a a story today in which Steve Roach attacks Robbie Farah and calls for Wayne Pearce to be brought in to get the Wests Tigers back on track. Roach claims that everyone is walking on eggshells around Farah in an effort to not…
Robbie Farah’s interview with Phil Gould on The Footy Show is sure to dominate Rugby League discussion over the next few days. So…here it is: Look, this isn’t a black and white issue. There is no right and wrong. I think everyone at the Wests Tigers, the board, the CEO, Farah….pretty much everyone has a…
The current he said, she said drama enveloping the Wests Tigers has provided much fodder for newspapers and sports talk shows as the team’s 2014 season slips away. However there is a different element of the club’s off field performance that should really get attention: the clubs remarkable player retention. First a quick anecdote. When…
Channel 9 reporter Danny Weidler has thrown Wests Tigers CEO Grant Mayer under a bus in a repot filed this evening, claiming Mayer needed to explain why a video on the Wests Tigers web site had been edited to remove praise that Robbie Farah had given to under pressure coach Michael Potter. The inference is…
Well, that escalated quickly! Yesterday on Triple M radio Gorden Tallis told listeners that Robbie Farah personally told him that Michael Potter can’t coach. That set off a shit storm that ironically probably saved Potter from being sacked on Sunday night. This is what Gorden Tallis said: “Robbie Farah told me to my face,” Tallis…
The following is an official press release from the Wests Tigers: Following intense speculation regarding the future of Mick Potter as Head Coach of Wests Tigers, the Club’s Board has met tonight and decided that contract negotiations will be put on hold until the side’ 2014 campaign comes to an end. The meeting was originally…
News Limited is reporting that the Wests Tigers have have decided to sack Mick Potter. He will either be sacked this week or the club will wait until the end of the season. As is always the case at the Wests Tigers, player power and a flakey board is once again said to be the…
The Wests Tigers have beaten the Canterbury Bulldogs 46-18 in a sensational game of Sunday afternoon football. This was a really good game of footy with a lot of attacking football being played. There are probably two reasons why people will remember this game for a long time though… Firstly, this game saw a number…
Last night the Wests Tigers named their greatest team of all time. It was a decent side that pretty much included all of their 2005 Premiership winning players with a couple of others that managed to find their way into the side. Still, there were a few names missing from that team that kind of…
The Wests Tigers have named their greatest team over the 15 year history of the voint venture club at a gala dinners last night. Wests Tigers supporters were given a chance to vote on the all time best Wests Tigers team through the clubs web site. So, who made the cut? Official Wests Tigers Greatest…
With 18 rounds of the NRL now complete and Origin in the rear view it is now time to buckle in for the run to the NRL finals in September. As usual at this time of year the top and tail of the competition seems relatively settled but it is in the middle third where…
News Limited is reporting that Wests Tigers coach Mick Potter has not yet signed a contract to remain as the Wests Tigers coach beyond 2014 and that his future remains uncertain. With the Tigers at long odds to make the finals this year, and with turmoil at board level at the club, Potter could find…
The Manly Sea Eagles smashed the Wests Tigers 40-8 on Friday night. Despite the one sided thrashing the big talking point was a mistake by referee Shayne Hayne in the opening minutes of the match. The Wests Tigers looked to have scored at try, or at least gone very, very close. Shayne Hayne chose to…
Wests Tigers fullback James Tedecso has fractured his kneecap during the first tackle of the Wests Tigers clash with the Canberra Raiders. Wests Tigers officials have said the kneecap was fractured and separated and that he will require surgery. The recovery time was estimated to be between 10-12 weeks. Tedesco was injured in a collision…
Imagine having to make a million dollar decision about your entire career at the age of 21. For some people that decision would be difficult at the best of times. For others it would feel almost overwhelming. Over the last few seasons we have seen a number of younger players in the game make big…
In what has to be the most petty, pathetic response to losing a player they had every chance to hold onto to another club, the Wests Tigers have threatened to stop spending money developing players unless then NRL steps in and starts paying clubs money when they lose players. One half of this Wests Tigers…
The Wests Tigers have given fullback James Tedesco a Monday deadline to re-sign with the club according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The Wests Tigers have offered Tedesco a four year deal but the Canberra Raiders look like favourites to snare his signature with a much bigger offer. Tedesco knows better than most players that…
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Tim Sheens will go ahead with his legal action against the Wests Tigers in an effort to receive the full amount of money he believes the club owes him after they sacked him at the end of the 2012 season. The payout Sheens is after is reported to…
In the lead-up to the Wests Tigers match at Campbelltown all the signs were looking good. The Tigers were in form and making a lot of noise, having beaten some of the better teams in the competition very convincingly. Marketing for the game was very good, and while I didn’t follow their postcode challenge because…
Daily Telegraph journalist Phil Rothfield has claimed that the Sydney Roosters have already wrapped up the signature of young Wests Tigers fullback James Tedesco in his Sunday Telegraph article “Whats The Buzz”. Rothfield claims that the Roosters will announce the signing “very soon”. If this is true it is a terrible blow to the Wests…
The Wests Tigers have issued a strongly worded statement refuting claims overnight that the club may be relocated due to financial issues facing the Balmaim Tigers side of the join venture. The statement reads: Following an article today’s Daily Telegraph, Wests Tigers CEO Grant Mayer would like to refute the anonymous spokesman’s claim that the…
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that the Balmain Tigers need to raise $4 million within 2 years or risk folding, putting their joint venture with Western Suburbs at risk. The $4 million the Balmain Tigers need to come up with is from a loan the NRL gave the Wests Tigers joint venture. This loan came…