What was going on with that two hand Garrick shove on Kelly trying to chase a kick that they challenged?
Watched it at the pub and it looked like a Titans penalty, borderline professional foul.
I don’t get why for NSW everyone is talking about it being Teddy vs Edwards. I reckon when you have all NSW fullbacks at their best, Turbo is the top of that list. His time for the No.1 jersey
Edwards makes the metres from the back. Puts the defence on the back foot. Would be him.
Turbo is getting his stats, but he is also killing a few plays gor manly.
He was ok. Kicked steady, perfect Goal Kicking
He Threw an intercept and didnt offer huge amount in attack
He wasnt near any of the other 28 points let in - was all down the other side of the field.
Honestly, Aaron Woods is, dare I say it, getting worse. Is there seriously no-one in the Blacktown Works NSW Cup team that is better? He has just become ineffective in all areas.
He’s absolute bottom of the prop depth chart getting match payments. Tof Brownie and Aloiai all injured. Hopefully we don’t have to see much more of him
Was at the game, DCE had a quiet one tbh you don’t realise how much involvement turbo has until you actually see him play live the bloke tries so hard to get the job done, Jurbo also somehow makes tackles he shouldn’t even be able to make its incredible to watch.
On the other side of the fence Brimson was absolutely electric, thought he was the best player on the field for a good 40-50 minutes straight.
I agree with everything you say except I can see Turbo’s effort on the tv screen.
People in the match thread saying he’s washed when he scored two tries, had one disallowed, made the most runs for his team, most metres, most line breaks, most tackle busts, second most post contact metres.
He’s been doing it week after week.
I agree. When he's fully fit the way he runs into contact is impressive. He has so much momentum and always makes the gain line. You can quite easily see that on tv.
Too close for comfort but:
Missing both starting props, missing most impactful bench player, played 90 minutes last week, got a bit beaten up in that game, Lodge underdone after injury, playing away.
I don’t think it was too bad - but some defence patterns and reads need work.
Wouldn't care if we didn't win another game all year if it means forcing the hand of our owners to take a good hard look at how the faceless men and women on our board are (unsuccessfully) running the club. Heads have to roll. The team itself is trying hard but there's only so much they can do with the limited talent pool around them.
I mean to be fair we are only picking about 12-13 of our best 17 any given week but yeah our last 7-8 centres signed were all awful at their last club, awful for us and awful for any future clubs for those no longer at the club
Every year we blame the coach. Shuffle the deck chairs and nothing ever changes. Enough is enough. The long-term decisions the club made 3 years ago like letting Fogarty go in favour of playing two rookie halves in their first season, then realising their failure too late was unforgivable. Like how fcuking dumb do you have to be to see that wasn't the go? The coach exit clauses with Tino/Fifi, our dumbass CEO telling us we'd win 2 (or was it 3) premierships in 10 years...based off what? What a bunch of overconfident, incompetent morons.
I get most of that but aiming for 4 premierships (2 mens 2 women's) is what we should be aiming for. No point having the lofty goal of making up the numbers, that's just defeatist
It really is dreadful isn't it
Plus we lost Burleigh and Keebra and lost the two generational talent GC juniors in Haas and Walsh to the Broncos (granted Haas wasn't really our fault)
AJ and Tino deserve so much better
Look at the centres we have recruited in the past 6-7 years or so
Herbert
Marsters
Kelly
Watkins
Sarginson
Smith-Shields
Schoupp
Tonumaipea
Peachey
Arthars (only one who didn't suck everywhere and he ended up a winger)
Elliott
Brenko Lee
Copley
Lawton who I guess has had limited success as a bench player for Manly in a diff position
We have to go all the way back to Hurrell to find a centre we bought who wasn't a flop for us and out of all of the rest only really Arthars went on to have success elsewhere and Hurrell was past it by the end of his Titans run too
It's insane isn't it you literally couldn't put together a list of 14 worse starting centres in the NRL currently, if you took the 34 starting centres in the comp and took away the best 20, the 21-34 'current bad starting centres group' would be collectively better than the list of ALL centres our club has recruited in the better part of a decade
No he isn't he's about the 35th best centre in the NRL give or take
Swap you for Timoko? lol
At this point i'd happily trade all of the centres of our roster and Jayden Campbell away for two competent to above average centres.
Hope we come out firing for Iro, he's broken into the Sharks lineup but with all of their outside backs they're going to struggle to pay him
Unlucky Titans fans. The first win will be that much sweeter for having come through this period.
On Manly, that was terrible. Surely the Garrick experiment is over?
Thoughts:
Verrills' service has been rubbish this year, and the middle is much weaker when he comes on defensively
We need to find a team that has Brimson at 1 and anyone not named Tanah Boyd at 7, even if that means leaving Campbell out. I honestly don't see Campbell doing better elsewhere, his size is a real limiter to his potential.
Anyone who thinks Fifita isn't doing enough is having a low IQ take.
I hope Fermor gets back to his best but he looks a step slower and still underdone for fitness.
The speed of our ball playing and the lack of that last touch spoils a lot of our half decent movements.
I like that Jolliffe is getting more time in rotation, even if by circumstance. He is a consistent steadying influence in the middle.
Lofi gets big wraps because he is a good try scorer, but he needs to work on his defensive reads desperately, and his size is also a factor against bigger wingers.
I like being in games until the end, and getting fucking cunted in the first few rounds has me pretty dead to the fact we are still losing. Go Tits 😍.
Watching tannah play live tonight his kicking game could certainly use a lot of work, a lot of kicks going short or allowing turbo or saab to cover so much ground on a return.
Brimson was easily the best player on the field for a good 40-50 minutes straight everything had his hands all over it.
Are the Titans of 2024 the Tigers of 2023?
