Wests Tigers V Souths - Live Game Thread

[TCL]

Neither is Jennings like some in here think he is...
Dont rewrite history on the game it was a lazy play the ball knock on from nofo that resulted in a try same as twh titans game the guy lacks concentration. He then goes out and does a fantastic run intercept but please dont hide the brain fades he has in games

Listen Chief if you want to get up someone for costing the game - aim it at the right person for God's sake.

His name is MBYE!!!!

Mbye was dreadful but he didn’t cost us the game.

No I know he didn't - it was someone else (not the captain) who was running in field and leaving a kid playing his first game (who he should have been helping) to have to run in and try and cut the ball off from getting to the winger.

Oh! i know it was Reynolds fault, you blame him for everything - so maybe he had an Mbye mask on and it was him.

Time for you to take a bex and have a lie down Russ.

Ps Reynolds 4 runs for 16m in 70 minutes. An inspired performance from our marquee 5/8

Yeah but he ran for about 75 meters waving his arms around

And kicked a bloke in the head ?

Only impact he has had this year and that was an accident!

 

[TCL]

After watching the replay this morning I think young Harry over played his hand last night he kept the ball too close to the ruck and made it easy for the south’s defence. He was much better when he came back on I think Madge had some words with him .

Yep, wasn’t his best game, probably spent the week reading the paper.

Stifled the attack on a number of occasions before Madge hooked him. Came back on the field and was better however again there was a play when the back line was set to the left and he went the other way.

He is human and will make those mistakes. Good players don’t force the play they play what’s in front of them or they play the plays the team has set for.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Well for me this was not unexpected given the side we had on the path.
I know that we have injuries and suspension to content with but that’s all part of the game and our backline weaknesses are exposed over and over again.
Harry Grants worst performance with us so far. And I thought our forwards held their own but never really got on top to allow our spine to work properly. Our back line was just shambles.
Referees are always a problem for us so nothing new there. The opposition is always allowed to stand offside so .....

Positive is our never give up attitude ...... So better days ..... ahead ..... hopefully!

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Ref/Bunker did their best Sergeant Schultz impersonation on this one

I’m interested to know what the commentators said about this incident, can anyone enlighten me?

Fox said he might have a case to answer

I bet you ...

The hit on Reynolds go unsighted ..

The hit on Garner will be a grade 1 and he’ll plead guilty and he’ll be free to play next week

Bj gets 10 in the bin and 4 weeks on the sideline
This punch is worse and deserves at least 4 weeks
If I am right we will see just how biased the ref's and the judiciary are with this behaviour from souths
BJ 4 weeks
LM my guess 0 to 2 weeks maximum

A punch to the face shows deliberate attempt to harm a player
Bj's head high was not that bad
His momentum had almost stopped
There was no real force used
The player was not knocked of his feet but fell over
There was no blood or injury
Edwards got straight back up on his feet after they got the penalty
Bj's tackle was reckless but due to the Force used was not that dangerous in my opinion
Latrell Mitchell's punch was deliberate and intended to cause harm
He wanted to knock him out

Let's see if the NRL has balls
I bloody well doubt it
I am so over the Nrl biassed behaviour

Mate if he doesn’t get some sort of suspension for that then I’m done with rugby league. It’s bad enough that he wasn’t sin binned or that we didn’t even get a penalty from it at the time!

I love my team and I have supported them, firstly as Wests and now WT for over 50 years, but I honestly can’t watch or even listen to their matches anymore. It just bloody hurts so much to see the ref bias for the opposing team when we play, and it appears it doesn’t matter which team we play against or even which ref it is, you can now guarantee we will be on the wrong end of most decisions they make during the game.

Sure we aren’t a great team, but we are not a poor team either. Every year we are closer to competing for the top 8 then we are the wooden spoon and we were/are getting stronger and better with every game. We obviously have some discipline issues and some of the penalties we give away are as a result of that poor discipline and that’s fair enough, but the bad calls we’ve been copping, in practically every game this year, have just been blatantly unfair and diabolical! Made even worse by the opposition getting away with so much, even when they do exactly the same thing that we would immediately be penalised for (as in Mitchell’s case mentioned above) - how in any way is this fair, unbiased refereeing?

We were bashed from pillar to post by Penrith last week and we were copping dog shots all night, but nothing from the ref, he did nothing to protect our players from being head hunted, he just turned a blind eye and let it go. Mitchell was also on a mission to head hunt and hurt our players last night, probably because he watched Penrith do it and get away with it! Once again, nothing from the ref. I was livid about this last week, I’m even more livid now.

Someone posted last night that in 80 minutes of football (2nd half against Penrith and the first half of last night’s game) we had received 1 penalty to the opposition’s 10 and 1 repeat set to the opposition’s 12. Are we really this undisciplined? Are the opposition really so perfect? I say no to both of those questions, it’s just blatantly unfair officiating imo, no two ways about it! My question is why? Why are we always copping this? Once upon a time we could pick which ref was going to give us a hard time, now it’s just all of them, there are no ‘good’ ones for us anymore.

