Round 3 vs. Dragons

[Tiger05]

Adam Blah !! He's ok but when i know he is getting 500K a year id expect a hell of lot more that what he is showing so far.

This is the issue as far as I'm concerned. Not good enough for a huge signing for us.

As for our pack - losing Ellis is huge - he carries us.

 

[Ron's_Mate]

Oh well, the Dragons grannies will be chortling with glee as they sip their bedtime hot chocolate.

 

[Dragoness]

Woods was great, Bell and Moors needed more time out there. Farah can only do so much when he has to help defend up the middle so much. FFS, between Fein and Rein they made 40 tackles and Farah makes 37 on his own. He needs help out there.

Chin up guys.... you looked like we did last week.... Farah was your best player but comparing him to Fein who probably played 30mins & Rein probably the same... Your forwards let you down tonight & I have to add I enjoyed watching Timmy shit himself at kogarah :lol:

 

[Das Hassler]

Early days boys..it will come together. Saints were rubbish last week as well so tonight may just do the trick...also enough time till the monday night game to get Ellis right. Nothing like wounded pride to kick things into gear

 

[N.C.]

I thought all our forwards did well - on those occasions they did actually run the ball. They just left it up to Ryan and Reddy to run us out of trouble a few too many times. Put it down to inexperience and move on... although that excuse does have a pretty limited shelf-life.

 

[Dummy Spit Johns]

LOL @ Moltzen!

How happy must Dragons fans be that he stayed a pussy!

 

[Old_Timer]

Commiseration's Guys. Your lot simply got belted out of it. Someone had to pay for our disgrace last week against the dogs. Pity, the team that play's your lot next week.

P.S. Think we are over Timmy. He made a great decision to remain a Tiger. As for next year, well .........!

 

[madunit]

Lets look out our forwards performance this year

Most runs
Heighington - 43
Woods - 33
Blair - 30
Fulton - 30
Groat - 21
Ellis - 19
Murdoch-Masila - 16
Moors - 14
Galloway - 13
Bell - 11

Most Hit-ups
Heighington - 27
Woods - 25
Fulton - 18
Groat - 13
Ellis - 12
Blair - 11
Murdoch-Masila - 10
Moors - 8
Bell - 7
Galloway - 7

Metres Gained
Heighington - 296
Woods - 263
Blair - 220
Fulton - 196
Ellis - 172
Murdoch-Masila - 141
Groat - 138
Moors - 136
Bell - 107
Galloway - 98

Tackling Stats
Murdoch-Masila - Made 18 tackles, 0 missed = 100%
Moors - Made 17 tackles, 0 missed = 100%
Fulton - Made 106 tackles, 1 missed = 99.07%
Bell - Made 45 tackles, 1 missed = 97.83%
Galloway - Made 21 tackles, 1 missed = 95.45%
Heighington - Made 92 tackles, 6 missed = 93.88%
Ellis - Made 53 tackles, 5 missed = 91.38%
Woods - Made 84, 9 missed = 90.32%
Groat - Made 67, 10 missed = 87.01%
Blair - Made 68, 14 missed = 82.93%

Penalties Conceded
Blair - 4
Bell, Ellis, Woods - 2

Blair is simply crap at the moment.

He needs a rocket up his arse, he's being outperformed by benchies who are playing almost an hour less per game than he is.

Simply not f**king good enough

 

[N.C.]

Nice bit of perspective there...

Can we get a 'minutes played' in there to give those stats a little more meaning?

 

[Tiger05]

Blair is simply crap at the moment.

He needs a rocket up his arse, he's being outperformed by benchies who are playing almost an hour less per game than he is.

Simply not f**king good enough

Yep - he is performing pretty f**ken poorly isn't he.

He has a quick play the ball and he is mobile but he is missing a lot of tackles and not making enough metres.

I really hope he turns it around because he was supposed to be and is being paid to be a gun.

 

[N.C.]

He needs to lay off the shoulder charges and just get on with tackling for a few games... then he bring out the big hits if he feels he needs to.

 

[drago brelli]

Apart from Ellis, Galloway and Woods the Wtigers pack is no threat to any team.

