The Wests Tigers had it all against them, but after a performance to be proud of, they scored a memorable win over New Zealand on Friday night. Leading 16-10 at the break, the Tigers ended up scoring a convincing 32-14 victory over the Warriors in front of nearly 25,000 mostly Kiwi fans.
On this edition of the Wests Tigers Podcast, we take a look at how the Wests Tigers have changed over the past twelve months.
- The debut of Tino Tavana
- Do we upgrade Tino to an NRL contract?
- The performance of Madden and Doueihi in the halves
- How our young backline wasn't overwhelmed against a star-studded Warriors back five
- The really impressive performance of Jahream Bula (does this change his dollar value?)
- The more efficient use of our forwards this year
- Where's Bunty Afoa?
- Our greatly improved defence
While there are also many 'One Word' contributions from the brainstrust that is the Wests Tigers Podcast Forum.
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After round 4 of the Rugby League season Wests Tigers are 3rd… yes 3rd on the ladder. Top 4 baby 👏👏👏
I’d be picking the exact same team named as last week. But really hone in on our left edge defence. IMO they keep their spots until May is back. Same with the right edge, keep the combinations set ( Taruva/ Skeleton).But I don’t think To’a should slot straight back in though. 2-4 weeks in reggies for mine. The halves selection is the big question when all are available.But a good selection headache to have in fairness. If we win the forward battle it will go along way to a victory. It’s a simple game right 🤔
You gave high praise to Tino Tevana and rightly so. He certainly started off shaky but gathered himself and cut out errors as well as making valuable yardage. A try on debut can't be overlooked either. I wonder how much better he would have been had he got some more clean ball served his way. AD did put 2 over his head and some other passes to him were a but sketchy too.
I really believe he was running to the 20m line for a very quick restart and so the penalty and sin bin was the appropriate response on this occasion, I am sure it would have gone that way if it was one of our players who made the interfering tackle play.
At 2:30 Benji speaks to Tino and Jock during a team talk - no suprise they played well for him at the game.
Here's the clip I was mentioning
https://twitter.com/BrooksyWTTID/status/2038920715639128262?s=20