Woods and Tedesco

[TCL]

Teddy was excellent last night, woods was good.

I agree that that his defence was better than it has been for us however, if anyone thinks that the team playing around him had nothing to do with the outcome then IMO they are mistaken.

The try saver on the line was due to Trobojavic making the low down tackle. the tackle in the corner was because the winger made a the tackle around the legs and the one on one was because a blues defender was coming across to cover which meant the Qld winger didn't have an option and in fact looked to surrender to the tackle. I will agree his positional play in those was great.

 

[Tigerles]

for those that are of the belief that woods had a good game, need to watch it again. apart from a couple off loads, imo he was crap, made very little impact with his runs or tackling, looked either unfit or out of his depth, never seen him dominated in so many tackles, way below what he is capable off. made klemmer look good. woods had no drive when he hit (ran into) the line.

 

[Tigerles]

Teddy was excellent last night, woods was good.

I agree that that his defence was better than it has been for us however, if anyone thinks that the team playing around him had nothing to do with the outcome then IMO they are mistaken.

The try saver on the line was due to Trobojavic making the low down tackle. the tackle in the corner was because the winger made a the tackle around the legs and the one on one was because a blues defender was coming across to cover which meant the Qld winger didn't have an option and in fact looked to surrender to the tackle. I will agree his positional play in those was great.

Guerra made Tedesco look very poor when he quite easily stepped around him one on one

 

[tigerbalm]

was bitter sweet watching teddy last night… anyways, onward and upwards!

As for the future dog, we really dodged a bullet there. Seeya woodsy! grab those origin jerseys why you can!

 

[TCL]

Teddy was excellent last night, woods was good.

I agree that that his defence was better than it has been for us however, if anyone thinks that the team playing around him had nothing to do with the outcome then IMO they are mistaken.

The try saver on the line was due to Trobojavic making the low down tackle. the tackle in the corner was because the winger made a the tackle around the legs and the one on one was because a blues defender was coming across to cover which meant the Qld winger didn't have an option and in fact looked to surrender to the tackle. I will agree his positional play in those was great.

Guerra made Tedesco look very poor when he quite easily stepped around him one on one

yep thats true.

 

[Magpie_Magic]

Teddy was excellent last night, woods was good.

I agree that that his defence was better than it has been for us however, if anyone thinks that the team playing around him had nothing to do with the outcome then IMO they are mistaken.

The try saver on the line was due to Trobojavic making the low down tackle. the tackle in the corner was because the winger made a the tackle around the legs and the one on one was because a blues defender was coming across to cover which meant the Qld winger didn't have an option and in fact looked to surrender to the tackle. I will agree his positional play in those was great.

Guerra made Tedesco look very poor when he quite easily stepped around him one on one

yep thats true.

What about Boyds miss on Maloney for first try.
Teddys a star and may miss playing with us under Cleary and the new big offloading forwards. At Easts he will be re united with JT. :smiley:

 

[Tigerles]

Teddy was excellent last night, woods was good.

I agree that that his defence was better than it has been for us however, if anyone thinks that the team playing around him had nothing to do with the outcome then IMO they are mistaken.

The try saver on the line was due to Trobojavic making the low down tackle. the tackle in the corner was because the winger made a the tackle around the legs and the one on one was because a blues defender was coming across to cover which meant the Qld winger didn't have an option and in fact looked to surrender to the tackle. I will agree his positional play in those was great.

Guerra made Tedesco look very poor when he quite easily stepped around him one on one

yep thats true.

What about Boyds miss on Maloney for first try.
Teddys a star and may miss playing with us under Cleary and the new big offloading forwards. At Easts he will be re united with JT. :smiley:

that will be interesting, especially after taylor said it would be disrespectful if he and woods didn't sign with the tigers

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

It says more about them than about anything else. Even schoolkids have more brains than to go on like that over some one who has done nothing at all to them.
Some of these blokes seem to think that players should live their life , and make decisions to please them. .
I used to think that "the kennel" was the sickest footy forum in the game, but this one is getting close to it. No wonder Happy gave us a miss. . There are some good people on this forum, unfortunately there are some who Have a very warped view about what people owe them.
If you feel so strongly about them guys, why don't you tell them this crap to their face ,
That'd be different though, you'd need a bit of courage to do that, wouldn't you.
Better stick to cowardly attacking people that are probably a much better person than you cowards will ever be.
Grow up you fools and get a brain, , although it's probably too late for some of you lot.

Cowardly attacks ? What are you on about. Those two are disgusting human beings. As for saying it to their face. I wouldn't say anything to their face other than exactly what I state on here.

