Match Discussion: Round 11 vs Eels @ Bankwest Stadium

[Tigerm]

Man of the Match: Russell Packer....no need to explain why.

The Tigers tried their absolute rings out tonight and tried for 80 minutes. Ultimately , we just don't have the cattle yet. Anybody who says we do is absolutely kidding themselves!

Harsh, we had a lot of troops out and a few injured tonight, all fully fit, it may have been different. But we were out played tonight.

 

[Pezz70]

Parra has 45 sets v our 35 and they dominated us with ball in our own half. I’m not too upset about that game, hate losing but the boys were gritty given our current situation. Kicks killed us

 

[Pezz70]

And Brookes came on? .. (and Walters and Benji separates?)I’m working so only guessing for now

He went ok, one ordinary defensive mistake when he was defending in the left side. Douehi injury really stuffed us in attack and defence. No good having a specialist half on the bench

 

[stryker]

Blore is a find

Yes I was impressed with his attitude.

 

[Tiger05]

Blore is a find

This kid was awesome. The para kid looked like a weapon as well. We are going to have a good pack if we keep the right ones.

 

[Pezz70]

Only one side out there tonight according to the ref

We got caned but can’t blame the ref for that one

 

[axl rose]

Faking crusher tackles is just an easy penalty. Trust Parra to stoop so low.

 

[Old Time Tiger]

Well against the team leading the comp and with no ball in the 2nd half and it was only 8-4 in that 2nd half. They held in there.
The bench was good, they had to be.
Oliver Clark was very good, Brooks showed that he can run the ball and Blore, WOW how good was he and loved that little battle with Nathan Brown.
Mybe had his best game once he moved to fullback and Benji, right to the end, he tried as did Marshall, Packer, Aloiia and Grant.

Thought Nofoaluma, Leilua and Walters were disappointing.

AD, do not know about him.

 

[Ron's_Mate]

Predictable result, but some good signs going ahead. I like how Talau is coming along. Blore also looks promising.

 

[Pezz70]

Looking at the stats there’s some good things coming out of the tigers, 405 tackles for 25 missed is exceptional. Eels 348 for 32 missed. I’m starting to feel we’re not far away, we were playing with a makeshift team tonight, eels dominated us but there were important areas were we have really improved. I’ll put it out there and say we have top four potential next year.

 

[magpie_man]

Blore is a find

Yep, there's something about him.

 

[Eelogical]

Tigers played with a lot of determination. They deserved a better result.

 

[Tigerm]

Looking at the stats there’s some good things coming out of the tigers, 405 tackles for 25 missed is exceptional. Eels 348 for 32 missed. I’m starting to feel we’re not far away, we were playing with a makeshift team tonight, eels dominated us but there were important areas were we have really improved. I’ll put it out there and say we have top four potential next year.

A goal kicker will ensure it.

 

[WA Tiger]

Yep, there's something about him.

There always was soon as we saw that tackle on Stefano on the vid ..should have started before tonight..

 

[stryker]

Top 4? Lol
How about we try and make the 8 first?
There was some good signs, but plenty of firewood still in this club.

 

[simmo1]

The game was lost in the first half. Neither team was willing to roll up the sleeves in defence. A 2-3 try lead was there for the taking.

Second half was extremely gutsy. Hopefully some of these missing players are back soon and we can turn these gutsy losses into gutsy wins.

 

[Das Hassler]

No doubt we'll be without Packer for another week or (probably) two. ..as well as he played tonight the tackle on gutherson was yet another dumb act

 

[Vic Mackey]

I don’t know how you could be anything but proud of that

The team is absolutely turning a corner in regards to toughness

We were missing 6 of our starting 17 and lost 3 guys to injury, copped a 8-2 penalty count, 3-1 set restarts and had 21% of possession for the first 25 mins of the 2nd half against the team coming 2nd

Any 2012-2019 WTs side concedes 50

Honestly if we had a fullback who knew how to catch and wasn’t completely cluessless in positioning we probably win

We debuted a kid who looks an out and out star. Next week Twal, Mikaele, Garner and Reynolds are back. Bj the week after

Good things are coming

 

[League WTF]

I still can’t see how AD can be our long term fullback. We won’t beat any top teams with him in that position. He’s a decent player but too slow for fullback. Put Mbye or Brooks in...or buy someone, I don’t care.

 

[Fordy20]

Hope Douehi not disheartened he had a couple of really shit plays, caught out of position a few times but some
Of the other stuff with ball in hand at parras end has been ok. He is developing nicely.

He's not a natural fullback. Yes he's a decent ball player, but he doesn't follow the ball through the middle like natural ball runners do. I'm not sure whether him being out of position on the Moses try was due to defensive structure being coached or not, so I won't be too critical on that one.

I just wish we stopped trying to manufacture fullbacks out of halves.