Coach Benji

twentyforty said:
I think Ricky won 2 GFs in his first 2 seasons as a coach? Not bad for a rookie coach, but then again he didn’t have to constantly deal with gremlins white anting him. Both at Bulldogs and Roosters.
When Benji found himself the ‘last man standing who wouldn’t trade success for mediocre’ his reaction caused half the team to reconsider their future at Tigers. On the richter it’s up there.
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Ohh beg your Pardon. First 3 years at the raiders. Ouff I was wrong twice. He got them to 2nd in his 3rd season. 🙈

For me I still think there'd be no coaching profundity/boost that we'd get by sacking Benji. If you're not at a club that can poach/recruit elite players you really need to understand your playing group. Any replacement coach except perhaps Wayne Bennett, (who lets face it is a genius and reading at motivating players), would have to restart that process all over again. It's still such an intuitive, emotional game.
 
innsaneink said:
Hes only gotta fix this...Cronk can see it why cant Benji

I was so annoyed at the ground while everyone else was cheering

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He was furious on the sidelines during this, even though we won he sprayed them afterwards
 
TIGERS said:
Ricky Stuart and Brad Arthur each had 4 full seasons before they got their latest/current teams into the finals for the first time, (and then Grand Finals afterwards). Benji is starting from a less well established position than either of those coaches has and he's still had less time than either of them.

The rubber should really be hitting the road this season. Let's not deny that. I think just earnestly counting wins and losses is a mugs game.

First of all we shouldn't be seeing a cautious approach like our first match last year against Newcastle. Too many experienced pros in our team now to start a season like that. That was a poor decision, and bad for our fans. I generally think that Benji's big weak spot as a coach is how he sets the team up on match day. He's seems like he'd make a fantastic GM of football, and can eat journalists for breakfast, but I don't think he's fully found his decision making mojo yet as a match day coach.

Want to see marked improvement from big recruits having their 2nd season. I think Luai is sailing somewhat under the radar a little bit and I like that. Also the decision to resign Api, that was a judgement call from our coach so I want to see him pinching tries and doing his thing successfully. "We need to win now" was the expression so a few more moments from Api like his masterclass against the Dolphins early last season... Not every game, but enough to show the decision was valid.

The third is the big one. And that's how we respond to a loss. We can't doom spiral into another 6+ game losing streak this season. Our players have played too many games together, has too much rep experience, grand finals winners. Lots of rookies who have played 50+ games now. The team and coach just have to be able to summon something to get it together and get a result. What's happening with our footy program, it should be enough by now to get us out of trouble. Even if we only win 3 in 9, I don't want 2 months without a win. no way.

Refs, injury, luck, -- I'm going to want to throw bricks at my TV at some stage of the season... but I don't want to feel the existential dread while Benji is questioning the commitment of his players in a post match interview after losing 16-28 to the titans on our 7th loss in a row
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We're a young team and thats a positive. More room for growth. There is no way we're going backwards in 2026 unless injuries hit
 
TIGERS said:
Ohh beg your Pardon. First 3 years at the raiders. Ouff I was wrong twice. He got them to 2nd in his 3rd season. 🙈

For me I still think there'd be no coaching profundity/boost that we'd get by sacking Benji. If you're not at a club that can poach/recruit elite players you really need to understand your playing group. Any replacement coach except perhaps Wayne Bennett, (who lets face it is a genius and reading at motivating players), would have to restart that process all over again. It's still such an intuitive, emotional game.
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The only coach I’ve ever heard of educating himself with some kind of human behavioural science was Tim Sheens just before arriving at Tigers.
Not saying they don’t train to be coaches, just that I don’t see it on their Bio’s.
When we cut to the chase, players are motivated by their own reasoning more so than the coach’s. Wayne Bennett’s background both personal and professional does give him an advantage of having patience over your average newby coach who is in a hurry to have some success?
 
