West Tigers club at Crisis Point.

Wests Tigers chairwoman Marina Go has urged the club’s supporters to keep the faith as they wade way through a salary cap mess that could take three years to fix.In the lead-up to the Tigers’ game against the table-topping Broncos, Go revealed the full extent of the cap issues which have hamstrung the club’s attempts to strengthen their roster for next season.Their plight was rammed home again yesterday when Penrith announced they had poached young star Te Maire Martin. Martin played for the Junior Kiwis earlier this year but the Tigers were forced to let him go, his departure coming only a matter of days after winger Pat Richards confirmed he would join Super League side Catalans next season.“It’s probably about three years before we unravel the mess we have inherited,” Go said.“Every day, every week there’s a new thing we look at and go ‘oh my God’. It’s a serious issue. It’s a serious challenge.“Fans and members just want to win every week. They don’t understand, and neither should they, that we have massive challenges around what the playing squad will look like next year and the year after given the salary cap challenges we have inherited.“What we’re trying to do is work with that. Over the last 10 months the board has not entered into contract negotiations with players — that’s not our place.“In the past, that’s not the case. In the past various members of the board were negotiating with player managers. There was clearly no overarching strategy. I can feel the pain for members and fans.“I want to be able to say to them that was in the past. I can only tell you that in the future every decision that is made will be with a long-term club in mind. Unfortunately we have inherited a couple of years of pain.“We’re going to do our best within that. But unfortunately there is going to be some pain. People are saying to us ‘you keep releasing all of these players and you’re not buying any others’.“That’s because we know what next year’s contractual arrangements look like and we’re freaking out.”

And this is a club now run by NRL appointed Directors!!!

To those of you who think that having the NRL enter your Board room and take over is the answer I present to you Exhibit A. The Tigers are in a far worse position than we are and the NRL is in charge over there. I trust the media will crucify the Wests Tigers Board and management over all this and will saturate the papers for weeks on end....or is that just for our club?

But what I think our salary cap crisis and now the Tiger's crisis highlights is this. There is no level playing field in the NRL. The clubs that are consistently successful keep a very good distance between themselves and the NRL /Salary cap auditors. No one outside those clubs knows what is truly going on internally with regards player contracts and TPA's.

Those clubs that open their doors to the NRL and either try to be an honest and transparent club, or worse still they rely on the NRL to prop them up financially thus exposing everything they do to the NRL, struggle to field a Premiership worthy team. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out why. You can't win a NRL Premiership without bending the rules it would seem.

"Great blog as usual, Daz.
To add some spice, Nick Meaney warns Pezet.
“I messaged him the other day saying, ‘Get ready, hope you’ve got the shoulders strapped on."
“I think that’s like any young half, you know, game plans are always set up to attack…"

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Wile E. Coyote July 14, 2015 at 2:45pm

Just what you want to hear as a Tigers fan... The guy steering the ship is freaking out ... And people criticise our board and executive
BiG G July 14, 2015 at 2:47pm

Wow! All to be said. Love to see what the NRL has to say.
Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 July 14, 2015 at 2:48pm

Captain R.Morgan#FozJoinsthecrew

Imagine this Tigers team:

01. James Tedesco

02. Marika Koroibete

03. Tim Simona

04. Brad Takairangi

05. Pat Richards

06. Blake Austin

07. Benji Marshall

08. Aaron Woods

09. Robbie Farah

10. Andrew Fifita

11. Bodene Thompson

12. Curtis Sironen

13. Martin Taupau

14. Dene Halatau

15. Keith Galloway

16. Chris Lawrence

17. Matthew Lodge

Could win a premiership ^^

Repeating a good post by Cap on the quality players the Tigers have recently lost.

They are a shambles.
- BiG G > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 July 14, 2015 at 2:51pm
  
  I'll take this team in SuperCoach haha
tele1 July 14, 2015 at 2:49pm

what a relief the words Parramatta and Eels are not associated with this blog

Glad it's NOT us....sorry Tigers fans
- Paynted > tele1 July 14, 2015 at 3:22pm
  
  I'm actually surprised they didn't bring up Takaraingi's name in this somewhere. Just thought they would have said something like "Tiger's missed out earlier this year on Brad Takaraingi due to salary cap issues. But Takairangi still somehow managed to get himself caught up with another team in similar salary cap dramas at the Parramatta Eels".
  
  It's like they don't know how to involve the Eels in every negative stories anymore.
BiG G July 14, 2015 at 2:54pm

You beat me to it :(
Mac5733 July 14, 2015 at 2:56pm

you call that a crisis???? we have 5 a year.
- BiG G > Mac5733 July 14, 2015 at 2:58pm
  
  We have 5 a year but the media gives us 10 others haha
Muttman July 14, 2015 at 3:01pm

And this is a club now run by NRL appointed Directors!!!

To those of you who think that having the NRL enter your Board room and take over is the answer I present to you Exhibit A. The Tigers are in a far worse position than we are and the NRL is in charge over there. I trust the media will crucify the Wests Tigers Board and management over all this and will saturate the papers for weeks on end....or is that just for our club?

But what I think our salary cap crisis and now the Tiger's crisis highlights is this. There is no level playing field in the NRL. The clubs that are consistently successful keep a very good distance between themselves and the NRL /Salary cap auditors. No one outside those clubs knows what is truly going on internally with regards player contracts and TPA's.

Those clubs that open their doors to the NRL and either try to be an honest and transparent club, or worse still they rely on the NRL to prop them up financially thus exposing everything they do to the NRL, struggle to field a Premiership worthy team. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out why. You can't win a NRL Premiership without bending the rules it would seem.

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