Haha nice to see that filthy rag of a paper, and in particular Rothfield, in big trouble for ‘accidentally’ leaking the name of the Dally M winner hours before the ceremony. The NRL are furious apparently and are launching an investigation. Couldn’t happen to a nicer media organisation

I think the team is dying. There is nothing new under the sun, nothing exciting happening for us, ergo we just keep having to go around the same stuff time and time again.

Well I’m clearly in the minority on this one, but I actually think Tamou would be a good signing for us.

Our players must be the biggest bunch of pussies if this is true. Perhaps they should go and spend a season or two under Bellamy or Stuart, then come back and see how good they actually have it.

Has to be a BS story though, no doubt stoked by Matterson’s dubious management team.

“I hate bringing up last year because I’m a Tiger now,“ - I absolutely love this!

Is no one else sad about losing Thompson? He’s been great for us and still better on the wing than Jennings, imo.

18-10 is pretty good considering our injuries and everything going against us. What really hurts is that we would most likely have won that game with all things being equal, possibly last week as well.

All I know is I’m getting really sick of having to talk about the referees every week. Their increasing influence on whether we can even compete in a game or not is bordering on criminal. I honestly don’t know what the club has done to tick them all off so much. Something needs to be done about it, someone needs to call this out publicly, something needs to change, otherwise what’s the point of us even being in the comp anymore.

@willow said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@tigerpower said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@tony-soprano said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Wonder if we having a look at Folau lee just spoke about his situation and didn’t shut it down

I would take Folau in a heartbeat. Make it happen tigers.

Wouldn’t go near that filth and he’s spent so long out of rugby league there’s no way he’d be that good transitioning back.

Filth? Really? Has he beaten or glassed his partner, gotten drunk and terrorised a family, raped a woman or smashed a guys head in? That’s the kind of person I would glass as filth and sadly there are, and has been, several of them running around in the NRL over the years.

Sad to see Te Maire Martin having to hang up the boots at age 24. Brain injury to much of a risk if he plays on, he made the right decision. Good luck to him for the future.

Good on you Josh! He is right, the report was all out of context (no surprise there) and honestly some of these guys are just being a bit precious aren’t they? And that idiot Hopoate threatening violence…like really? This from the serial bum poker, grow up you fool!

In any case, how many times have we heard those dribblers Johns & Fittler jokingly carry on about some of the names of players, but they never get criticised or branded racist over their inane comments. We never hear squat about it. Seriously, the whole thing is just a mountain made out of a molehill because of the current climate we’re all living in.

@kafta said in Live Game Thread *Spoilers*:

Nothing ever changes, Against the good teams we play well but still find a way to loose.

Against teams we should beat we play like crap and loose.

This has been going on for the last 10 years.

Will it ever change ?

Not getting the points after playing like that against a top team is the reason they can’t lift to beat the easier teams. Don’t think they’ll come back from this, it’s heartbreaking and this team/club & fans have had one heartbreak too many over the years - it takes it toll.

@yossarian said in Maguire press conference:

@weststigers said in Maguire press conference:

@yossarian said in Maguire press conference:

Proud of the effort. What the West’s Tigers is all about.
Disappointed not to get the reward. It hurts but we’ll get a lot out of it.
Simpkin, halves and Moses good. Liked what Simpkin brought to the team.
Defence was good. Put it down to attitude.
Talked about Nofa moving to the left side. He’s ebbed and flowed in recent weeks.
Not sure on AJ injury.
Mentioned a few decisions that went against us. Questioned why technology isn’t used. Wanted Mitchell situation handled on the field.

Definitely wasn’t happy about the Mitchell situation.

He was not. It’s the closest I’ve seen him to being openly critical of game officials.

About time!

@851 said in Gerrard Sutton:

@yossarian said in Gerrard Sutton:

When you lose the penalties 9-5 in a tight game it makes it hard.

What about the set restarts, we couldn’t buy one, I think it was 7-1, he held us to a higher standard than souths

Always, always, always! That’s what is so hard to take. He just refuses to give us a bloody chance.

@spartan117 said in Gerrard Sutton:

Sutton is a terrible ref,

Very biased game, he must be a latrine fanboy.

Russell probably offered him a starring role in his next movie - Quasimodo!

Is it possible for the club to request to not have Sutton officiate any of our matches again this season? 3 times in 6 weeks is more than enough. They guy hates us, it’s so bloody obvious!

