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Post Match Wests Tigers v NZ Warriors - [Round 4, 2026]
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Somehow Bulldogs losing to knights makes me feel better lol
Yep given that we pumped the Knights last week and the dogs won't overtake us on the ladder.
Well, Newcastle just made me feel much better about our loss. I always get intense joy from a dog's loss. Praise the Knights!
Is anyone worried about Erin Clark? He started off last year with a bang and then started off coming back into the group. Against Tigers was the first time he ran for under 100m, well since he made his debut as a half off the bench in 2017
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Na not worried at all.
He was one of many under performers.
I would hazard a guess that many were below their average?
Last week: I love this club! 
This week: I hate this club!
This week: I hate this club!
Lbh, who out of these players is starting at another club?
He does it all the time but he’s a protected species on here
This was a classic test of identity and structure and unfortunately, we failed this week. After three tough games where we brought intensity shape structure and discipline, there was a combination of factors that derailed us this week - which I am sure we will be better off because of going down the stretch up to Magic Round.
This will serve as a reset. To get feet back on the ground and heads back from the clouds. We mentally switched off after 10-0 thinking it would come easy. If Dallin takes that intercept and we go 16-0 up, different game. Instead that error coupled with Adam Pompey’s dumb sinbin started a pattern where the Tigers lifted an we dropped.
We should now know we are as hunted as the Panthers Storm and Broncos. Teams like the Tigers lift against us given their connection to Pasifika. And on that night celebrating our Pascifika heritage, they OWNED us.
We have been asserting a new identity in 2026 which was tested against a team that themselves have a new identity this year. Their first away game - much like us against the Knights. We should have been prepared for this but we got lost in our own hype train.
What this loss should do is force the team back into discipline
It will remove hype, external narrative and internal emotional inflation and returns us to proces, structure, discipline and mental edge just in time for the Sharks who themselves are wanting to make a statement after beating beaten up.
RTS was a fucking idiot releasing the news he was leaving on the day of the game. Webby is following his forward rotation policy (no Demi) and he gambled on CNK in centres. Frankly we should have kept Tuaupiki on the bench. We went away from a winning formula and got our ass handed to us.
This week only one thing fixes it - a controlled focused performance with defensive intensity and middle dominance and a team who gets tight again rather than the loose shit we got served up on Friday.
We reaffirm our identity against the sharks with a win away and set up a game against the Storm where we really show who we are.
If the tigers can beat us at home for the first time since 2016, we can beat the Storm in 2 weeks after what….. 10 years? All streaks end.
Onto the Sharks and reaffirming who we are.
This will serve as a reset. To get feet back on the ground and heads back from the clouds. We mentally switched off after 10-0 thinking it would come easy. If Dallin takes that intercept and we go 16-0 up, different game. Instead that error coupled with Adam Pompey’s dumb sinbin started a pattern where the Tigers lifted an we dropped.
We should now know we are as hunted as the Panthers Storm and Broncos. Teams like the Tigers lift against us given their connection to Pasifika. And on that night celebrating our Pascifika heritage, they OWNED us.
We have been asserting a new identity in 2026 which was tested against a team that themselves have a new identity this year. Their first away game - much like us against the Knights. We should have been prepared for this but we got lost in our own hype train.
What this loss should do is force the team back into discipline
It will remove hype, external narrative and internal emotional inflation and returns us to proces, structure, discipline and mental edge just in time for the Sharks who themselves are wanting to make a statement after beating beaten up.
RTS was a fucking idiot releasing the news he was leaving on the day of the game. Webby is following his forward rotation policy (no Demi) and he gambled on CNK in centres. Frankly we should have kept Tuaupiki on the bench. We went away from a winning formula and got our ass handed to us.
This week only one thing fixes it - a controlled focused performance with defensive intensity and middle dominance and a team who gets tight again rather than the loose shit we got served up on Friday.
We reaffirm our identity against the sharks with a win away and set up a game against the Storm where we really show who we are.
If the tigers can beat us at home for the first time since 2016, we can beat the Storm in 2 weeks after what….. 10 years? All streaks end.
