Adam Doueihi #227

[mtd#2]

Didn't George Castanza essentially rage quit then walk back into his job the next week like nothing happened? This is similar.

There is a great instagram reel with ADs head super imposed i saw yesterday

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

There is a great instagram reel with ADs head super imposed i saw yesterday

Is his head connected to a goose's body, suits perfectly.

 

[mtd#2]

Brandon Smith said he wouldn’t play with him. As much of a hide someone like Smith has to say something like that. Supposedly he owed thousands of dollars to teammates at the Roosters due to gambling debts. All of that aside, it makes you wonder how many other players out there would feel the same way. If that’s the case, his value would plummet.

For players to let it go, then there must be more to it.. doesnt neccesarily need to be in a bad way either.. but for luai to joke and call him a gronk shows they arent all walking on egg shells.. which is good for the club...because they wouldnt do that if he was genuinely trying to get out of his contract.

For his and our sakes, i hope he has a blinder this weekend.

 

[Lestronge]

Because it seems his dummy spit got him exactly what he wanted back to half back.

If that's the case everything he said today means jack shit .....

Did you listen to the presser ? The whole thing ? The dude looked like he was about to cry . It sounded like a dude who made a potentially life changing mistake … and owned it.
If it wasn’t about standards or changing position , the only thing left is he must have felt like the club was forcing him out . I mean he would be seeing first hand what we all know, Javon and Latu are the future. His mistake was dumbfounding …. To the point where he clearly needs to see a professional as that’s literally not normal , but man not to quote Ted lasso ;
I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we're ever given a second chance.
Seems pretty poignant.
Like I said the only path for me not hating him was a hat in hand , sincere apology .
I think that’s exactly what he did .
As for the half thing . Benji answered that . We need all our leaders out there switched on and putting in a performance .
He also said , that there was some standards things happening behind Benjis back that needed addressing .
I was aggressive on 2 fronts . There’s no [This word has been automatically removed]ing way Benji would have allowed the vaping thing , and standards are upheld by the leaders . Of that Benji addressed as well , that there was confusion about the standards being upheld .
My guess , dudes were doing shit when Benji wasn’t there , and the playing group to a man were saying “ someone should stop this “ instead of actually stopping ie. the things you walk past are the things you accept , and if someone should say something about a situation … you’re right … it’s you .

 

[GNR4LIFE]

For players to let it go, then there must be more to it.. doesnt neccesarily need to be in a bad way either.. but for luai to joke and call him a gronk shows they arent all walking on egg shells.. which is good for the club...because they wouldnt do that if he was genuinely trying to get out of his contract.

For his and our sakes, i hope he has a blinder this weekend.

I take anything Luai says with a grain of salt. He’s out the door in a couple of months. What would he care? However, the big group hug does add something to the rumour that the players were in his corner.

 

[quiche78]

The club would have grounds to take him to court, IMO. And not even from just this instance

Lee Hanty Pants showed us all how that was done!

 

[mtd#2]

I take anything Luai says with a grain of salt. He’s out the door in a couple of months. What would he care? However, it does add something to the rumour that the players were in his corner.

Benji mentioned his kids were so sick they almost needed to go to hospital. Its probably been a cluster f of things and it all happened in such a wests tigers way

 

[Tired Tiger]

Did you listen to the presser ? The whole thing ? The dude looked like he was about to cry . It sounded like a dude who made a potentially life changing mistake … and owned it.
If it wasn’t about standards or changing position , the only thing left is he must have felt like the club was forcing him out . I mean he would be seeing first hand what we all know, Javon and Latu are the future. His mistake was dumbfounding …. To the point where he clearly needs to see a professional as that’s literally not normal , but man not to quote Ted lasso ;
I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we're ever given a second chance.
Seems pretty poignant.
Like I said the only path for me not hating him was a hat in hand , sincere apology .
I think that’s exactly what he did .
As for the half thing . Benji answered that . We need all our leaders out there switched on and putting in a performance .
He also said , that there was some standards things happening behind Benjis back that needed addressing .
I was aggressive on 2 fronts . There’s no [This word has been automatically removed]ing way Benji would have allowed the vaping thing , and standards are upheld by the leaders . Of that Benji addressed as well , that there was confusion about the standards being upheld .
My guess , dudes were doing shit when Benji wasn’t there , and the playing group to a man were saying “ someone should stop this “ instead of actually stopping ie. the things you walk past are the things you accept , and if someone should say something about a situation … you’re right … it’s you .

All very convenient, where did all the leaks come from ....if he was serious about playing lock he would have made sure Benji picked him there this week ....

 

[Lestronge]

Brandon Smith said he wouldn’t play with him. As much of a hide someone like Smith has to say something like that. Supposedly he owed thousands of dollars to teammates at the Roosters due to gambling debts. All of that aside, it makes you wonder how many other players out there would feel the same way. If that’s the case, his value would plummet.

