Mighty_Tiger
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100%. They are still a few pieces short but their strategy shift has driven a culture & results change which is well deserved.
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100%. They are still a few pieces short but their strategy shift has driven a culture & results change which is well deserved.
Tigerdazz2
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A bloody hip drop tackle from Parra. No penalty no nothing back then, yet Bryce Gibbs gets marched for next to nothing. We never seemed to get a good run from the refs back then.
tiger05premier
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That was a normal comp game though
tig_prmz
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It was the 2nd last round of 2009. One of the greatest WT games and crazy Hayne vs Benji hype
tiger05premier
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AmericanHistoryX
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There was no money in it back in those days. There were no bicycle lanes
Tigerdazz2
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I must correct myself there. You are right, we just missed the finals, I think we came 9th.
It was probably because of the atmosphere, a packed SFS. I think if I remember correctly, if WT had beaten Parra they would have scraped into 8th position & this played in the Semi finals.
BAGNF05
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Those days when August footy mattered. 🥹
AmericanHistoryX
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Exactky. Felt like a semi. Better than a semi. Like who remembers a semi that year.
TV Ted Ellery
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We helped them out once by taking on Klemmer's enormous contract...
Tom Shines
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I was at that game as well …
AmericanHistoryX
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He is better than Klemmer. But I respect David Klemmer
AmericanHistoryX
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After Tuaki went down. We lost our Spirit. We lost our way....
Tigerdazz2
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I think because that game was at the SFS and so late in the season I was recalling it as a Semi Final, totally forgetting WT at the time controversially were playing some "home" games there along with another team or two (besides the Chooks).
Tigerdazz2
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Compounded by Gibbs getting marched!! 😩
Tom Shines
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unfortunately i remember all too well that the WT only made the semis three times 😑
AmericanHistoryX
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Yet the refs make it every year...
BlackWhiteGold
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As someone mentioned a few days ago, players we have recently released (Kepaoa, Simpkin) can be included apparently.
AmericanHistoryX
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Deadline? Roosters have no deadline. Nor Canterbury. How did a deadline or does a deadline affect a bank roll??.
Tigerdazz2
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Of all the games I've ever gone to that Rd 24 game v Parra in 2009 comes in second only to the 2005 Major Semi v St George.
Me & the Missus won tickets to that Semi & were seated smack bang in the middle of a huge bunch of Saints fans who had this huge "Red V" banner that covered about 20 people when they unfurled it. They were so cocky and gave us plenty of light hearted stick. So sure they were going to win, they offered us tissues just before kick off.
I think it was more fun for us seeing these Dragons supporters going from supremely confident to confident to worried to devastated 😆😂 than it would have been sitting with fellow Tigers supporters.
Unfortunately I couldn't get tickets to the 2005 GF but watching it on telly the atmosphere must have been mind blowing!
