Match Discussion: Round 4 vs Warriors @ Campbelltown Sports Stadium, Leumeah / Dharawal

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I remained somewhat confident until we seemed to descend into chaos with about 10 minutes to go!

I went the distance with the boys, then it all went hazy!

 

[TheDefinitionOfMadness]

That one hurts.

Seyfarth has nothing to worry about. He was standing still, not moving forward when the Warriors player ran into his shoulder. It shouldn't have even been a penalty. Be a different story if Seyfarth was moving forward or sideways and initiated the contact, but he didn't and didn't change his height.

Luai on the other hand has an issue. He launched himself at the attacker and hit him with his shoulder flush in the head, with no wrapping motion with his arms. Not sure what his record is like. I'd say he'll cop 2 weeks if it's fairly clean. It looks like he may have picked up an injury so he may need that time anyway.

I feel like if we could have gotten over the line that would have given us so much confidence knowing we played quite poorly and still won. TBH that game was like the Tigers of last year. We looked completely disorganised for almost all the entire game, had no go forward, and were either missing tackles or making ineffective ones, left, right, and centre.

I get that we had a lot of injuries but every team has to deal with this from time to time. It's just illustrated our lack of depth.

If Luai does get suspended like I think, it'll be interesting how they manage the halves next week. Who plays what and who's in charge of running the team.

 

[Pezz70]

I think the complete opposite. We have a quality team now. That was a cracker of a game.

Just don’t have the outside backs or the depth to make a season of it unfortunately. I would say 12-14 is about as good as it gets. Luai will probably end up with a couple of weeks holiday now, Samuela Fainu is gone for a bit, Douehi has a groin injury, even the minor ones are an absolute pain in the bum.

We’re on the up, but it’s going to be a long season.

I agree the guys did really well to stay in the game, they should’ve won it, I’ll whine about the standard of refereeing again it is abysmal, the only consistency they can find is consistent mistakes.

 

[Pezz70]

Injuries and the conditions were not in our favour tonight.

Despite the loss, I still feel we took a step forward. We competed when the cards were pretty much all on favour of the visitors in terms of injury and go forward.

We are not a top eight side......but unlike previous years, Im happy with the side and Benji is making progress with them.

Two notes....

Faatape. Yes, I love his effort and thought he had an overall good dig, but man his two errors really cost us the match. Where in f**k was he when should have been on his wing with the Halsalma break? Second tough one was his f**king stupidity with that extra kick to the sideline......just dive on it man!!!!!!!!!! You did the hard work to get to the ball first!


The Seyfarth tackle. CNK deadset ran into Seyfarth's shoulder there. What the f**k was Seyfarth meant to do? Claim your Oscar and f**k off from the NRL you asshole!

Faataape made the tackle prior was running back from marker, that last try was no fault of his. Chased a kicked made a tackle, and they were good enough to see he was out of play

Toa’s play toward the end where we went wide and he just stood there 10 metres back from the play was horrific, very lazy we’d have had a two on one there and Turuva would’ve made some yards, I think that was when Bird ended up getting tackled on the last on our 40 (not sure), Toa also has a habit of running in field a bit (sometimes warranted) instead of hitting it straight and looking to his outside.

 

[Tiger05]

Just don’t have the outside backs or the depth to make a season of it unfortunately. I would say 12-14 is about as good as it gets. Luai will probably end up with a couple of weeks holiday now, Samuela Fainu is gone for a bit, Douehi has a groin injury, even the minor ones are an absolute pain in the bum.

We’re on the up, but it’s going to be a long season.

I agree the guys did really well to stay in the game, they should’ve won it, I’ll whine about the standard of refereeing again it is abysmal, the only consistency they can find is consistent mistakes.

I can't blame the ref but there were some terrible decisions out there.

I see depth as a problem but Penrith are struggling a little with depth right now. I think our outside backs are fine if fit. Turuva is a weapon. Skelton looks like being a weapon. To'a can play but he doesn't seem to fire regularly and that is an issue. Doueihi has been good but he probably isn't a great option. I suppose I think we just need a slight upgrade in the centres. If we can get May and/or Makasini comes in that fixes that issue but even now I don't think we are that bad.

We needed this win because next week is extra tough.

