The Tigers weren't in that second half were they.
They did it to Manly tonight as well, even against a typical late penalty barrage. They haven't run out of puff in the last quarter lately, they are running off an awesome team spirit, where is it coming from and how do we get some?It was no contest. They smashed us out of the contest and we cowered in the corner.
Good read, just wish we could send these blokes out as winners, whenever they decide to go.Other stuff.
A good read about a pretty good footballer who could have been even better (even though he did play for Australia) except for a terrible injury in 2011.
'He could have died': The horror injury that left Marshall fearing for Lawrence
Benji Marshall thought Chris Lawrence was going to die.
"It’s the worst injury I’ve ever seen," Marshall says. "I don’t want to make it too gory and bring up too many memories but he was sitting there, choking on his own blood, waiting for an ambulance, trying to keep himself calm.
"The ambulance took an hour. He was sitting there in shock, shaking. There was nothing we could do.
"I swear to God there was a chance he could have died. You could hear the blood in the back of his throat. I lost my shit. I was crying. I was rattled for two or three weeks."
Lawrence and Marshall, two Tigers favourites, will celebrate milestones on Saturday evening in Newcastle with the former bringing up 250 games in the NRL and the latter his 250th in Tigers colours.
Marshall maintains Lawrence is the "heart and soul of the Tigers". Lawrence says "to this day when Benji speaks, you can still hear a pin drop".
But this particular February afternoon in 2019, when Lawrence collided with a teammate while preparing for a trial against the New Zealand Warriors, will never be forgotten by either of them. Initially it looked like it had ended any hopes of Lawrence joining Marshall in the Tigers' 250 club.
"I knew it was bad when I started to feel around my face and it basically caved in," Lawrence said.
"Initially I thought I had broken my jaw. The surgeons later told me they'd only seen such injuries in car crashes. There were 12 bones broken. I had to get seven plates. There were three or four screws to every plate.
"Seeing how the boys reacted, especially with the blood and how swollen my face was, I knew it was serious.
"The only good thing was my young daughter [Emmerson] did not have to see my face because I couldn't fly home."
When the Herald first ran the news about Lawrence's shocking injury, the Tigers only agreed to do the story if we promised not to publish the gruesome photos of his face.
Another Tigers favourite, Robbie Farah, who played a club-high 277 games, spoke about his emotions that day during a video tribute for Lawrence that will be uploaded to the club's website at lunchtime on Saturday.
Not only did Lawrence overcome the shocking injury, he had no issues subsequently having his face smashed by rivals each week in the NRL. A lot of players would have lost their nerve. Lawrence said he would have quit if he could not give 100 per cent.
The Tigers junior thought his career was going to end eight years earlier, in 2011, when he was tackled in a game against Canberra and his hip ripped out of its socket.
For three months he was unsure if he would play again. He had inked a five-year deal a few weeks before the Campbelltown Stadium accident.
Lawrence recalled the agony he felt as his hip remained dislocated for more than two hours. He needed to be knocked out by medicos at hospital as five doctors did their best to get the hip back into place.
"And had the hip been dislocated any longer, there would have been an issue with blood supply to the hip, and they would have needed to operate. Hip surgery would have ended my career,'' said Lawrence, who was lightning quick but lost some of his speed from that day.
"That injury taught me an important lesson about only worrying about what you can control, and not what other people say or think."
Lawrence, like Marshall, remains the link to the Tigers' glory days. Now 31, he can still remember debuting against the Broncos in 2006, then racing back from Brisbane to complete a year 12 English exam at St Gregory's College.
"I can also remember the cameras outside the school when I got back," he said.
Mark Gasnier and Justin Hodges were the toughest centres he played against. Tonie Carroll and Jason Taumalolo the toughest players, period.
Bryce Gibbs, Liam Fulton and Beau Ryan's antics at Tigers training sessions always bring a smile to his face. Most of the stories involving the ''three lunatics'' were not fit for a family newspaper, Lawrence said.
Only now, with his 250th game upon him, has Lawrence started to think about playing on in 2021. He won't play for anyone other than the Tigers. Nor will Marshall.
Lawrence maintains Marshall is the king.
“He can have a laugh, but with the flick of a switch he can be serious, and when he is you can hear a pin drop when he talks," Lawrence said.
"That's still the case to this day. For someone to have so much of an impact on the older and younger players, it's good to see. He's the heart and soul of the Tigers.
"And to play this milestone with someone like him, who has made me look good for so many years, is pretty special."
Sir Lawrence!Other stuff.
A good read about a pretty good footballer who could have been even better (even though he did play for Australia) except for a terrible injury in 2011.
'He could have died': The horror injury that left Marshall fearing for Lawrence
Benji Marshall thought Chris Lawrence was going to die.
"It’s the worst injury I’ve ever seen," Marshall says. "I don’t want to make it too gory and bring up too many memories but he was sitting there, choking on his own blood, waiting for an ambulance, trying to keep himself calm.
"The ambulance took an hour. He was sitting there in shock, shaking. There was nothing we could do.
"I swear to God there was a chance he could have died. You could hear the blood in the back of his throat. I lost my shit. I was crying. I was rattled for two or three weeks."
Lawrence and Marshall, two Tigers favourites, will celebrate milestones on Saturday evening in Newcastle with the former bringing up 250 games in the NRL and the latter his 250th in Tigers colours.
Marshall maintains Lawrence is the "heart and soul of the Tigers". Lawrence says "to this day when Benji speaks, you can still hear a pin drop".
