LIVE GAME Round 14 v the Panthers

[Tom Shines]

Yiure not alone
Many thought wed turned a corner...many were sure wed make the eight..still a slight hope but .thats looking less.and.less.likely now.
Feel like the kid hoping for a.PS5 for his birthday and unwraps a jigsaw puzzle

The effort was there at the start of the season … not seeing it now… they turned up last week ..but perhaps that says more about how the Dogs are going …

The Tigers went through a similar period last year where they were in the duldrums for a couple of months … I don’t really understand it …

 

[TigerBurnsy]

Yeah well ours might drop down to 5,000 next week too. Who wants to pay good money to watch the shitshow that is the Wests Tigers, only masochists.

I already booked tickets and flights from Queensland 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

 

[Flippedy]

Benji needs to drop some of his so called leaders for players who want to be here

Yeah he can drop them, but who does he replace them with? It’s crystal clear we have zero depth of NRL standard.

 

[Tired Tiger]

I can cop a loss as well as any Tigers fan out there and I have copped plenty over the years....

But what we dished up today was completely unacceptable and not up to standard for a professional sporting team at any level.

There are country rugby league teams running about in Timbuktu playing with more passion and heart than the Tigers displayed today ......

 

[Tiger_heart]

I'd love to know what our "nursery" is producing. Surely for the last 10 years, next to nothing (considering where we have been sitting on the table). We can't produce (or retain?) our own and can only pay for has beens - a vicious cycle unaltered by whoever wears the coach's hat or manages the whole thing. Yes, we are not alone in the NRL, but on the field, there is not much that separates us (from the rest of the underperforming clubs).

 

[Tired Tiger]

I already booked tickets and flights from Queensland 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I already have tickets as well... Not the added costs of flights from QLD though.

Surely we don't play that bad 2 weeks in a row..... But honestly if it wasn't our last game at liechardt for 18 months I'm not sure if I'd be going ......

 

[TigerNeddyK]

We have 3 blokes on report as well.
Pole, Geyer and Seyfarth

Can only hope that pole and Seyferth get 8 weeks so Benji cannot pick them

 

[hank37w]

I haven't read any of the previous comments. I'm sure none of them are positive and neither should they be. I turned off at 36 nil. In the space of one week, we have returned back to the bad old days of complete ineptness. There's no way, even with the various outs, that we should be capitulating like this. What a gutless, lazy and absolutely pathetic first half effort. Penrith are very good but not 36 nil good. We handed them the game on a platter. I feel embarrassed to be a Wests Tigers supporter. 5 out of 7 to start the season - what a false dawn that was.

Mate, if it makes you feel any better I walked away after a few minutes, the first time Pole dropped the ball.

I have had a gut full of that clown, to use the old saying he has hands like feet and his ball security is non existent.

You can count on that clown making handling errors every game and I have had a gut full of it because more often than not he sets the tone for the game and I just can't cop it anymore.

Cannot understand how people rate this bloke, he has been a disappointment for quite some time with poor defensive efforts and abysmal ball security.

Just for the record, it's very rare for me to not watch a Wests Tigers game right to the end.

Don't know what the rest of the game looked like but after hearing the scoreline I'm glad I walked away just for the sake of my sanity.

 

[Tiger_heart]

I already have tickets as well... Not the added costs of flights from QLD though.

Surely we don't play that bad 2 weeks in a row..... But honestly if it wasn't our last game at liechardt for 18 months I'm not sure if be going ......

Surely? You mean that we don't let in as many points? Because in terms of performance, where we played badly in a row, the numbers are surely greater than 2!.. ;-(

 

[Telltails]

Drop who and replace with who? Our depth is not FG quality. A few weeks ago Madden was the answer to all our woes. The wear and tear of the season coupled with a terrible injury toll and poor depth we are being exposed.
Canberra Titans and Broncos all much better squads than ours and are below us on the table - we fans need a reality check.
We did well to start the season but we can't cover our injuries and our forwards are just not cutting it.