 

[Tiger05]

Faataape made the tackle prior was running back from marker, that last try was no fault of his. Chased a kicked made a tackle, and they were good enough to see he was out of play

The mistake was when he went for the glory play and kicked the ball rather than just dive on it. That try was no one's fault. It was a great run.

 

[TheDefinitionOfMadness]

I can't blame the ref but there were some terrible decisions out there.

I can and I will.

 

[Wizardman]

I can and I will.

The Seyfarth penalty was horrible. But, we conceded 24 points before that and some were pretty soft. Im not blaming the ref for tonight and Im tired of fans doing so.

 

[Pezz70]

I can and I will.

I actually think Metcalf made the decision to take Seyfarth when Bula went over, just a shame his outside shoulder instead of inside contacted, this sort of decision I really see as too technical, I still think the refs should have the discretion to make a determination on whether the play actually led to an advantage ( I think Bula scores in any case). Refereeing is a blight on the game due to the effort to make everything black or white, they are consistently making compounding errors. The 6 to go rule is shithouse IMO. I watched 6 games over the weekend and there wasn’t one where I thought the refereeing was elite. All bog average

 

[Tiger Ted]

I can and I will.

The set restarts are doing my head in.They r are scourge on the game & the warriors glaringly got the rub of the green

 

[Tiger05]

I actually think Metcalf made the decision to take Seyfarth when Bula went over

I'm pretty sure it was To'a mate. He hit the outside shoulder. It was always a penalty.

 

[TheDefinitionOfMadness]

I actually think Metcalf made the decision to take Seyfarth when Bula went over, just a shame his outside shoulder instead of inside contacted, this sort of decision I really see as too technical, I still think the refs should have the discretion to make a determination on whether the play actually led to an advantage ( I think Bula scores in any case). Refereeing is a blight on the game due to the effort to make everything black or white, they are consistently making compounding errors. The 6 to go rule is shithouse IMO. I watched 6 games over the weekend and there wasn’t one where I thought the refereeing was elite. All bog average

Yep. Too many penalties / 6 agains in most games and half are questionable whether an offence has occurred. The ref spends most of the game coaching the players like it's under 10s. The whole matey thing of calling players by their name shits me - as does the players questioning every single decision to the nth degree, which is clearly just a time wasting tactic. I think it would be beneficial if the refs went back to calling the players by number and captain. The players say ref or sir. The ref goes back to policing the game, rather than coaching it. If the coaching of it actually reduced penalties I'd be all for it, but it doesn't.

 

[Speedy Gonzales]

The Seyfarth penalty was horrible. But, we conceded 24 points before that and some were pretty soft. Im not blaming the ref for tonight and Im tired of fans doing so.

To be fair one of their tries was when Fainu was getting treated and Turuva was coming off

the other 3 tries were schoolboy level soft, top teams don’t concede those

 

[macnaz]

The set restarts are doing my head in.They r are scourge on the game & the warriors glaringly got the rub of the green

If You keep doing them early in the game the refs give up , and instead of continuing he feels as though he has to even them up with BS ones to the other side.

 

[Benchtiger]

That penalty against Red is an embarrassment for the game, the NRL is going down the same soft c#k road as soccer which has ruined the round ball game.

 

[WA Tiger]

I don’t think there’s been a more disappointing loss than that one - that I can remember..certainly looked like a win for us in every way..but no

 

[Tigerm]

Presser: NRL Round 4 vs Warriors | Wests Tigers

Api Koroisau and Benji Marshell chat to the media after their Round 4 clash against the Warriors

www.weststigers.com.au

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Presser: NRL Round 4 vs Warriors | Wests Tigers

Api Koroisau and Benji Marshell chat to the media after their Round 4 clash against the Warriors

www.weststigers.com.au

I know this is nitpicky but spelling the coach's name wrong on an official club website is pretty mud.

 

[Pezz70]

I know this is nitpicky but spelling the coach's name wrong on an official club website is pretty mud.

Yep I hate it, absolute rubbish, the shit that passes for journalism these days, it’s as if the authors and editors don’t even proof read anymore, just plain lazy relying on computers to do the job instead of putting in the yards

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Yep I hate it, absolute rubbish, the shit that passes for journalism these days, it’s as if the authors and editors don’t even proof read anymore, just plain lazy relying on computers to do the job instead of putting in the yards

Couldn't possibly agree more. See it way too often