Benji Marshall won't say sorry for Blues jersey

[Cultured_Bogan]

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.

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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I'm referring to the whole contract debacle. It was protracted and dragged out through the media and both the club and Marshall both look poorer for it.

You don't have to see it that way, and that's fine. Like I said, my opinion will not matter to him and most likely everyone else, it's just my view on it. I just want the drama and media frenzy to finish, as I'm sick of seeing our club in the paper for the wrong reasons.

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[wtigers]

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.

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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I'm referring to the whole contract debacle. It was protracted and dragged out through the media and both the club and Marshall both look poorer for it.

You don't have to see it that way, and that's fine. Like I said, my opinion will not matter to him and most likely everyone else, it's just my view on it. I just want the drama and media frenzy to finish, as I'm sick of seeing our club in the paper for the wrong reasons.

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Fair enough, the contract debacle went on for too long & managed to portray both the club and Benji negatively. There were no winners out of that situation, and I do agree that I hope we are in the media a whole lot less next year unless we're winning lots of games.

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[Cultured_Bogan]

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.

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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I'm referring to the whole contract debacle. It was protracted and dragged out through the media and both the club and Marshall both look poorer for it.

You don't have to see it that way, and that's fine. Like I said, my opinion will not matter to him and most likely everyone else, it's just my view on it. I just want the drama and media frenzy to finish, as I'm sick of seeing our club in the paper for the wrong reasons.

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Fair enough, the contract debacle went on for too long & managed to portray both the club and Benji negatively. There were no winners out of that situation, and I do agree that I hope we are in the media a whole lot less next year unless we're winning lots of games.

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And as I said, therein lies the sad part. We'll be all talking more about the circumstances in which he left rather than the legacy he built at this club. He's really our first true superstar. I'll just be glad it's all over as I'm tired of the circus that surrounds him, and I understand that's part and parcel of the whole marquee player gig but he has brought a lot on himself as well and I think without the constant media scrutiny we'll be better off as club.

 

[Goose]

I don't get the anger over this.
I didn't take it as contempt or anything.
Actually I don't get why there is so much hate for Benji.
He is playing rubbish, but being a fading footballer who needs a change doesn't make you a pariah.
low humans which he was described as earlier are those who bash their wives and steal from the elderly, not those who change jobs.

 

[Juro]

Here we have a player to have played about 200 games for his club (and only that club), who had a massive hand in winning that club its only premiership (to date), deciding to leave, not to go to another club but to a different sport. If he had handled the last month right, he would have been applauded from the field by thousands of fans come the end of the season.

Yet the way the mood is at the moment, the fans are baying for blood, calling for him to be dropped and to skulk out the back door, never to be let in again.

This is now Benji's legacy…

 

[Goose]

Here we have a player to have played about 200 games for his club (and only that club), who had a massive hand in winning that club its only premiership (to date), deciding to leave, not to go to another club but to a different sport. If he had handled the last month right, he would have been applauded from the field by thousands of fans come the end of the season.

Yet the way the mood is at the moment, the fans are baying for blood, calling for him to be dropped and to skulk out the back door, never to be let in again.

This is now Benji's legacy…

which I think is unfair

 

[Tiger_Watto]

Benji will remain a Club Legend… Geez, we will probably only have 2 in our first 20 years?!

I remember similar noises when Tim Brasher signed with Souths... He is still regarded very highly by Balmain Fans!

 

[bigsiro]

Benji will remain a Club Legend… Geez, we will probably only have 2 in our first 20 years?!

I remember similar noises when Tim Brasher signed with Souths... He is still regarded very highly by Balmain Fans!

It is precisely due to him being such a legend who means/meant so much to so many people that it makes his behaviour so upsetting and morally reprehensible.
Benji will always be a club legend and maybe even the greatest attacking player most of us will ever see. Those memories will be around for a long time after this jersey thing is forgotten. But it will take time. In the meantime the wound is still open and I think most of us feel that his public lack of respect for the Tigers is as disappointing as it disgusting.

 

[barra]

I agree Watto, the hate will fade… and as always the vast majority will remember the good times.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

I had to laugh when Gordie called him fat on NRL 360 last night, can't say I disagree though..

Brandy also gave him plenty on the radio I reckon he should be dropped his tainted his own legacy now he deserves to go out on a low.

 

[shane2801]

Greg Alexander was 100% spot on about Marshall and Rugby League. Too much political correctness, It makes me sick.
Marshall eats it big time.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

The wests tigers and all of us fans owe Benji alot

Benji owes us nothing

As far as i am concerned, Benji can do what he wants , he has earned that right

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I agree tbh. People can say "the club raised him" **but before he helped us to that premiership, where were we as a club?**

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We were better off back then before he came to us than the mess we are in now TBH. Not that it is all Benji's fault by any means but he has been just as distracting and disruptive for our club as anybody.
Anyone who thinks it wasn't a massive show of disrespect to our club by parading around in a Blues jersey has got their head in the sand (or up their clacker, either way).

