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Just looking at the ladder, with the Dogs/Manly losing on the weekend and Cowboys/Rabbits winning, the Top 8 is pretty close to locked in, even 4 week out (which is unusual)? Dogs have 10 wins, 4 matches to go. Cowboys and Knights both have 12 wins, with a bye to come, and Knights have today's...

I fell into the trap of hoping they'd be able to keep it up. It was simple things - sticking in the tackle, line speed, low errors. The starting roster, less injuries, is decent on paper. I hoped dearly that we wouldn't derail after that match where Doueihi and Samuela got injured, with Bula...

Personally I haven't checked out, but I don't watch every game in full at the moment, not since the finals charge ended this year. My kids won't leave me in peace so it's hard to watch matches live; it's not exactly a negative thing, they just jump about and ask a million questions, it makes...

There's unfortunately something likeable / car crash / interesting about the scrapes Tigers get into. On-field and off-field. Just weird / unique stuff - the merger fighting, Hopoate fingers, Luai clauses, Galvout, Benji going to rugby, cocaine use in the early days, Big Four leaving, Cleary...

What they are both entitled twats with the same manager? WTF turns up with a dossier, only the biggest douchebags in existence come to a work meeting with a dossier and their legal reps / managers, without informally raising their concerns directly in the years prior. You put an NDA in...

It happens a lot to other clubs, just Tigers seem to rebound less effectively than most other clubs. E.g. Cowboys lost Ponga, Jahrome Hughes and the Hammer (first two 2016-2017, Hammer in 2022). Kikau, Felise Kaufusi and The Cheese were all Cowboys juniors. It has hurt them pretty badly in...

They want to grow League in NZ not undercut the Warriors. League support is heavily centralised in Auckland (esp. South Auckland) and very much reduced in all other major cities like Wellington and XChurch. But there's a huge cash-strapped Rugby Union development pool that NRL can exploit...

The BFG

If he's leaving I don't see the point. But whatever, all the propositions for promotion are defensively unsound.

Hasn't he signed with Parra?

Is it weird that we are all setting ourselves up to be grateful if we don't conced 80 points in a few weeks? I was at the Roosters game last year and we won.

Ah the old cliche when a pessimist labels themselves a realist. What will you do if we win one more this season, be happy or be upset that your prediction was ruined?

Or Madge

I agree there are too many blinkers on to point at the last mistake we made and ignore the 40 mistakes leading up to that. Tigers should have been scoring 20+ points today.

Who do you play instead though? What you have said here is not a debate - he is clearly inexperienced and struggling. That's not disagreeing directly with what I said - what I said is we don't have the depth to drop Makasini, both as a roster deficit and due to the money we've invested in him...

Does self-quoting dire predictions make it any better?

Not entirely, it's a reflection of the lack of depth. Toa has been carrying injuries for several seasons, Taylan May is only just back to footy and we've decided to play Doueihi in the halves. Out of desperation Benji calls up Pat Herbert and we do a deal. That's scraping the bottom of the...

I was so annoyed when Richo signed us up to Commbank yet again.

Talau average OK footballer - didn't cement a position at Tigers or Manly, and is not a first-choice at Roosters. But you can't reflect on his stats tonight, it was an absolute shellacking, even my Grandma would have posted good stats against Cowboys tonight. Actually I found it slightly...

Thank you Cowboys for making me feel a bit better about some of the recent Tigers results. Wild to think Cowboys have now both conceded the highest ever NRL-era score, and scored the previous equal-highest ever NRL-era score.