LIVE GAME Round 16 v Raiders

[weststigerman]

the Fainu brothers tonight were all great

They all deserve to be in our starting 13.

Sione is becoming our highest impact front rower.

 

[Wiz]

At times I feel like Luai’s jigging and stepping throws off the support play. No one knows what he is going to do and they stand flat. I like seeing him play freely like Benji did but I’m not sure they train for these plays. Moments of brilliance and moments of blah. Still we are always better with Luai in the squad.

Luai often passes the ball to a player in a worse position than Luai is.

 

[Tucker]

CROWD: 9,328 at Campbelltown Stadium, #NRLTigersRaiders tonight.

5000 of them were Raiders fans who bussed it up from Canberra.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Manly is winnable. The other two not so much.

Hate to say it but I think Manly are going to come out breathing fire after their recent issues and will annihilate us.
Hope I’m wrong but doubt it.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

With Benji, I have put this question out there a few times and have not gotten one taker, so I’ll try again. Is there one player, just one, who has improved under him?

 

[Droppy05]

Our attack in the opposition 20 especially has been pretty awful for years, but we’ve chopped and changed our spine for years too. Either injury or player changes.

We don’t have the wins on the board, but I think it’s important to remember that there’s been a fair few games this year like tonight where we’ve gone down by a less than a try or two. So the effort has been there.

We’re getting close. A lot of games this year we would’ve got pumped without some of our recruited and improved players. A few quality players (May and KPP are hopefully good additions) and we well find the missing pieces to the puzzle. The key is going to be keeping our better players along for the ride.

We just can't keep getting better players and putting them in the hans of an apprentice coach. Like giving a Ferrari to a L plater.

 

[Droppy05]

We just can’t keep culling coaches, everytime we do it’s 1 step forward 3 steps back. I give him until 2026

Your not culling a coach. He is still an apprentice.

 

[Tigerstigerstigers]

With Benji, I have put this question out there a few times and have not gotten one taker, so I’ll try again. Is there one player, just one, who has improved under him?

To’a
Surava
Samuela F, actually all Feinu brothers are coming along great
Terrell May
Skelton for the most part
Pole
You could even say API is in career best form.

 

[Chunk]

The club coaching staff in particular felt he was better than Galvin injury and attitude were the handbrake. I hear it’s the same with TDS and Haywood. Sounds like Api will get extended and TDS gone.

God, I hope not.

It’s fair to say that Api will be struggling in a couple of years.

 

[Camel2281]

Restricted minutes is some Benji invented bullshit. You’re either fit to play or you aren’t.

No you're not. It's not 1985. Sports science and performance and training loads is very studied and useful

 

[Tucker]

Because he is clearly out the door.
But I’m sick of running players on the bench that catch a cold. It’s a bloody joke

Well if he s out the door, why was he selected?
Either way it’s spun, Benji looks bad from a coaching perspective on this issue.

 

[Glenji95]

Your not culling a coach. He is still an apprentice.

Yeah but who’s a good coach who’s available? Walters is shit, so is Barrett and Griffin (no idea where he is though) there’s a lot of shit coaches out there and none of them are getting us finals bound. The best one available is probably BA but even he is a risk. Not to mention we’re gonna be labelled a basket case again no matter how we try to spin it. Clubs gotta make a choice but I don’t think a quality coach will be available to replace Benji.

 

[Tucker]

God, I hope not.

It’s fair to say that Api will be struggling in a couple of years.

Of course he will be.
The guy is in the final stretch of his career and his workload is arguably as heavy as it’s ever been.

 

[Flippedy]

With Benji, I have put this question out there a few times and have not gotten one taker, so I’ll try again. Is there one player, just one, who has improved under him?

Pole?

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Another game we lost
Sure early on we didn’t get the ref calls (penalty, 40/20, corey offside for 1st try)
But we had more than enough field position and possession to win that game.
We actually dominated the Raiders for most of the game.

We are fighting and having a dig most weeks
There is improvement this year more than any other year we have had for a long time. It’s just frustrating because we just keep finding ways to beat ourselves.

 

[gregjm87]

With Benji, I have put this question out there a few times and have not gotten one taker, so I’ll try again. Is there one player, just one, who has improved under him?

Sione. That is all.

 

[Droppy05]

With Benji, I have put this question out there a few times and have not gotten one taker, so I’ll try again. Is there one player, just one, who has improved under him?

Just give me another 10 weeks before I can answer that.

 

[Camel2281]

Well if he s out the door, why was he selected?
Either way it’s spun, Benji looks bad from a coaching perspective on this issue.

Not really. Game was tight as, and with it all on the line a decision was made to keep our best player and Captain on the field instead of giving him a rest for a kid. I actually thought it showed some coaching maturity to make interchange decisions reacting to the match situation instead of pre-planned times

 

[GNR4LIFE]

To’a
Surava
Samuela F, actually all Feinu brothers are coming along great
Terrell May
Skelton for the most part
Pole
You could even say API is in career best form.

Out of that list, the only one you could say is maybe To’a. Players that debuted under him and had only played a few games don’t count. You are talking about players who were just plodders, like your Twal’s and Seyfarth’s. Those are the kinds of players you look for improvement in. Not players like Sunia who won two premierships at another club

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

With Benji, I have put this question out there a few times and have not gotten one taker, so I’ll try again. Is there one player, just one, who has improved under him?

Could argue Sione & Toa have improved under Benji.