For this irk anyone else?

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fergiefurr

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As soon as the game finishes benji is seen laughing with Greg inglis

Then this morning on instagram half the tigers team have 'liked' pictures of the souths players celebrating in the change rooms

As a fan I was shattered last night, in fact I still am. I havent been able to read an article, watch fox sports etc as I don't want to relive it. To see the guys who were responsible for dishing that up laughing and then liking pics of the opposition celebrating is downright disgusting and disrespectful to the club, the jersey and the fans in my opinion.
 
I don't think it irked Potter their coach. He does not appear to show much reaction at all to anything and I think he will continue in the same vein all season long unless he is shown the exit door. There does not appear to exist any discipline passion or pride in the club.
 
I've seen a few posts now link social media activity with player attitudes. I think we need to be careful with how we're portraying things. A lot of players would socialise with players from other clubs, I don't have an issue at all with so and so liking a photo or sharing a laugh. They're allowed to.
 
@Newtown said:
I don't think it irked Potter their coach. He does not appear to show much reaction at all to anything and I think he will continue in the same vein all season long unless he is shown the exit door. There does not appear to exist any discipline passion or pride in the club.
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Its the first Ive heard of this & I guess Potsy is my vintage so I doubt he's surfing the net today looking at instngram…..give it a rest

On topic, yeh it seems pretty bloody poor if you ask me

Which players?
 
@MacDougall said:
Yeah because they should cry for the next week like some of you jaded weirdos. Get a life. They clearly have.
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Agreed. Once the game is over it is over. In saying that I'll be depressed for the whole season.

I'm not getting the Benji hate at all after that game. Benji was just great out there. I can picture him with forwards that can tackle and some quality outside backs. He'd be as good as Inglis.

Benji got benched. He didn't sook. He went out there and played top quality football that very few players in the game have the ability to do. Him getting knocked for being a good sport is what irks me.
 
@shane2801 said:
They are Gen Y. You wouldn't feed them.
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Yeh its a generational thing I guess

Dunno why our blokes should be liking photos of the mob that are celebrating handing them a hiding….but kids today are very strange, soft & weird
 
I agree that Benji laughing after a loss like that is TOTALLY disrespectful and uncalled for. Fans were left shocked and embarressed. If the players dont care, why should the fans?

That stuff should be done outside of the public eye. Have a chat with Inglis in the tunnel or after the showers etc. Its typical Benji, he's ana arrogant *****. Its like when he talks in public about how he wants to earn even more money etc. When you;re on THAT much money and the regular joe supporting your team earns less than 1/5th, it's disrespectful!

There is something critically wrong at the Tigers and it AAAALLLL started with Stephen Humphreys. He doesnt know how to run a club and killed it from the top down. PLEASE TRUST ME ON THAT!

Then Benji and his selfish and arrogant attitude did the rest!
 
The laughing to an extent doesnt bother me too much as we dont know what was said. Maybe Inglis said "good game Benchy" so Benji laughed it off rather than sooking, who knows. BUT the "liking" of photos of souths celebrating is a disgrace
 
Your senior players create the culture at a club.

Benji loses, but laughs it off in five seconds.

Cameron Smith loses and is dirty for days.

Our players get on social media and like photos of the opposition dancing after the game.

Storm olayers do that and Bellamy drops them.

It is up to each person reading this to judge what culture you want at a club. There is nothing wrong with what Benji and the players do IF you think 'well, it is only a game'.

If you subscribe to the theory that it isprofessionalism….then it is completely wrong. You'd never seen business people 'liking' their rivals beating them in a deal or a law firm 'liking' a photo of a rival firm celebrating after destroying them in a court case.

It all depends on what you want...fun, laid back...or a Bellamy like intensity.

Personally, give me a Bellamy like culture.
 
And Alex Ferguson at Man United would have torn shreds off ANY player who jumped on social media to like a Liverpool photo post game.

Aain, depends on what you want. Do you want to be the storm and man u?

Or a fun, laid back club?
 
I can recall Tommy Raudonikis once saying after a losing game that he walked off filthy and could not understand the current trend of losing teams smiling and laughing with the opposition after the game, I also agree that the liking of photos of the opposition celebrating their win may appear insensitive so soon after this drubbing I guess for us baby boomers its probably harder to accept.
 
@MacDougall said:
Yeah because they should cry for the next week like some of you jaded weirdos. Get a life. They clearly have.
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Depends on what you want. If this was Man United, Ferguson would drop any player who laughed immediately after a loss to Liverpool.

Do we want that culture?

I guess you don't, and that is fair enough.

Personally, I feel we are the polar opposite culturally of most successful sporting teams all around the world.
 
@Gazman said:
I can recall Tommy Raudonikis once saying after a losing game that he walked off filthy and could not understand the current trend of losing teams smiling and laughing with the opposition after the game, I also agree that the liking of photos of the opposition celebrating their win may appear insensitive so soon after this drubbing I guess for us baby boomers its probably harder to accept.
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It is not a generational thing. You don't see young players at Man United or New England Patriots doing stuff like that. Both have a culture led by old school man managers…hard men who dont accept losing.

Alex Ferguson would say to any player who laughed after a loss, if you want to have a laugh post game you can go to the park and play with your mates for free. Bye bye.

It is a cultural thing. We just don't have a hard edged mentality at this cub. We haven't really for years now.
 
maybe im just old school as well, because it annoyed me a lot. i also dont understand it? only time i was ever happy after a game was when we had won it and i was gutted after a loss like that.

this is their job, and although i love to have a laugh like anyone else, when my team at work is not performing i certainly dont joke around with them. it is part of my role to show those younger than i am that if we as a team arent doing our job well they know about it, just as it is up to the senior players in the tigers team (what there is left at the moment!) to do the same.
 
its piss poor form.

support them any other week, no dramas, but not the morning after being dusted by 50 by them.

to me it indicates the headspace some of these blokes are in.
 
You shake hands and get off as quick as you can after a game like that.
I'll bet nobody saw Farah having a chuckle with any Souths players.
It made me sick when I saw it and I blew up… but true to form some of the young guys around me wondered what on earth I was upset about.
Maybe it is age thing - although how anyone could be up for a laugh after that performance I will never know.
You would think the sheer embarrassment would have you racing for the confines of the dressing room.
 
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