2025 finishing 13th on the ladder. Pass or Fail fro season 2025?

[GNR4LIFE]

Some players really went off the boil over the second half of the year. Pole and Turuva in particular. Pole is right on the edge of becoming another Seyfarth if he doesn’t pull it together next season. And Turuva scored 9 try’s from his first 9 games. And only scored 2 in the next 15. Still a big fan of both, but both have to bounce back. On the flip side, Samuela was pretty ineffective during the first part of the season, but came on big time, playing like he did last season on the run home. So that was good to see. Overall, I guess the season is a failure. But getting out of the bottom 4 after three consecutive spoons is some consolation. You’d think it’s top 8 or bust for Benji next season.

 

[Tiger Woods]

Avoiding spoon - pass
Finishing above dragons - pass 🤣
Not making top 8 - fail
Not winning 3 in a row - fail
Another failed season
Can go on & on about wests tigers report card this season but won't
Hopefully this rebuild which has taken 14 seasons will finally take shape in 26 but I'm not hugely confident
😭

 

[Tiger Tarl]

At the start of the season I said winning 10 games would be a pass mark. We won 9. So I guess thats a fail. That being said, pass or fail is a false binary, thus why its a ladder with 17 places. No one can deny we improved from last year. Black and white thinking is rarely a healthy mindset. Black, white and orange on the other hand.... 😉

 

[Flippedy]

F

 

[upthetigers]

Failure. I genuinely thought we'd be a chance of making the 8 this year.

 

[boonboon]

Pass
Massive improvement on last few years.

 

[gallagher]

Fail,
Wins over the cows and tits in the last 3 weeks would have changed it to pass, but they were horrible capitulations. The team didn't care if we won those games. They went out to have fun, which stems from the coach in my opinion.

 

[Wezt]

We have had the best luck with injuries this season with only 62 collective games missed due to injury

Will we have that same luck next year?

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

Considering our squad and recruitment, fail…..we have skill, but not the mental resilience to go on with it in games for the full 80…

 

[bbobb]

It’s a 50-50 for me.

The good
Emergence of Taylan and Latu is encouraging as is what Makasini can bring.
The rejuvenation of Douiehi as a lock/half.
Bula’s continual improvement.
Samuela’s and Sione’s back half of the season
Apart from Bird, I think we bought reasonably well.
Team seems to be tight knit and they mostly fight and compete up until the end.

The bad:
Depth is still a huge problem. Api and Terrel should not play 80
Defence was inconsistent throughout the season.
Bench selections were often head scratchers
Inability to win 3+ in a row
Pole and To’a’s drop in form

The ugly
Galvingate was a mess that impacted the teams structures and was a huge distraction.
Luai didn’t have a “Batman” season. He isn’t a general on the field despite his reported off field influence.
Losing six in a row killed the season
Losing to Titans and Cows when well ahead.
We need to recruit key roles while moving some on in the off season.

 

[crazycat]

I hate thinking that so much of our success was flukey.

Terrell May has been damn outstanding. Yet we lost 4 forwards, maybe Batemans attitude was the factor... maybe it was the coaching. But we lost 4 forwards... So our coach puts a bench of Centers??

Had May not played what has often been the best football I have seen from a Tigers forward, where would we be?

The best thing I saw in 2025 was our backline defense. Turuva and Skelton claimed their parts, Toa said his defense and game raised from playing with Turuva... That means though we have brought good defense rather then train it.

2 times we were opened up, Penrith and Storm. Both times they went straight through the middle. Add KPP + May well maybe that stops but it's clear people found a way to can us and we couldn't do much about it. ...


There is a lot to look forward too. I see some of what we did wrong addressed. I just hope Benji isn't too experimental next year. We really need to get the basics right and treat teams with respect.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The concern is where are we improving next year? With only one notable gain, in KPP, who has been average at beat since his signing was announced, we virtually have the same squad. And the losses against the Cows and Titans highlighted that no matter how much we have improved from the spoon years, the soft underbelly that the club has always suffered from is still there. Continuously losing those types of games shows that we still have a long way to go.

 

[Tcat]

100% fail. We didn't make the 8.