5 In Row Losses - what now?

[851]

If we can hold it together in the forwards, our halves and backs can come up with points.

Trouble is if we don't have the go foward in the middle that Brooks needs, Moses will try and throw the ball around the problem, turn over too much ball and then our already weakened pack will have to do too much defending.

That's when tired players start giving away 4th and 5th tackle penalties, which snowballs into repeat sets and a lot of possesion against us. The Tigers are actually a decent team defensively, we just do far too much of it, and any NRL team will eventually crack if they're defending back to back sets inside their 20.

I don't blame Moses for rolling the dice when there's nothing on. They've gotta play what's in front of them, and if what's in front of them is a well set line off a slow play the ball then what's a young attacking half to do? They could just go 1 out for 5 then bomb, keep the completion stats looking tidy and hope the gaps start to appear as the opposition forwards tire, but the reality is with our weakened foward pack and a very light bench, their big blokes can keep this up longer than ours. We become the proverbial 1 legged man in an arse kicking contest.

So we'll win this if we can miraculously get some roll on through the forwards and make ourselves some space, keep it tidy in defence and restrict the storm to 6 tackles per possession and find that magic balance between attacking flair and completion rate.

All that but then still need melb to be way off their game.

And the storm were way off their game, I don't think I have seen them play that bad before, Smith made some terrible errors, and still we lost, I fail to get excited from what I saw.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

I might have a break for a few days do disappointed

 

[mike]

Hope I am proven wrong but the most likely scenario is 6 losses in a row after next week.

 

[maxxy86]

Yeah the trip to Canberra will be interesting…. After 2 loses for them they will be keen for a win. Austin may be back also so that will add weight to the raiders.
Saturday arvo isn't it so it may be a bit of razzle dazzle footy being played.

 

[Curaeus]

Heartily sick of listening to Taylor- again- meekly copping yet another dismal refereeing performance. The Rowdy decision is a penalty try every day of the week.

 

[stevetiger]

Heartily sick of listening to Taylor- again- meekly copping yet another dismal refereeing performance. The Rowdy decision is a penalty try every day of the week.

I'm not knocking Taylor for this but that should have been a penalty try.

 

[WTDiehard]

oh well….5 in a row......soon could be 6,7,8.

I didn't see the game today but last week was a little like "almost the last straw" for me so I planned other stuff today.

Any sport to be successful is about winning. Trying is really great, being unlucky is kinda nice but if you want to be successful, if you want to play finals football, if you want to win GF's.....you need to win games....full stop.

And we just don't win enough games. And if I hear again how we are building something really special - I think I might become physically sick.

So FFS....just start winning some games...less than 10,000 people at Leichhardt today and the crowds will get lower and less interested if WT's keep losing.

Take a leaf out of other sides books and start winning FFS.....stop the excuses and start winning....other sides do it.......you can too.......start winning.

 

[WTDiehard]

oh well….5 in a row......soon could be 6,7,8.

I didn't see the game today but last week was a little like "almost the last straw" for me so I planned other stuff today.

Any sport to be successful is about winning. Trying is really great, being unlucky is kinda nice but if you want to be successful, if you want to play finals football, if you want to win GF's.....you need to win games....full stop.

And we just don't win enough games. And if I hear again how we are building something really special - I think I might become physically sick.

So FFS....just start winning some games...less than 10,000 people at Leichhardt today and the crowds will get lower and less interested if WT's keep losing.

Take a leaf out of other sides books and start winning FFS.....stop the excuses and start winning....other sides do it.......you can too.......start winning.

 

[hobbo]

Heartily sick of listening to Taylor- again- meekly copping yet another dismal refereeing performance. The Rowdy decision is a penalty try every day of the week.

I'd Rather Ricky Stuart as coach than this moron.

 

[Cosimo_Zaretti]

It leaves us needing to win probably 10 of the remaining 17 games. We've had no blowouts against us, so we should get away with finishing on 28 points. It will help matters if Parramatta is handed an automatic wooden spoon for salary cap breaches.

There are some winnable games coming up. Two cracks at the bunnies, a rematch with Newcastle, the Roosters, the Dragons who can go weeks without scoring and the overrated warriors again. That's 6 wins if we can hold it together and put the rubbish teams away.

Win those games and we need four upsets against decent sides. We've got two games against the dogs, two against the raiders, a rematch with the storm in Melbourne, two against the Panthers, the Titans at Cambeltown, Broncos at Suncorp and the Cowboys at Leichardt. The boys should win 4 of those 11 games, it's just a matter of beating the first group of rubbish sides.

That's the state of play as I see it. The Tigers have a very soft draw this year, in part thanks to TV wanting more games between top sides. We've got to take advantage of that and take out the trash.

I notice Souths are $1.38 favourites to beat us. After watching their performance in Townsville on Friday night I wouldn't stake money on the Bunnies finding their way off the bus.

 

[Milky]

Heartily sick of listening to Taylor- again- meekly copping yet another dismal refereeing performance. The Rowdy decision is a penalty try every day of the week.

I'd Rather Ricky Stuart as coach than this moron.