 

[Blackdiamond]

I thought Fulton & Woods were our best tonight.
We seem to be standing flat & bunched in attack. When we are working out of our own half, we are predictable, playing the same side. We miss Farah's creativity & dummy half runs.
Our fitness seems to be down without Folkes.
The wrestle - could not compete.......
Benji had nothing to work with tonight. We can't leave it to him to win us every game. Lets have a Plan B when we find ourselves in the grind.
Not all bad news & no need to panic yet, its only round 3. Come on boys you can turn it around!

 

[Blackdiamond]

Fulton - 106 tackles. Is that right? Holy crap!

 

[bubblesunlimited]

We got dominated in the forwards in a massive way, they smashed us actually.

They held the ball better than us and played smarter.

We got beaten by a better team, a way better team.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Our pack is soft as butter. Pack of fairies. Just embarrassing.

Moltzen was the Dragons best player, just as I predicted. Most overrated player in the game, does absolutely nothing, a useless passenger.

We are rubbish.

 

[isaiah]

Lets look out our forwards performance this year

Most runs
Heighington - 43
Woods - 33
Blair - 30
Fulton - 30
Groat - 21
Ellis - 19
Murdoch-Masila - 16
Moors - 14
Galloway - 13
Bell - 11

Most Hit-ups
Heighington - 27
Woods - 25
Fulton - 18
Groat - 13
Ellis - 12
Blair - 11
Murdoch-Masila - 10
Moors - 8
Bell - 7
Galloway - 7

Metres Gained
Heighington - 296
Woods - 263
Blair - 220
Fulton - 196
Ellis - 172
Murdoch-Masila - 141
Groat - 138
Moors - 136
Bell - 107
Galloway - 98

Tackling Stats
Murdoch-Masila - Made 18 tackles, 0 missed = 100%
Moors - Made 17 tackles, 0 missed = 100%
Fulton - Made 106 tackles, 1 missed = 99.07%
Bell - Made 45 tackles, 1 missed = 97.83%
Galloway - Made 21 tackles, 1 missed = 95.45%
Heighington - Made 92 tackles, 6 missed = 93.88%
Ellis - Made 53 tackles, 5 missed = 91.38%
Woods - Made 84, 9 missed = 90.32%
Groat - Made 67, 10 missed = 87.01%
Blair - Made 68, 14 missed = 82.93%

Penalties Conceded
Blair - 4
Bell, Ellis, Woods - 2

Blair is simply crap at the moment.

He needs a rocket up his arse, he's being outperformed by benchies who are playing almost an hour less per game than he is.

Simply not f**king good enough

blair and groat are just soft, bring back fifita

 

[Fordy20]

Despite the blowout on the scoreboard, it was more of a cripple fight than a case of one team dominating another. The Dragons were marginally the better team, but the blowout was mostly due to the blokes with the pea. The penalty against Ayshford for not playing the ball square was the perfect example this. The commentators went on about how clinical the Dragons were, but that's garbage. Their completion rate was 65% and any team with a disciplined defence and commited forward pack would have run rings around them.

The positives for me was Farah seems to be lifting his form and (I never thought I'd be saying this a year ago) the continuing great form of Beau Ryan. The negatives are the same old problems, wasting a bench spot on a back, no direction from the halfback, our pack being dominated. When I say the pack's being dominated, I put this down to a lack of thugs in the team. The Tigers have been chronically underserved in this department for years. I was hoping Blair would give the pack more mongrel and he did do some good things, but he really needs to lift his workrate. I think our recruitment needs to look at some hard hitters in this respect.

Also, in Galloway's absence, I'd like to see Bell start over Groat and Moors be given more game time.

 

[40Twenty]

dont be to upset pies you know u dont handle the big games...choke

 

[Ron's_Mate]

We got dominated in the forwards in a massive way, they smashed us actually.

They held the ball better than us and played smarter.

We got beaten by a better team, a way better team.

Dragons forwards played meat and potatoes stuff - it could have been the 1980s. Really showed up the Tigers forwards. Hopefully they have been shamed enough to aim up in future games. Can't rely on Gareth and Benji all the time.