As for being better person than me. I don't dog people. I'm better than them right there.

Gutless people usually hide behind anonymity for a good reason, they are exactly that, gutless.
Poor little princess , lost his hero , so now that hero is a disgusting person. You must be a great example to your kids if you have any.

Yes I am a great example to my kids. I have 25 of them. I'm also the furthest thing from a princess.

Yes Tedesco, Woods and Moses are disgusting people. They definitely aren't my heros.

I am really struggling to understand why you feel that you are superior to me because I can't stand these traitors. Are you the same guy that goes on about Robbie and how bad the club is all the time ? It just makes no sense to me unless you are either a fake dalai lama or you have some agenda against the club.

Never said I was better than you. But I'm certainly different, thank God.
I've never said the club was disgusting Dogs or anything like that, just that they have been a basket case for years.
I never even said that Taylor was disgusting or a dog or anything like that, but I do think that he is right up there with the nrl most useless Coaches.
Yes, I thought it was stupid to get rid of Farah especially when we still had to pay most of his contract.
And yes I think that Ballin is the worst buy we've made in a long time,
And yes, I do think that people have to be some sort of Special Cretin to insult and degrade someone purely because they don't get that person to do what they want, or think they should do, ( especially when they don't even know them)
And I do hope your 25 kids grow up to be good people , who can express their opinions without getting into gutter sniping.

 

[jirskyr]

Many experts on this forum said there he is the worst defender of all FBs, and totally ineffective in attack. What a biased glasses full of hate do to you :brick:
He owed Dugan, Boyd at al, again. :smiley:
He is without any doubt, the best FB in NRL, and arguably worth the money he will receive.

It wasnt just the "experts" on here, it is backed up by verifiable facts from his career. He misses many makeable tackles in clubland and is not always in position to save the try. That is a fact backed up by numerous instances. A couple of weeks ago his defence at the back was cowardly. He defended like a man possessed last night and it shocked most people. He was selected in the side for his x factor in attack, however his defence rivalled Slater at his peak. Lets see if he brings this back to the Tigers.

I agree with this.

Tedesco was very reliable under the high ball, got into the attack early and then his whole game got going after that Pearce try, including defence.

But I agree if you look back to the Souths game for example, his defence was pathetic. It is absolutely different trying to cover for club defensive frailties vs Origin, but it was about his intensity last night that I think miffed a lot of people, as mostly evident by the tackle on Gagai where he ran one side to the other, even when the game was won.

Where is that intensity for the Tigers week on week? He's clearly a fabulous footballer but in the last 7-8 rounds I've seen Tedesco essentially try too hard in attack and be regularly beaten in defence, almost like he had given up. Sure it's not entirely his fault, the team as a whole is down, and it might be easier to play in an Origin team where everyone is generally in good form and near the best at what they do.

The one saving grace amongst the bittersweet feelings is that such a performance was like Farah's landmark 67 tackle SOO Game II, it's pretty much the nail in the coffin to any other contenders for the job - you could not possibly give Moylan a look in now, which is great, because I dislike Moylan very much.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

for those that are of the belief that woods had a good game, need to watch it again. apart from a couple off loads, imo he was crap, made very little impact with his runs or tackling, looked either unfit or out of his depth, never seen him dominated in so many tackles, way below what he is capable off. made klemmer look good. woods had no drive when he hit (ran into) the line.

Still carrying injury, played ok considering this.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The 2 moments that stuck out for me for Woods was when he almost got put on his backside off a no frills hit up from Justin O'Neill and when he slipped over when NSW were defending their goal line. As a player i've been fine with him going ever since somebody posted clips of him during the Dragons game. He had been back on to the field for not even 5 minutes when Saints made a break, and he was the last guy to get back in the line. He should have been one of our freshest players at that point. Pure laziness.

 

[Gary_Bakerloo]

I thought Woods played well considering the circumstances before the match. He would have been told during the week that he would be subbed for Klemmer and that the two of them would never on the field at the same time. It would have been hard to pick himself up emotionally and play the way he did.

 

[Black_n_White]

I dont know what most of you were watching. Woods was dominated in 90% of contact both offensive and defensively. I almost want to go get all his work and put it in a short video to show you all how bad it was if you could isolate him from the team performance. He was a disaster, and Im not coming from a bitter place when saying so.

 

[Black_n_White]

I thought Woods played well considering the circumstances before the match. He would have been told during the week that he would be subbed for Klemmer and that the two of them would never on the field at the same time. It would have been hard to pick himself up emotionally and play the way he did.

you have to be kidding dont you?

 

[jirskyr]

I thought Woods did fine, not his best game, not his worst.

