Coach Benji đź‘‘

LeichhardtTiger said:
Benji's plan seems to be, "He got selected cos he earned it"
"That's how we like to Play"
"We keep training hard each week"

Next week's Benji Bingo Card will have Double Points if he says - "it's been a long season"
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I heard the magic words again tonight LT, “we trained really well but just can’t transfer that to the field”.
Then why do we look like we hardly know by each other ?
Roosters next week, it’s gonna be ugly !
 
Something must change.
We look totally disorganized, roster isn’t NRL standard and some players like Bula, AD & co aren’t playing in the correct position.

Sooner we have a coaching staff instead of mates & worried about players throwing toys out of the cot the better we will be.

So much for standards.
 
Tcat said:
Surely Benji has KPIs. Unless being shit is one of them, He needs to go. He isn't performing as a coach or getting anything out of this team. Time to go Benji. Go for a well earned family holiday in Fiji...
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KPI's?
He has his Uncle on the Football Staff....
Might as well sell it to him.
 
Benji can get it done. Has to take an axe to roster and get improvement. Taylan May is the most import any player in this squad. He’s the only star in the team tbh. Our edge defence is terrible it’s our problem.
 
Mighty_Tiger said:
Something must change.
We look totally disorganized, roster isn’t NRL standard and some players like Bula, AD & co aren’t playing in the correct position.

Sooner we have a coaching staff instead of mates & worried about players throwing toys out of the cot the better we will be.

So much for standards.
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Well said.

There are no standards here and Benji made that clear when he picked AD at 7 after he refused to play 13.
 
Benji if astute in any way close to seeing talent in players, should be able to see that LUAI'S playing in the last 2 years for us has been bloody terrible.

If you think about the worst of Benji's playing days and look at LUAI'S best in the last two years, Benji would come out on top
by a good margin.
And yet Benji will probably still have him as top selection for the last 3 rounds.

PNG,
WELCOME TO HIM,
BIG MISTAKE.
 
Leck said:
Results matter, but more importantly, there seems to be a complete breakdown within the club again, which as we know, started long before Benji got here as our coach.
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True L, but he’s not correcting anything, which is what’s he paid to do.
Just doesn’t seem to be able to utilise his players correctly and teach them the basics of top level football.
 
I think the main problem is, apart from the pile on for Benji right now, that he's far from alone in these results as Tigers coaches go.

I see all these comments above "oh if only we give Brad Arthur a go" or "Holbrook has done wonders with Newcastle this year".

Yeah well Madge Maguire won a premiership before and after Tigers, and Ivan got Warriors to the GF before his Penrith dynasty and neither could make a dent in the Tigers will to fail.

And Brad Arthur missed the finals 6/11 seasons at Eels, including one wooden spoon and salary cap penalties in his fourth year.

Holbrook made 8th position with Titans, the only time they made the finals the 4 years he was there.

I don't think Benji is a myth or a fraud or any of that stuff - I don't even think he had a reputation as coach before he started. Some ppl dislike him for some reason, more than he deserves. If he coached Roosters or Storm he might find himself backing winners most weeks.

It's not about Benji IMO it's about the club. I don't know what the circuit breaker is because we've changed every lightbulb in the house. I have little confidence that sacking Benji gets us playing finals 2027, but nor do I think keeping him there has any better chance of Finals either.

I know that the people who will make the decision on Benji's future - they are mostly morons and aren't to be trusted.

So I supposed I just hang around in the background until we get our shit together.

Do you know I met my wife in 2011 after the Warriors knocked us out - we have teenage children now and Tigers haven't played finals once in that whole period. My kids have never seen Tigers play a Finals match, it's like some kind of myth or legend to them.
 
jirskyr said:
Yeah well Madge Maguire won a premiership before and after Tigers, and Ivan got Warriors to the GF before his Penrith dynasty and neither could make a dent in the Tigers will to fail.
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Cleary had possibly the worst roster in Tigers history (or close to it) and got us to the final day of the season for a nice 9th (in saying that I think his roster management was horrible and don't think we have ever recovered from it).

Maguire probably had the right idea. All the guys he targeted at the time (Lomax, Brimson, Latrell) all would of been huge, however none came into fruition as I just don't think he was a guy people wanted to come/play for. At Brisbane he inherited a nice roster and has done well. I think he can definitely coach.

Benjis appeal was he is likable and people wanted to play for him. Unfortunately now that results have been so far south, I think that appeal is gone. Forgetting this whole win/loss thing, and positions on ladder, I would say this year to me is the worst I have seen us play. We look dreadful. Our attack and defence I think both rank last in the comp.
 
jirskyr said:
I think the main problem is, apart from the pile on for Benji right now, that he's far from alone in these results as Tigers coaches go.

I see all these comments above "oh if only we give Brad Arthur a go" or "Holbrook has done wonders with Newcastle this year".

Yeah well Madge Maguire won a premiership before and after Tigers, and Ivan got Warriors to the GF before his Penrith dynasty and neither could make a dent in the Tigers will to fail.

And Brad Arthur missed the finals 6/11 seasons at Eels, including one wooden spoon and salary cap penalties in his fourth year.

Holbrook made 8th position with Titans, the only time they made the finals the 4 years he was there.

I don't think Benji is a myth or a fraud or any of that stuff - I don't even think he had a reputation as coach before he started. Some ppl dislike him for some reason, more than he deserves. If he coached Roosters or Storm he might find himself backing winners most weeks.

It's not about Benji IMO it's about the club. I don't know what the circuit breaker is because we've changed every lightbulb in the house. I have little confidence that sacking Benji gets us playing finals 2027, but nor do I think keeping him there has any better chance of Finals either.

I know that the people who will make the decision on Benji's future - they are mostly morons and aren't to be trusted.

So I supposed I just hang around in the background until we get our shit together.

Do you know I met my wife in 2011 after the Warriors knocked us out - we have teenage children now and Tigers haven't played finals once in that whole period. My kids have never seen Tigers play a Finals match, it's like some kind of myth or legend to them.
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Well said mate, particularly about the decision makers. Somehow they are unaccountable for all of their decisions and realistically, the buck stops with them.

Funny story about your wife and kids. At least something good came from that sad night!
 
rihannafan1 said:
Well said mate, particularly about the decision makers. Somehow they are unaccountable for all of their decisions and realistically, the buck stops with them.

Funny story about your wife and kids. At least something good came from that sad night!
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Oh not directly after the Warriors match, that November. Otherwise yeah it would have been a weird night to process.
 
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