@jirskyr said in Best post match I’ve seen from Michael Maguire:

@Harvey said in Best post match I’ve seen from Michael Maguire:

He can bag all he likes, but he needs to come up with the answers. This is basically the squad he has for the next 2 years with little wriggle room in terms of roster spots and funds becoming available.

I agree. He can be as frustrated as he likes, but it’s his job to get performances out of his players. The fact that they drift in and out of games/weeks reflects as much on the coach as the players.

We can all agree it’s not a top-tier roster, but I made the point earlier that this same roster won 12 games last year with the guy who became a very maligned coach. Fast forwad 12 months and Tigers will almost certainly not make 12 wins this year, whilst Panthers likely will.

I’m not anti-Madge because he just started, had to cop a cap penalty that had nothing to do with him, and has had minimal capacity yet to shape his roster. He does seem to punish bad performances. Maybe he’ll blood a whole number of new players in the coming weeks, then we can all see what a bad strategy it is to chuck kids into first grade, despite what some fans clamour for after a run of losses.

I just find it funny that so many people reacted positively to seeing the coach finally crack a hissy fit in public. Doesn’t change the result one iota and frankly there have been a half dozen or more games where that response from Madge would also have been appropriate.

the positive reaction is because madge reacted how i reacted after that performance. the communication out of WT so far was all about seeing the positives. they didn’t seem to care as much as we did about losing.

i hope it doesn’t eventuate. we should be asking for 50-60% of his salary at least.

His right to left passing was shocking. Brooks was getting the ball over his head all night. I still can’t remember one good pass Farah has given to Brooks.

I’d drop Farah after his 300th. The end.

@avocadoontoast said in Best post match I’ve seen from Michael Maguire:

@WT2K said in Best post match I’ve seen from Michael Maguire:

@gallagher said in Best post match I’ve seen from Michael McGuire:

'Not acceptable ’

Music to my ears. Refused to wrap any player, refused to blame the 2 hia’s, refused to say the second half was good.

We’re on the right guy here.

Waiting for Avocado to reply to this post .

I agree with you, though.

Here I am! Look I’m not anti Madge, but I don’t understand the love he gets around here. He may take us to a premiership and if so I’ll gladly eat humble pie, but I haven’t seen anything so far to get my juices flowing.

He gets the love because of his track record and he’s literally the only option we have. The same love was given to Cleary.

“Change”

@Tbone said in Mediocrity - Accepting It/Not Accepting It:

Just caught the press conference. Maguire not impressed. Doesn’t sound like he’s happy with mediocrity either.

None of his usual “I’ve got a lot of faith in this group”. Bet he wishes he had a few mill to spend right now.

“Anyone you wanna wrap out of the game”
“Na”
“Any positives?”
“Na”
LOL

Great thread GNR. I dont think the people talking about our roster/ladder position for this year get the point of this thread.

Do I accept mediocrity? We’ve gone past mediocre now. But as someone said, all we can do is cheer and then come here and vent.

I don’t blame the players we have currently. I honestly believe they’re trying their best.

I’ve never been fortunate enough to see the tigers in a semi-final yet and just hope I can see it in the next few years if we stay in the comp.

I also take heart in the fact that we haven’t won the spoon. Once that happens, lots of talks of us relocating will happen.

Now, I’m just over all the criticising of players/teams/coaches. There is just no point anymore.

@gallagher said in When or What makes this season unacceptable:

We’re gonna start seeing those jokes like the last time the blues won a series facebook didn’t exist.
Here’s mine, the last time we made the semis my daughter didn’t exist. She’s 7 in November.
Anyone else got one ?

last time tigers were in the finals i was in high school, right now i’ve been working full time for 3 years AFTER finishing uni

i’d say we went past unacceptable 2-3 seasons ago

with the squad we have and we probably will have for the next couple of years, we can only hope for a bradbury moment

Edit:
In addition, the question at some point will become “When or what makes the Wests Tigers a failure”

probably in the minority here but i don’t think it’s the right call- we will save probably 200-250K in the cap coz that’s what he’s probably worth currently. having him as 3rd choice half keeps constant pressure on brooks/marshall. i honestly doubt we would’ve seen marshall play as good without reynolds waiting.

He’s still 30, his time will change. He’s good for PR, trains hard and is a senior member who can lead the team at training. Last but not least, he was MoM in his last 2 games for us in the NRL.

@westTAHger said in Brooks keen to improve little things ahead of Raiders clash:

To me it’s a concern, that wests tigers have not played finals since 2011, surely that should be motivation enough for the entire season.

yep definitely this points needs to be stressed over and over again
titans have declared it’s do or die for them- same needs to be the case for us with madge too…