A Decade of Disaster | The History of The Wests Tigers

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@LodgicalThoughts 11 ай бұрын

It’s great learning about the history of the clubs

@gynigahsmedia1713 10 ай бұрын

Not a Tigers fan but loved the content... Very informative in terms of club recent history.... Bravo

@rossrickards7990 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Alpha!

@multioptioned 10 ай бұрын

The weststigers are a great NRL feeder club. Been providing great talent for OTHER NRL clubs 😂👍

@christosbitsos6008 10 ай бұрын

Great content. Should do one on the dragons 2010-2023

@TheAllthegoodstuff 10 ай бұрын

The great Rob Bechara gets a showing in the middle. Awesome video. Thanks.

@badjujuforever 11 ай бұрын

''Hey Furston, where's ya Queensland spirit now?...Ya jinx continues Fuuuurston! ''

@waffle_burger8499 10 ай бұрын

The amount of rugby league talent in the western suburbs must be unreal, I don't understand how a club could be so dysfunctional.

@stevvvvveperry 10 ай бұрын

Yep, they should be like the Panthers. If they got someone in there like gus gould to fix up their development, they would eventually be a powerhouse.

@ethanpettit2685 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@stevvvvveperry 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@ethanpettit2685 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@stevvvvveperry 10 ай бұрын

@@ethanpettit2685 Thats good, hopefully it translates to NRL in a few years.

@godemperorofmankind3.091 11 ай бұрын

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.

@jamesbrennan7355 10 ай бұрын

Which is why its mind boggling to see Brooks escape criticism and be paid a crazy amount with continuous underpeforming seasons

@rashneelwalla380 10 ай бұрын

Moses ain’t world class

@godemperorofmankind3.091 10 ай бұрын

@@rashneelwalla380 yes he is. in a world where cleary's never born, he's the staunch nsw halfback

@xXSinForLifeXx 7 ай бұрын

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...

@shabadoo87 11 ай бұрын

Always good content mate!

@SayYes351 10 ай бұрын

It's amazing that the CEO is still around, huh?

@jodiannkuncoro7057 11 ай бұрын

Great video. Let's hope Tigers make some much needed changes in 2024 and make the top 8.

@jayedare99 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. Absolutely abhorrent management continues to poison this club. Us proud supporters continue to suffer with no end in sight.

@xXSinForLifeXx 7 ай бұрын

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.

@foreverman1966 11 ай бұрын

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 😂

@dyrancoops4211 9 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy

@AusHowie 10 ай бұрын

As a Tigers fan I refuse to watch this because I cannot deal with the pain that is about to come from watching this 😢

@sturmtheguitarist 10 ай бұрын

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.

@williamfritz1876 11 ай бұрын

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.

@WTBob2005 11 ай бұрын

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.

@SportingNewsAustralia 11 ай бұрын

Fair point.

@paulgrey8028 10 ай бұрын

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.

@OGEETOMO 11 ай бұрын

Mr Cleary must be laughing his ass off.

@xXSinForLifeXx 7 ай бұрын

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.

@user-gk4qz8jt1p 8 ай бұрын

West for life💯

@onlychaffing7098 10 ай бұрын

sleeping giant btw. Great vid :D

@Aaron-fj1hl 29 күн бұрын

Love it

@peace7267 11 ай бұрын

looking foward to 14th place next season but I doubt they'll get that far as there simply isnt any team worse,

@DoomDaniels 10 ай бұрын

So ivan cleary just made a mess of the tigers lineup and then bailed to panthers?

@triggerman90 10 ай бұрын

Ivan walked into a hole that was already on a downward spiral.. to even get that roster that he had to 9th was a miracle

@user-lh6qf2tw1b 9 ай бұрын

I REALLY FEAL ABOUT THEM. I THINK THEY WILL KEEP CLUB AS 2 IN PREVIOUS BEFORE 1996. ( ON;Y MY OPINION). GOOD LUCK FOR THE TIGERS IN 2024 SEASON.

@claudiusatlas8083 10 ай бұрын

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

@DJDJDJ22 10 ай бұрын

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.

@DirtyHarry000 6 ай бұрын

The Tigers are the most frustrating side!

@Rogermarch 10 ай бұрын

Roster management and head office disfunction and incompetence strike me as major failings of the club. More so than poor coaching.

@johncandy6508 11 ай бұрын

Need a dragons version.. great video

@jimijackson 11 ай бұрын

Don't need a video for that....dragons let Bennett and soward go. Widdop and hunt got signed. *Crash*. The end.

@SportingNewsAustralia 11 ай бұрын

That would be cool!

@kingamu3812 11 ай бұрын

@@jimijackson😂😂😂

@mcviper270 11 ай бұрын

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.

@SportingNewsAustralia 11 ай бұрын

How long until Wests' return to the top eight?

@mcviper270 11 ай бұрын

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.

@paulgrey8028 10 ай бұрын

Benji is on a hiding to nothing.

@timothymacintyre9271 10 ай бұрын

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.

@claytonnicholson830 10 ай бұрын

Huge supporter base 😂😂 good one. Brooks got a million a year, most overpaid h/b to ever play nrl

@marknasser2843 9 ай бұрын

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.

@mike04574 10 ай бұрын

more videos like this for other clubs

@ebujunior6206 10 ай бұрын

What the tigers messed up was throwing away young talent, this team let go of tedesco, koribeti, mitch moses and many more.

