As you probably know I don't frequent these parts of the world that often anymore ( to the delight of
@TheRam ) ... but I had concerns about our squad this year in November last year and the way our GF womens team was dismantled was absolutely disturbing top say the least.
I carry next to no faith in whoever is running the joint now to get us out this mess.
Stagger, I may go off every now and them mate, but I don't wish you or anyone else on this forum to not feel as they can't contribute freely due to my sometimes over the top posts. I just get very passionate and angry at a lifetime of mismanagement and missteps by our clubs hierarchy and when I keep hearing excuses whether they are justified(sometimes) or not I just lose it and respond in the way I feel at the time. Sure sometimes I get a little to cranky, But I never take it to heart. It is just more cathartic and a way to let it out. It is never really personal even if it may be a personal swipe at the time. Just my way of getting my frustration out and also a lot of the time I'm just adding sarcastic humour along the way for entertainment value otherwise with my novella size posts ppl would fall asleep along the way.
Most of us on here have been following our club for decades and nothing really ever changes the needle by much in creating an environment that actually creates strong and sustained quality in our junior development or the people we appoint who can deliver a premiership. We have come close on a couple of occasions, but the people at the time either weren't given enough of the right recourses or for long enough time to do a Storm, Roosters, Broncos and now Panthers.
Even now with a completely new board structure and one I and I'm sure most of us are truly grateful for, we still don't seem to know what makes a successfully sustainable football club and or who to hire to get it done.
Really, how hard is it? I don't buy into the notion that pou keeps trotting out for a second that we just don't have the recourses. For a large whack of the last 37 years we have been one of the most profitable and riches clubs in the State. Sure we have in more recent times lost that and have gotten into trouble financially, but that isn't the case now from what I believe. But again we find ourselves squandering all the resources we have been putting in to the wind with crappy appointments in personnel in the most crucial positions that don't seem to know what they are doing and the results of the last 10 years alone proves this.
Most will say, 'but we have been making the semis and even the GF last year', so I am wrong in my assessment and over reacting, but I say no we never looked like a team that could win it if the other teams that were also contenders played their best footy. We needed a Steven Bradbury moment for it to go our way. I and many others here know that we should be probably the mega super club of Sydney. We have a city all to ourselves and of our name and a massive nursery that we have slowly seen shrink and has lost the status and prestige it once held. Some say the changing demographics has had a large part in that and sure the dem has changed over the decades but that to me is also a great excuse for the inept club officials over the years to trot out and deflect their mismanagement and their lack of ability to pivot and adjust/expand what was/is needed to grow and get stronger in a changing environment.
Our catchment area has what double in population over the last 40 years? Are club officials trying to tell us that with all theses new and extra families that they are all of Asian and or Indian decent and therefore not taking up RL? I say bullocks. Even if the majority of the new families are of non-RL family background areas, there are still tens of thousands of European, Aboriginal and Maori/Islander kids to target and win over. Way more than the poultry 4990 odd we currently have which by the way includes the girls too. RL is the dominant sport in the West, so it shouldn't be so freaking hard to hype it up get way more kids enthused about it and wanting to get involved, and even include Asian and Indian kids eventually, since kids will eventually notice what their other friends are into and doing.
As for you above comments, We agree exactly on this one. Especially about our NRLW squad as I have post a few times already and was told by the ostrich like Gronk and Twizzle that I basically didn't know what I was talking about and that I was going off to early and to hold tight and we will be fine.
Well blind Freddy could see that it was all but over and it wouldn't be fine. 0 and 4 with almost 100 points deficit isn't fine. We are a joke of a club that can allow such a thing to happen in the space of one off season.
Question Staggs, Do you know what exactly happened and who allowed this situation to to happen? I mean we only haVE 4 of the 17 girls that played in the GF last year left and that doesn't include Botille Vette-Welsh who was out with a ACL who is now with the Tigers?