If it really is just our bad discipline causing all this imbalance then bloody well fix it Madge, or at the very least say something to the refs boss about the raw deal your team is getting week in, week out. No one says anything! Not the commentators, not the media, not even our coach, who is putting in all the hard work to get this team to be a finals contender only to see it unraveled each week because of the avalanche of dodgy ref decisions that the team just cannot overcome.

Unless something changes for the better soon, I’m done with the game. I honestly can’t sit and watch my team being flogged in the penalty count and not being given a fair chance at winning a game, while the opposition gets away with the exact same infringements week after week - it’s just not enjoyable anymore.

Some people will say that the team should be good enough to overcome the bad ref decisions, which is true to an extent, but in all honesty why should we have to overcome the opposition AND the refs as well every single week?

Rant over.

 

[Russell]

Well for me this was not unexpected given the side we had on the path.
I know that we have injuries and suspension to content with but that’s all part of the game and our backline weaknesses are exposed over and over again.
Harry Grants worst performance with us so far. And I thought our forwards held their own but never really got on top to allow our spine to work properly. Our back line was just shambles.
Referees are always a problem for us so nothing new there. The opposition is always allowed to stand offside so .....

Positive is our never give up attitude ...... So better days ..... ahead ..... hopefully!

Most sensible post in the thread.

However don't think the RHS defence was a shambles - it was all Mbye on the LHS. People blaming Hoffman should rewatch the game.

Unlike a lot of people on here - I am certainly glad "Flipper," "Feet for hands" and other derogatory names aka "Rowdy," Chris Lawrence played last night. One of a few or possibly our best player.

 

[Harvey]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

 

[punchpunchtiger]

@Spud_Murphy said in Wests Tigers V Souths - Live Game Thread:

Yup, it’s driving me away from the game - and the worst thing is the media make absolutely no mention of it. It’s just, oh yah the Tigers, they tried but they’re just not good enough. You never hear our games disected and analysed fairly, ever.

That LM coat hanger on Reynolds… the similarities between that and what BJ did is uncanny, yet the commentators made no mention of it and the refs, of course, didn’t even look at it.

It’s seriously bizarre



It’s a complete pre ordained farce. We can only win if we play amazingly while the other mobs like souffs can get a free clink like ride to victory.
The rabbits are shit but they are clearly a protected species.

 

[gallagher]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

Very weird that there's no replacement.

 

[avocadoontoast]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

Very weird that there's no replacement.

Yeah I can’t understand the upside from releasing him without anything else lined up. CT would have come in handy last night.

 

[jadtiger]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

Very weird that there's no replacement.

Yeah I can’t understand the upside from releasing him without anything else lined up. CT would have come in handy last night.

I would think Madge had someone lined up but it fell through.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

Very weird that there's no replacement.

Yeah I can’t understand the upside from releasing him without anything else lined up. CT would have come in handy last night.

I would think Madge had someone lined up but it fell through.

Really? That’d be our luck wouldn’t it. Certainly didn’t hear any rumblings about anyone on our radar.

 

[jadtiger]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

Very weird that there's no replacement.

Yeah I can’t understand the upside from releasing him without anything else lined up. CT would have come in handy last night.

I would think Madge had someone lined up but it fell through.


Really? That’d be our luck wouldn’t it. Certainly didn’t hear any rumblings about anyone on our radar.

I am only guessing and these days there are very few leaks from the club and i prefer it that way

 

[Guest]

So apparently Latrell has copped at least 2 weeks for his dog shot on Reynolds.

 

[hobbo1]

So apparently Latrell has copped at least 2 weeks for his dog shot on Reynolds.

And he was only fined for his hit on Garner ...
What a joke

 

[Guest]

So apparently Latrell has copped at least 2 weeks for his dog shot on Reynolds.

And he was only fined for his hit on Garner ...
What a joke

Agreed. Double standards yet again.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

So apparently Latrell has copped at least 2 weeks for his dog shot on Reynolds.

And he was only fined for his hit on Garner ...
What a joke

Fab isn’t it?

 

[hobbo1]

So apparently Latrell has copped at least 2 weeks for his dog shot on Reynolds.

And he was only fined for his hit on Garner ...
What a joke

Fab isn’t it?

Referee dept needs a clean out
As does the match review Committee

 

[happy_tiger]

Can everyone stop overreacting

- no BJ Leilua
- no Alex Twal
- no Tommy Talau
- no Zane Musgrove
- no Sam McIntyre
- no Robert Jennings (Hoffman did okay based off the circumstances but regardless of the hate towards Jennings he would’ve done better)

Just wasn’t our night, let’s bounce back and take back that 8th spot the Bunnies have a tough few games coming up too and looks like they’ll be without Latrell so let’s try stay positive

No Corey Thompson, no replacement. Our roster management is diabolical at the moment.

Very weird that there's no replacement.

Yeah I can’t understand the upside from releasing him without anything else lined up. CT would have come in handy last night.

I would think Madge had someone lined up but it fell through.


Really? That’d be our luck wouldn’t it. Certainly didn’t hear any rumblings about anyone on our radar.

You heard it hear Spudder

 

[happy_tiger]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/news/south-sydney-rabbitohs-players-weigh-in-on-latrell-mitchells-run-in-with-josh-reynolds/ar-BB16EItz?li=AAgfLCP&ocid=ientp