Onto the Sharks and reaffirming who we are.
In reply to the bold: Confucius said "A modest man is modest in his speech but exceeds with his actions".
You Nailed it!
I posted a video of SJ mic'd up and was talking about the relationships halves form with their preferred forwards.
Capewell and Metcalf are a pairing both sides of the ball hey. Capewell is a gun, during this offseason he did the same with Boyd - this time on the left vs the Roosters, straight through untouched.
Metcalf sets Capewell up nicely on attack and vice versa.
I would kinda like to see Gannon with Metcalf for an attacking edge, but yeah there is obviously risk in doing that, but Gannon runs such nice lines that he is a dream runner for a half.
All true
I posted before the game that anything less than 110% performance in the NRL is not acceptable.
He’s a backup centre at best he wouldn’t get a start at many other clubs the problem for us is Ali and Rocco who should be our starting centres can’t stay on the field and that 1 is made of glass and the other seems lazy and carry’s a bit too much weight for the position. Also having CNK as the other centre it’s pretty much the same as Pompey low ceiling high floor in terms of ability they are never going to be the X factor players we need when coming up against the better teams. There seems to be a myth that because CNK has played centre for the kiwis he is a gun at the position but in reality the last few years the kiwis have had hardly any depth at centre apart from Joey Manu and Casey McLean who are world class every other option has been average.
Long story short…..
Sign Tolu Koula asap
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I think there were 2 reasons why TSS played instead of Demi.
TSS had been on the extended bench and not played for a couple of weeks. It kept him game ready.
Barnett was sharing lock duties with Clark. With Ford playing the longer minutes, one prop and one lock change is made in the first half. That meant TSS for JFH and Barnett for Clark (no room for Demi).
By using Healy on the bench they have decided that they can only use 2 changes in the first half
TSS had been on the extended bench and not played for a couple of weeks. It kept him game ready.
Barnett was sharing lock duties with Clark. With Ford playing the longer minutes, one prop and one lock change is made in the first half. That meant TSS for JFH and Barnett for Clark (no room for Demi).
By using Healy on the bench they have decided that they can only use 2 changes in the first half
Aside from the clear lack of cohesion in our halves quite visible to the eye, one needs to consider what the loss of CHT's communication cost us in that game.
Luke is a talker, don't get me wrong, it is just that he is coming in cold and in second chair - that sets up a different dynamic to the incumbent six who has been yelling at these blokes all offseason in a chorus of non stop direction from the Boyd/Harris Tavita.
All things point to time in the seat being the missing piece and better talk out there from the Seniors.
Case and point, JFH had been doing a lot to lift us when we were in poor spots vs Roosters/Raiders/Knights. And the young guys went hunting, it looks like maybe three hard games is about where the limit in the conditioning tank of a few of the young guns sits at the moment, again that is a time thing (look at Fords engine, bigger than ever).
Luke is a talker, don't get me wrong, it is just that he is coming in cold and in second chair - that sets up a different dynamic to the incumbent six who has been yelling at these blokes all offseason in a chorus of non stop direction from the Boyd/Harris Tavita.
All things point to time in the seat being the missing piece and better talk out there from the Seniors.
Case and point, JFH had been doing a lot to lift us when we were in poor spots vs Roosters/Raiders/Knights. And the young guys went hunting, it looks like maybe three hard games is about where the limit in the conditioning tank of a few of the young guns sits at the moment, again that is a time thing (look at Fords engine, bigger than ever).
Good point.
I am wondering how much of our new style this year of short passing in the forwards has limited his opportunities to do what he gained renown for (tuck it in and run it up the guts).
So rather than Clark going off the boil, the game is just different, he will need to evolve a little maybe and rather than crash bash, use that energy to hit holes.
Thats the way i saw it as well. Him and Fish are clearly shifting the ball more than ive ever seen them in their careers this season.
Maybe identifying momentum shifts as in that Tigers game where we werent as dominant in the middle and a few more direct carries were needed, might be the go. Still working through this new attacking style i reckon.
It was a prayer circle.
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