LIVE GAME Round 21 v Raiders

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No point repeating everyone else, and myself every week. Standard rubbish performance.

Only comment - we now know how to get away with a strip. Put your arm in, pull it out leading with your wrist so it's not a 'grabbing motion'. Should expect all teams to start doing that now.
 
Moh said:
No point repeating everyone else, and myself every week. Standard rubbish performance.

Only comment - we now know how to get away with a strip. Put your arm in, pull it out leading with your wrist so it's not a 'grabbing motion'. Should expect all teams to start doing that now.
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Only problem is they’ll rule it a strip next time doing the exact same motion
 
jirskyr said:
I don't understand how this team is so far off the team that turned up the first 2 months.

At one point injuries were to blame, but by and large it's the same team. We gave up the fewest points of any team in those early rounds when the 6-agains were causing blow-outs, and now the refs have put the 6-agains away, most games are close except Tigers almost alone in allowing blowouts.

You go into the sheds 28-10 down, some bad decisions and some bad defensive reads. You calm yourselves and you come out determined to play hard for the last 40 and put some pride back into the jersey, and play for your fans. 40 mins of hard work and concentration, even if the score stays 28-10.

Nah eff that, let's just bungle our way to a worse second half than even the first.

Raiders have had a good recent run of high-scoring wins, but I watched our team 100% shut out this same team a few months ago. I had rarely seen such a complete Tigers performance in recent years. Instead this week I see arguably as bad a capitulation as ever, the 8th or so such result since that big Sharks loss. Arguably as bad as any other season, offset only by the unexpected early season form.
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Your spot on. This is arguably a worse season than our last 3 wooden spoon seasons and I could see the rest of the season getting even worse. There is still a possibility we will get the wooden spoon. We sure as hell deserve it.
 
bigsiro said:
Releasing Luai, putting Douehi to lock, Andrews debut. They were absolutely the right calls for the future of this team.

But to me that doesn’t scream ego at all. It screams someone who will make tough calls.

Is he the best tactical coach? No.
Is the team performing well? No
Does he have a top 8 roster? Hell No.

It’s the playing roster that’s the issue. Always has been.

Pick holes in Benji’s tactics or selections sure, that’s fair game, but calling for Benji’s head when we all know that this squad is not top 8 calibre?

Show me a poor lineup that Bennett succeeded with. Or Bellamy or Gibson.
We had Madge, we had Cleary. They did FA.

To be fair, if Bennett were here I don’t think we’d be this bad, but neither would we play finals.

I don’t think another coach would make such big calls and put himself on the line for the team as much as Benji.
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Sorry don’t agree, Luai’s form has been horrible, he is the one that needed to go to the bench. Doubie has also been poor in form but is here next year. To be real we ain’t going to have Latu and Andrew’s in the halves starting next season. We need some experience there. Also picking players like ‘hand like feet’ and continually picking sione in the second row is all Benji. The ego I am talking about is his inability to have an experienced coach as an assistant. It reaks of ego, like he can’t take constructive criticism from someone with more knowledge. Typical narcissist behaviour. Surrounding himself with yes men is a classic sign.
It’s bunji’s team he had signed most of these players on overpriced contracts. So now we can’t afford depth, again whose fault is that.
 
lathami said:
Sorry don’t agree, Luai’s form has been horrible, he is the one that needed to go to the bench. Doubie has also been poor in form but is here next year. To be real we ain’t going to have Latu and Andrew’s in the halves starting next season. We need some experience there. Also picking players like ‘hand like feet’ and continually picking sione in the second row is all Benji. The ego I am talking about is his inability to have an experienced coach as an assistant. It reaks of ego, like he can’t take constructive criticism from someone with more knowledge. Typical narcissist behaviour. Surrounding himself with yes men is a classic sign.
It’s bunji’s team he had signed most of these players on overpriced contracts. So now we can’t afford depth, again whose fault is that.
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