LIVE GAME Round 5 versus Eels

[Tooff-less Cat]

I was at the game and from what I saw live was a great tigers fight back in the first half to go up by 2 at the break.

2nd half we looked like we were rolling them with ease until the send off which to be fair was warranted although just bad luck to the way the eels player landed, if he wasn't injured on the play then it's play on maybe eels 6 again.

We leaked 2 tries and a penalty at the end which was moses being moses, to end the game like that was just not a true indicator of the game.

Lucky the boys fought hard went down their end and earnt a penalty, maybe even softer than Moses milking it.

No matter who you barrack for it's a shame the game can come down to shit calls either way.

Ref has too much control these days

 

[tigerballs]

Parra came with their best today and their defence early was fantastic. So many plays when we thought we had them and they came up with early hits. They were pretty good, so it's a good indication of where we are. Good win, more to come.

 

[Tonymontana]

I'll have to admit I gave up late in this game, their resilience and not to panic was awesome.

Jock is a man of steel, and once again TWAL, 120m, 51 tackles 3 great offloads and 5 tackle breaks, our back row has to be up there with the best right now.

 

[Vicious]

Big Royce an unsung hero so far this season.
He is proving very hard to handle for tiring defences.

 

[krissy]

So happy that we got the win but absolutely filthy that Moses was allowed to carry on like a 10 year old kid dobbing to the teacher. He was up in the ref’s face all game and literally touched the ref 3 or 4 times& don’t start me on his academy award milking. The NRL really has to act on his rubbish behaviour.

 

[1eyetiger]

You obviously didn’t watch To’a play NSW Cup today ?

Actually realised they scored more trys then us. Like to unable to tear apart a team with 3 injuries in the backs . Plus Moses was clearly hampered by injury we should won comfortably

Its ok to win ugly, should /could who cares mare

 

[Tucker]

2nd half we looked like we were rolling them with ease until the send off which to be fair was warranted although just bad luck to the way the eels player landed, if he wasn't injured on the play then it's play on maybe eels 6 again.

That doesn’t make sense.
You’ve said it could have been play on, which is incorrect, but how could your opinion move from that to a sinbin?
The injury should not affect the decision.

 

[Telltails]

Pretty high quality game. I'm sure if you weren't a fan of either team it would have been good to watch.

 

[innsaneink]

Just on LL's sin-bin; clearly the injury decided the punishment there?

The explanation was an act with a high risk of injury - so you're now saying every tackle in the air should be a sin-bin?

Very unfortunate and wish Simonsson a speedy recovery, but that's no sin-bin unless they all are now.

It was an over reaction...no way it was binning worthy
They score twice immediately after gets them back in it
Really poor call from the VR

 

[RydeTide]

No sin bin, WT win by 12 or 14 points.

THey had a prop defending at centre and didn't take advantage of it

 

[king_sirro]

What about Tallyn going the short side away from Moses twice in a row when we were a man down 😂😂

 

[hodgo]

Also our forwards are legit

 

[Tooff-less Cat]

That doesn’t make sense.
You’ve said it could have been play on, which is incorrect, but how could your opinion move from that to a sinbin?
The injury should not affect the decision.

Like I said it doesn't make sense, live he didn't call it a penalty until parra player was noted as injured and moses was in the refs ear.

The injury did affect the decision, just like many times this year in other games the ref changes their decision once they either get a call from the bunker or watch a replay.

 

[Tigerdazz2]

The boys played hard, fast paced footy but admittedly were way short of their best, had 2 tries scored against them when down to 12 on the ground, fell behind on the scoreboard and still managed to fight for a win.

We haven't seen this in ages, Parra threw heaps at our boys and they were really up for this game yet our boys hang in there.

It wasn't like they were playing a second rate outfit, so being critical of the boys that for game would be a tad harsh IMHO.

Don't find excuses or come up with criticisms boys & girls.....let's be just be happy with a gutsy win & have a big Wests Tigers ❤️love in❤️, we haven't had one in a very long time

 

[stevied]

Yep. Toa back, Mak on the wing and Luke L left right out

Toa back? He was downright ordinary in Cup.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Toa back? He was downright ordinary in Cup.

If anyone it should be Herbert.

 

[Tigerdazz2]

So happy that we got the win but absolutely filthy that Moses was allowed to carry on like a 10 year old kid dobbing to the teacher. He was up in the ref’s face all game and literally touched the ref 3 or 4 times& don’t start me on his academy award milking. The NRL really has to act on his rubbish behaviour.

The Tigers should complain to the NRL about that, no doubt if one of our guys touched a ref, he'd be sent up the tunnel for 10.

 

[gregjm87]

Man that 15 minutes was disgusting . It changed the game . All the penalties and 6 agains we got were because we were winning the ruck . They’re rewards for dominance . They’re earnt . Without that decision three no way on earth they come close ,, in fact I think we blow them out . They have the best front running half in the game … and he took full advantage of a winger being the guy who’s off . It shouldn’t have happened . Typical Klein bullshit .

I'd agree with all this. But there was other calls or probably non calls that went our way. I think the Williams lost ball. The ref was right he hadn't called held, but he should have. I thought KPP stripped a ball that was called lost and we scored from that possession. Tavana clearly knocked on, called back and play on lateish in the game. Possession to Eels there potentially would have given them the win. That's just off the top of my head. Sure Eels had a few their way as well, including the most defining one. Just thought we had more favourable decisions then they did.

 

[Betterdays22]

Pretty high quality game. I'm sure if you weren't a fan of either team it would have been good to watch.

The physicality and energy we are playing with is high quality, the attack is far from it.

I can live with that because when it clicks we are going to dust some teams this year

 

[Lestronge]

No sin bin, WT win by 12 or 14 points.

It’s not a stats thing . We were dominating the game , and the ref gave them 6 agains . You can’t quantify that with stats .