CHILL

[Luke]

Everybody needs to calm the **** down. I'm sick of everybody being so negative and already blaming certain players for losses, wanting players to be dropped, positions changed, coach sacked etc. etc. - it's round THREE!

Below are five reasons why you should stay positive and to just CHILL. Believe me it's not worth panicking at this stage of the season.

1\. In all of our three matches we've played we haven't played anywhere near our best yet. We won one of them, lost by four points to last years premiers (had a big opportunity to win it) and even though the score line probably didn't reflect it we were still in most of the game tonight.

2\. The players are still adjusting to a new team. Two of our spine (Humble & Moltzen) are still getting game experience playing in their positions and this will take a while for them to gel fully with the rest of the team. Blair is also finding his feet at the Tigers - he played a much different style of play at Melbourne - don't put him down too quickly. It's not going to be perfect after three rounds. It will take time.

3\. Injuries. Once again we've been struck by injuries very early in the season which hampers our progress of easing into the season. Tuqiri, Tedesco, Galloway and Ellis are massive massive injuries. The team would be much more stable if they were all on the field together with the rest of the team.

4\. We've been in this position before. The last two seasons we have finish 3rd & 4th however, in both seasons we were playing very very average at the start of the season and only came home firing towards the middle to the end of the season. We can take a lot out of this and I guarantee you the players won't forget this. They will remain positive.

5\. Keeps us under the radar. I personally like us to be playing not our absolute best football at this stage of the season because it's so hard to maintain it throughout 26 rounds. It keeps us grounded and won't give us the extra pressure of favouritism. I don't mind us finding our feet for a couple of games and still being to win games even though we're not playing our best (we did this many times over the last two years which is something we couldn't do a three or four years ago).

We've got 10 days to recover and to get our act together to play the Raiders. I think after the performance we put in tonight the boys are going to be embarrassed and come out firing next week. Sheens will make sure they are mentally prepared for next week as well because we don't want to be one win from 4 games.

 

[westy81]

Well said Luke alot of ppl at panicking over nothing once we get our players back and have a few game we should back to our normal winning ways
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[stryker]

Good points all Luke ..I agree totally. I would also add that Woods, Groat, BMM and Moors are far less experienced then most packs they will be playing against. They will improve through the rounds and be right by the time we make our charge.

In addition, I would like to add that as embarrassing as tonights loss was, it was surpassed by the ridiculous behaviour of the fans on here and facebook after the game.
People were calling for wholesale sackjings,
Saying they are done with this side,
Calling our players pussises,
Questioning their football intellect,
Questioning their motives,
Attacking the coach,
and most ridiculously….have already written this season off!

I think a lot of people on here need to grow the hell up and act like a true fan and SUPPORT their team. It has been a less than average start sure, but theres more than 5 months of footy left and it is an even comp meaning that losing touch with the 8 wont be as critical as on any given weekend, any side can beat any other side. We have a side jamm packed with talent and to write them off is stupid. We will be at the pointy end of the season, I have no doubt about it.

Have some god damned faith we are not a band wagon club.

 

[Luke]

Good points all Luke ..I agree totally. I would also add that Woods, Groat, BMM and Moors are far less experienced then most packs they will be playing against. They will improve through the rounds and be right by the time we make our charge.

In addition, I would like to add that as embarrassing as tonights loss was, it was surpassed by the ridiculous behaviour of the fans on here and facebook after the game.
People were calling for wholesale sackjings,
Saying they are done with this side,
Calling our players pussises,
Questioning their football intellect,
Questioning their motives,
Attacking the coach,
and most ridiculously….have already written this season off!

I think a lot of people on here need to grow the hell up and act like a true fan and SUPPORT their team. It has been a less than average start sure, but theres more than 5 months of footy left and it is an even comp meaning that losing touch with the 8 wont be as critical as on any given weekend, any side can beat any other side. We have a side jamm packed with talent and to write them off is stupid. We will be at the pointy end of the season, I have no doubt about it.

Have some god damned faith we are not a band wagon club.

Exactly! Good to see there are some other positive people on this forum!