I would want to sign Stuart lol i would even take him over Cleary, what he has done with the Raiders is incredible.

Has a good eye for talent too, Hodgson, Soliola, Sezer, Waqa, Austin, Paulo etc.

No one would want to go near Canberra before and now they are pulling off all these signings, good on him.

 

[Tigermama]

oh well….5 in a row......soon could be 6,7,8.

I didn't see the game today but last week was a little like "almost the last straw" for me so I planned other stuff today.

Any sport to be successful is about winning. Trying is really great, being unlucky is kinda nice but if you want to be successful, if you want to play finals football, if you want to win GF's.....you need to win games....full stop.

And we just don't win enough games. And if I hear again how we are building something really special - I think I might become physically sick.

So FFS....just start winning some games...less than 10,000 people at Leichhardt today and the crowds will get lower and less interested if WT's keep losing.
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Take a leaf out of other sides books and start winning FFS.....stop the excuses and start winning....other sides do it.......you can too.......start winning.

Can't see us winning anytime soon WT. :frowning:

 

[Russell]

Heartily sick of listening to Taylor- again- meekly copping yet another dismal refereeing performance. The Rowdy decision is a penalty try every day of the week.

I'd Rather Ricky Stuart as coach than this moron.

You are one sick man!!! LOL

 

[TYGA]

We are where we are supposed to be with this roster, average coach, young developing squad with poor leadership on and off the field. WT have to stick with the younger players otherwise the last 3 years were a waste of time. Storm were terrible today and we couldn't win the game at LO.

 

[ricksen]

JT said we should be really excited.

 

[stevied]

I agree, I thought it was strong all round performance, given all the adversity going on. We created more chances, especially in the first half and we defended well. And I'll repeat what I said, persevere with the debutants if they played well. Felise and Ado-Carr should be in first grade next week.

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

It leaves us needing to win probably 10 of the remaining 17 games. We've had no blowouts against us, so we should get away with finishing on 28 points. It will help matters if Parramatta is handed an automatic wooden spoon for salary cap breaches.

There are some winnable games coming up. Two cracks at the bunnies, a rematch with Newcastle, the Roosters, the Dragons who can go weeks without scoring and the overrated warriors again. That's 6 wins if we can hold it together and put the rubbish teams away.

Win those games and we need four upsets against decent sides. We've got two games against the dogs, two against the raiders, a rematch with the storm in Melbourne, two against the Panthers, the Titans at Cambeltown, Broncos at Suncorp and the Cowboys at Leichardt. The boys should win 4 of those 11 games, it's just a matter of beating the first group of rubbish sides.

That's the state of play as I see it. The Tigers have a very soft draw this year, in part thanks to TV wanting more games between top sides. We've got to take advantage of that and take out the trash.

I notice Souths are $1.38 favourites to beat us. After watching their performance in Townsville on Friday night I wouldn't stake money on the Bunnies finding their way off the bus.

I love your sense of humour.

 

[Tigermama]

It leaves us needing to win probably 10 of the remaining 17 games. We've had no blowouts against us, so we should get away with finishing on 28 points. It will help matters if Parramatta is handed an automatic wooden spoon for salary cap breaches.

There are some winnable games coming up. Two cracks at the bunnies, a rematch with Newcastle, the Roosters, the Dragons who can go weeks without scoring and the overrated warriors again. That's 6 wins if we can hold it together and put the rubbish teams away.

Win those games and we need four upsets against decent sides. We've got two games against the dogs, two against the raiders, a rematch with the storm in Melbourne, two against the Panthers, the Titans at Cambeltown, Broncos at Suncorp and the Cowboys at Leichardt. The boys should win 4 of those 11 games, it's just a matter of beating the first group of rubbish sides.

That's the state of play as I see it. The Tigers have a very soft draw this year, in part thanks to TV wanting more games between top sides. We've got to take advantage of that and take out the trash.

I notice Souths are $1.38 favourites to beat us. After watching their performance in Townsville on Friday night I wouldn't stake money on the Bunnies finding their way off the bus.

We could get the win..Miracles do happen! 😛ray:

 

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

I might have a break for a few days do disappointed

I go through the same motion after each week but find myself on the forum daily
The get all hyped up about the next game only for them the lose and ruin my weekend.

Its a roller-coaster with no highs :frowning:

The plus is Austin is out next game
That will keep me going for a few days till sat

 

[Tony33]

Honestly whilst it's disappointing that we keep losing, we aren't playing that bad.
We should be able to close out games better, but the 5 losses don't reflect how we are travelling. It's almost so unfair.

The Dragons for example have one more win then us so far and are seriously about 3 lengths behind us in terms of how both teams are travelling. Souths are another team who sit above us but are in a much bigger hole. You could even throw the storm or bulldogs into that category.

It's still early days, a string of 2-3 wins and we're back in it and the 5 losses are almost forgotten.

Lets not forget, in 2005 we lost 5 in a row early as well, as did the Broncos in 2006.

I'm not saying that we are going to win the grand final, but don't count us out just yet.

It's still early days and the signs are encouraging.