Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Droppy05]

Stop teasing! 🤪

Douhei is going nowhere.

 

[TurnStyle]

Douhei is going nowhere.

I know... 😟

 

[gregjm87]

From memory Tigers forgot to inform the auditor of the post career provision (or tried to hide it 🤷)

Yeah. I think it was simply didn't tell the auditor rather than try to hide it as Tigers were 'busted' by openly discussing it in the media.

 

[gregjm87]

If there isn't much coaching involved with defence and defensive systems , why are we so continually bad at it

I can't believe how many people think this. Defence is the most nuanced aspect of the game and needs elite level coaching more so than any other aspect.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Who cares how many when you get the best? You make tough decisions like successful clubs.

Well, you should care. You don’t just chase marquee players for the sake of it. Especially not in a position you already have sufficient depth in. We’ve been talking up Haywood for the last 6-12 months. Some have floated that he’s a future captain. Why block his path? It’s a 7 we are in need of. Not a 9.

 

[gregjm87]

Point has been made here a few times but I don't think our defence was very good to start the year. We still looked very fragile defending our red zone but it was masked because because we were dominating the yardage battle and teams simply weren't getting much of a look in.

I think to much is made of the success at the start of the season. Everyone seems to be happy blame injuries for our failures but not question the role it may have played in the wins.
Cowboys: missing Cotter, Nanai and Drinkwater playing with busted ribs was a passenger.
Knights: missing Ponga, Best and Brown
Eels: missing Iongi and Hopgood. Then lost 3 backs during the game and still scored more tries in their loss.
Raiders: missing Young, Sasagi, Savage, Papalli and lost Martin mid game.

 

[wstigers11]

I think to much is made of the success at the start of the season. Everyone seems to be happy blame injuries for our failures but not question the role it may have played in the wins.
Cowboys: missing Cotter, Nanai and Drinkwater playing with busted ribs was a passenger.
Knights: missing Ponga, Best and Brown
Eels: missing Iongi and Hopgood. Then lost 3 backs during the game and still scored more tries in their loss.
Raiders: missing Young, Sasagi, Savage, Papalli and lost Martin mid game.

2 of those games we copped a sinbin in which was the only time we looked like leaking any points & we had players missing too

the warriors game you left out was a great win over there

 

[wstigers11]

Well, you should care. You don’t just chase marquee players for the sake of it. Especially not in a position you already have sufficient depth in. We’ve been talking up Haywood for the last 6-12 months. Some have floated that he’s a future captain. Why block his path? It’s a 7 we are in need of. Not a 9.

can’t see Harry coming back anyway he’s 28 and hasn’t won a competition

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

can’t see Harry coming back anyway he’s 28 and hasn’t won a competition

Awe, he still has 20 odd years left in him to win one.

 

[gregjm87]

2 of those games we copped a sinbin in which was the only time we looked like leaking any points & we had players missing too

the warriors game you left out was a great win over there

Agree the warriors game was a great win.

As for the sinbinnings, well Eels was one of them. They scored the first two tries of the game before a binning had occurred. Tigers fought hard and scored the next 3, but only after an injury meant they had to reshuffle their backline. Yes Eels then scored two during the sinbin time to take the lead.

The fact that the last 20minutes, which included the 10minutes of bin time was against a patched together side missing 3 of their backs that started as well as their regular fullback, the sinbin shouldn't be an excuse.


Similarly with Raiders, were down by 4 at halftime. Not sure the bin hurt us as much as the injury (on top of their outs before the game) hurt them. Raiders notably didn't score any points when they were playing 13 against 12, or any points after. So can't use this as an example of a binning resulting in the points being leaked like you can suggest for the Eels game.