Annus (yes, that’s Annus) Horribilis

Posted by: @russtutty63

The season up to rd 19 (add anything I’ve missed):

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Blore misses season

Doueihi misses first 14 rds

Talau misses first 19 rds 

Stefano misses 10 rds

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Twal rested for season after rd 15

Mikaele released after 6 appearances

Leilua released after 12 appearances

Hastings appeals 2 match ban, loses appeal & misses 3 matches

Lose to Titans an final minute

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Leilua try v Warriors not checked, lose by 4 pts

Tuilagi try given no try v Dragons, lose by 6 pts

Coach sacked

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Nofoaluma suffers concussion & goes on the drink, plays 12 games

Ciraldo says no to joining club after tour of Centre of Excellence which isn’t opened yet

Lose to Cowboys in final second of game to a howler from the bunker

Centre of ….ah, you know the rest

 

 

It’s been a rocky road, not just this year but the whole last 12 months.

Stick solid, it will turn.

Posted by: @helmesy

Posted by: @russtutty63

The season up to rd 19 (add anything I’ve missed):

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Blore misses season

Doueihi misses first 14 rds

Talau misses first 19 rds 

Stefano misses 10 rds

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Twal rested for season after rd 15

Mikaele released after 6 appearances

Leilua released after 12 appearances

Hastings appeals 2 match ban, loses appeal & misses 3 matches

Lose to Titans an final minute

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Leilua try v Warriors not checked, lose by 4 pts

Tuilagi try given no try v Dragons, lose by 6 pts

Coach sacked

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Nofoaluma suffers concussion & goes on the drink, plays 12 games

Ciraldo says no to joining club after tour of Centre of Excellence which isn’t opened yet

Lose to Cowboys in final second of game to a howler from the bunker

Centre of ….ah, you know the rest

 

 

It’s been a rocky road, not just this year but the whole last 12 months.

Stick solid, it will turn.

I think last season was worse.

Posted by: @russtutty63

The season up to rd 19 (add anything I’ve missed):

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Blore misses season

Doueihi misses first 14 rds

Talau misses first 19 rds 

Stefano misses 10 rds

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Twal rested for season after rd 15

Mikaele released after 6 appearances

Leilua released after 12 appearances

Hastings appeals 2 match ban, loses appeal & misses 3 matches

Lose to Titans an final minute

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Leilua try v Warriors not checked, lose by 4 pts

Tuilagi try given no try v Dragons, lose by 6 pts

Coach sacked

Centre of Excellence opening delayed

Nofoaluma suffers concussion & goes on the drink, plays 12 games

Ciraldo says no to joining club after tour of Centre of Excellence which isn’t opened yet

Lose to Cowboys in final second of game to a howler from the bunker

Centre of ….ah, you know the rest

 

 

Yes it's been a terrible year for sure but amongst all the controversy yesterday there were some green shoots on display.

I'm a lot more confident now than I was at the same point last season. It was nice to watch us play a different brand of football and actually have a crack in attack.

The absolute cheating by Klein has put a big dampener on things though. He is a deadset cheat and should be fired.

Luck of the draw:

Warriors play first game back in NZ for almost 3 seasons, guess who they play?

After winning 2 games & losing a close one v Dragons Tigers play Manly, Turbo returns from injury (of course) but Stefano returns for Tigers, he’s binned after 25 seconds for repeated infringements (of course). 

For a team like Tigers they needed an element of good fortune to do well this year. I think they’ve been on the worse side of the ledger in that regard.

• @garry Not sure about that Garry. I might check it out but if in doing so I end up spending the rest of the day in the foetal position, crying “Mummy, Mummy” (again) I’ll blame you. Here goes nothing.

Posted by: @avocadoontoast

I'm a lot more confident now than I was at the same point last season. It was nice to watch us play a different brand of football and actually have a crack in attack.

The absolute cheating by Klein has put a big dampener on things though. He is a deadset cheat and should be fired.

Spot on with both points 👍

Posted by: @russtutty63

• @garry Not sure about that Garry. I might check it out but if in doing so I end up spending the rest of the day in the foetal position, crying “Mummy, Mummy” (again) I’ll blame you. Here goes nothing.

We had players not having a crack last year. That is worse than everything that happened this year. I can see a future this year.

@garry Yes, I thought yesterday was very indicative of that. But it’s the things which are out of the team’s control that I’m pretty much referring to this season. Seems to be more than I can recall for some time. Injuries are always a part of it unless you’re that team who is fortunate enough to get away with very few, always seems to be one of those. It’s the calls, the draw, the dramas, who’s staying, who’s going, the unforeseen delays to plans etc this year 

Something else to add to the list. 

After combination of Hastings, Brooks & Doueihi begin to look good Luke Brooks suffers what is possibly a season ending calf strain at training. 

You can add Hastings broken leg to the list. 

broke  leg bloody hell

Posted by: @jedi-tiger

broke  leg bloody hell

I think this is the X-ray