Newcastle has won two on the trot and looking dangerous.
They have nothing to lose and with a bit of momentum you never know.
The spoon is a terrible thing no club wants but I think we deserve it. Being humiliated badly is a great motivator going into 2018.
Woods going out a spooner would be another plus I guess.
I made this thread around the time JT was sacked.
Many applauded the sacking and thought it would save our season.
It's now crystal clear he wasn't the problem.
I solely blame that creature Isaac Moses for derailing the 2017 season for a few extra bucks commission to go his way.
Sickens me how this season played out and I'll go as far and say it's been the worst season in our Wests Tigers history.
Worst season in our history without a doubt, its been a massive train wreck from day 1\. Positively though it is the sort of season we needed to have occur, weeding out cockroaches like Moses and Simona and being rid of this "big 4" crap once and for all. Ted and Woods bailing out and chasing brown paper bags of glory elsewhere. We will look back on 2017 as the best thing to happen since 2005 IMO. Onwards and upwards.
As long as management has taken on board the hard-learnt lessons of these past few years (huge back-ended contracts, player power holding sway over coaches, paying massive overs on potential rather than proven performers etc) then we will prosper under Ivan in the next 5 years or more.
I dont think we "deserve" the spoon any more than the Warriors, Bulldogs, Souths or Newcastle. We have paid our dues heavily this season in terms of humiliation and over-scrutiny in the media and have looked to come out the other side far stronger judging by these last 5 or 6 weeks…..that is a decent effort in itself.
And as for Woods deserving to go out with a spoon I can't agree, he has put in strong efforts on the park nearly every game since his buffoonery in the media months ago. He will leave with his head held high as far as that is concerned. I'd say high-paid turncoat duds such as Keiran Foran would be far more deserving of a spoon, he has been a million dollar lump of undie-rock.