Coach Benji 👑

[davey_farrell]

Wayne was a significant influencer in that

I forgot about that, fair call

 

[innsaneink]

In the stands do they have an app like Uber eats ?

The last time I went to the football I wanted a beer delivery and I was thinking if can place an order every ten minutes for a beer would it work

Get there early start ordering don't have to get up unless the toilet


Technology could do great thing if applied correctly

I was in hospital for 2 weeks a couple of years back and saw Maccas etc being delivered to patients...dont blame them when you see hospital food

 

[hank37w]

Read is a w⚓️ of the highest order. If I was Benji, I wouldn’t even acknowledge that clowns presence for the way he carried water for Moses and the Galvin camp last year.

Some of the most blatantly biased reporting I’ve ever seen.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when Brent Reid goes to our next game at Leichhardt Oval with Cochise.

 

[hank37w]

Generally I agree ..I got no problem though with him being snarky to Read …I’ve seen Read be snarky about him on 360 so what goes around comes around ..

. . . . . and that is without Benji being around with a right of reply, at least in an interview situation they are on an equal footing.

 

[Toothless Tigers]

Stuff the journos ( or most of them) as they have constantly put shit on Tigers whenever that suits them. That has been very often. Short answer re L.O,Ready don’t go there at all as you don’t like or rate it and your only hoping to get more dirt to throw back at Tigers as soon as possible as clickbait news.
If he goes to L.O then maybe in a positive light he could really run the place down and write an article supporting a major overhaul of the ground facilities and urge greatly expanded Government finances directed to upgrade the oval. From there he could tirelessly campaign for facilities improvements and stay on that track till he succeeds in getting them.
I’m of the opinion that Benji is an outright legend and far and away the best man for the Tigers role/s he is doing with great professionalism. He is learning quickly on all fronts.

 

[TIGERS]

Going to critique this a bit.

2024 Benji was kinda horrible as a coach. We had Bateman basically not buy-in and our team flounder. I suspect it was due to Benji being a rookie coach and not learning how to carry himself.


2025 was a minor Miracle. Terrell May being offloaded from the Chooks, after being extended made no sense at all. We lost 4 forwards and had May not arrived we would have been 16-17.

Likewise Luai and Turuva changing the attitude of the team.
Our defense was CRAP! Our backline defenense sucked and our center/wings would leak tries every game. Yet when Luai left Penrith suddenly calls of "will Luai do anything without Cleary" became "can Cleary do anything without Luai".

Now Benji hunted Luai and got him across, Turuva IMHO has been absolutely critical in changing our backline... But we had lost our entire forward pack. Terrell May picked up the slack of 4 forwards with 2 being Origin level! THAT's INSANE!

^leaving the team in that state is NOT good coaching.


2026 We see the team moulded as Benji wants.

A big help has been the faster NRL rules and the game moving in a direction that agrees with Benji's style of football.

It seems that KPP has lived up to the hype. There is no reason why he wouldn't be another Bateman signing, we did not know that Adam Obrien was the problem at Newcastle.

Bunty however hasn't lived up to the Hype.
So far Jack Bird and Bunty Afoa have been Benji's picks and they have both failed too add to the squad. This hasn't derailed us, it does show Benji's recruitment has been hit n miss and we are lucky that our hits have been very good hits.

I really don't know if Benji has moulded our team into the team he wants, or if he just "did a homer" and happened to end up with the right players. Terrell May has been the best luck this club has ever had.

Great post. Great analogy. But Benji convinced all these guys to join. Every coach depends on luck to a degree. You get found out pretty quick at this level.

 

[Lestronge]

Wouldn't surprise me if we don't start hearing media stories about PNG crime and violence, now that Luai has made the move a reality the interest and clicks will increase.

It will happen when a team like the roosters dogs or broncos are in direct competition for their players.