LIVE GAME Round 14 v the Panthers

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mtd#2 said:
Yeah, my initial frustration with officiating (which is in general as a game, not just tigers) eased off the shitter we were...

Its so disheartening to spend the money i do on memberships and merch for the family to watch that sort of performance.. its been the same bs for years.

How does it improve next year? We will have the same depth basically, maybe less. So a few injuries and we are back to this bs again?
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Yes unfortunately.
We have to develop a playing style that the second stringers can hold their own doing. The hot potato, keep it alive stuff is leading to too many errors and we don’t have the defensive class in that group to defend them.
 
king_sirro said:
I sat behind the posts and I have to defend Tavana here. He did a great job today considering. Yes a couple of time they stripped that side, but thats to be expected when the rest if the team is being run through like kindergarten kids. Turuva and Tavana did a great job on McLean and Jenkins.
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For mine he was wholly responsible for his positioning when he basically gave Jenkins a free run outside him to score in the corner late in the match.

Hopefully he learns from it, though the effort from Skelton when he should have nailed To'o off the Cleary banana kick was probably worse. Particularly because it ended our going set for set with them for the opening dozen or so minutes of the second half.

The floodgates reopened as a result, conceding more than a point a minute from there onwards.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Spare me the hyperbole. Talk trash about the team all you like., but have some awareness about what’s happening below us. For us to be smokies. the Dragons would have to win at least another 6 or 7 games which isn’t happening.
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Don’t forget they get to play us twice😁
 
Yossarian said:
You deserve 3 points and a free pie and chips for lasting that long. I don’t think I’ve ever had to sit through 60. Sadly 50 a number of times. There were times in the 90s I felt like leaving early.
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Well I was ready to go a lot earlier than that, but just stayed stubborn until it tipped over the 56 barrier. I honestly thought it would be 80 part way through the first half.
 
Siberian Kitten said:
Smokies for the spoon.

Benji needs to get some lessons from Foran.
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What's annoying that other clubs when faced with the fact they are harbouring a dud coach they do something about it, this joint is just content with mediocrity, if I hear another player saying their playing for Benji I'll f....en vomit, any team that gets beaten by 70 points is not having a go
 
Tiger_heart said:
I am not sure you can single him out. According to the stats below, he is not THAT bad. This said, he is part of a bigger problem, at the WT, I feel. And when fans walk out, or boo, at the game, it is time for everyone that runs the club to take a long and hard look at what they are doing, coach included.

2026 Average Statistics Comparison
The table below compares Pole's per-game data against standard profiles of elite forwards (e.g., Payne Haas), mid-tier workhorses, and defensive-oriented specialists:

Metric (Per Game) [1, 2, 3, 4]Fonua Pole (Wests Tigers)Elite Prop (Marquee)Mid-Tier WorkhorseDefensive Specialist
Run Metres105 m150+ m110 m90 m
Tackles Made23.630.026.038.0
Tackle Efficiency90.6%92.5%89.0%95.0%
Tackle Breaks2.453.51.80.5
Offloads0.01.20.50.2
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Is there an unforced error comparison section to go with those above? That table shows Pole as a guy who can break more tackles than a workhorse, but doesn't make enough tackles or metres to match them.

Glaringly, not only does the average defensive specialist provide more variety through offloads, Fonua gets a duck egg.
 
Spacecub said:
What's annoying that other clubs when faced with the fact they are harbouring a dud coach they do something about it, this joint is just content with mediocrity,
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We give them 5 year contracts
Spacecub said:
if I hear another player saying their playing for Benji I'll f....en vomit, any team that gets beaten by 70 points is not having a go
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Terrell said as much the other day. His loyalty is to the coach, not the club. A lot of supporters want us to kowtow to both sets of brothers by bringing their brothers to the club to keep them all happy. But if they are going to dish up what they did today, why should we care if they’d want to quit the club if Benji goes. What would we be losing?
 
Funnel Webb said:
Thought I would stop by after being inactive on here for a while. Thought I should remind some people of how absolutely useless and objectively bad of a player Jarome Luai is. We would just be so much better off without him at all. Doueihi would obviously be ideal but since Luai is going to PNG why don't we just see how Latu and Madden would go together? You can't convince me that we would be any worse off, why do we even owe Luai any game time? Shove him in reserve grade or have him on the extended bench. He's just so trash I can't believe he's on the money he is. I can't believe he's our captain, Twal would be better off sharing the captaincy with Koroisau. Anyways thought I would come back and rage bait some delusional people, after all I created this account just to trash on him.

And don't come at me with some "he's our captain on $1.2 million, we can't drop him." Yeah he's on $1.2 million and trash and a horrible captain who dogged the boys after crying about team first. Drop him now and promote Twal, he leads more with his actions on the field than Luai ever could with any words or any anime aura he thinks he has.
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Said it all along Webb, without doubt this joint ventures worst ever signing, having indured the Adam Blair time here ,I think hes worse
 
Personally I’d sack anyone that says they are playing for the coach.
That’s a load of nonsense.
How about the club who employ you? the fans who support you? and the companies who finance you?
It’s a holistic thing and saying your loyalty is to a coach who is still learning how to actually coach is ridiculous.
Also….these guys aren’t even putting in for him. That’s BS as well.
 
Spacecub said:
Said it all along Webb, without doubt this joint ventures worst ever signing, having indured the Adam Blair time here ,I think hes worse
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Worst signing ever is a coveted title. Blair will always take some beating. Luai would have to be up there. Has legitimately only had one or two good games for us in a season and a half.
 
mtd#2 said:
Yeah, my initial frustration with officiating (which is in general as a game, not just tigers) eased off the shitter we were...

Its so disheartening to spend the money i do on memberships and merch for the family to watch that sort of performance.. its been the same bs for years.

How does it improve next year? We will have the same depth basically, maybe less. So a few injuries and we are back to this bs again?
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The start to this year was good whilst it lasted, real good.

Having Api and Jahream back last week and a similar intensity with Twal still in the engine room brought most of that needed to cover for the missing Samuela, along with Doueihi and Taylan against a midfield team in the dogs.

Sadly, WT just cannot compete with a runaway team like Penrith for long periods in our current iteration, and especially so when we give up early possession like today.
 
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