A upset Benji Marshall has slammed his Wests Tigers staff for his or her ongoing self-discipline issues after two sin-bins of their 24-12 defeat to the Dolphins on Sunday.
The Tigers have now had gamers despatched to the bin eight occasions this season, two greater than some other staff, whereas they’ve conceded the third-most penalties of any staff.
And a pissed off Marshall laid into his staff once more for his or her sloppiness after a sixth-consecutive loss.
“Yeah, fairly pissed off,” he stated. “We simply hold discovering methods to beat ourselves. Our staff offers a lot effort in so many departments and so many areas. We get two within the sin bin, we battle our method again to 18-12, then we discover a method to beat ourselves once more.
“Yeah, it’s irritating. The message has been the identical for the final six weeks, that we hold beating ourselves.
“If we are able to’t change it, then the individuals have to alter.”
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Talking particularly about his membership’s self-discipline issues, he doubled down on his warning to the gamers that they may very well be changed in the event that they don’t form up.
“Put it this fashion, our self-discipline is horrible. We have to discover gamers that will probably be extra disciplined,” he stated.
“I’m upset (in Brent Naden for his sin bin). Upset for the staff, as a result of then we get punished for 10 minutes with 12 gamers. Justin Olam’s one I can form of perceive, he was form of given a piggy again experience. However then we’re taking part in with 11.
“It simply doesn’t assist. However once more, to their credit score, they battle and dangle in there.
“We’re simply fortunate they accomplished like 40 per cent, 60 per cent, and stored us within the sport.”
The Tigers season began brightly with consecutive wins within the first two rounds. However issues have soured from there – although Marshal believes his staff had alternatives to win of their six-game dropping run.
“I knew it was going to be troublesome. I knew it wasn’t going to occur in a single day,” he acknowledged. “But when I’m being trustworthy, there’s second within the final six weeks the place we in all probability ought to have went on to win among the video games.
“However once more, we’ve obtained to take a look at what we’re doing as a training employees and the way we’re instructing the gamers to be taught from these moments and be higher.”
He added: “I don’t wish to make excuses about what we have now and what we don’t have. However we have to begin studying from our errors. Possibly I have to ship that higher as a coach to them.”
Tigers captain Api Koroisau celebrated his two hundredth NRL look with a attempt, and Marshal held him up for instance for the remainder of the staff.
“Api doesn’t like us speaking about him that a lot,” he stated, “however he epitomises what we would like the membership to be like, the way in which we would like our gamers to play, and the quantity of effort that he offers. I’m upset we couldn’t do it for him tonight.”
However Koroisau deflected criticism of his teammates for his or her swath of errors, as an alternative specializing in bettering his personal efficiency.
He stated: “To be fairly trustworthy, I’m eager about myself in the intervening time. I had a number of errors on the market, a few tackles. I’m not taking a look at anybody else, I’ve obtained my very own job to excellent in the intervening time. As a frontrunner, I in all probability needs to be higher at giving some route. I’ll take that one on.”
However he needed to concede that their sin bin woes had been ‘disappointing’.
“As you stated, proper on half time, clearly that’s disappointing. It’s what it’s although. I don’t know what to say after that. Simply obtained to maneuver on with it,” he stated.
“I assumed the response was actually good. All the way down to 12, we began he second half with lots of power. Fairly happy with the boys for that to be trustworthy.”
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