Incredible story of the ‘05 Tigers, the unlikeliest premiers of all

[Jam_Wowz]

It's definitely the fairytale season in the NRL at present, but no team has won without deserving it. Re-living this can extract some key points:

- Let the culture build itself
- Exciting kids, key recruits (many were injured prior to WT) and a few experienced old heads
- The coach is a cornerstone
- Year together to gel and progress as a team
- Stick to basics, plans and systems
- Nothing to lose… high risk, high reward
- "Clicking"
- Enjoying the run and taking each game for what it is
- Satisfaction is the enemy of progress
- True champions handle favouritism

Very similar to the likes of Roosters, Souths, NQ and Cronulla last 4 years. Tigers have a good young side, a lot of those players aren't so "inexperienced" anymore, the signs were there in 2016 but again, the team wasn't up to the task when the pressure was on.

If I have any other tip aside from our boys for a fairytale premiership in 2017 it will be virgin Warriors or Titans... or Canberra or Penrith. Of those 5, I think 1-3 will make a real good tilt into the finals and potentially take out the competition.

P.S. I can't seem to stay logged in, this is very annoying, yeah I know I'm new and green but does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Geo]

P.S. I can't seem to stay logged in, this is very annoying, yeah I know I'm new and green but does anyone else have this problem?

When you log in there is a little box to tick that says …Remember Me...tick that and it should log you straight in when you return to the forum...

 

[happy_tiger]

P.S. I can't seem to stay logged in, this is very annoying, yeah I know I'm new and green but does anyone else have this problem?

When you log in there is a little box to tick that says …Remember Me...tick that and it should log you straight in when you return to the forum...

Yeah welcome to the Asylum / Forum Jam Wowz

And Geo is 100 % write and never wong

 

[Jam_Wowz]

Thanks guys - been using shared computers and stuff :slight_smile:

 

[Harvey]

Loved reading it, but what a hack piece of supposed journalism. Was basically a copy and paste of various quotes from the playing squad that have been written or reported elsewhere in the past.
I am happy that some of that squads elders (Hodgson, Skando, Galea, O'Neill) were able to win a premiership.
One key point was the suggestion that after that, some of the younger players rested on their laurels and seemed to think that it was a matter of time before it happened again.

 

[innsaneink]

It will be great to win the comp as highly expected short priced favourites one day…. Then and only then might 05 be well and truly consigned to history

 

[happy_tiger]

It will be great to win the comp as highly expected short priced favourites one day…. Then and only then might 05 be well and truly consigned to history

I still stick the knife in with my Mrs with the 150-1 odds after the Brisbane loss

:roll

Always handy after a bad day on the pony's :wink:

 

[Geo]

It will be great to win the comp as highly expected short priced favourites one day…. Then and only then might 05 be well and truly consigned to history

I still stick the knife in with my Mrs with the 150-1 odds after the Brisbane loss

:roll

Always handy after a bad day on the pony's :wink:

Bit like Fishing…There is always the whopper that got away..

 

[happy_tiger]

It will be great to win the comp as highly expected short priced favourites one day…. Then and only then might 05 be well and truly consigned to history

I still stick the knife in with my Mrs with the 150-1 odds after the Brisbane loss

:roll

Always handy after a bad day on the pony's :wink:

Bit like Fishing…There is always the whopper that got away..

In this case I should of just ignored the whopper :roll

I have a few of those stories as well , losing a 1 metre barra at my feet and then trying to crash tackle it and getting 9 stitches in my leg hitting the same submerged rock that the Barra had cut the line on :bawling :bawling :bawling

 

[westTAHger]

nice read.
can't live on memories.
overdue to create more history.

 

[Tigerdave]

Such an incredible finals series, it's hard to believe how much we dominated throughout it