NRL Tackle: Paul Crawley’s likes and dislikes from the first week of pre-season trials

[Demps]

Just have to not watch or click its all we can do

I rarely watched it last year so this year may have to go full circle.

Go from watching every game one year then just Tigers games the next.... think this year may just he a Tiger year.

 

[FinestTigers]

Yw and apologies for not posting second half of article. Unfortunately didn't read that far.

No need to apologise Lauren, we've seen enough of his garbage.

 

[Cobarcats]

Can someone tell where the NRL360 topic is please

 

[bigsiro]

I don’t love Crawley, but hard to argue with any of that. I’m glad he told it like it is. We can’t deny it, it was an insipid performance.
No excuses.
Shake it off and dig in next week.

 

[Fade.To.Black]

Drought-face is a man of truth.

 

[Cobarcats]

Drought-face is a man of truth.

Drought-face, that's so funny

 

[Cobarcats]

No need to apologise Lauren, we've seen enough of his garbage.

👍

 

[Cobarcats]

Just have to not watch or click its all we can do

Thats the nature of the beast isn't it, we click on it then say it's rubbish.
A bit like the Forum. Members complain about other members but we still read their posts and lose brain cells over it. I'm unfortunately like that.
Life would be boring I guess if someone didn't play the devil's advocate.

 

[stryker 69]

I don’t love Crawley, but hard to argue with any of that. I’m glad he told it like it is. We can’t deny it, it was an insipid performance.
No excuses.
Shake it off and dig in next week.

100% mate.
I think he is a little warthog but everything he said wrings true.
Can they bounce back?

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

Just cutting and posting a few posts from here.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Interesting people bashing the article but most of those also had a go at how we played, Tamou responses and guessing who our captain will be.

i’m not his fan but this time his article is spot on.

 

[bathursttiger1]

Savage, lol...

He's a toad.
Looks like has thirsty every time I see him on TV.

Crawley and buzz are a good pair.

 

[twentyforty]

NRL Tackle: Paul Crawley’s likes and dislikes from the first week of pre-season trials

It’s only the pre-season but Wests Tigers fans looking for a glimmer of hope were left deflated with a raft of disappointing signs. Paul Crawley’s LIKES and DISLIKES from the trials.

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February 20, 2022 - 5:52PM
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Tim Sheens is one of the modern game’s great football brains.

But I reckon even the cagey four-time premiership winning coach would have walked away concerned about the enormity of the job ahead when he watched the Wests Tigers against Manly on Friday night.

Without question, it was the most underwhelming and uninspiring performance of the weekend.

And I know the Tigers had half their top team missing, but so did Manly.

Yet it wasn’t so much the 28-4 scoreline that did it for me, it was more to do with the body language.

Yeah, for a while they showed some resolve in defence.

But while the Tommy Trbojevic inspired Sea Eagles played with so much enthusiasm and confidence and sheer enjoyment, the Tigers looked strained and nervous, even scared to make mistakes.

I even heard James Tamou talking after the game about how they had set out to keep things simple. You couldn’t help but wonder what their mindset must be.

It was only last week that Benji Marshall was talking up Luke Brooks for this year’s Dally M halfback of the year, it really had me excited to see what changes would come from Sheens’ influence over the summer.

Yet on Friday night Daly Cherry-Evans took Brooks back to school. And it wasn’t just the under fire halfback who looked to be carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Even more worrying is what comes next, because they now take on the Sydney Roosters this Friday night who will have the majority of their big guns back (and no doubt they’ll be out to make a statement in their final hitout before the season gets underway).

And if the Tigers get lapped again, how will that then set them up for their season kick off against the might of Melbourne in round one?

I’ve been around long enough to know you don’t write a team off after one poor trial performance.

But what you can’t do is sugar-coat the bleeding obvious, and that is I don’t think anyone would argue it will be a major shock if the Tigers make the finals this year.

CAPTAINCY SHAM

Still on the Tigers, I was embarrassed for Tamou to have to answer questions from the sideline (live on Fox Sports) about whether or not he will remain as captain this year. Seriously, the club have had all summer to get this sorted - yet they leave it to Tamou to try and talk his way out of a predicament he should not have been put in.

I like what he said about our defence.
That is huge in the scheme of things, given Crawls has not written a kind word about the Tigers for years.
That begrudging admission has given me some hope. 😂
I thought I may have been the only one to see the positive difference in our defence.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Another dopey article by a total deadbeat reporter looking for an easy target.
That guy gets paid for that …… shows the standard News Media maintains.

 

[TrueTiger]

Crawley has made the typical journo error as most do....judging a team based on the first trial of the season where nearly most of the depth guys had the reins to show their wares...
Maybe he should have waited until the nearly full 17 line up and judge them on that result instead of trying to get browney points early on...
He is quite entitled to his opinion as are we,but hopefully he will end up with the proverbial EGG on his face(I did say HOPEFULLY)....

 

[Cobarcats]

I like what he said about our defence.
That is huge in the scheme of things, given Crawls has not written a kind word about the Tigers for years.
That begrudging admission has given me some hope. 😂
I thought I may have been the only one to see the positive difference in our defence.

Na mate, I'm with you. We were actually solid in the middle in the first half, encouraging.

 

[twentyforty]

Na mate, I'm with you. We were actually solid in the middle in the first half, encouraging.

Yes, I know the players would have been disappointed with the overall performance, but they can take a lot of confidence from that game in every aspect of their defence.

 

[batboy]

Na mate, I'm with you. We were actually solid in the middle in the first half, encouraging.

Top 4 Side against a Bottom 4 side in the first half...
We had players out, So did they (Not as many as us though)
The result of the first half indicated the disparity of the 2 teams - As it was at the end of last year.

What was more worrying, Is the depth all the other clubs seem to have is probably on Par with the back end of our starting squad.

Joffa, Twal etc. Should have rolled that B squad... The fact they were bested is what is scaring me...
Our next crop of Tuki, Seyfarth etc... Seem a million miles away atm.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Crawley has made the typical journo error as most do....judging a team based on the first trial of the season where nearly most of the depth guys had the reins to show their wares...
Maybe he should have waited until the nearly full 17 line up and judge them on that result instead of trying to get browney points early on...
He is quite entitled to his opinion as are we,but hopefully he will end up with the proverbial EGG on his face(I did say HOPEFULLY)....

Look I agree that we brought the worst performance of the 16 teams on show at the weekend trials.
But I just wish that the News Media reporters cut WT a bit of slack rather than enthusiastically waiting with their shovels at the cemetery for us to arrive.

 

[Cobarcats]

Yes, I know the players would have been disappointed with the overall performance, but they can take a lot of confidence from that game in every aspect of their defence.

Absolutely! 👍