 

[innsaneink]

The effort was there at the start of the season … not seeing it now… they turned up last week ..but perhaps that says more about how the Dogs are going …

The Tigers went through a similar period last year where they were in the duldrums for a couple of months … I don’t really understand it …

Yeah...6 game losing streak last year but only that one bad flogging in.melb
This years streak.with a dogs win in between hale all been floggings..
Injuries yeh but...just heartless

 

[Speed2burn]

Yeah well ours might drop down to 5,000 next week too. Who wants to pay good money to watch the shitshow that is the Wests Tigers, only masochists.

Considering Leichhardt next week is already sold out, 17,000 sorry souls love the punishment

 

[Tcat]

Drop who and replace with who? Our depth is not FG quality. A few weeks ago Madden was the answer to all our woes. The wear and tear of the season coupled with a terrible injury toll and poor depth we are being exposed.
Canberra Titans and Broncos all much better squads than ours and are below us on the table - we fans need a reality check.
We did well to start the season but we can't cover our injuries and our forwards are just not cutting it.

Why is depth not first grade standard? Why can't the club ever get the formula right. We aren't trying to create the wheel. This club is pathetic and injust don't understand how we can never get it right. Benji is proving to be alot of talk and no action.

 

[Tiger_heart]

Mate, if it makes you feel any better I walked away after a few minutes, the first time Pole dropped the ball.

I have had a gut full of that clown, to use the old saying he has hands like feet and his ball security is non existent.

You can count on that clown making handling errors every game and I have had a gut full of it because more often than not he sets the tone for the game and I just can't cop it anymore.

Cannot understand how people rate this bloke, he has been a disappointment for quite some time with poor defensive efforts and abysmal ball security.

Just for the record, it's very rare for me to not watch a Wests Tigers game right to the end.

Don't know what the rest of the game looked like but after hearing the scoreline I'm glad I walked away just for the sake of my sanity.

I am not sure you can single him out. According to the stats below, he is not THAT bad. This said, he is part of a bigger problem, at the WT, I feel. And when fans walk out, or boo, at the game, it is time for everyone that runs the club to take a long and hard look at what they are doing, coach included.

2026 Average Statistics Comparison
The table below compares Pole's per-game data against standard profiles of elite forwards (e.g., Payne Haas), mid-tier workhorses, and defensive-oriented specialists:

Metric (Per Game) [1, 2, 3, 4]	Fonua Pole (Wests Tigers)	Elite Prop (Marquee)	Mid-Tier Workhorse	Defensive Specialist
Run Metres	105 m	150+ m	110 m	90 m
Tackles Made	23.6	30.0	26.0	38.0
Tackle Efficiency	90.6%	92.5%	89.0%	95.0%
Tackle Breaks	2.45	3.5	1.8	0.5
Offloads	0.0	1.2	0.5	0.2

 

[Chunk]

Drop who and replace with who? Our depth is not FG quality. A few weeks ago Madden was the answer to all our woes. The wear and tear of the season coupled with a terrible injury toll and poor depth we are being exposed.
Canberra Titans and Broncos all much better squads than ours and are below us on the table - we fans need a reality check.
We did well to start the season but we can't cover our injuries and our forwards are just not cutting it.

Yeah depth is a problem but what about starters? Lets take our rose coloured glasses off

How many Tigers starting players would make the top ten teams. Not the fullback, wingers, centres, 5/8, second rowers.

Twal, Api, Douhie (Somewhere), May, Pole would. S Fainu on potential

 

[Telltails]

Yeah depth is a problem but what about starters? Lets take our rose coloured galsses off

How many Tigers starting players would make the top ten teams. Not the fullback, wingers, centres, 5/8, second rowers.

Twal, Api, Douhie (Somewhere), May, Pole would.

No argument there

 

[Tiger_heart]

Considering Leichhardt next week is already sold out, 17,000 sorry souls love the punishment

Nah...It is a support group with a stadium-sized seating capacity..

 

[Tired Tiger]

Considering Leichhardt next week is already sold out, 17,000 sorry souls love the punishment

Yep I'll be there with at least 2 of the kids ... Maybe the youngest knows best. He is the only one that doesn't want to go....

 

[TigerNeddyK]

They had 2 set restarts in that first half and at least one of those was totally justified.

Mate .. they had 3 in the first set of the game .. no excuses for the rest but at least be honest

 

[Tiger Woods]

All tigers fans should get a refund once the score goes over 60 or a free ticket to the next game
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