If he supposedly owes the WT nothing as some people reckon, WT in no way at all should feel obligated to let him play his 200th. He does nothing on the field and his heart isn't in it, we are the only club dumb enough and spineless enough to let this stroker call the shots to the very end. (IMO the club are just trying to not be seen as a club who treats departing club legends poorly, thinking it may in some way help us to attract players to our club).

Loved the excitement he brought to our club many years ago but really he should be booed from the field in his last match, sad and disgusted to see it turn out this way but he deserves no respect with the way he has carried on the last few months.

 

[shane2801]

The booing won't happen but he deserves it.

 

[Paris_Cobbs]

I don't get the anger over this.
I didn't take it as contempt or anything.
Actually I don't get why there is so much hate for Benji.
He is playing rubbish, but being a fading footballer who needs a change doesn't make you a pariah.
low humans which he was described as earlier are those who bash their wives and steal from the elderly, not those who change jobs.

Thanks to Tiger Watto as well for putting some sense in to this discussion. The only thing I don't agree with is that he is playing rubbish - as Potter said, he played well against Parra, one of our best.

The simple fact is that he hasn't played as well since Robert Lui left the Tigers, and that's two seasons without a halfback.

 

[system]

I don't get the anger over this.
I didn't take it as contempt or anything.
Actually I don't get why there is so much hate for Benji.
He is playing rubbish, but being a fading footballer who needs a change doesn't make you a pariah.
low humans which he was described as earlier are those who bash their wives and steal from the elderly, not those who change jobs.

Thanks to Tiger Watto as well for putting some sense in to this discussion. The only thing I don't agree with is that he is playing rubbish - as Potter said, he played well against Parra, one of our best.

The simple fact is that he hasn't played as well since Robert Lui left the Tigers, and that's two seasons without a halfback.[/

Funny how lui hasn't made thurston play any better….. Really makes you think huh :wink:

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[GNR4LIFE]

I don't get the anger over this.
I didn't take it as contempt or anything.
Actually I don't get why there is so much hate for Benji.
He is playing rubbish, but being a fading footballer who needs a change doesn't make you a pariah.
low humans which he was described as earlier are those who bash their wives and steal from the elderly, not those who change jobs.

So appearing in another teams jersey while still being payed by your current club, a day after one of their most embarrassing losses in recent memory isn't an act of contempt to the club or the supporters who have followed and cheered him for the last 10 yrs? You don't think thats an act of disrespect? Quite frankly, i don't understand all the support he has gotten from people that he has slapped in the face,

 

[Tigersmurf]

No one likes to lose to Parra GNR4LIFE, but that is the best game I have seen the eels play this year. We could / should have won but I think our performance against Souths earlier in the year was far more embarrassing.

 

[bigsiro]

I don't get the anger over this.
I didn't take it as contempt or anything.
Actually I don't get why there is so much hate for Benji.
He is playing rubbish, but being a fading footballer who needs a change doesn't make you a pariah.
low humans which he was described as earlier are those who bash their wives and steal from the elderly, not those who change jobs.

So appearing in another teams jersey while still being payed by your current club, a day after one of their most embarrassing losses in recent memory isn't an act of contempt to the club or the supporters who have followed and cheered him for the last 10 yrs? You don't think thats an act of disrespect? Quite frankly, i don't understand all the support he has gotten from people that he has slapped in the face,

GNR, I don't always agree with you but this time you are spot on. I'll go even further.
Accepting this kind of behaviour says that we are a club that allows ourselves to get walked on. It's humiliating for the rest of us who won't tolerate being treated like doormats.
Players are like women - give them an inch and they soon become your ruler.

 

[wtigers]

I don't get the anger over this.
I didn't take it as contempt or anything.
Actually I don't get why there is so much hate for Benji.
He is playing rubbish, but being a fading footballer who needs a change doesn't make you a pariah.
low humans which he was described as earlier are those who bash their wives and steal from the elderly, not those who change jobs.

So appearing in another teams jersey while still being payed by your current club, a day after one of their most embarrassing losses in recent memory isn't an act of contempt to the club or the supporters who have followed and cheered him for the last 10 yrs? You don't think thats an act of disrespect? Quite frankly, i don't understand all the support he has gotten from people that he has slapped in the face,

GNR, I don't always agree with you but this time you are spot on. I'll go even further.
Accepting this kind of behaviour says that we are a club that allows ourselves to get walked on. It's humiliating for the rest of us who won't tolerate being treated like doormats.
Players are like women - give them an inch and they soon become your ruler.

Don't be sexist… You're opinions become meaningless as soon as you do that.

I don't think he's slapped us in the face, I really couldn't care less. He wore a different shirt - the offense you take from it is up to you. You can literally see it as him simply wearing a different shirt if you wanted to - taking offense is something you imprint onto the situation. He didn't mean disrespect by it, so it's up to you if you interpret it that way.

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