People criticise easily but Woods and Fifita were out there to see off the Maroons opening barrage and that's exactly what they did. You can pin Woods down for some slow PTBs or sloppy tackles, fine, but he took early hitups and got his metres.

Klemmer came on and did well but he was subbed against a fatigued team and opposed a weak Maroons bench - Thaiday, Guerra, Lillyman, little go-forward there at all. So Klemmer did well but he was not opening batsman.

Woods ended up w 136m from 36 minutes, I'm still surprised when people criticise so much props who run 100+ minutes per half of footy. You can point to his contract value at Tigers, that's fair, but everyone gets the same match payment at Origin.

So IMO Woods was outplayed by two props, luckily for us they were ours - Fifita and Klemmer.

 

[earl]

I thought Woods played well considering the circumstances before the match. He would have been told during the week that he would be subbed for Klemmer and that the two of them would never on the field at the same time. It would have been hard to pick himself up emotionally and play the way he did.

you have to be kidding dont you?

I thought the initial comment was absolute gold. The reason he was so bad is because he knew he would only be playing half a game and his buddy wouldn't be on the field with him.

Honestly the guy just isn't a great player. He is pretty much a plodder. He will have the occasional great game but it's rare. He gets consistent metres but they are often really soft and his defence is pretty similar.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

I thought Woods did fine, not his best game, not his worst.

People criticise easily but Woods and Fifita were out there to see off the Maroons opening barrage and that's exactly what they did. You can pin Woods down for some slow PTBs or sloppy tackles, fine, but he took early hitups and got his metres.

Klemmer came on and did well but he was subbed against a fatigued team and opposed a weak Maroons bench - Thaiday, Guerra, Lillyman, little go-forward there at all. So Klemmer did well but he was not opening batsman.

Woods ended up w 136m from 36 minutes, I'm still surprised when people criticise so much props who run 100+ minutes per half of footy. You can point to his contract value at Tigers, that's fair, but everyone gets the same match payment at Origin.

So IMO Woods was outplayed by two props, luckily for us they were ours - Fifita and Klemmer.

Finally a balanced view of Woods' performance, without all the emotional bias clouding judgment!

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I thought Woods did fine, not his best game, not his worst.

People criticise easily but Woods and Fifita were out there to see off the Maroons opening barrage and that's exactly what they did. You can pin Woods down for some slow PTBs or sloppy tackles, fine, but he took early hitups and got his metres.

Klemmer came on and did well but he was subbed against a fatigued team and opposed a weak Maroons bench - Thaiday, Guerra, Lillyman, little go-forward there at all. So Klemmer did well but he was not opening batsman.

Woods ended up w 136m from 36 minutes, I'm still surprised when people criticise so much props who run 100+ minutes per half of footy. You can point to his contract value at Tigers, that's fair, but everyone gets the same match payment at Origin.

So IMO Woods was outplayed by two props, luckily for us they were ours - Fifita and Klemmer.

Finally a balanced view of Woods' performance, without all the emotional bias clouding judgment!

Nothing bias about stating how he got knocked on his backside by a centre. That's a fact.

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

I thought Woods did fine, not his best game, not his worst.

People criticise easily but Woods and Fifita were out there to see off the Maroons opening barrage and that's exactly what they did. You can pin Woods down for some slow PTBs or sloppy tackles, fine, but he took early hitups and got his metres.

Klemmer came on and did well but he was subbed against a fatigued team and opposed a weak Maroons bench - Thaiday, Guerra, Lillyman, little go-forward there at all. So Klemmer did well but he was not opening batsman.

Woods ended up w 136m from 36 minutes, I'm still surprised when people criticise so much props who run 100+ minutes per half of footy. You can point to his contract value at Tigers, that's fair, but everyone gets the same match payment at Origin.

So IMO Woods was outplayed by two props, luckily for us they were ours - Fifita and Klemmer.

Finally a balanced view of Woods' performance, without all the emotional bias clouding judgment!

Il agree with that, it's a good assessment of Woods and Klemmers games, they both did their jobs well.
It's one hell of a forward pack.and a hell of a good Bench

 

[Needaname]

Like it or not woods did the dirty work in that first 20.
He made all the carriers that if fifita had of took them he would then not have the energy or space to make the runs he made when he took his carries.

In other words woods took the first hit up, allowing fifita to benefit from the next play.

In comparison with us. Woods is our fafita. Ava or Sue makes our first carries mostly which means woods Gets more freedom with his runs. So we are used to seeing him have more of a game like fafita.

NSW definetly benefited from him doing the tough work last night.
Watch the lead up to the first Try again for an example of what I am stateing.