The point of our pack being inexperienced is another very fair point and just on that note - I'm loving BMM at the moment! He is the type of explosive bench player I've been wanting for a long time! He will have a MASSIVE season if he keeps playing the way he does! But yes, players like Woods, Groat, BMM & Moors are going to be fighting for consistency each week, I dare say there are going to be games where they are terrific and others where they are off! It just comes with inexperience but the more games they play the better they'll become.

On your other point of people's reactions and negativity after the game - I just laugh. I love when opposition fans are already giving it to us as well, saying we're over rated etc. Funny cause I remember them saying that over the last couple of seasons but we came back to bite them on the ass!

 

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Re: CHILL

Postby Luke » Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:10 am

stryker wrote:Good points all Luke ..I agree totally. I would also add that Woods, Groat, BMM and Moors are far less experienced then most packs they will be playing against. They will improve through the rounds and be right by the time we make our charge.

In addition, I would like to add that as embarrassing as tonights loss was, it was surpassed by the ridiculous behaviour of the fans on here and facebook after the game.
People were calling for wholesale sackjings,
Saying they are done with this side,
Calling our players pussises,
Questioning their football intellect,
Questioning their motives,
Attacking the coach,
and most ridiculously….have already written this season off!

I think a lot of people on here need to grow the hell up and act like a true fan and SUPPORT their team. It has been a less than average start sure, but theres more than 5 months of footy left and it is an even comp meaning that losing touch with the 8 wont be as critical as on any given weekend, any side can beat any other side. We have a side jamm packed with talent and to write them off is stupid. We will be at the pointy end of the season, I have no doubt about it.

Have some god damned faith we are not a band wagon club.
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Exactly! Good to see there are some other positive people on this forum!

The point of our pack being inexperienced is another very fair point and just on that note - I'm loving BMM at the moment! He is the type of explosive bench player I've been wanting for a long time! He will have a MASSIVE season if he keeps playing the way he does! But yes, players like Woods, Groat, BMM & Moors are going to be fighting for consistency each week, I dare say there are going to be games where they are terrific and others where they are off! It just comes with inexperience but the more games they play the better they'll become.

On your other point of people's reactions and negativity after the game - I just laugh. I love when opposition fans are already giving it to us as well, saying we're over rated etc. Funny cause I remember them saying that over the last couple of seasons but we came back to bite them on the ass!
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[Mistadobalina]

1234 & 5

Ok, we were terrible last night, no doubting that. We looked unmotivated against a team that wanted to win it so much more and put on a clinical performance to get it. To be honest tonight gave me some serious doubts about our defence at the back of the field, and also our ability to pull off linebreaks or even a good offload. But don't ever write-off the Tigers, especially not this early in the season. We still have the best team in the comp, Sheens just has to figure out how to use it, and I have no doubt that he will. If anyone knows how to win a premiership, it's him. Or wayne bennet.. or Craig Bellamy… or Des Hasler.. but he's definitely up there

 

[weststigers4life]

I'm with you Luke & Stryker,yes last nights performance was embarrassing but what's more embarrassing is the so called fans who can't wait to stick the boot in,be negative or the old typical sack the coach.the icing on the cake goes to that goose that wrote us off before the game & only ever post incoherent & negative post.Stick solid & show some faith,it's only round 3
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[tigersrule4life]

Dont worry tigers will click and it will start agianst raiders.

 

[tiger_jim]

Thats what people were saying last week we will smash the dragons Moltzen will kill them may i remind you who got smashed and where was our half, some on this forum will still be saying this in round 10\. A complete off season 3 rounds and we are putting on this rubbish the only chill we will be getting is a long cold winter

 

[Brisbane_Tiger]

We have the worst completion rate in the comp.
Fix this and we will win games.

 

[tiger_sean]

I agree with everything being said but I think the main frustration for me is since 2005 every year we keep starting the first half of the season very poorly. The players come out and say how we need to fix our start to the season and "the competition starts now".

I would just like to see the boys show the same attitude they do when we see them play in the finals. Every finals game I have seen us play (apart from the second half against the warriors last year) we play with passion, commitment and aggression.