Tigerwould said:
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There is a reason Benji keeps a guy like Alex Seyfarth around even though he's not that great. His attitude is superb, and despite the lack of skill, his work ethic does rub off on other squad members. Latu has the same attitude but he actually has the ability. Hearing him speak about Benji makes you think some of these guys would run through a brick wall for him. That's what we need in this team.
 
upthetigers said:
Nah, we should be competitive with the squad we have in 2025.
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We showed improvement in 2025 but didn't win the close games and lacked depth.

We have the depth in 2026 so we absolutely need to make the 8. Ryles had a proper apprenticeship under Bellamy and got smashed in Round 1. Let's give Benji our full support and not turn on him after every loss.

In Benji We Trust.
 
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I still question Benji's tactical coaching credentials and believe the questions as to why so many players that he (with Sheens) recruited were seemingly off him very quickly. However;
He has been phenomenal in turning what could what could have been a chaotic event of the board being sacked into a minor blip.
He now has the team making all the right noise about wanting to play for him.
Ive always believed that the counterpoint to his inexperience is that he has so much room for improvement in all aspects of coaching.

I still don't think we have the quality in the middle rotation to make the 8 but we shouldn't be to far off and I am now completely behind Benji as the coach.
 
gregjm87 said:
I still question Benji's tactical coaching credentials and believe the questions as to why so many players that he (with Sheens) recruited were seemingly off him very quickly. However;
He has been phenomenal in turning what could what could have been a chaotic event of the board being sacked into a minor blip.
He now has the team making all the right noise about wanting to play for him.
Ive always believed that the counterpoint to his inexperience is that he has so much room for improvement in all aspects of coaching.

I still don't think we have the quality in the middle rotation to make the 8 but we shouldn't be to far off and I am now completely behind Benji as the coach.
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The players who were off Benji were the senior players who themselves had rank attitudes. Bateman, Klemmer, who else I don't remember as I've wiped that era from my memory. We brought those guys here to improve standards then they turned out to be a problem themselves.
 
gregjm87 said:
I still question Benji's tactical coaching credentials and believe the questions as to why so many players that he (with Sheens) recruited were seemingly off him very quickly. However;
He has been phenomenal in turning what could what could have been a chaotic event of the board being sacked into a minor blip.
He now has the team making all the right noise about wanting to play for him.
Ive always believed that the counterpoint to his inexperience is that he has so much room for improvement in all aspects of coaching.

I still don't think we have the quality in the middle rotation to make the 8 but we shouldn't be to far off and I am now completely behind Benji as the coach.
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Its a shame we dont have Cooper Clarke in the rotation !
 
Holman Barnes #1 Fan said:
The players who were off Benji were the senior players who themselves had rank attitudes. Bateman, Klemmer, who else I don't remember as I've wiped that era from my memory. We brought those guys here to improve standards then they turned out to be a problem themselves.
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The question is did the rank attitudes cause conflict with Benji or did the conflict with Benji cause rank attitudes? If it is the former then it is poor recruitment and on Benji (and Sheens) and whoever else was in charge of recruitment and if it is the latter then that is on the coach.
My thoughts without actually knowing is that you have to many players for it not to be a coaching issue. But nonetheless the current group have bought in, so don't care to dwell on it.
 
Holman Barnes #1 Fan said:
There is a reason Benji keeps a guy like Alex Seyfarth around even though he's not that great. His attitude is superb, and despite the lack of skill, his work ethic does rub off on other squad members. Latu has the same attitude but he actually has the ability. Hearing him speak about Benji makes you think some of these guys would run through a brick wall for him. That's what we need in this team.
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It sounds like Benji has truely done some things for these boys , that most other coaches they’ve been with don’t . I don’t know what that could possibly be , but man they’re all ride or die . It’s like he’s handcuffed them to a chair when they walk into the joint , taped thier eyes open , and brainwashed them. “You have to kill the Malaysian prime minister “
 
Benjie did a good job unloading 3 over priced wanna be/s
Doubt its a reflection on him he couldn't adjust their attitude
Great lesson 1st up , perform or perish - theres the door ,get out
 
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