Brent Naden #256

I knew we would still get bad press even after such a great win.
I was at the game and the Dogs fans were giving it to the players as were we. It is nothing and to say it was directed at 9 year old children like News.com has said is absolute BS.

Luai had a chant of being a wanker from the dogs fans along with boos for Lloyd Christmas from our fans, do we just play in empty stadiums and watch from home with no emotions...

There were more Dogs fans there yesterday and they were louder apart from when our ground announcer chanted "Tigers" to drown them out.

Benji said in the Press conference that they could write something good for a change alas they chose this garbage.

Great Win and enjoy the BYE and back for the Sea Eagles and then a packed Leichhardt for the Cowgirls.
 
If no one is clear what the hand gesture means then no issue there.

We can easily say it meant something else.

I don't have any issues with any player giving it to the fans tbh as long as it's not personal insult.

We all know that our team isn't professional, it plays with passion and when there isn't passion (80% Of games), we play shit.

The Club needs to show that we back our players. Just like Sticky did in LA. Internally, tell them it's not good, but publicly just say that they were passionate and we encourage them to be passionate.

It's interesting that Canterbury Club have raised this complaint, not the NRL.. they want this rivalry. They want dogs fans to hate the Tigers to sell tickets to their next home game.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
I don't mind it ink. It is sport with emotions. As long as it doesn't cross the line, I love players releasing some emotion whether against players or fans. Builds for strong rivalries. Plenty of birds flicked by players to the crowd back in the day. But I guess we live in a woke society now where we just try to breed robots.
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I dont think its woke and robots...is winning graciously not a thing anymore
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
I don't mind it ink. It is sport with emotions. As long as it doesn't cross the line, I love players releasing some emotion whether against players or fans. Builds for strong rivalries. Plenty of birds flicked by players to the crowd back in the day. But I guess we live in a woke society now where we just try to breed robots.
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Agreed - undeserved showboating is cringeworthy but a player giving it to the crowd who have been giving it to him all game is play on in my books. Even being on the receiving end as a fan, it adds to the live experience being able to respond back face to face.

As long as lines aren't crossed its great theatre.
 
I remember being at the Dogs/Parra prelim in 09. At one point in the game, Hayne made a try saving cover tackle, but it went to the video ref because there may have been foul play. I remember during the replays when it become evident that Hayne hit the Dogs player high, one lunatic Dogs fan, tuned a few rows back to a guy in a Parra jersey who was minding his own business, and gave him the slit throat gesture. They are utter scumbags.
 
innsaneink said:
I dont think its woke and robots...is winning graciously not a thing anymore
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I agree with you, but also the Tigers were on point with emotion and aggression yesterday - the mindset that has them flipping the crowd and throwing gestures is the same that got them the W.

Winning graciously is a good ideal, but also the reality of smashing your opponent in the wet for 80 minutes, mud in your eyes, takes a certain level of emotional energy.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
I don't mind it ink. It is sport with emotions. As long as it doesn't cross the line, I love players releasing some emotion whether against players or fans. Builds for strong rivalries. Plenty of birds flicked by players to the crowd back in the day. But I guess we live in a woke society now where we just try to breed robots.
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I agree with you broadly, in that I don't mind it personally, but your end comment is silly and out of touch with reality. Any player who makes a rude gesture to the crowd, in any Aussie sport, will get in trouble, because the game needs to protect their brand as they try to expand viewership and participation to immigrants, women and kids.

NRL already has the boofhead bloke market cornered.

It's the same as you can't use a racial sledge, even though far worse is said and has been said on weekends and nobody was physically injured, but you can't do it as a professional footballer.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Which is a bit of a concern. You can’t rely on emotion every week.
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Not a concern for me when emotion is partnered with performance.

Tigers outperformed the Bulldogs yesterday. I would love for them to be coldly clinically about it, but even the Storm or Panthers get riled up with a good win.
 
Gotta give credit to Nado yesterday, he was aggressive and annoying in the wet. Took a few tough hitups but also went hard into basically every tackle... the Dogs ended up fairly reluctant to shift to their left. Kept Xerri very quiet and no surprise that we scored two long-rangers down that flank.
 
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