Pointless! Literally!

@nelson said in OFFICIAL Wests Tigers Team v Souths:

@jayt said in OFFICIAL Wests Tigers Team v Souths:

With teams like Manly now playing well we are left with Dogs and Broncos unless we can make a huge change in performance

Broncos played much better the other night…I think we’ll turn it around at some point, just need to click as a team defensively.

I think we’re a huge contender for the spoon.

@happy_tiger said in "80 minute perfromance":

@hobbo1 said in "80 minute perfromance":

@happy_tiger said in "80 minute perfromance":

@tiger5150 said in "80 minute perfromance":

@happy_tiger said in "80 minute perfromance":

@tiger5150 said in "80 minute perfromance":

I actually have a different take on this and from this I actually wish the players wouldnt perform for 80mins.

Growing up I played 3 main sports and two of them I played very high levels (league was the one that wasnt).

In my best sport, I was close to “making it” but played in a high intensity position. It wasnt until an international player told me to NOT “play for the 80mins” that my game improved. The whole point was to intentionally select parts of the game that you were NOT REQUIRED to be switched on 100% and in those moments intentionally relax and distract yourself. The critical thing is to then know the triggers in the game to switch back on and when you switch back on, it has to be 100%.

I have regularly thought that this translates well to Rugba leeg and it extends your “mental stamina” through a game.

Yeah …but you need to be mentally switched on for 80 minutes …I think most people understand you can physically switch off for very small portions of the game

I disagree, which is pretty much the point of my post.

One of my simplest goals I had was If I wasn’t doing something on the footy field I was helping someone who was …you were always on the ball 100% …especially mentally …working out how to break a side down that you were struggling to score against or defend against …maybe it was the position I played …but that’s how it was

So what you’re really saying is that you had plenty of time to think while you were peeling oranges

I’d squeeze the oranges into players cuts …get them in the right frame of mind …we had trainers that did that …freezing cold night in Ipswich …they’d squuze freezing cold water bottles down ya jocks …you’d be pissed off just as you were heading out after HT

When is it ever freezing cold in Ipswich? I thought Queensland was supposed to be God’s country

@happy_tiger said in "80 minute perfromance":

@hobbo1 said in "80 minute perfromance":

@happy_tiger said in "80 minute perfromance":

@tiger5150 said in "80 minute perfromance":

@happy_tiger said in "80 minute perfromance":

@tiger5150 said in "80 minute perfromance":

I actually have a different take on this and from this I actually wish the players wouldnt perform for 80mins.

Growing up I played 3 main sports and two of them I played very high levels (league was the one that wasnt).

In my best sport, I was close to “making it” but played in a high intensity position. It wasnt until an international player told me to NOT “play for the 80mins” that my game improved. The whole point was to intentionally select parts of the game that you were NOT REQUIRED to be switched on 100% and in those moments intentionally relax and distract yourself. The critical thing is to then know the triggers in the game to switch back on and when you switch back on, it has to be 100%.

I have regularly thought that this translates well to Rugba leeg and it extends your “mental stamina” through a game.

Yeah …but you need to be mentally switched on for 80 minutes …I think most people understand you can physically switch off for very small portions of the game

I disagree, which is pretty much the point of my post.

One of my simplest goals I had was If I wasn’t doing something on the footy field I was helping someone who was …you were always on the ball 100% …especially mentally …working out how to break a side down that you were struggling to score against or defend against …maybe it was the position I played …but that’s how it was

So what you’re really saying is that you had plenty of time to think while you were peeling oranges

I’d squeeze the oranges into players cuts …get them in the right frame of mind …we had trainers that did that …freezing cold night in Ipswich …they’d squuze freezing cold water bottles down ya jocks …you’d be pissed off just as you were heading out after HT

When is it ever freezing cold in Ipswich? I thought Queensland was supposed to be God’s county

I hope there’s enough discount beer left to drown everyone’s sorrows. Bar will probably run dry.

@tiger5150 said in Knock-On Effect NSW Cup Team List: Round 6:

@the_patriot said in Knock-On Effect NSW Cup Team List: Round 6:

Re-name the comp The Dead End NSW Cup.

These guys could play out of their skin and it wouldnt matter. In reserve grade they stay.

Yeah thats what Simpkin, BJ and AJ say…oh hang on.

On the flip side, Cini seems to have been in our lower grades forever!