now we have Richardson I wonder if we could entice Wayne bennet to be the GM of Football ? he already has a good relationship with benji abd our board and front office are no longer a rabble
you never know
One of the thousand articles yesterday, mentioned that Richardson would slide into GM Football role once he's set up the club and get a business minded CEO.
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Listening to Richo discuss recruitment in the presser yesterday and on SEN last night and its sounded so different to normal......
Then it struck me..... he didn't use the words:
'Reruitment and retention COMMITEE'
If there was one thing about the old regime that kept us backwards was there was no clear decision maker, everything was through committees.
Richo used the used 'me and I' a lot, in a good way. Also made it clear that he would be working closely with Benji and everything would have Benjis blessing.
The decision to pull out from AFB, on richos first day, shows how decisive he is.
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I think there is zero chance of that happening. Egos are too big for both of them.now we have Richardson I wonder if we could entice Wayne bennet to be the GM of Football ? he already has a good relationship with benji abd our board and front office are no longer a rabble
you never know
Richardson is certainly an improvement on Chairman Mouth.
Not to be a pedant, but Richo has replaced Pascoe.
The contentious Wests Tigers review which resulted in the entire board being dissolved has recommended the club’s future lies in south-west Sydney, which it believes is the key to the struggling joint venture becoming an NRL powerhouse.
Just a day after chairman Lee Hagipantelis and chief executive Justin Pascoe left the club, sources not authorised to speak publicly about the review because of its confidential nature, said one of the most pressing recommendations centres on its Campbelltown catchment area.
The review, compiled by former NRL chief financial officer Tony Crawford and businessman Gary Barnier, highlighted the club’s perceived lack of progress in one of the country’s fastest-growing corridors.
The Tigers will increase their number of home matches at Campbelltown to five next year, but club sources said Crawford and Barnier’s review urged for a far greater effort in the Campbelltown and Macarthur region.
The Tigers’ $75 million centre of excellence opened in Concord last year, and the NRL squad has spent most of its time training in the inner west over the lifetime of the joint venture.
But the review, commissioned by the Holman Barnes Group, the Tigers’ major shareholder, is set to prompt the club to come up with an entirely new blueprint for the area as it tries to climb out of the NRL cellar.
Asked about the importance of Campbelltown, incoming interim chief executive Shane Richardson said: “If you look at where the growth is of this club, it’s massive.
“We’ve got to not only be doing things in that area, we’ve got to be seen to be doing things as well. I don’t think we’ve pushed our own barrow about how much we’re doing out there and what staff we’ve got to do it. At the end of the day, it’s crucial to the growth of this club.
“People talk about Penrith, which is a magnificent area, 8500 juniors, Parramatta [has] 6000 … we’ve got more. If you take in Camden right through that area, we’ve got a massive junior network we need to pick up. It’s a major focus.
“I’ve always loved a Reschs and a hot dog at Leichhardt, but at the end of the day the growth of the club is in that [Campbelltown and Macarthur] area. It’s as simple as that.”
The Tigers have long been under siege in south-west Sydney.
Richardson’s former club, South Sydney, announced a historic partnership with A-League side Macarthur two years ago to “promote their respective codes in south-western Sydney”.
Crawford is no stranger to the Tigers’ Campbelltown problem in his previous role with the NRL, and it will be one of Richardson’s first points of business after addressing the media for the first time on Wednesday.
He will join forces with former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell at the new leadership apex of the club, with Hagipentelis and Pascoe standing aside after the review recommended the club’s former board be abolished.
“It’s a matter of us saying, ‘If you do these little things right, the little things like work harder, then everything else falls in place’,” Richardson said.
“You can’t let the media blow you off the track, you can’t let politics blow you off the track, you can’t let a loss on the weekend blow you off the track. You’ve got to keep to the plan you decide as a team to do – and that team is administration and all the coaching staff.”
SMH
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@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
I’ve only heard for 2024 but others may have more info. In any case, unless contracts have been sign beyond 2024, it’s just a mindset change to move more games to Campbelltown.@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
I’ve only heard for 2024 but others may have more info. In any case, unless contracts have been sign beyond 2024, it’s just a mindset change to move more games to Campbelltown.@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
Its a pity Wests Campbelltown is not part of the family.
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I’ve only heard for 2024 but others may have more info. In any case, unless contracts have been sign beyond 2024, it’s just a mindset change to move more games to Campbelltown.@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
Its a pity Wests Campbelltown is not part of the family.
It’s a shame it’s not. They’d be able to do a lot on game days
I’ve only heard for 2024 but others may have more info. In any case, unless contracts have been sign beyond 2024, it’s just a mindset change to move more games to Campbelltown.@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
Its a pity Wests Campbelltown is not part of the family.
It’s a shame it’s not. They’d be able to do a lot on game days
We tried to do our game day events there, they couldn't have been more difficult to work with.
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I’ve only heard for 2024 but others may have more info. In any case, unless contracts have been sign beyond 2024, it’s just a mindset change to move more games to Campbelltown.@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
Its a pity Wests Campbelltown is not part of the family.
It’s a shame it’s not. They’d be able to do a lot on game days
We tried to do our game day events there, they couldn't have been more difficult to work with.
Old divisions run deep
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I’ve only heard for 2024 but others may have more info. In any case, unless contracts have been sign beyond 2024, it’s just a mindset change to move more games to Campbelltown.@helmesy interesting times ahead. It appears the review has looked at every aspect of the club to make it a success. How long have we committed to the even split for? Is it a year by year thing?
Its a pity Wests Campbelltown is not part of the family.
It’s a shame it’s not. They’d be able to do a lot on game days
We tried to do our game day events there, they couldn't have been more difficult to work with.
which is ridiculous as it would help get people to the club early before the game. I know they get people anyway but if they made an event of it it could all be part of the game day routine for people
In hindsight it was very funny that Andreachio called Lee and asked him to resign and Lee told him to get lost. The absolute hubris of Lee as Chairman to tell his majority shareholder to go away. Lee was cooked from that moment
In hindsight it was very funny that Andreachio called Lee and asked him to resign and Lee told him to get lost. The absolute hubris of Lee as Chairman to tell his majority shareholder to go away. Lee was cooked from that moment
If you look at all the evidence in recorded behaviour and direct quotes from Lee it’s hard to see his behaviour as anything but completely egotistical.
He was clearly using his sponsorship of the club to gain power within the club and use it to promote himself. I’d guess that he saw himself as the next Nick Politis.
@the-last-ronin it’s almost like a case study in pathological narcissism , or even a personality disorder.
His lack of contrition and humility , is pretty eye opening . Even if he thought they had turned a corner , there was no talk of all the screw ups he and Pascoe had , and how in a vacuum most of those can be hand waved away. But combined they tell a very different story to the one he’s peddling .
none of that speech , it’s all “im amazing , you’ll be sorry , you’ll be back …. You need me …. “ it’s kind of embarrassing really .
