Aside from the obvious, there were a few players who have been substandard for the past few weeks and it was more obvious tonight.
Elijah Taylor. Gets the ball more than most of the forwards (Only Woods gets it as much), yet he has been producing very little with it and making little metres when he runs it. Been dropping off tackles a lot lately too. He missed 6 tonight. He is capable of much better.
Josh Aloiai has been Ben Te'o quiet of late. He touched the ball 3 times tonight. Made good metres when he got the pill, but it doesn't get to him anywhere near often enough.
Naiqama has been good in attack, but missing even more tackles lately. We cannot persist with him in the centres any longer.
Lawrence has gone back to his flat footed defensive style which we used to see a lot of when he first came to the NRL. A flat footed defender has no momentum and is easily pushed aside. Evidenced by his 5 missed tackles tonight.
Joel Edwards is playing at hooker now. What a f**king joke. You can't tell me that the service of an old back rower and a back rower with no experience as a hooker are going to provide better service than Cherrington/Liddle/Farah/Littlejohn.
Please pick a f**king ball player for hooker next week. Littlejohn would be a huge upgrade on Halatau. Put Dene on the Bench if need be.
Rankin must not play next week. Don't reward him for that effort. He should spend all next weekend on the training ground catching high balls. What a disgraceful and pathetic effort from a bloke who fancies himself as a fullback.
Moses was good but at times he still overplays his hand too much. He's trying to be a halfback at second receiver.
What is Brooks doing? Either the kid needs guidance from Farah, or he doesn't. If he doesn't, then he needs to start steering this side around the f**king park. He's wandering around like a brown cow a lot lately and showing the same amount of creativity as a shovel full of dirt. Do something for f**ks sake.
But above all else, it's time that Warren f**king McDonnell gets sacked. We need to start recruiting much better players. That docile prick has been making far too many dud signings and botched contract deals with remaining players, which has contributed immmensely to this club being a constant also-ran.
And to top it off, the Wests Tigers Twitter account was posting gifs and making light of the whole affair. This lackadaisical, carefree attitude needs to f**king end.
Rant over - I've gotta go do some work now.
