LIVE GAME Round 9 vs. Bulldogs

[Curaeus]

We need Api there every week to win games and really missed him today. Add to that the amateurish sub-standard refereeing (a total joke) and the result isn't really all that surprising. Api's that important both as arguably the best 9 in the competition and as an inspirational leader.

 

[Telltails]

Blaming the ref is easy. We were so bad in that 2nd half. The attack is dreadful, discline is worse. Maybe I dont get it but I dont see where our points are coming from on their line. We were out muscled and out worked. Things are grim

You can't win without possession when.two teams are evenly matched. If you think a referee can't impact an outcome by controlling the possession with six agains and discretionary
penalties whether it's deliberate or not, you are fooling yourself.

 

[bbobb]

I actually feel a little sorry for her. She is clearly not up to that standard and the NRL has put her in a position where she has been set up to fail. Her confidence would be shot.

 

[stephen]

I don’t know what you watch . Playing the “ref is always right “ is absolute nonsense , and if no help to anyone . She was shit . The dogs had a clear game plan to get off thier line early and often and put pressure on her to make a decision . She crumbled under that pressure . She did not call one offside penalty that whole second half yet , the whole first 20 mins was offside penalties galore for both teams , when all the players were fresh .
Once again I’ll say it , you cannot have that line speed for 40 minutes , for 13 players to not have a high percentage of them be offside . 1 set , maybe 2 , but 40 minutes … ? Nope . Unless every player on the field is an Olympic level triathlete .

Stronger, nobody's saying the ref was great or right. Bitchinh on a forum won't change the result today or in the future. The only people who can impact the result are our players and, at the moment, they're either not good enough or unwilling to try hard enough.

 

[innsaneink]

In the post match press conference Benji notes she declined a captain’s challenge from us saying we had none left when we did. John Bateman didn’t know why Klemmer got binned (I think, I have trouble understanding him at times).

Fox had a graphic up a bit earlier saying we'd lost ours and Dogs had one...I was quite confused when we got another one later

 

[Wearyfan22]

You can't win without possession when.two teams are evenly matched. If you think a referee can't impact an outcome by controlling the possession with six agains and discretionary
penalties whether it's deliberate or not, you are fooling yourself.

The ref was bad. There are bigger issues for us if we want to win more than a couple games a season though.

 

[Wiz]

I thought Finau really struggled at 9. He has a terrible left to right pass. No wonder he plays 5/8 on the left side only.

 

[Speed2burn]

How do you know they are neutrals?

because it doesn’t take a genius to know that fans of other teams watch & comment on other games too

 

[Tim Sheens]

Dogs the better team, we showed some good effort first half, we was pretty lucky seizer didnt go to the bin! Absolute brain snap from seyfarth to be honest headbutting

I don't blame Seyfarth so much for his frustration, as I was very frustrated that his enthusiasm was being wasted on the bench whilst the dogs were ripping WT a new one.

 

[Telltails]

Stronger, nobody's saying the ref was great or right. Bitchinh on a forum won't change the result today or in the future. The only people who can impact the result are our players and, at the moment, they're either not good enough or unwilling to try hard enough.

If they didn't try today they would have been lapped

 

[Stevec]

Where on earth do we find depth ? Our Cup side are dead last with a for and against more than twice as much in the negative as any other team .
This Magpies side are sub standard and should be in a lower division .No Effort ,Uncompetitive, Embarrassing.
Suggest start over ,recruit a few good footballers , call the team Wests Tigers

 

[stephen]

I thought Finau really struggled at 9. He has a terrible left to right pass. No wonder he plays 5/8 on the left side only.

Yeah doesn't look comfortable at 9. Keen to see him in his natural position.

 

[mikey]

We need to stop blaming the ref.

In some way yes but she was worse than treading in a sloppy turd today.

 

[Aceshigh]

Seriously?

Yep i have never seen such an inept /bias refereeing performance like that , not since the grasshopper gommersal and that is serious , Still we were Piss poor and got beat by a more committed team on the day

 

[18thman]

You can't win without possession when.two teams are evenly matched. If you think a referee can't impact an outcome by controlling the possession with six agains and discretionary
penalties whether it's deliberate or not, you are fooling yourself.

Yeah I guess some people just don't understand the impact officials have on the game

 

[stephen]

If they didn't try today they would have been lapped

I agree they tried for periods of the game. That doesn't win games, though. With our squad, we need to rely on effort more than most other teams.

 

[Furious1]

Benji should have instructed the whole team to walk off in protest, an absolute disgrace and won’t get any better until we make a stand and bring big attention to it.

No. Not ever.

 

[Tim Sheens]

We were in prime position to win the game at half time, our performance at the start box the second have set the stage for our loss. Ref didn't help but we mostly did it to ourselves.

Facts.

 

[hodgo]

I know Ricky Stuart cops some shit but we need a Ricky Stuart blow up at some stage yeah we lost yeah we struggled but jebus we cop it every week

 

[BalmainJnr]

Presser for those interested. Ciraldo currently talking.

NRL Press Conference: Bulldogs v Wests Tigers - Round 9, 2024

Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and Wests Tigers captains and coaches chat to the media after their Telstra Premiership Round 9 clash

www.nrl.com

Not much of anything out of that presser: we need to be better was about as informative as it got.