Rumours and Stuff

[Suitman]

Where has that thread about the stadium rebuild gone?

Open your eyes.
It is just below on page 1 of the Eels forum.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Open your eyes.

There's no need to be rude.

 

[JokerEel]

The Roosters and who else?
We Need to be more like Melbourne and have the inner suburbs represented and playing near town.

Why when you have Ctown growing and the Tigers in that Corridor.


You aren't going to be getting anyone new from Sydney (to support this team)by moving the Tigers there and calling them the Sydney Tigers.

 

[JokerEel]

I’ve learnt to accept it. I’ve been following this club since before I can remember, and I’ve been staunch since I moved in with my dad in 1990. Complaining and looking for scapegoats has changed nothing in all those decades. If the club ever rises above mediocrity it’ll be because of work done by the likes of McElduff and the board, not because the fans demanded a new coach.

That's shit for you...

The rest of the garbage! you wrote is a stab at other fans but unfortunately they aren't losers like you..

You should go try supporting the Tigers.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

That's shit for you...

The rest of the garage you wrote

You wrote a garage!

is a stab at other fans but unfortunately they aren't losers like you..

Yes they are.

You should go try supporting the Tigers.

I don’t mind the Tigers.

 

[hineyrulz]

The lack of resources and bad luck that the Tigers has had the last 10 or so years would cause a triple Roper from Pou.

 

[JokerEel]

The lack of resources and bad luck that the Tigers has had the last 10 or so years would cause a triple Roper from Pou.

Merkin would be in his element.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

*garage

 

[T-Boon]

Why when you have Ctown growing and the Tigers in that Corridor.


You aren't going to be getting anyone new from Sydney (to support this team)by moving the Tigers there and calling them the Sydney Tigers.

I think you are wrong.

 

[Delboy]

you didnt say smarter, you said smart/ Smart people dont run a club the way our club has been run. They are in their death throes now and then we will see the rebirth. Exciting times ahead.

The bigger important issue is where the juniors are.

In junior reps when teams play agst Balmain they see their mates from the western suburbs playing for the Tigers, not Balmain juniors. Then when they play agst Wests 90% or more are from the Campbelltown/Camden area and play a tough physical game.

Not sure asking 17/18year old players to train at Concord with all the travel involved is attractive for a lot of them.

Ignoring that area where their strength is , remains a poor strategy and let’s face it, in reality Leichhardt Oval is a dump. Build the support out at Campbelltown seems sensible medium term.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Spoonbowl at Orana Park was a great day. Very underutilised venue.

 

[King-Gutho94]

The lack of resources and bad luck that the Tigers has had the last 10 or so years would cause a triple Roper from Pou.

They haven't come away empty handed at least they have a created a dynasty just like Penrith have.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I assume they are talking about semen.
We need an expert on this subject

@Gary Gutful glug glugging?

You are 85% correct.

 

[Gary Gutful]

You wrote a garage!

lol. @JokerEel wrote a garage!

 

[Gary Gutful]

The lack of resources and bad luck that the Tigers has had the last 10 or so years would cause a triple Roper from Pou.

He's referring to semen @hindy111

 

[lucablight]

What was so great about our squad under Hagan? You overrating our players again? Classic sports fan worshiping your heroes glug glug glug

The 2007 squad had the best backline in the comp (Hayne,Inu,Tahu and Grothe) at the peak of their powers and some pretty good forwards like Cayless, Fui and of course Hindmarsh. We absolutely could have won the comp with that team.

 

[lucablight]

Says who? We dominated in 2001 and were unlucky on grand final day, and then spent three straight years losing more than we won:

'02: 10/25
'03: 11/24
'04: 9/24

In '05 Smith again had us overachieve for 24 games before the wheels fell off in the finals. Whether that was bad luck or you've got a scapegoat ready to rock, we were indeed decently run. But there were no superclubs back then like there are now. So there was less competition.

Oh yeah like how we were the best run club in the mid-2000s. In a single nine month period we had three coaches that included Hagan and Jason Taylor.

Smith did a great job with our pathways. Hagan won f**k all with them. We should've gotten the bloke who set up Newcastle's pathways ffs

2005 was a great squad as well. Fui getting suspended and Hindmarsh doing his ACL before the finals screwed us over.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I agree with more luck we could have won in either of those years but that's not the sign of the best run club. That describes us between 2019 and 2023 ffs

 

[Tiger5150]

The bigger important issue is where the juniors are.

In junior reps when teams play agst Balmain they see their mates from the western suburbs playing for the Tigers, not Balmain juniors. Then when they play agst Wests 90% or more are from the Campbelltown/Camden area and play a tough physical game.

Having Balmain & Wests juniors gives Tigers the opportunity for twice as many junior teams to work with. Wests teams are prioritised. If a kid is from Inner West they will play for Balmain, if they are from South West they will play for Wests. If they are from somewhere else and are any good they will be at Wests.

Not sure asking 17/18year old players to train at Concord with all the travel involved is attractive for a lot of them.

Its almost like the Tigers should build a junior academy at Lumeah......

Funding approved for Campbelltown Centre of Excellence

Funding has been approved for construction of a new state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.

www.weststigers.com.au

Ignoring that area where their strength is , remains a poor strategy and let’s face it, in reality Leichhardt Oval is a dump. Build the support out at Campbelltown seems sensible medium term.

Money is being spent on both grounds and the future will be out of both.

 

[Legal Eel]

The Storm are notorious for shitting the bed in big games. They can afford to. In fact Hagan might’ve been the reason we were able to compete that day. After all he is one of only two coaches Johns won premierships under.

Calling us average isn’t talking us down. It’s who we are. It describes our results over nearly forty years. When professionalism swamped pokie money we came back to the pack. That’s nobody’s fault.

Getting on the front foot early in the new year I see.

adopting your two favourite theories that parra are an under-resourced average little club and that BA was an under appreciated genius who did better than any other coach could have with the rubbish rosters (and limited time) the club gave him…

You are either insultingly stupid or overtly malicious - I think it’s the latter