Adam Doueihi #227

tiger_one said:
Christian Nicolussi reports:

TIGERS LATEST: Stunned by Adam Doueihi news at Wests Tigers - club wanted all-out attack with Javon, Jarome, and Adam as run threat at No. 13, but he wasn’t keen.

Some context to the coach there.
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It would have been interesting to see and has worked before.

Shocking he'd ditch his team mates like that and leave us without a player when we are struggling for troops.
 
Tiger Stripes said:
Luai has spotted the problem with Doueihi's hogging and diagonal runs are stifling our attack AND Doueihi can't see it and is pissed off with the criticism. Doueihi's current form is crap.
Needs to have a deep self-assessment as to why and come to grips with it. Improve or look elsewhere.
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Might explain Luai's Instagram post after Saints game.
 
Rock Hopper Steve said:
I can't blame the coach here Hal, Doueihi has form whinging about staying in the halves, let's face it he was never going to stay there forever, get on board or bugger off Adam.
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Ok RHS so why lock and not centre ?
Maybe it was the lock thing he thought he couldn’t handle.
I’m just saying, we’ve sold Luai but he still gets picked over Adam, that’s the part that I don’t get.
IMO Douehi is not a lock, and never will be, he knows that. Now I agree he’s handled it very poorly but surely there was a compromise somewhere, especially
given our current situation.
Like last week, don’t tell me Twals anger was just about Salmon, I think the slap was for all his half hearted teammates as well.
 
Will be interested to see if AD gets back in the team for next week. No one walks away from first grade selection by choice. It’s a privilege. Depends on how things go with this week’s halves combination I guess.
 
hank37w said:
Yeah, seen this one coming for a while, just didn't know exactly when it was going to blow up.

Let's face it, despite all his talk about how much Adam Doueihi loves the club and let's face it he should, we have supported him for a fairly long time through multiple injuries and rehabs, but he has had form in the past saying that if he couldn't play in the halves he'd rather play reserve grade.

Look at all the time we carried him during his injuries, on at least 2 occasions extended his contract for a year when really it wasn't warranted because he wasn't exactly in demand and no one was going to take the risk on him after all the reconstructions he has had.

Admittedly we signed him to relatively low deals but to be fair he was rehabilitating for a long time on pretty big dollars after his first ACL.

Don't get me wrong, I admire the guys grit and determination to come back after all the injuries he's had but if he was really team first he'd be willing to play wherever the coach needed him (regardless of whether you feel that Benji is clueless), but instead we have seen the selfish side of him, ball hogging, going for the hero plays and spitting the dummy.

Yeah, like we need another drama, it's just so Wests Tigers, but best to sort this out now that our season is gone rather than drag it into the next season.

Was wondering when Benji was going to have the balls to address this situation and to be honest I wasn't shocked by the comments of Adel Hage recently regarding Adam Doueihi when he said he would let him go.
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Agreed .. to me this was like a cancer under the surface just festering away .. an ego that realises he has leverage because of individual form despite a lot of good juges being very certain that ar stifled the attack and his strengths are not suited to improving the players around him. It’s awkward because he is very talented but makes the team all about him and the results do not come with it .. it’s a team sport and the old saying a champion team will always beat a team of champions .. imagine if AD worked on his defence and became a Jason smith or Nim Dymock or Scott Hill or even Gavin Miller type player .. I hope he can work it out and continue but you can just tell that Benji cannot afford to pander to a player on a team situation like this. Everyone trying to dictate what position they will play and trying to appease everyone you end up like the Souths coach Demetriou applying standards to some players and not to others and it always blows up on the coach .. always .. I’m really glad Benji had boghtbit to a head now.. I saw Douheis demeanour against the warriors and all the selfish play traits were back with a vengeance.. can he become a team player is the biq question we are left with
 
Forget about Luai in this conversation, to me, its not relevant.

I loved Adam at times and I am really dissapointed in him. Feels like a big let down. I thought we would have good halves coming through and he will likely need to play another position. I thought we all expected this will happen.

If he will only play hallfback, I don't see a future in him at the club and he must have played his last game. Reminds me of Nofo a bit.
 
Halbrowne61 said:
Ok RHS so why lock and not centre ?
Maybe it was the lock thing he thought he couldn’t handle.
I’m just saying, we’ve sold Luai but he still gets picked over Adam, that’s the part that I don’t get.
IMO Douehi is not a lock, and never will be, he knows that. Now I agree he’s handled it very poorly but surely there was a compromise somewhere, especially
given our current situation.
Like last week, don’t tell me Twals anger was just about Salmon, I think the slap was for all his half hearted teammates as well.
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Only a suggestion but maybe Benji wanted to free Twal up for prop rotation- another area we are weak in as well as centre.
 
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