LIVE GAME Round 17 versus Knights

[batboy]

Seriously u and GNR are the perennial trolls, just here to bag the club or players at any chance! Just for attention, sad really.

It only hurts because they’re right though yeah?

 

[weststigers]

I have said this before and I think everyone we come to the same conclusion, maka is another wonder kid that will never reach the heights that has been put on him , he’s slow and his defence is poor

The worst thing that could have happened to him is running over Edwards.

After that, the expectations did not match the reality in terms of where he is in his development.

 

[Tucker]

Seriously u and GNR are the perennial trolls, just here to bag the club or players at any chance! Just for attention, sad really.

Did you just start a sentence with seriously?
Are you a teenage girl from 1992?

 

[jirskyr]

We will regret it because we should of won. Is that not the point I am making? The difference between making finals and not is winning those kinds of games.

Sorry you miss my point. No actually the difference between playing finals footy, or not, is the floggings, not the close ones.

You are going to lose close ones. Every close match is "there to be won". Some of those losses will be brutally close and disappointing. Most teams will win about half their close ones.

For example you can say "oh we should have beat the Knights there" but you then overlook the fact we did sneak home against both Parra and the Bulldogs. We also lost close ones to Souths and Broncos. It's gonna hover around 50/50.

But actually it's the hammerings that make the difference between finals or not. One cannot just wipe those aside because the score was never close. Teams that get hammered a lot don't play finals footy, or are non-competitive if they sneak in.

Perversely, the Tigers would actually be better off if every week was like last week's Newcastle game, tight and ugly. We'd be fairly confident of playing in the finals if we were that close every week. Esp because as bad as Newcastle played, they are actually a fairly handy side this year.