LIVE GAME Round 19 v Warriors

[Tom Shines]

Nothing to lose I guess with Taylan at this stage … did he do much in KOE?

 

[groucher]

Next week I’d drop Skelton and Staines . Put Starford Toa and Isaac Tuitoupo Thompson on the wings and bring Taylan May into the centres to partner Douhei

Tuitupou was very poor today.. very shaky under the high ball. Bring in Taylan though. Good defensively and 3 powerful tries from close range today

 

[groucher]

Nothing to lose I guess with Taylan at this stage … did he do much in KOE?

Best on ground for us

 

[lathami]

Nothing to lose I guess with Taylan at this stage … did he do much in KOE?

not much

 

[innsaneink]

The coaching has gotta improve too .. they lose the ruck battle every week … their line speed is slow…they aren’t turning that around in a week though ..although maybe the poor old Titans might be going through the motions … I doubt it though ..

I gotta add we dont fight to regain our feet in the tackle in possesion...so slow there...we lose the wrestle 99% of the time in possesion getting put on our back and turned around....even if we do land on knees & elbows theres little urgency for a quick ptb...it all starts here in attack and defense

 

[Tito Santana]

My thoughts

 

[Tom Shines]

Haha this says it all with this fan base ..

Best on ground for us

not much

 

[upthetigers]

2nd or 3rd bottle cracked already?

I'm buckled how else do you deal with it

 

[becca88]

Seemed like we were flat most of the game - hard to see on the tele but the Warriors looked to be doing a lot of up and in that stifled the attack in the middle third. Like NSW we failed to react to it appropriately.

We look better with AD as a ball playing 13 - gets both Luai and Latu that little bit wider and I think that little bit of time makes a difference. We are significanly better in attack with AD at 13 than Twal and he offered more in attack than Bird (who was terrible today). At 13 AD gives us a bigger boot and potentially the use of the floating bomb as well.

I'm not blaming the officiating for the loss - but a couple of those poor calls led to points.

We have a lot of work to do this week if we are going to be competitive agaisnt the last placed Titans at home.

Something I notice, not just in this game but across the board. Is that often the team that gets attacking momentum does so by rolling through the ruck. The players constantly stand up and steal one to two metres as they stand up to play the ball and it has the markers retreating. It is rarely officiated on and it means that the defensive team either has offside markers, or only one onside. It frustrates me to watch but I also don’t understand at this point why the Tigers don’t try the same method?

 

[lathami]

Look as usual the ref did us no favours at all. But we need to defend bettter, easy getting the numbers every time against us. Warriors just wanted it more, we tried but half/assesd.

 

[Merlot]

I gotta add we dont fight to regain our feet in the tackle in possesion...so slow there...we lose the wrestle 99% of the time in possesion getting put on our back and turned around....even if we do land on knees & elbows theres little urgency for a quick ptb...it all starts here in attack and defense

agree , think we have improved slightly in D wrestling lately

 

[rugbygoated]

Jarome Luai has added nothing to the Tigers this season. Nothing.

 

[Stevec]

Douehi 2 tries 1 try assist ,124 meters , 7 tackle breaks , 2 line breaks 1 line break assist , and 0 errors in a error riddled game .
Check the stats of a few others !
Sukkar eg Last week 80 mins 29 m , this dweek 80 mins 41 m
Fact is we have no " go forward " so stop picking the worst offenders with no
Go Forward !

 

[Tom Shines]

I gotta add we dont fight to regain our feet in the tackle in possesion...so slow there...we lose the wrestle 99% of the time in possesion getting put on our back and turned around....even if we do land on knees & elbows theres little urgency for a quick ptb...it all starts here in attack and defense

Yes I agree ..this was what I was meaning about losing the ruck battle…in Defense we don’t slow them down much either ,,. it’s a fundamental part of the game that we never seem to be much good at for about forever …although it’s worse these past 3-4 years

 

[Fish88]

Dylan Walker just laid on a nice try … he would have been the kind of player we could have done with mid season

We only release players mid season mate, not sign them!

 

[HUNT 101]

Translation...Next week is an event. Come along and slum it. 2040 is an event.

🤤

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

Gotta say we are the most frustrating team to follow ever.... Adel Hadge breakdown of today's game on west life podcast will be interesting... he makes a lot of sense

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Jarome Luai has added nothing to the Tigers this season. Nothing.

I’m glad you finally got that off your chest mate.

 

[innsaneink]

Something I notice, not just in this game but across the board. Is that often the team that gets attacking momentum does so by rolling through the ruck. The players constantly stand up and steal one to two metres as they stand up to play the ball and it has the markers retreating. It is rarely officiated on and it means that the defensive team either has offside markers, or only one onside. It frustrates me to watch but I also don’t understand at this point why the Tigers don’t try the same method?

You need to be pushing thrru the defense to do this...making post contact meters.
We get pushed back generally

 

[Tom Shines]

Jarome Luai has added nothing to the Tigers this season. Nothing.

How much ?