Rd 10 - WestsTigers v Knights

[Geo]

WESTS Tigers 1-17 as named...Chee-Kam 18th man..

 

[gallagher]

a touch anticlimatic

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

May as well mix it up... Insanity is the doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Agree, but moving our best player from last week to another position and replacing him with one of our worst players last week is non sensical and ridiculous.

He's been great in attack but he leaks so many tries.

He is quite literally our only attacking threat. Moving him is one of the dumbest selections i've ever seen. We deserve to cop an absolute towelling friday night.

It'll be hilarious if we get up.

Haaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha!

 

[TigerWest]

May as well mix it up... Insanity is the doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Agree, but moving our best player from last week to another position and replacing him with one of our worst players last week is non sensical and ridiculous.

He's been great in attack but he leaks so many tries.

He is quite literally our only attacking threat. Moving him is one of the dumbest selections i've ever seen. We deserve to cop an absolute towelling friday night.

It'll be hilarious if we get up.

Haaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha!

Bugger, maybe Madge does have a clue???

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

**Dally M Points**
3 Adam Doueihi
2 Luke Brooks
1 Luciano Leilua

Doueihi is 7th on the leaderboard. I don't think anyone is catching Nathan Cleary unless he gets suspended.


 

[old_man_tiger]

**Dally M Points**
3 Adam Doueihi
2 Luke Brooks
1 Luciano Leilua

Doueihi is 7th on the leaderboard. I don't think anyone is catching Nathan Cleary unless he gets suspended.


Even in today's weird world, Cleary would have to take a shotgun on the field too get suspended.

 

[Merlot]

tiktoktiktoktiktok,glad he is a Newsouthwelshman

 

[OzLuke]

first time on the forum since we won....thought I'd go through this thread and just reminisce....
agreed one win doesn't make a new dawn, but good lord didn't people hook in the Madge and the team.

 

[jadtiger]

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/wests-tigers-michael-maguire-masterstroke-adam-doueihi-moses-mbye-joey-leilua-luke-brooks/cc728c92-8df3-4824-b095-ea7419ae45cc

EXCLUSIVE: Madge's masterstroke unlocks Tigers' line-up, Joey Leilua turns new leaf
By George Vlotis
18 hours ago
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Michael Maguire "has found the key to his playmakers and where they need to be" following a confident 36-18 run-over against the Newcastle Knights, says league legend Peter Sterling.

Having experimented with his line-up throughout the first third of the season while experiencing a wide range of results, Maguire's Tigers found perhaps their best performance of the year at Magic Round.

A positional swap between young gun Adam Doueihi and Moses Mbye, which saw the former shift out to the centres and Mbye into five-eighth, was at first roundly criticised when announced ahead of Round 10.

But Madge's masterstroke reaped dividends as Doueihi was able to break open the game from a strike position, while Mbye looked far more comfortable back in the halves with Luke Brooks.


Adam Doueihi inspires the Tigers to a big win over the Knights. (Getty) (Getty)
Sterling reasoned that both men played such a pivotal role that it took the burden off Brooks, who in turn was at his best, tearing through the Knights' defence with his running game.

"Madge Maguire copped some criticism with some question marks put over the positional changes," Sterling told Wide World of Sports' Sterlo's Wrap.

"Adam Doueihi had been his best player in recent weeks. You don't often see a player in great form positionally moved. But they got it right.

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"Moses Mbye I didn't think offered enough danger out in the centres, came into five-eighth, played beautifully. Doueihi went out and he was still able to have a real control on this game despite being a little bit wider. And Luke Brooks' running game came to the fore because those other guys took on more responsibility.


Luke Brooks scored early for the Tigers. (Twitter)
"Brooks' best part of his game has always been his running game and it was there for everybody to see. Let's hope that continues for the Tigers. It may well be that Michael Maguire has found the key to his playmakers and where they need to be."

Sterling also reserved special praise for Joey Leilua who he says has turned his game around in a few short weeks by competing on effort plays.

Sterling had previously called out Leilua for a shocking performance earlier this year at Campbelltown but was more than happy to eat his words after the centre showed a renewed commitment to his game.

"What I thought was really good, with Joey Leilua, was the desperation," he said.


Joey Leilua. (Getty)
"Newcastle would break, and there is Joey Leilua, who I criticised earlier in the season at Campbelltown for a lack of effort to get back. Now, he's not the only black jersey to get back there but this is the effort that makes the difference. He chases, and he's there just in case.

"If everybody is in that mindset, good things happen to your football team. So, I just thought if I'm prepared to be critical of Joey Leilua earlier in the year for lack of effort, it was wonderful to see that and it deserved to be praised because the Wests Tigers need that kind of effort from all their players if they're going to make a run up the ladder."

Oh dear,this does not auger well for friday night

 

[TillLindemann]

first time on the forum since we won....thought I'd go through this thread and just reminisce....
agreed one win doesn't make a new dawn, but good lord didn't people hook in the Madge and the team.

He deserves credit for making such a bold move despite all the pressure and scrutiny (if we'd lost that game maybe he loses his job). And it paid off, and might even be a change that single-handedly turn our season around.

 

[Cairnstigers]

**Dally M Points**
3 Adam Doueihi
2 Luke Brooks
1 Luciano Leilua

Doueihi is 7th on the leaderboard. I don't think anyone is catching Nathan Cleary unless he gets suspended.


1 Tiger and 3 ex Tigers on that list
Ahhhh what could have been


Also interesting that 5 fullbacks are on that list

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

**Dally M Points**
3 Adam Doueihi
2 Luke Brooks
1 Luciano Leilua

Doueihi is 7th on the leaderboard. I don't think anyone is catching Nathan Cleary unless he gets suspended.


1 Tiger and 3 ex Tigers on that list
Ahhhh what could have been


Also interesting that 5 fullbacks are on that list

The quality of fullbacks we have in the NRL at the moment is insane. Reminds me of when Slater, Stewart, Hayne, Minichiello and Inglis were carving up at the same time.