LIVE GAME Round 3 versus Souths

[terriaa]

Hope looked good in dummy half. Offered something different. But I dont want Api in the halves.

Is Javon Andrews ready to play NRL?

Probably not. Had an ordinary game last week but went better today.

 

[Demps]

That stadium is cursed.

 

[mtd#2]

They weren’t better at all, their halves created more chances for them which may have padded their stats. Our backrowers weren’t used BY OUR HALVES.
Our forwards were not the problem. They had us camped in the bunnies end for most of that game. The Tigers spine had no clue how to score and ran around in circles feeding blokes standing still. Whose job is it to organise them?

You're right, the halves call the plays. But the other players need to then put themselves into the right spots to receive the ball. That didnt happen tonight. Most players running off douhei and luai were in crappy spots.

Im also cognisant that we had very little possession in the first 20 minutes. All that defence probably took the punch out of the effectiveness in attack.

I just think it was a pretty average performance all round.

I thought one shining light was that we controlled the ruck well in defence. I cant recall the last time I ever thought we were decent in that department.

 

[Dr_Ice]

Big body halves player. Why sign him if we’re not going to use him when needed? Good luck to him if he gets an opportunity.

Thought Mak and LL were solid enough after a rough start.

I believe they signed him for 2026 on a development contract, therefore assume we signed him to develop him over the next few years.

Now we may have our top three halve options out, so if all injured will need our 4th in line Madden and someone else.

Probably may need to be Andrew’s, doesn’t mean he is ready and his current form is good. Let’s hope he can improve in better company

 

[mtd#2]

Blocking Makasini's pathway sounds like a great way of retaining him.

Because giving Galvin a platform and keys to the team worked?

We need Maka on the wing.

 

[EllisFan]

You're right, the halves call the plays. But the other players need to then put themselves into the right spots to receive the ball. That didnt happen tonight. Most players running off douhei and luai were in crappy spots.

Im also cognisant that we had very little possession in the first 20 minutes. All that defence probably took the punch out of the effectiveness in attack.

I just think it was a pretty average performance all round.

I thought one shining light was that we controlled the ruck well in defence. I cant recall the last time I ever thought we were decent in that department.

On two or three occasions AD dummied when we had good opportunities out wide. It’s his biggest fault as a HB imo.

On another occasion Seyfarth called the ball when we had Souths shot to bits. That’s the HB’s moment to win it.

 

[mtd#2]

On two or three occasions AD dummied when we had good opportunities out wide. It’s his biggest fault as a HB imo.

On another occasion Seyfarth called the ball when we had Souths shot to bits. That’s the HB’s moment to win it.

I dont remember either of those. Do you remember roughly at what stage of the game and ill check it out.

 

[EllisFan]

I dont remember either of those. Do you remember roughly at what stage of the game and ill check it out.

The Seyfarth one was late following a kick we regathered. Hope I think.

His dummy and go I couldn’t pin point the time of the match but think he did it three times when we had numbers.

 

[Milky]

Injuries are already killing us, T. May, Toa, Luai and AD on sidelines is not good. Especially against the Wahs

Our depth is already tested 2-5 and now 6-7 will be another problem

Expect a tough next 6 weeks

 

[Joelcainenumber1fan]

Souths only beat us on 2 of the 31 stats categories. I’m not so concerned about the attack. While we didn’t score tries we did enough to get Souths gassed. Thats our strategy and it’s a smart one. Work hard early score late. I reckon if Luai didn’t go off we easily score a couple of tries late like we did in the first half.

we only scored those tries cause there fb went off

 

[lathami]

Injuries are already killing us, T. May, Toa, Luai and AD on sidelines is not good. Especially against the Wahs

Our depth is already tested 2-5 and now 6-7 will be another problem

Expect a tough next 6 weeks

To true, 4 players out of the 7 in our back line for up to 7 weeks, we are in big trouble! People complaining about our attack easily forget that our starting centres are currently out, makes a big difference to a team. Now both our halves, we’re fkd!