I think Brandon smith is a sociopath, and as such his inability to find empathy after Adam poured his heart out , would be a reflection on himself ,re. His brain would be like “ how dare he do this to me” rather than, that was pretty dog on the team .theyre 2 different things

 

[mtd#2]

I think Brandon smith is a sociopath, and as such his inability to find empathy after Adam poured his heart out , would be a reflection on himself ,re. His brain would be like “ how dare he do this to me” rather than, that was pretty dog on the team .theyre 2 different things

To be fair, brandon said all of this before Adam's press conference

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I think Brandon smith is a sociopath, and as such his inability to find empathy after Adam poured his heart out , would be a reflection on himself ,re. His brain would be like “ how dare he do this to me” rather than, that was pretty dog on the team .theyre 2 different things

I don’t think there are many players that I would I say I hate that’s based on nothing to do with how they conduct themselves on the field, and just who they are as a person. But he’s one of them. Just seems like a shit human.

 

[Lestronge]

All very convenient, where did all the leaks come from ....if he was serious about playing lock he would have made sure Benji picked him there this week ....

Hate all you want man . I’m not doing this . I’m not gonna justify any behaviour . You’re missing my point . You can tell you’re young or you’re the type of dude who’s never gone full send .
Which means you either haven’t had the life experience yet , or you don’t understand how when you’re like that .. how much your brain betrays you . Maybe he vented to a dad or brother or cousin or something , and that’s who Riccio is in tight with .
I dunno . I hate that his circle did that . It’s shit . But as someone whose irrational brain has caused all kinds of chaos in the past , how can I objectively judge someone who’s done similar . Especially as you can hear the cracks in his voice , the breathing and holding back of tears , and shame and all the shit that’s subliminally being said that’s says “ I made a huge mistake please forgive me “.
For me as a dad , that’s the type of shit I wanna see . It’s not about the mistake .l it’s happened .l. What can you do ..l but rather about what are you willing to do to fix it . And it seemed like Adam today was willing to do those things .

 

[Tcat]

All empty words unless we start winning. We've heard all this BS before.

 

[Tired Tiger]

Hate all you want man . I’m not doing this . I’m not gonna justify any behaviour . You’re missing my point . You can tell you’re young or you’re the type of dude who’s never gone full send .
Which means you either haven’t had the life experience yet , or you don’t understand how when you’re like that .. how much your brain betrays you . Maybe he vented to a dad or brother or cousin or something , and that’s who Riccio is in tight with .
I dunno . I hate that his circle did that . It’s shit . But as someone whose irrational brain has caused all kinds of chaos in the past , how can I objectively judge someone who’s done similar . Especially as you can hear the cracks in his voice , the breathing and holding back of tears , and shame and all the shit that’s subliminally being said that’s says “ I made a huge mistake please forgive me “.
For me as a dad , that’s the type of shit I wanna see . It’s not about the mistake .l it’s happened .l. What can you do ..l but rather about what are you willing to do to fix it . And it seemed like Adam today was willing to do those things .

Not about hating, it's about standards and consequences for you action.

It's the reason the culture in the team and the club in general is so poor.

AD showed his real character last week when he was asked to do something for the team, he choose to drag the team and club through the mud and shat on a young fellas debut.

Today was a performance for the camera, at the very least he should have come back through cup.

He has made Benji and the club incredibly weak. But hey hey said sorry so it's all good like it never happened....

Being sorry dose not free you from the consequences of your actions...

Words are cheap, actions speak louder....

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

lets beat parramatta sunday on there home turf.
Shove it right up moses and co
along with the Dogs and Souths they are a scum of a club

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

The worst part about all of this for me is that it has played out in the media. Other clubs make up an injury or illness and resolve things internally without leaks.

 

[jirskyr]

No journo asked Doeuihi how info from his camp gets leaked. And what he thinks about the impact this has on the club.

Not quite right on the impact - AD did speak about how it affected Benji, the players and particularly fans. He says that was not his intention.

 

[jirskyr]

The worst part about all of this for me is that it has played out in the media. Other clubs make up an injury or illness and resolve things internally without leaks.

Other clubs aren't losing all the time.

The difference with Tigers and all other clubs is that Tigers have a Finals Monkey that we need to get off our backs. The speculation and innuendo disappears overnight when you are winning, we already saw it early this year. Media and fans love backing a winner and enjoy death-riding a loser.

And there's something specific about the Tigers, something in the water that makes weird / unique / interesting stuff happen. Tigers spend far too much time in the media for a club that doesn't win much. Doesn't help either that Tigers are a Sydney club; it would be much quieter if we were regional.

And it's now become it's own thing, the media loves reporting Tigers stuff because they do, it's self-fulfilling. You wouldn't even know there were other teams playing for finals positions this week, the Tigers story is just too good, too juicy. Consider that Tigers and Eels will not play finals AGAIN in 2026, now the 5th year in a row for Eels, but all eyeballs were on the Team Lists for our game and will be again to judge the performance of AD on the weekend. I reckon the media would love Tigers to get up, imagine if Doueihi scores the winning try, they'll have another week of content to go on about and the actual blockbusters - Cowboys vs Roosters, Sharks vs Rabbits, Panthers v Raiders - will be second-fiddle.

 

[jirskyr]

So why isn't he playing lock this week?

I have a strong suspicion that one is also about Javon - it puts huge pressure on Javon for a second week if he's starting HB and Doueihi is lock, after everything that's happened.

 

[rihannafan1]

All I know is if we rage quit and walk out of our job, a lot of us aren't able to walk back in, apologise and start working again. Things are obviously not well at the moment for him to do that but also for the club to let this happen with very little consequence.