Benji 2025 and Beyond

That was the argument on keeping Pascoe for a while too. It's not right to keep someone who can't do their job well
Something Wayne Bennett said to player trading, but I think it applies to coaches too.

"You can loose anyone, as long as your improving".


The reason we are in the Benji mess, there was no real plan for succession from Madge.
A key mistake the board did was not hiring Shane Flanagan or another experienced NRL coach that could take over from Madge after 3+ years of underperformance.

Then the pure "Sheenious" idea of putting Tim Sheens/Benji in charge... was the biggest NRL gamble and as a Sheens fan from 2005, pure heartbreak. Sheens was Fast Footy only and no adaptation to the team he had of slower moving forwards. He was clearly out of touch. ... so sad.

Benji has done a lot better. He got handed a team that was destroyed with bad signings and has managed to punt most of those signings... at the cost of loosing a front row!

The real questions come:
Could Benji have gotten more performance out of who we had?
Bateman - not really, hasn't set the world on fire at the Cows. although Payten seems to be getting better performance out of him.
Stefano - no, he is doing the same kinda job at Melbourne. they are just deploying him differently.
Klemmer - no, hasn't done much at all at the Dragqueens.
Papalliii - NO, Barely making first grade at Penrith when he was touted as the JFH replacement!


So we have a cleanout... we get good players coming in, but are still missing 2 people in our front row.

Moreover, good players seem to be sliding backwards. We learn the value of Wings who defend, but we are not addressing why our old wingers did not defend. Were tackling soft again.

Benji hasn't made this team work.

We need to upgrade Benji. To do that we need to have someone lined up who is a known quantity of better. There is only one free agent who fits that bill.

Brad Arthur.
 
Player interviews after the match, said the same thing, they did it not only for themselves but for Benji too. Great to see them behind their coach.
This team have been competitive more often than any Wests Tigers team in history I would imagine. Just about every game is a nail biter. Can only recall three poor efforts all season. Hopefully Benji gets the chance to see these players develop into first graders and learn how to win.
 
Player interviews after the match, said the same thing, they did it not only for themselves but for Benji too. Great to see them behind their coach.
I found it interesting as well

Especially when the Captain today said

We only want to play for Benji ...

I think that was it or just instead of only

All the players interviewed said they want to play for Benji


Where there is smoke there is fire

I wonder if the players know what I posted in here the other day
 
This team have been competitive more often than any Wests Tigers team in history I would imagine. Just about every game is a nail biter. Can only recall three poor efforts all season. Hopefully Benji gets the chance to see these players develop into first graders and learn how to win.
That’s the frustrating part.
I expected finals this year or very close to them as this squad has a lot of class in it.
Unfortunately our spine has just fallen short too many times when it came to sealing the game.
Not kicking the field goal today is an example.
 
That’s the frustrating part.
I expected finals this year or very close to them as this squad has a lot of class in it.
Unfortunately our spine has just fallen short too many times when it came to sealing the game.
Not kicking the field goal today is an example.
I think we’re building nicely for next year if we can jag a few hardened professionals to help with leadership and the young guys continue to get better. Obviously this year is cooked but a few results the other way and it could of been different.
 
Unfortunately our spine has just fallen short too many times when it came to sealing the game.
Not kicking the field goal today is an example.
Now the reason AD took the two pass attemps a while back was supposedly because it was practiced at training and he would have the time and space.

Today AD was the senior half and organising the plays yet he stuffed it up not once, but twice, in consecutive sets.

Now people on here would have you believe he had a brilliant game as a 5/8th and want to offer him another contract.

We need much better as a centre and back up 5/8th if we are going to be a top 4 club.
 

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