Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[BAGNF05]

It's not just that .it's what happens leading into games,training,mindset ,everyone on the same page .it was changed defensive line etc

It was early season before our starting side picked up injuries and we were fielding a high school team.

 

[Tiger_claws]

He could have spent the week with his assistants planning how they’d turn our shit season around.

They did plenty of that. They also had plenty of midnight video sessions to try and turn things around.

 

[Glenji95]

Sorry, who is Betsy?

Matthew Betsy, he’s the head of football at the club was appointed the role after Sheens got sacked last year. He initially took it on an interim basis I’m not sure if that’s changed but he’s the head of football for us.

 

[loklok]

It was early season before our starting side picked up injuries and we were fielding a high school team.

Yea u could look at that .plus not getting the rub of the green off the ref's.
I still think it starts at training, conditioning etc since we don't have a team of superstars .it amazes me how some coaches get the best out of no name players. Hence our depth

 

[BAGNF05]

Yea u could look at that .plus not getting the rub of the green off the ref's.
I still think it starts at training, conditioning etc since we don't have a team of superstars .it amazes me how some coaches get the best out of no name players. Hence our depth

All that is important if you actually have enough quality/class to begin with. We’re still working on that.

 

[loklok]

All that is important if you actually have enough quality/class to begin with. We’re still working on that.

True ,I'm still not sure on next yr

 

[weststigerman]

Now back Richos trip to England, did anyone see Bevan French play last weekend , the bloke is a freak , has all the skill and heaps of pace , yet Richo came back empty handed , we really need another class centre with pace

Geez there are some horrible takes on here. French is a NSW Cup/English Super League player with defensive issues.

 

[TigerSJ]

Shifty Moses at it again

Ploy to get us paying some of his next contract in England and to sway opinion on his value. Expected move from his Manager. Let’s wait and see what actually eventuates.

 

[TSP]

They did plenty of that. They also had plenty of midnight video sessions to try and turn things around.

And still nothing worked.

The entire Wests Tigers brains trust submitting ideas and insights all season trying to correct a problematic roster.

The inner sanctum would have been torturous.

Not that they found a lot of answers but to his eternal tcredit, Benji has admitted to errors.

His recourse to rookieness is a bit off, but I have appreciated him coming clean on occasion.

Realising his shortcomings is the start to fixing them.

Can he fix them? I just don’t know.

 

[BAGNF05]

True ,I'm still not sure on next yr

2-3 forwards short atm and still poor depth.

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

Benji had 5.5 months of the off season to get away.

It will be interesting to see if he jets out again next year at the same time as a kind of self justification exercise.

It’s still haunting him as it is.

Feeding his critics as it were.

Even if it had no actual adverse impact, we don’t quite know, we didn’t need another own goal.

5.5 months? How do you get that? Why is a a short break haunting him. I assure it doesn’t! It haunts only some people here that listen to trash media. I don’t really care but he is not off for close to 6 months ever and his ‘break’ was a media beat up. Does he suck, probably. Do I give a shite if he has a week off, when the players are away, not at all. He probably works harder than most of us keyboard warriors. All coaches have time away mid or off season. If we didn’t suck you would never have known about it. I can’t understand people flogging a man for a taking a few days break, just because he coaches our shite team. There are plenty of other real reasons to be worried.

 

[BAGNF05]

And still nothing worked.

The entire Wests Tigers brains trust submitting ideas and insights all season trying to correct a problematic roster.

The inner sanctum would have been torturous.

Not that they found a lot of answers but to his eternal tcredit, Benji has admitted to errors.

His recourse to rookieness is a bit off, but I have appreciated him coming clean on occasion.

Realising his shortcomings is the start to fixing them.

Can he fix them? I don’t know.

Stay up all night wracking your brains for what?

How to get roster containing 13 debutants to win in the NRL?

May as well get the Rubix cube out.

 

[loklok]

2-3 forwards short atm and still poor depth.

Spot on .we r definitely lacking a yeo,murray ,cotter or carrigan type player

 

[TSP]

Stay up all night wracking your brains for what?

How to get roster containing 13 debutants to win in the NRL?

May as well get the Rubix cube out.

That’s their job.

Do you think we got the best out of every available player, debuting or otherwise?

 

[BAGNF05]

That’s their job.

Do you think we got the best out of every available player, debuting or otherwise?

I don’t think any coaching staff in the NRL did that.

Can they improve? Certainly, I hope they bring in some more coaching experience.

Was our roster this year ever going to win more than 7-8 games. Not without more luck with injuries and suspensions.

 

[TSP]

5.5 months? How do you get that? Why is a a short break haunting him. I assure it doesn’t! It haunts only some people here that listen to trash media. I don’t really care but he is not off for close to 6 months ever and his ‘break’ was a media beat up. Does he suck, probably. Do I give a shite if he has a week off, when the players are away, not at all. He probably works harder than most of us keyboard warriors. All coaches have time away mid or off season. If we didn’t suck you would never have known about it. I can’t understand people flogging a man for a taking a few days break, just because he coaches our shite team. There are plenty of other real reasons to be worried.

You can believe anything you want, it doesn’t worry me.

But I think he should have taken his family holidays during the 5.5 months of the off season. Preferably during the school holidays as well.

It haunts him because it’s seen by many as a selfish thing to do when the side was collapsing before his very eyes.

I expected him to work through the bye period. I was surprised to learn he’d taken off.

As a club member, i got the feeling he was taking his responsibilities and obligations too lightly.

 

[TigerSJ]

All this rubbish about Benji’s holiday time during the Bye round. Really, people are still eating up that garbage.
As I understand it was not even a week away and the players are all given time off under Players Association guidelines so they can’t train. It is not unusual for other coaches to take a few days off during this time. Furthermore it was suggested that most did that. What difference does it make whether he gets a few days in Fiji with his family or whether he takes a break in Lilyfield? Lack of success at the Tigers has little to do with the number of hours Benji has spent working on improving our results this season. I’m sure he’s spent plenty.
We have far more important issues than this to attend to!

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

If you see no difference between Wayne Bennet taking a short local break mid year and Benji Marshall taking an overseas holiday mid year when running last then I don't know what to say. Agree to disagree

Craig headed to hamilton island one bye round this season and didn’t get any media attention.

His travel distance was more than double than Benji’s. Guess that was ok?

 

[Droppy05]

That is such a stupid quote.
Good leaders make decisions based upon all available information and considered opinion.
They aren’t omniscient.

Or infallible ?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Club just needs to focus on Galvin. Should be looking to extend by at least another 3 years.