Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Tucker said:
These two men who’ve coached over 1500 top level club games between them and have made 20 grand finals would have done no better than a total greenhorn …tell me you don’t know football without directly stating so….
Fill your boots.
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lol too funny. That they did. Never said they didn’t!!! But they together do not equal Jesus and unfortunately could never turn water to wine. We have had shit cattle last few years. And the spoon was always coming our way and it didn’t matter who coached them. Anyway each to their own. But you my friend do deserve a participation award. Bravo!
 
Buttface said:
That is not a true fact: A thing that is known and proven to be true.
Are you Donald Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon?
You cannot prove that in a lab or look it up in a historical journal. It did not happen and cannot be proven as a fact.
I get we love The Benj (no one more than me), but seriously if you don’t think that a couple of the, (arguably), the best modern day coaches wouldn’t have achieved a different result then you are kidding yourself. Sure with the same roster they may not have won the 2024 GF but to say it is “fact” that the same result would have happened is just ridiculous and totally illogical to me.

Still luv ya Benj
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lol again. Nope not Donald Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon… but if I was then you would have to be Dopey of the Seven Dwarfs.
 
Ecto-1 said:
It’s looking like we are 1 of the teams for Vegas in 26
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Vegas is regarded as the gambling capital of the world. Considering our participation for '26 is still up in the air, perhaps we could have some odds offered on what our real chances are. We could open a book with juicy odds offered over a myriad of exotic betting scenarios. Our very own Forum contributor, 'GNR' is known to tease fellow Forum punters with juicy odds for unlikely team selections. Why not have a crack at this. We could start with the following:

Wests Tigers odds to take the trip to Vegas 2026......3/1
Benji Marshall to still be Coach of Wests Tigers in Vegas 2026......7/2
Justin Matamua to be seated in Business class on the flight to Vegas......15/1

Happy for any other suggestions to be added!
 
Wildcat777 said:
lol too funny. That they did. Never said they didn’t!!! But they together do not equal Jesus and unfortunately could never turn water to wine. We have had shit cattle last few years. And the spoon was always coming our way and it didn’t matter who coached them. Anyway each to their own. But you my friend do deserve a participation award. Bravo!
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The spoon was always coming our way last off season? That is quite the attempt at revisionist history.
 
Benji gonna be under the blow torch hard this year.

Imagine if we lose 5 of the first 6 games.

There’s no way he can do press conferences and stay confident after having to face soooo many last year as losses and say the same thing.

He’s under the pump hard.

If he starts bad - he’ll be gone by round 11.

And bad is 3 wins from 11.

Wish him all the best but he’s gonna be sweating each week.
 
We were paying $8 for the spoon the other day and I was tempted to make a bet as I think reasonable odds. Drags were favs. I don’t know the odds for the last two seasons but we must have been close to favourite if not it. The bookies know their shit in most cases. No goss sorry - just can wait to sit with the dolphins CEO (a mate knows) for that game early in the year up here in Qld at Kayo stadium.
 
Lestronge said:
We’ve been really really unlucky with injuries the last , well 3 seasons . Our main issue was zero depth in the squad , so whilst we had competitive starting 17s, our depth was non existent . This has been improved this year by a lot , so I guess we will see .
I think that top 8 has to be the goal , but I don’t know if we will get there . The inevitable backlash is starting now re. “Are the tigers overrated?” . Who rated them in the first place ? Such a strange phenomenon the beats of the off season .
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Agreed re the injuries and top 8 being the goal.

Our players alone should make us a real threat to make the top 8 but the success of this season will fall on Benji and confirm whether he is a first grade standard coach (assuming we get some favour from the injury gods).

This is our best team since 2011, so if Benji cant get them to fire next season, I doubt Richo will be keeping him around for 2026.
 
tigermate said:
Benji gonna be under the blow torch hard this year.

Imagine if we lose 5 of the first 6 games.

There’s no way he can do press conferences and stay confident after having to face soooo many last year as losses and say the same thing.

He’s under the pump hard.

If he starts bad - he’ll be gone by round 11.

And bad is 3 wins from 11.

Wish him all the best but he’s gonna be sweating each week.
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I think we'll start okay and do alright overall. I think he'll get through the season with a pass mark. We'll get a few injuries at some point and that's what will decide our season.
 
Rock Hopper Steve said:
Sadly, talent and especially depth has been pathetic for years hard to improve with that combination see Richo added a few signings to KOE he can see the deficiency hopefully this fixes depth going forward.
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Well, like I have been saying.
Depth isn't our problem. We have as fine quality players registered to play 18-30 as we do 1-17!

The problem is other then Api and maybe Bula, our 1-17 is depth in most other teams.
 
tigermate said:
Benji gonna be under the blow torch hard this year.

Imagine if we lose 5 of the first 6 games.

There’s no way he can do press conferences and stay confident after having to face soooo many last year as losses and say the same thing.

He’s under the pump hard.

If he starts bad - he’ll be gone by round 11.

And bad is 3 wins from 11.

Wish him all the best but he’s gonna be sweating each week.
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That’s called NRL coaching.
 
Batmans Parents said:
Agreed re the injuries and top 8 being the goal.

Our players alone should make us a real threat to make the top 8 but the success of this season will fall on Benji and confirm whether he is a first grade standard coach (assuming we get some favour from the injury gods).

This is our best team since 2011, so if Benji cant get them to fire next season, I doubt Richo will be keeping him around for 2026.
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I'm hoping Richo's confidence in Benji is genuine. You wouldn't think he'd stake his reputation on a bum. You're right, this is our best squad for years. Hate to squander the opportunity.
 
liltiger said:
I wonder if we had flanaghan now working with Richo how diffrent things would be. Totally hypothetical, but I think he could have got more out of the squad last year, though in saying that I don't think we sign the guys we sign who seem to want to play under Benji.
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yea, I mean we would have:

Kyle Flanno playing 5/8 or something. Clearly dad is shielding his son.
Yet I believe we would have kept Stef and Paps. We would not have signed Bateman, would have signed Klemmer... Probably get Gallen or Lewis as a strength coach. Honestly I think the Dragons 2024 squad looked worse then our 2024 squad on paper, So I suspect we would just miss the finals. ...

Coming in our traditional 9th spot on the roster.
 
BAGNF05 said:
That’s called NRL coaching.
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Think of an NRL coach.

And then add the fact we’ve won 3 wooden spoons , 2 of which Benji has been involved with.

And now you realise the increase in pressure he’ll face.

The scrutiny on him is greater than any coach as it should be.
 
Year_of_the_Tiger said:
We were paying $8 for the spoon the other day and I was tempted to make a bet as I think reasonable odds. Drags were favs. I don’t know the odds for the last two seasons but we must have been close to favourite if not it. The bookies know their shit in most cases. No goss sorry - just can wait to sit with the dolphins CEO (a mate knows) for that game early in the year up here in Qld at Kayo stadium.
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Don't think itl be the dragons..

If the Knights lose Ponga they will be down the bottom. Titans still can't defend. Who knows. Tigers are in that group until they show something however.
 
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