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Tiger_Fanatic3 said:
NRL head Graham Annesley has conceded it was “the wrong call” for referee Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski to ignore sending a possible Wests Tigers try to the Bunker.

The refereeing howler prompted Wests Tigers coach Michael Maguire to fume post-match that the call was “ridiculous” and a “game changer.’’

The potential four-pointer came in the first half with the Tigers and Warriors locked at 6-all and could have proved the difference in the Tigers 16-12 loss on Friday night.

The potential try came from a Luke Brooks grubber into the in-goal, which Leilua came desperately close to grounding millimetres inside the dead-ball line.

Inexplicably, Przeklasa-Adamski opted against checking the possible try with the video referee.

After speaking with NRL referees boss Jared Maxwell on Saturday morning, Annesley said the call was “wrong”.

“He (Przeklasa-Adamski) thought he saw it clearly and made a judgment call,’’ Annesley said.

“He didn’t think it was as close as what it ultimately turned out to be.

“He thought he was in a good position, had a clear view of it and made the call.

“He was wrong. He should’ve referred the decision, he didn’t refer to it and we’ll never know what decision the bunker would’ve made.

“But that doesn’t in any way detract from the fact that should’ve been referred to.

“By no means am I trying to justify it, but he’s only in his third game as a single referee, but the only way people get experience is to bring them into play – much like a player.

“He’s going to learn a pretty hard lesson out of this, a self-inflicted lesson because he’s doing it quite tough this morning, knowing full-well he’s made the wrong call.

“I know that is no consolation to anyone that is a Tigers official, fan or player, but he realises his error.

“No one goes out there trying to make errors.’’
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He's doing it tough? Poor bastard.
Not as tough as Madge. Or me by the way
 
pawsandclaws1 said:
That to me is the culture. Fitzgibbon has players who play for him, the club and are trained to do the basics well. He has achieved that in a very short timeframe. This is Maguire's fourth year.
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Well with respect to Fitzgibbon he's taken on a side that has made the finals 8 times in the past 10 years and last year's 9th was their worst result since 2014 (which is also our best result in that same period).

The Sharks have played 3 rounds in 2022. Far too early to call whether Fitzgibbon has achieved anything in one off-season.
 
pawsandclaws1 said:
We don't have the best team in the NRL, but doing the basics well, playing for your team mates and playing with enthusiasm will narrow the gap against even the best sides, I would accept losses if our team demonstrated these qualities. Now this is the fourth year of this standard of play. There must come a time when the cost to the club in terms of its status must outweigh the cost of paying out the coach. We must be near that point.
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There are two issues with what you have said, and what you have said is fair enough. But two issues:

(1) Being able to accept courageous losses is a very temporary thing. We would accept gallant efforts for a period, but only because the team is currently lacking in that area. Soon enough we would despair at why the team "does the basics with such enthusiasm and still loses". Or "are they ever able to do any better than the basics?"

The old Balmain sides of the 90s that I followed - some of those were very respectable teams with an absolute lack of talent, but they were often tough and could nut out the odd great win. But they were still very lean seasons, and all the respectability in the world does nothing when you are constantly 4th or 5th last.

(2) By all means change the coach - but is that gonna fix it? We have to accept as fans that we've done a fair number of coach changes since the last time we were a genuinely competitive side, and it really hasn't made much of a difference at all. It doesn't seem to matter the coach and roster refreshes, because by some unclear mechanism the team still manages to fall back into mediocrity and mental weakness.

You could cut the CEO too, or vacate the board, but I can't really see how modifying the business heads in the club would directly affect on-field performance.
 
BAGNF05 said:
My hate for the roosters is unhealthy
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I actually find myself much more tolerant of Roosters these days.

Maybe all the injuries they had last year made me realize that everything doesn't always go their way and I actually liked the way they played under adversity at times, something this team very rarely if ever is able to do.

My top 3 most despised teams are:
  • Souffs (and I can never see that changing), lowest of the low since 1909.
  • Parramatta, the slimy scumbags, especially so in more recent times due to parasites like Moses, Matterson and Gutho, who I once liked as a player, but since being made Captain of the side has become a completely unbearable arse wipe.
  • Penrith, who I didn't mind prior to Cleary doing the dirty on us and going over there, making me realize that they were all nothing but a bunch of lying, disrespectful, cheating Tiktok dancing low lifes.
 
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