Just goes to show.......

[tigeress]

I'm still buoyed by the past ten weeks. The side has moved on in leaps and bounds and while I'll concede we haven't improved in the one area the coach said we would, we won plenty more games than I thought we would this year. The Cowboys game was easily the best game we've played since 2011\. We're probably a quality winger and second rower from being a top 4 side if we continue to build on.

The Penrith game was an abberation. I feared that they'd struggle to maintain the rage, particularly after the Cowboys game.

Moving on Kidwell is very ballsy by Taylor, he's just removed the last person before him that could be possibly be held accountable for the poor defensive showing. It's all on him next year.

I think we have improved this season. We desperately need a reliable goal kicker as well as the 2 you have mentioned above, some of the losses we had this season were because of our poor goal kicking.

Even though our defence has improved slightly over the past month or so, I think we could use a new defensive coach, so I'm glad that we are moving on and will be getting a different d.coach next season :stuck_out_tongue:

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Yes, you're certainly right re: goalkicker. Rankin and Moses are just not good enough IMO.

 

[stevetiger]

We need a hooker as well now. I think that this is being forgotten in the whole Robbie drama. Maybe Liddle will come on. It's a key position that we need a gun player in.

 

[innsaneink]

We need a hooker as well now. I think that this is being forgotten in the whole Robbie drama. Maybe Liddle will come on. It's a key position that we need a gun player in.

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27762&view=unread#unread

 

[tigers2005]

We need a hooker as well now. I think that this is being forgotten in the whole Robbie drama. Maybe Liddle will come on. It's a key position that we need a gun player in.

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27762&view=unread#unread

So Ballin starting, Liddle on the bench. Liddle comes on. Then hunt comes on and also plays hooker. We will go from no hookers to 3 hookers. JT you innovator.

 

[Tigerdave]

**One of, if not, the youngest side in the comp,** still trying to sort out a financial mess it was left with by prior administrations, due to this, unable to go after some talent to fill in obvious holes in the squad and semi-finals were expected? this is being realistic?

This is no longer an excuse.
We were both older and more experienced across the 17 than that Panthers team - 500 NRL caps more in fact, and a year older on average.

(admittedly Hardaker's low NRL numbers skew the Penrith number down a tad, but his 15 mins off the bench were pretty irrelevant anyway).

Wasn't even talking about that one game, my response was for the year. As of the beginning of the year we not only had one of the youngest sides in the comp, we had all sorts of other dramas and still continuing dramas going on.

There's a myriad of differing problems going on and to have expected semi finals, is a tad unrealistic.