But this particular February afternoon in 2019, when Lawrence collided with a teammate while preparing for a trial against the New Zealand Warriors, will never be forgotten by either of them. Initially it looked like it had ended any hopes of Lawrence joining Marshall in the Tigers' 250 club.
"I knew it was bad when I started to feel around my face and it basically caved in," Lawrence said.
"Initially I thought I had broken my jaw. The surgeons later told me they'd only seen such injuries in car crashes. There were 12 bones broken. I had to get seven plates. There were three or four screws to every plate.
"Seeing how the boys reacted, especially with the blood and how swollen my face was, I knew it was serious.
"The only good thing was my young daughter [Emmerson] did not have to see my face because I couldn't fly home."
When the Herald first ran the news about Lawrence's shocking injury, the Tigers only agreed to do the story if we promised not to publish the gruesome photos of his face.
Another Tigers favourite, Robbie Farah, who played a club-high 277 games, spoke about his emotions that day during a video tribute for Lawrence that will be uploaded to the club's website at lunchtime on Saturday.
Not only did Lawrence overcome the shocking injury, he had no issues subsequently having his face smashed by rivals each week in the NRL. A lot of players would have lost their nerve. Lawrence said he would have quit if he could not give 100 per cent.
The Tigers junior thought his career was going to end eight years earlier, in 2011, when he was tackled in a game against Canberra and his hip ripped out of its socket.
For three months he was unsure if he would play again. He had inked a five-year deal a few weeks before the Campbelltown Stadium accident.
Lawrence recalled the agony he felt as his hip remained dislocated for more than two hours. He needed to be knocked out by medicos at hospital as five doctors did their best to get the hip back into place.
"And had the hip been dislocated any longer, there would have been an issue with blood supply to the hip, and they would have needed to operate. Hip surgery would have ended my career,'' said Lawrence, who was lightning quick but lost some of his speed from that day.
"That injury taught me an important lesson about only worrying about what you can control, and not what other people say or think."
Lawrence, like Marshall, remains the link to the Tigers' glory days. Now 31, he can still remember debuting against the Broncos in 2006, then racing back from Brisbane to complete a year 12 English exam at St Gregory's College.
"I can also remember the cameras outside the school when I got back," he said.
Mark Gasnier and Justin Hodges were the toughest centres he played against. Tonie Carroll and Jason Taumalolo the toughest players, period.
Bryce Gibbs, Liam Fulton and Beau Ryan's antics at Tigers training sessions always bring a smile to his face. Most of the stories involving the ''three lunatics'' were not fit for a family newspaper, Lawrence said.
Only now, with his 250th game upon him, has Lawrence started to think about playing on in 2021. He won't play for anyone other than the Tigers. Nor will Marshall.
Lawrence maintains Marshall is the king.
“He can have a laugh, but with the flick of a switch he can be serious, and when he is you can hear a pin drop when he talks," Lawrence said.
"That's still the case to this day. For someone to have so much of an impact on the older and younger players, it's good to see. He's the heart and soul of the Tigers.
"And to play this milestone with someone like him, who has made me look good for so many years, is pretty special."
He used to be fkn awesome at centre ..poor bastard hip dislocation to take away all his speed and then the facial injury ...Geez..I don’t know the guy but there must be some grit there Hes so well spoken tooSir Lawrence!
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/i-...s-finals-slip-away-again-20200809-p55k1m.html
The chairman speaks..If I was to interpret that article with optimism at a stretch I could interpret it as “Bye Madge” ..only at a stretch tho, but maybe not that much of
“Every option is on the table at the moment; every option is being considered by the board and we are absolutely committed to doing what is necessary to ensure the long-term success of the club.”How on earth did you interpret it as Bye Madge? He clearly says that they support Madge and share his vision.
I'm sick of management dancing around the fact that they can't recruit anyone. Doesn't matter how much money we free up we will end up being the club who will always have "spare money in the cap".
Madge is the last coach I'll support at Tigers. If he doesn't produce results I'm done with this club.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...b/news-story/597699b44f2a8e86192fff06fa4aed72Wests Tigers coach Michael Maguire is known for his tough, hard-nosed approach to the job but that could be exactly what has turned his big cats into toothless easy-beats.
Maguire’s coaching style won South Sydney a competition in 2014 but it appears to be backfiring at Concord after the side was embarrassed 44-4 by Newcastle on Saturday.
League legend and Fox League analyst Michael Ennis puts their woeful form largely down to the coach’s obsession with dropping players from the side from week to week.
The halves jerseys have been rotated between Benji Marshall, Luke Brooks, Josh Reynolds, and Billy Walters this year, and all have been dropped at various times and recalled.
The selection chaos is designed to make a point to the players but Ennis says it is actually detrimental to their form on the field.
“The chopping and changing and the lack of stability... Michael Maguire, I love the standards he’s trying to set at the club,” Ennis told Big League Wrap.
“But the instability has caused all sorts of dramas. The fact they’re going out there trying to impress the coach rather than focus on their own game and what’s important.
“It shows the players are playing on egg shells, they look nervous. There’s no cohesion and on the back of that they come up with fundamental errors.
“When you start chopping and changing and making so many decisions with playmakers it has a ripple effect on so much of the rest of the team and what they’re trying to do.
“It was a horrible performance last night. There’s no glossing over that.
“If Michael Maguire wants to turn that around these last seven rounds he needs to pick his halves pairing and move forward.”
I am not sure I agree with this, the players dropped, deserved it. Maybe lack of depth hasn't helped, but allowing the players to give the same poor effort game after game wasn't going to work either. Though I do think some of his continued selections are surprising.Madge’s grand plan has made Tigers toothless;
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...b/news-story/597699b44f2a8e86192fff06fa4aed72