Game v Panthers | Round 11 - 2011

[azsportza]

This clash at Campbelltown Stadium this Saturday Night should be very fiery for both sides as the Tigers are coming off an embarrassing first half performance against the Rabbitohs last week. This is compared to the Panthers who found some form against the baby Broncos to defeat them 33- 10 at home.

The Tigers need to band together for the home crowd and get off to a good start. There is no reason they shouldn't be, with the recent new re-signings of Blake Ayshford, Andrew Fifita and Aaron Woods. It will be a good game to watch. If you can get to Campbelltown stadium for this match, you are in for an encounter which will have the a hallmarks of a classic. For only the second clash in the Golden West, Campbelltown should turn out for this Round 11 match. BE THERE! I will be

SO WHAT ARE YOU THOUGHTS ON THIS MATCH? DO THE TIGERS HAVE THE ABILITY TO BOUNCE BACK FROM LAST WEEK or HAVE THE PANTHERS GOT FORM TO CONTINUE A ROLL?

MATCH DETAILS:
Saturday 21 May 2011, kickoff 7:30
Campbelltown Sports Ground
Broadcast: Fox Sports 2/2HD LIVE, ABC & 2GB LIVE
Referees: Ben Cummins & Brett Suttor; Touch Judges: Daniel Eastwood and Jason Walsh; Video Referee: Paul Simpkins

Tigers: 1. Wade McKinnon 2. Mitch Brown 3. Blake Ayshford 4. Tim Moltzen 5. Matt Utai 6. Benji Marshall 7. Rob Lui 8. Andrew Fifita 9. Robbie Farah (c) 10. Keith Galloway 11. Simon Dwyer 12. Liam Fulton 13. Chris Heighington
Interchange: 14. Beau Ryan 15. Ben Murdoch-Masila 16. Alan Schirnack 17. Aaron Woods

Panthers: 1. Lachlan Coote 2. David Simmons 3. Brad Tighe 4. Adrian Purtell 5. Sandor Earl 6. Travis Burns 7. Luke Walsh 8. Tim Grant 9. Kevin Kingston 10. Sam McKendry 11. Trent Waterhouse 12. Nigel Plum 13. Luke Lewis
Interchange: 15. Yileen Gordon 16. Dayne Weston 17. Nathan Smith 18. Matthew Bell

 

[madunit]

check out the head to head record between these two.

Tigers are woeful against Penrith.

 

[Perth Tiger]

Geez the panthers backline and bench must rate as one of the worst of all time.

I know that is because of Origin and injuries.

Given that the don't have Pritchard who normally saves his two good games of the year for us I think we should turn around the disappointment from last week and give them a bit of a touch up

 

[Trollhammaren]

Surely we'll be up for this one?!

 

[Tigers Tale]

Perth Tiger says the Panthers backline and bench must rate as one of the worst of all time....didn't we say the same about Souths.

We struggle against this team every time we go up against them, if we lose here we are really going to lose touch with the top 8.

Doing a quick calculation, I can't see us finishing higher than 7th after that ridiculous loss to Souths...so hopefully it will not be a 27 round comp for us and we get knocked out in week one of the finals.

The Raiders did us a huge favour last night, lets hope the guys take full advantage of the Dogs loss.

 

[nko11]

Don't forget to use the #NRLWesPen when tweeting about this game!

 

[holman]

Stop Luke Lewis or we are stuffed, he should be in the S.O.O. side, he would be the second bloke picked after Gallen if I was a selector.

 

[37916319]

WTF, 4 forwards on the bench. Gibbs in, Ryan farked off.

 

[DanOz]

Lui is as bad in defense as Fitzhenry was...

 

[macnaz]

Mongtigers

 

[TrigaTheTiger]

THAT was the ugliest win I have ever seen from us since the JV.

Happy to get the 2 - but shit we are going to struggle if thats the best we play this year.......

 

[DanOz]

If Tuqiri comes back next week I hope they dont drop Brown. He's been solid imo. While I would rather Moltzen at 7 then Lui who can't tackle, makes too many mistakes and goes missing when the pressure is on, since Supercoach wont pick Tim at 7 I would rather Brown in the centres. Fifita should be an interchange prop where he can be an impact player against tired defenders - start Woods ffs. The Dragons will embarrass us if we play like that...

 

[DanOz]

On a positive note, Dwyer is firing - sign that kid long term. Thank god Ellis will be back next week, and Gibbs will be better for the run. How they hell does anyone pick that pork chop Ennis over Farah.

 

[37916319]

Positives-we scored more points than the opposition.
Negatives-everything else

We missed Beau tonight. LOL.

Another positive I just seen on TV press conference is that they didn't sing the team song, not that deserved to but I would hate to think there was any back slapping after that, at least they know they were crap.

 

[DanOz]

Sorry, no Beau should have been included in my positives.

 

[benched tiger]

Have to agree,whilst i admire the competitive nature of Ennis when has he ever dominated and controlled a game the way Farrah continually does week in week out.

 

[azsportza]

What a game, Just back from Campbelltown Stadium. A good crowd for a Saturday Night.

On the match, The Wests Tigers need to get moving forward. Andrew Fifita I will continue to wrap him as a good player, however tonight he was looking for holes which weren't there. The tigers didn't deserve the win amongst all the errors. Looking at the stats, Tigers made 17 errors to Panthers 18. Missed Tackles 15 for Tigers and a HUGE 37 for Panthers. Now this is where both sets need to look at, the completion rates. The tigs 25/41 compared to panthers 24/38 sets.

All in all, the Tigers only fired once Benji managed to run 90 metres down field in a great solo effort to score. However, not sure if you heard it on the TV with fox Sports, but the crowd as one booed at the refs for needing to review it.

On the referee's the stats, penalties were 8 tigers 6 panthers. but there should of been A LOT more against the panthers for being offside. I need to start a thread, we need to award worse referee of the year. Brett Suttor needs to take a look at the meaning of offside and forward passing. Once again the Tigers and Panthers and the Referees were way below par. It was a average match from all involved.

It is tipped that lote will be back next and that means either BYE BYE the terrible Matt Utai (one can dream) OR the most likely I think, Tim Moltzen needs to be dropped for being a ball hog and Mitch Brown moves into centres to have Lote on the wing. Also Gareth Ellis should be back too, and he will take his spot as Liam Fulton was suffering with a knee issue during the match.

The Tigers face the Dragons next week away, it will be a VERY interesting match.

 

[andrew9148]

Be interesting to see what he does re Moltzen. Mitch Brown is a centre. Moltzen isnt really. I think he will keep Utai(i am not saying he should or shouldnt). I think it will be Tuqiri, Moltzen, Ayshford, Utai - with Brown on the bench.

 

[Tigers_are_Pro]

Tuqiri on the wing and move Moltzen and Brown in one each.

 

[azsportza]

This is the winning try from Mitch Brown.

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