Death Riding Cleary for the rest of his life.
Made a joke about this in another thread but now looking at this more seriously…
Lets be real it feels great seeing the likes of Clearly/Penrith, Moses/Matterson/Parra, or even Teddy/Roosters fail for what they did to our club and its all fun and games as it’s apart of being a supporter of rugby league **but there needs to be a time where we need to stop being bitter and blaming others and look at ourselves.**
Reality is all those above are leagues above us and achieved immediate success since leaving the tigers. Meanwhile we are once again bottom half of the table, going through yet another rebuild and not playing finals footy in forever.
Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love seeing them all lose but I feel the death riding all year and in some cases multiple years is making us look like bitter children. You can’t blame any of them for moving on to further their career, you’re all kidding yourselves if you wouldn’t have done the same thing if in their shoes (however not the way Moses did). A couple extra 100 grand a year more, better job security, success – no matter what industry you’re in if you were offered that from a competitor most of us would step over our colleagues to get it.
Until the Wests Tigers can achieve continued finals success and be seen as a successful club all this over the top death riding looks worse on us than it does to them. At the end of the day they're getting the last laugh.
Taking the hate glasses off..Penrith winning the GF this year is what the NRL needs. That or Raiders