Benji Marshall won't say sorry for Blues jersey
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The thing with Benji is his always blaming someone else. He never says I made a mistake or I am sorry.
His in some fantasy land and thinks he can do and say whatever he likes and everyone will still love him.
Half the games we lost this year can be traced back to something stupid he did on the field or his lack of involvement. Chip kicks close to half time..not finding touch..ball at someones feet or over the sideline..missing tackles…not running the ball or getting involved.
He probably thinks all he has to do is have a blinder in one of the last 4 games of the year and the fans will come back and love him again and if that doesn't happen he will probably offload on Potter and say he stifled his game this year.
But Benji's fault...Never.
His in some fantasy land and thinks he can do and say whatever he likes and everyone will still love him.
Half the games we lost this year can be traced back to something stupid he did on the field or his lack of involvement. Chip kicks close to half time..not finding touch..ball at someones feet or over the sideline..missing tackles…not running the ball or getting involved.
He probably thinks all he has to do is have a blinder in one of the last 4 games of the year and the fans will come back and love him again and if that doesn't happen he will probably offload on Potter and say he stifled his game this year.
But Benji's fault...Never.
tigermaniac
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@Rambo2714 said:
Rambo or Dumbo. We owe him sweet fa.
The way he has conducted himself, a name change is needed. Benji Arshall
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@Rambo2714 said:
Just because he made an U15s squad doesn't mean he would have been guaranteed a picked up by someone else.
And who's to say just because another team scouts him, he would make it anyway? Plenty of kids get cut for one reason or another, we took a risk with a skinny kid and it paid off….another club might have thought he was just too small and didn't know the game well enough. Don't forget, Sheens had to teach him to pass left properly.
Thurston famously got rejected from many clubs until Dogs took a big risk in signing him. We saw how that worked out, imagine if Dogs passed and JT went back home and took another path, that easily could have happened to benji.
@wtigers said:
never said he did..
he plays for the club i support though, the team i buy jerseys, the team that pay his wage…
and he has slapped supporters in the face after the "tiger for life" crap by disrespecting our team and jersey.
its like me as CEO for Vodafone... and being headhunted by Telstra...
sitting at home on the weekend while still CEO at Vodafone and promoting telstra...
its unacceptable behaviour by a guy who considers himself 'professional'..
TurnStyle
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@LaT said:
thanks LaT, exactly what i would have said.
sure, plenty of people can have an "i told you so" attitude in hindsight, but in 2005 when everyone was falling over themselves praising marshall, i was saying it was scott prince who was the main player to help the tigers win it, a great team spirit was the main reason.
and i have said a few times: what would have happened if pat richards had not caught **that** flick pass?
it came off in spectacular fashion on the biggest stage, but if you look at the actual try it was richards' run that took the great work to score. yet it is the flashy part that got all the attention.
how many times over the years have the flick passes, the cut outs, the stupid kicks gone amiss? he has cost the tigers so many games over the years because HE IS AN EXTREMELY SELFISH PLAYER.
marshall is the epitome of a show pony.
even the stupid quick tap from a penalty worked once, yet he continued to try to do it because HE IS AN EXTREMELY SELFISH PLAYER.
in all fairness, i do believe that the period from 2010-11 he became a much better (less selfish) player and the tigers benefitted greatly from it. i even thought he would win the dally m (one of those years, thurston won it that year). but over the 11 years in my opinion he is way behind everything the club has done for him.
i also wholeheartedly agree that he thinks he is bigger than the club.
good riddance to a very immature young man, who is showing the world he is basically nothing but a petulant child who has spat the dummy since (sheens left) things didnt all go his way.
i rejoiced when hearing he was finally leaving because i truly believe the tigers will be far better off without him. its just a bonus he is acting like such a tool with it all because now very few are sad to see him go.
Marshall_magic
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Benji has almost used up 11 years of goodwill in a month. The Blues jersey was incredibly disrespectful to a club who is still paying him to play football (which he is doing poorly at the moment). I wouldn't be upset at all if he never plays another game for us.
happy_tiger
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I think Benji will rue this in the future , he has similarities to Wally Lewis in his petulance in the end and will probably realize when he retires his mistakes during this part of his life
@happy tiger said:
I'm not sure he will though. At the moment, he seems pretty set on the idea that he was doing what his future employers wanted him to do, and everyone else has reacted terribly to it. I agree with him on that, but that's beside the point. He views himself as being right in this situation, and others as overreacting and I think that might be a mindset he carries on throughout his life.
Either way, I'm a bit sick of hearing about the situation at all. I just wish we could focus on some good things. Like the fact that we may beat the dragons since they have Dugan and Merrin out and we get Robbie back (I know it's a couple of weeks away but why isn't anyone else excited for this?)
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Eye_Of_Da_Tiger
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I just know this guy just does not shut up in the media and he should. Very repetitive crap earning no respect for himself. Talk talk talk. It's all us fans hear what we have seen is very much the opposite
@Eye Of Da Tiger said:
"Very repetitive crap" should be the title of every second thread on this forum in which every second user churns out the same hate towards whoever the hate flavour of the month is. Though I guess that's not just this forum, it's the Internet in general.
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The tragedy of this whole situation is that come 4/5 weeks time, instead of reminiscing about the freakish passes and his elusive step as he walks down the tunnel for the last time, I'll be happy knowing that he has played his last game and the hopefully the media frenzy that envelops him rides of into the sunset with him. It will be finished.
I've been thoroughly disappointed with his shenanigans over the last 8 weeks. I don't blame him for wanting to try something different and moving on, nor should it matter to him (or anyone else for that matter,) what I think about it, but it's left me with an empty feeling knowing that he left the way he did and possibly not meeting his full potential.
I will however look forward a far more boring Wests Tigers off the pitch next year.
I've been thoroughly disappointed with his shenanigans over the last 8 weeks. I don't blame him for wanting to try something different and moving on, nor should it matter to him (or anyone else for that matter,) what I think about it, but it's left me with an empty feeling knowing that he left the way he did and possibly not meeting his full potential.
I will however look forward a far more boring Wests Tigers off the pitch next year.
@Cultured Bogan said:
Hi, apart from the jersey thing, could you please remind me of the other shenanigans, because I seem to have forgotten them/not thought much of them. I'm not trying to start an argument and that wasn't meant to sound hostile or anything I've just forgotten what he's done and would like a reminder of what has gotten people so worked up.
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