Lots to be happy about

very disappointed with the end result…loss

But very exited about the effort by the youngest side in WESTS Tigers history playing back to back grand finalist 2 weeks in a row...Proud supporter here...lots of upside
 
Yeah not many positives really. The great combo between Brooks and Ted was proven again, the pigs dug in again. That's about it.

A first grade side should never give up a lead like that whilst playing so well.
 
@stryker said:
Yeah not many positives really. The great combo between Brooks and Ted was proven again, the pigs dug in again. That's about it.

A first grade side should never give up a lead like that whilst playing so well.
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When I was doing my apprenticeship and finished, I got my craft certificate, my licence the whole shebang, showed my old man proud as punch, he smiled, then said "you arent a tradesman yet, you are a n apprentice and a day"… crushing, yet years later I understand.

Same of our team... they are just kids, sure they look the part in the uniforms and all, but they need the top level experience, and that can only come with time and exposure. Lessons like tonight are all part of the big picture, sure we would rather they not need to learn them, but they obviously do.

Ask anyone yesterday if they expected us to even have a 18 point lead tonight and they would have had you committed, the dogs are no joke. We are well on the right path, and if we can keep on improving week in week out as we have been, we will have plenty to smile about sooner rather than later.
 
Our centres have to be the weakest in the NRL… They offer very little iin attack

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I understand your analogy Blacknwhite, I am also a tradie.
I will add though that a team dominated by apprentices makes you no money. You need quality tradesmen to get the job done and keep the ship afloat until the apprentices are ready to become earners. That's something this club can't understand.
 
We are a team that is learning to stay in the contest, we were lucky to even score the points we did, our forwards are keeping us in games our backs and our general attack stinks. We scored one try off a forward pass and one against the run of play. Once again our halves aren't really showing much again, Tedesco is all we have, it's blaringly obvious.
 
They were missing players in 3 key positions (half, centre & fb). Reynolds & B.Morris are some of the leagues best players, and Lafai is a decent player too.

It really was an opportunity lost regardless of how the team lost. On a positive, it's great to see the team get out of the defensive half and make meters with ease. We use to get bullied on our own goal line in previous years.
 
The main thing that I'm happy about is being able to go to the game and be confident that we are going to be competitive no matter who we are playing. This was not the case under Potters watch.

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Surely you must be proud of our defence alone? Yes we had a fe tries scored against us tonight, but our defence looks more consistent than it has ever been…

The boys seem to be finally sliding in defence and not jumping in. I don't know about you, but personally it is so nice to see that when the ball is passed out wide by the opposition we often have enough players to shut the play down...

The last few years I have watched many games live and all games on tv. We have relied too many times on scrambling defence... This year is different.... We are not relying on such defence. We are waiting for the players and not jumping in... Of course we will let some tries in as we are not experts just yet, but we look a hell of a lot better than the last few years... At some stage our attack will gel and it will always pay off!!!

Games are won in defence first and foremost!! When you become a defensive force, you will begin to win games!!!

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@grrrrrrrrrr said:
The main thing that I'm happy about is being able to go to the game and be confident that we are going to be competitive no matter who we are playing. This was not the case under Potters watch.

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Look I disagree , we were highly competitive unit at full or near full strength last season
 
The thing that's a worry is we've now played two sides who in my opinion were far from their best the bunnies were pretty ordinary and gave us plenty of opportunities to put them away but we just weren't capable and they beat us pretty easily, the dogs were the same they were ordinary also and had their weapons out and still we couldn't put them away.
 
Im gutted the game turned so quickly. However, it was clear that our young guys were out on their feet in the last 15\. As others have stated, losing Sirro and Sue at the end didnt help.

This reminded me of our failure to hold the 18-0 lead against Souths in 2013\. There difference is in that game we always looked like getting run down. Today was most disappointing because the young guys seemed in total control.

I dont blame Keith - mistakes happen- but if he doesnt drop that ball from the kick off we likely go on and won the game.

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Overall, pretty young side, given the injuries last year have barely played any games together. On top of that a new coach.

Losing by 1 point to last years grand finalist after a 5 day turnaround after playing last years premiers in a tough game, who also lost…..

I think there are a lot of positives.

Just hope the players will see the positives and not be deflated.
 
I started a thread a few minutes ago, before I read this thread. I posted the following:-

_I am sure I was as disappointed as any Wests Tigers fan after the game last night, BUT….....\
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In the last two weeks, OUR team has played the two grand finalists from last year. We have played with the "left-overs" from last year plus some up-and-coming young (some VERY young!) players. There were comments on other threads that it was the youngest NRL team we have ever put on the field.\
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We did very well against the Rabbits until the last twenty minutes or so, BUT the players at no stage GAVE UP.\
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Last night, with more missing players, we had to play a 20 year old back rower and a 21 year old winger in their first NRL game against the other grand finalist from last year. The team almost snatched a win in a game, which the punters gave them NO HOPE OF WINNING and some of you are whinging about the performance!!!!!!\
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Well, I am proud of the performance of MY team last night. I can see the big improvement from last year and I think we will be the big improvers this year. I can see the positive changes the new coach and support staff and new players have produced this year, already.\
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I hope the majority of the TRUE TIGER SUPPORTERS agree with me. The remaining "supporters" ........_
 
@formerguest said:
Sure, there are plenty of positives to take from tonight's game, but not getting the two points when we had them in our pocket is a bloody big negative.
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Absolutely. Not acceptable at all.

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@TJL said:
Who can be happy about a loss especially after leading by 18 with 25 to go? Piss weak effort in the last 20 mins. Still a bottom 4 side IMHO since a decent side would have put them away.
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Totally agree. Terrible effort. They need to improve dramatically.

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If I have one disappointment it was Farah's refusal to go for field goal when we were 18 points with 20 minutes to go. A 19 point lead would have meant that Bulldogs would had to score at least four times four times in 20 minutes to win the game. If that would have been the case Wests Tigers would very most likely have held on to win.
 
So much better than I ever expected pre-season.

Sure it would have been nice to win, but hey, the season's actually exciting now.

Even when we won last year, we didn't look to have as much potential as we do now.

And we're a Holden Cup team with a few grey haired ring-ins!

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@Newtown said:
If I have one disappointment it was Farah's refusal to go for field goal when we were 18 points with 20 minutes to go. A 19 point lead would have meant that Bulldogs would had to score at least four times four times in 20 minutes to win the game. If that would have been the case Wests Tigers would very most likely have held on to win.
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Yeah, he tried to be too cute.

Way over estimated the refs' capacity to do their jobs.

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