Panthers sack Griffin 4 weeks from finals

[Tiger5150]

Kind of ironic that Tigers fans are up in arms, given they were all for poaching N Cleary from us all season...

N Cleary can not even be approached until November because he has more than a year on his contract. At that point Tigers fans are hoping that the Tigers would try to sign him for when his contract ends......can you see the difference?

 

[Pugzley]

Breaking, Ivan Cleary to return to Penrith for the next four years!!

 

[Das Gupta]

A positive for the Panthers out of this is the possibility of Ivan coming to coach then again meaning that Nathan will stay as he desires to be coached by his dad.

Well Gould did say he would be doing everything in his power to keep Cleary jnr at the club. Didn't think he would go to these lengths.

 

[unforgiven]

Kind of ironic that Tigers fans are up in arms, given they were all for poaching N Cleary from us all season...

lol very different. The Tigers are looking to sign him at the end of his current contract, not entice him to break his current deal.

 

[Peet]

Would be a dog act from him too, he hasn't even completed a full season at the Tigers. But it is also low from the Panthers, approaching a coach who has 2 years to run on his contract and influencing him to break that contract.

Low / schmow - this is a business. You get who is best, not just who is available.

 

[ACTPanthers]

N Cleary can not even be approached until November because he has more than a year on his contract. At that point Tigers fans are hoping that the Tigers would try to sign him for when his contract ends......can you see the difference?

Understood... Soz, been a long day

 

[unforgiven]

Low / schmow - this is a business. You get who is best, not just who is available.

Coming from a scummy club of course that's your opinion.

 

[Front-Rower]

When Taylor was coaching? Because that is what it seemed like. One reason why Farah left,and has returned. So what he was referring to was the past coaching situation,and not the current climate in which you are trying to make it out to be.

Were you in a coma during Sheens last year or two, Mick Potter’s reign and of course Taylor’s stint?

Farah was asked to leave because him and his management were playing games. He than spat the dummy when he got dropped to reserve grade. It’s probably the only thing Taylor got right.

I’ll also add, Leopards don’t change their spots.

 

[OldPanther]

No the blame lays at both, if Cleary goes, still a big if, then he is a grub of the highest order. Either way Panthers have acted poorly and now need to be included with the other scummy clubs in the NRL.

Yet Tigers fans have been clawing for Nathan who we've developed with no concern for any kind of moral or ethical issues.

 

[The Charlatan]

Interesting comments from James Maloney on Big Sports Breakfast this morning.

He singled out the Wests Tigers as a club where players have too much to say in the running of their club hmmmmm

The same James Maloney that left Cronulla with a year to run because he felt like that the contract he signed on for should have been upgraded? That James Maloney?

 

[Front-Rower]

The same James Maloney that left Cronulla with a year to run because he felt like that the contract he signed on for should have been upgraded? That James Maloney?

Wouldn’t have mattered if it was Josh Mansour who said it, someone from Penrith, today, singled out our club as one in where the players run the show.

 

[unforgiven]

Yet Tigers fans have been clawing for Nathan who we've developed with no concern for any kind of moral or ethical issues.

His contract ends at the end of next year, Tigers are open to signing him. They didn't approach him to transfer this year, they were waiting for his current contract to end, how is this the same? Surely you can see you are just making excuses to justify your clubs scummy behaviour?

 

[Travitoh]

The club needs to ask questions of Phil Gould's position. He can dress it up however he likes but the fact is that he is the man responsible for these decisions.
That's the beauty of being a GM though, he gets to make decisions and influence the way things are done at the club with minimal actual responsibility for if results go wrong.

 

[The Charlatan]

Wouldn’t have mattered if it was Josh Mansour who said it, someone from Penrith, today, singled out our club as one in where the players run the show.

It kind of matters when someone who doesn't get their way with a club exercises their player power by tossing their toys out of the cot and leaves to then bag a club out for having too much player power. Then again it does take one to know one so maybe Maloney does know what he's talking about.

 

[OldPanther]

His contract ends at the end of next year, Tigers are open to signing him. They didn't approach him to transfer this year, they were waiting for his current contract to end, how is this the same? Surely you can see you are just making excuses to justify your clubs scummy behaviour?

You think Ivan never spoke to Nathan before the deadline?

My club has done nothing wrong. They have asked so who cares? Nothing wrong with that. He has a contract? So what. People change jobs all the time. Ivan and the Tigers can tell Panthers to jog on if they feel like it. Tigers fans are just hurt that it appears there is a chance Ivan will want to take up the offer.

 

[Todd Hoffman]

Are Tigers fans more upset about losing Ivan or losing the chance to get Nathan?

 

[unforgiven]

You think Ivan never spoke to Nathan before the deadline?

My club has done nothing wrong. They have asked so who cares? Nothing wrong with that. He has a contract? So what. People change jobs all the time. Ivan and the Tigers can tell Panthers to jog on if they feel like it. Tigers fans are just hurt that it appears there is a chance Ivan will want to take up the offer.

Of course they have

 

[Sleep]

Panthers met with Cleary two weeks ago, I'd say he said he'd definitely love to come back. If he'd said no, I doubt we'd be seeing what's happening.

Wests Tigers trotted out the "as far as we know he's contracted for two more years" as opposed to flat out saying he's not going anywhere.

I'd imagine Penrith/Wests will work out some compensation and Cleary will be released and sign with Penrith, big love fest, prodigal son, plus the son and blah blah blah. Mistakes were made, so on and so forth.

Tigers are the ones who are being done so dirty in all of this. Finally found themselves a keeper who had the team punching well above it's weight and he's leaving for a better opportunity. Booo-urns.

 

[Todd Hoffman]

Has Ivan been spotted today for comment?

 

[OldPanther]

Of course they have

If someone can give me a good reason for why giving him an offer is unethical I'll happily change my position.