@headydaze 10 ай бұрын

I remember when the Tigers were a team to fear

@a1-clareprogenyproductions850 10 ай бұрын

You have a good long term memory 😂

@itsspooky2710 10 ай бұрын

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

@mikeocsmall6766 11 ай бұрын

All clubs have this type of story

@chrisaseavu5801 Ай бұрын

They need to cope up with Api Koresau because is an expirence player..

@williamroach1461 9 ай бұрын

😮

@xeroxjesse 10 ай бұрын

The Tiger's story is almost comical

@Deuwl 10 ай бұрын

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.

@claytonnicholson830 10 ай бұрын

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

@Lazbotable 10 ай бұрын

You missed the forced retired of Simon Dwyer due to injury in 2011.

@__Babaaaa 9 ай бұрын

If The Tigers somehow make the 8 in 2024 they better build a statue of Benji Marshall 😂

@benjaminparkinson5255 10 ай бұрын

What about the dragons

@bronzemen34 11 ай бұрын

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 🔥

@Whistler112 11 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself, may they struggle for decades to come.

@bronzemen34 10 ай бұрын

@@Whistler112 I did…it’s my thread ur on bud…get off if u don’t like it

@zac1794 10 ай бұрын

ever heard of a noose?@@Whistler112

@paulgrey8028 10 ай бұрын

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.

@thatrandomguy1119 10 ай бұрын

You forgot about Harry Grant for the departure list🫴🏽

@paulgrey8028 10 ай бұрын

Grant was on loan.

@tigerwarsaw99 3 ай бұрын

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.

@paulgrey8028 10 ай бұрын

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.

@jon-francis9289 11 ай бұрын

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.

@claytonnicholson830 10 ай бұрын

People that are 30 or younger only know of the West tigers as they are today not balmain or west's.

@nafutofilau 10 ай бұрын

Se kefe

@monzeemate101 11 ай бұрын

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

@twelveytwelve 7 ай бұрын

I'm confused. What demographic does the club actually represent?

@myauramusic 10 ай бұрын

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

@taraishot100 10 ай бұрын

Tigers are disappointing every year it’s hard to be a tigers supporter when is our time coming? Never it would seem!!

@jamesistanbouli2679 11 ай бұрын

Club needs to fold

@tonyburke2565 10 ай бұрын

1000% this NEEDS TO HAPPEN

@gwilliams4674 9 ай бұрын

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.

@DaMJfadeaway 10 ай бұрын

As the Magpies took more, the club lose more!

@adammason7895 11 ай бұрын

This video is just depressing 😅

@Dankbanana1 10 ай бұрын

Can they honestly just change their name to the Magpies? It might be the sort of thing that turns around their fortunes

@SportingNewsAustralia 10 ай бұрын

YES. Make it happen.

@stevvvvveperry 10 ай бұрын

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.

@claytonnicholson830 10 ай бұрын

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

@WTBob2005 11 ай бұрын

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.

@mcviper270 11 ай бұрын

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).

@WTBob2005 11 ай бұрын

@@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……

@claytonnicholson830 10 ай бұрын

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

@badjujuforever 11 ай бұрын

Relegate the tigers, promote east brisbane tigers

@SportingNewsAustralia 11 ай бұрын

BOOOOOM!

@0M4REDITZ 11 ай бұрын

100%

@tonyburke2565 10 ай бұрын

This is a great idea

@dassshimbread1746 9 ай бұрын

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.

@AJWRAJWR 11 ай бұрын

They should relocate to Perth. Still be called the Wests Tigers but repping Western Australia.

@liamzammit2246 10 ай бұрын

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).

@AJWRAJWR 10 ай бұрын

@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.

@claytonnicholson830 10 ай бұрын

They aren't a very good representation of there area or "clubs history"

@adthomp 9 ай бұрын

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.

@Stepdad19 9 ай бұрын

why is aaron woods in the thumbnail? he played one good year in his career. even that was mediocre. He aint no superstar.

@itsspooky2710 10 ай бұрын

Ahhh love to see the downfall. Maybe in 2031 aye tigers

@kw5732 10 ай бұрын

Just axe them. Bring in the Dolphins, get rid of the tigers. 16 teams.

@DJDJDJ22 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Altiar253 10 ай бұрын

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!

@Idotisme 10 ай бұрын

Who the bulldogs 😂😂 broncos fan

@rubyruff2713 9 ай бұрын

It’s 2023 and benga Marshall is retired and the tigers still sucks

@trackjunky3338 11 ай бұрын

potter was a good fing coach , farah signed his fate

@WTBob2005 11 ай бұрын

Any proof to that - or are you basing it on a sentence uttered by Gorden Tallis on radio ?

@harisrakovic559 9 ай бұрын

Back to back wooden spoons even with decent players 😂 thats talent

@deezz6935 9 ай бұрын

Tbf woods was/is useless everywhere he goes and been

@tasmaniancaptain7768 11 ай бұрын

Harry grant another superstar through the system lost

@mcviper270 11 ай бұрын

Alarm bells should have been ringing in 2020 when Harry Grant, an on-loan rookie from a different club's system, was the Tigers best player.

@atheistdingo6273 11 ай бұрын

Grant was on loan knobhead

@Jayteeayy15 11 ай бұрын

he was always on loan. we lost many through the system but he was never one

@chrisgolledge4283 11 ай бұрын

Haha no he wasn't... he was on loan

@seven0seven0 10 ай бұрын

worst run club in australian sport

@coreydonnelly406 11 ай бұрын

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🐯🐯

@paulgrey8028 10 ай бұрын

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.

@coreydonnelly406 10 ай бұрын

@@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

@user-sk9qo6ts8d 10 ай бұрын

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*. 😅❤🤍