 

[king_sirro]

Gosh people here are fickle. One week Doueihi will play origin and Skelton is an underrated gun, next week both should be dropped... Neither had a good game, but we lost by 4 so let's not get too doom and gloom.

Forwards did a great job to give us field position, so that's a positive. Though South's errors helped too.

I really don't understand our capitulation in the opposition's 20. To my mind it has been our biggest issue for the past few years at least. I'd like to see us execute some set plays, rather than do hot potato every set. Seems like a coaching failure to me to be honest, because we have the attacking threat on the roster. And we have been through a million halves parnterships with this as a pervasive issue.

Its an easy one mate, we suck the the opposition 20 becasue we dont have a 13, 6, or 7 that straightens the attack. With all that possession last night, if our halves were Madden and Latu, or if it was Madden, Luai and Latu playing a role at 13, we win by a few tries.

 

[Spartan117]

Souths forwards were better than ours.

KPP and Samuela had very quiet games in attack.

Multiple times the backline depth wasnt there and players were almost at a stand still receiving the ball. I dont blame luai and douhei for that.

We always struggle when we have a single makeshift centre, let alone two.

The team showed we still have a long way to go.

Lets just hope we can scrape a few wins without our centres and halves.

Our halves didn't play together.

They were disconnected.

We also didn't get a roll on through the middle with the slowest Play the Balls

We can be much better

 

[HUNT 101]

What shi...ts me is the headline that the.. Tigers season is over ....it's round 3 !! we don't even know the severity of there injuries. The Knights have a few quality players out haven't seen the same headlines for them.😮‍💨

 

[Tony Taco]

Defensive effort was solid, cant fault the team here. Walking onto the football and playing an inside ball after walking onto the football is never going to ask the right questions of any defence. Both Cs out is never ideal, but get deep at least..... Not sure about the last tackle options, apart from the Douhei bomb that their winger muffed. Looked lost in the 20 in attack.... surely a repeat set to build pressure? SURELY. The top 5 teams complete sets with consistency.... The amount of football they had was enough to win two games, but the finishing was very poor, played sideways when a hard line was needed. Injuries to both halves..... Bula keeping things quiet isnt helping his cause... Not sighted. Royce and TDM were good for us, and Api yet again. Its pains you massively, but the difference was Trell Mitt and his class, though Tito needs to make that tackle every time.
Need some help at centre with Tiny and Star out, I hope Xerri might still be in Benjis contacts.

 

[Telltails]

Injuries are every teams nemesis - coaches can say the next man up stuff but rarely do clubs have players that come close to replacing the ones they lose let alone key players. The injuries are far more a concern than any loss and we have been hit with a sledgehammer after two games if we lose Luai Douehi (goal kicker)and May for extended periods.

 

[lathami]

What shi...ts me is the headline that the.. Tigers season is over ....it's round 3 !! we don't even know the severity of there injuries. The Knights have a few quality players out haven't seen the same headlines for them.😮‍💨

Umm they have two players out and an extra one yesterday and they got pumped! We have 4 in our backline out including both our halves, yeah we will go great!

 

[bradexl]

The forwards dominated tonight, but th outside backs offered nothing unfortunately.. our fullback seems incapable of making a line break or breaking a tackle or even drawing and passing at the moment.. they did that stupid block play and ran it at wighton all night ,, he ate it up as he is a brilliant defensive centre that has seen that block play out the back for 15 years.. he just jammed in on the recidver and the annoying part is we refused to adapt… tonight was incredibley frustrating as the pack were all over the souths pack and they were really let down imo

Bulla is frustrating to watch. So much potential but plays like he don't give a shit.

 

[Siberian Kitten]

Bulla is frustrating to watch. So much potential but plays like he don't give a shit.

Too often tries are scored and Bula is a long way away, jogging along. When teams score against Penrith or Easts, Edwards and Teddy are always in the frame, doing their best.

 

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

Disappointing