These blokes get payed very well and I know it is hard to maintain that kind of form all season but it would be nice to see us play well for a longer portion of the season instead of the last half of the season where we have to win 75% of our games just to make the finals.

I am not panicking like some of the other posters on here and I will never turn my back on the Tigers but would just like to see the boys play to there potential for the majority of the year. We have a great squad this year and after just coming up short the last 2 seasons it would be nice to see the boys go that extra step this year while we still have a good squad.

I can't wait for next Monday and I still have faith we will come good.
Let's go Tigers!

 

[westTAHger]

it is a roller coaster ride of emotions supporting wests-tigers, I would not swap that for anything :master:
wests-tigers will be fine, and in top 4 at end of season.
yes we would like to see them win each game.
but that ain't going to happen.
we are all passionate fans of wests-tigers, and have expectations.
when these expectations are not met as a fan, we get extremely peed off, and usually look for a scapegoat.
why look for a scape goat, if the team was not good enough on the night as a combined unit, well then they were just not good enough :blush:

in relation to game last night:
its simple the dragons played to their ability
wests-tigers did not.
**_when they do , and it won't be long, and string a few wins together, everyone will bit a bit more relaxed_**. :righton:

 

[bigdamo]

chill yeah chill really we have been chillin since 2006 weve got frostbite from this pack of nancy boys and sheens apoligist like you. as i said luck is whta got usto the semis last two years but that has all but dried up last place is looking good. if you want to chill open the fridge door.

 

[Guest]

We have the worst completion rate in the comp.
Fix this and we will win games.

That will certainly help. The other alarming things I' m noticing is the lack of line speed in defence, and the Tigers are looking very one dimensional in attack. Everything is coming off the back of Benji and it's making the Tigers easier to read and defend against. Lawrence is playing busted and is out of sorts, Ayshford looks even worse, and we've got no firepower at fullback with Tedesco now gone for the year.

I fear the Tigers may not be the same side in attack this year given the current playing structure.

 

[happy_tiger]

The better side won with the help of some 50/50 calls

I think Groat and Woods are being forced to play too many minutes Groat looked very tired late in the game and woods played strong but lacked his usual go forward

We need to get more minutes out of our bench to keep the starters effective

 

[tiger4ever]

it is a roller coaster ride of emotions supporting wests-tigers, I would not swap that for anything :master:
wests-tigers will be fine, and in top 4 at end of season.
yes we would like to see them win each game.
but that ain't going to happen.
we are all passionate fans of wests-tigers, and have expectations.
when these expectations are not met as a fan, we get extremely peed off, and usually look for a scapegoat.
why look for a scape goat, if the team was not good enough on the night as a combined unit, well then they were just not good enough :blush:

in relation to game last night:
its simple the dragons played to their ability
wests-tigers did not.
**_when they do , and it won't be long, and string a few wins together, everyone will bit a bit more relaxed_**. :righton:

I agree with you mate but its like this every time after a loss…same old same old with the blaming the coach or whatever else they come up with....we didnt play the fundamentals of the game good enough....its the whole team last night.

 

[stryker]

The fact is we didnt play a first grade standard of footy last night. I dont know why…it is a trait of this group of players. They are slow starters but when the frenetic opening rounds settle, they play genuine football while other teams hit the wall. They then have a mid year lull before storming home.

We all know this...it isnt something new. It frustrates me as much as any of you. I too would like to see us compete every single week. For some reason, that is not our style. My goal for the season is to win the minor premiership - that to me screams of a successful season. Limping into the finals, playing awesome for a month and winning the whole show is satisfying but a little hollow.

I just think we should show our support instead of rubbishing the team so early into the new year. We have 10 days to turn it around and we will do so. I would hate to see a tiny crowd turn out for the raiders because peeps have already given up on this squad.

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

chill yeah chill really we have been chillin since 2006 weve got frostbite from this pack of nancy boys and sheens apoligist like you. as i said luck is whta got usto the semis last two years but that has all but dried up last place is looking good. if you want to chill open the fridge door.

Big Damo did someone in your family die recently? You may have insight but gee the most pessimistic poster on this forum and maybe on any other