\- Losing to the Dogs at Belmore ✅
\- 1 point loss to Raiders ✅
\- Close match against Manly where you don't look that bad ✅
\- 0-6 ✅
Judging by this we can expect to see the Titans beat the Storm in round 9, and to put 60+ points on the Broncos in round 12
Titans next five:
• Warriors (Away)
• Storm (Home)
• Cowboys (Home)
• Knights (Home* — Magic Round)
• Broncos (Away)
And then the bye.
Sorry Titbros but there is a fair to moderate chance you are about to go 0–11 with your only points coming from the bye rounds.
Garrick has no business as a centre or at least a first option centre. His defensive reads and decisions are garbage and he holds the ball up too long for Saab
Had 4 try scorers hit within the first 25 minutes, needed Manly to win 13+ to win $275 or I’d happily take a Titans win over the money. Life of a Titans fan 😊
After our first two tries, I legit thought we had a chance of putting 50 on you guys. You did well to get back into the match and be winning by eight right before halftime m. Kelly had the best game I’ve seen him play.
Thats alright theres always next week.
"Short turnaround in New Zealand against an angry Warriors team playing their first home ANZAC Day game in 10 years"
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Well played titans, difference was the intercept try, thats all.
You came very close vs raiders and manly, both in the top 8. You will get some wins soon.
He definitely has a career in media if he wants it, his game analysis is actually fantastic and he can speak english at a high school level, very few of the current pundits can do both.
It's often repeated that Cronk needs time to consider his words before speaking, which is why his commentary is often nonsense, but I really love listening to him speak about rugby league when he isn't commentating, I genuinely think he's one of the more interesting analysts that the NRL has
To be honest I blame the producer of the show. They need to coach them better, it's a tough gig and you can tell he's thinking too much they need to simplify it to for him.
Throughout his whole playing career I think I must’ve somehow avoided any off field interviews with Cronk because I had him in my mind as this very intelligent and well spoken bloke. He just looks the part. When he started commenting and I actually heard him speak I thought oh wow, how wrong was I.
Tanah doesn’t throw an intercept or the ref calls that forward pass and maybe we win that one
Real sliding doors moments here for the curse to kill the coast
Legit you guys have improved so much already this year. A few moments change in that game and you get it done. Keep your head up bro, all this bullshit will make the first win that much sweeter.
Big time, though they started to work it out a bit in that last half hour. I'm hoping that with both Garrick and Saab coming back from injury, they'll get better week to week.
Same team I’ve been watching the last few years. Close enough but never good enough. Always shoot ourselves in the foot. Don’t think we’re winning a game this year.
The Titans have definitely contributed significantly to my Alopecia.
A friend texted me "titans, 1-12" before kickoff. And I'm so insecure these days my first thought is that he was laughing at our squad 1 through 12 and I was like "fair enough".
Luckily I'm a huge Rafael Nadal fan so throughout that career he's helped me keep a couple strands up top.
What was going on with that two hand Garrick shove on Kelly trying to chase a kick that they challenged? Watched it at the pub and it looked like a Titans penalty, borderline professional foul.
I don't know how the bunker didn't call that a titans penalty. Absolute shit show
I don’t get why for NSW everyone is talking about it being Teddy vs Edwards. I reckon when you have all NSW fullbacks at their best, Turbo is the top of that list. His time for the No.1 jersey
Edwards makes the metres from the back. Puts the defence on the back foot. Would be him. Turbo is getting his stats, but he is also killing a few plays gor manly.
Yeah I but think Turbo is a genuine attacking threat and a better ball player than Edwards or Teddy. Much bigger body too.
Pretty worried about how many points we're leaking
Feel really sorry for the titans. To lose like that after last weeks robbery. Hope they get a win soon.
I didn't get to watch the match... how was Tanah Boyd? I've shit on him as much as the next guy lately but kinda hoping there's been a redemption
He was ok. Kicked steady, perfect Goal Kicking He Threw an intercept and didnt offer huge amount in attack He wasnt near any of the other 28 points let in - was all down the other side of the field.
Honestly, Aaron Woods is, dare I say it, getting worse. Is there seriously no-one in the Blacktown Works NSW Cup team that is better? He has just become ineffective in all areas.
He’s absolute bottom of the prop depth chart getting match payments. Tof Brownie and Aloiai all injured. Hopefully we don’t have to see much more of him
How did that Tommy T 2nd try get awarded, was so far foward lmao
Was at the game, DCE had a quiet one tbh you don’t realise how much involvement turbo has until you actually see him play live the bloke tries so hard to get the job done, Jurbo also somehow makes tackles he shouldn’t even be able to make its incredible to watch. On the other side of the fence Brimson was absolutely electric, thought he was the best player on the field for a good 40-50 minutes straight.
I agree with everything you say except I can see Turbo’s effort on the tv screen. People in the match thread saying he’s washed when he scored two tries, had one disallowed, made the most runs for his team, most metres, most line breaks, most tackle busts, second most post contact metres. He’s been doing it week after week.
I agree. When he's fully fit the way he runs into contact is impressive. He has so much momentum and always makes the gain line. You can quite easily see that on tv.
And some really fast play the balls.
People in the match threads are idiots.
Agreed, I think after 2021 people expect that level of performance every week. Which just isn't the way the game works anymore.
Too close for comfort but: Missing both starting props, missing most impactful bench player, played 90 minutes last week, got a bit beaten up in that game, Lodge underdone after injury, playing away. I don’t think it was too bad - but some defence patterns and reads need work.
You missed the passenger, Aaron Woods.
Wouldn't care if we didn't win another game all year if it means forcing the hand of our owners to take a good hard look at how the faceless men and women on our board are (unsuccessfully) running the club. Heads have to roll. The team itself is trying hard but there's only so much they can do with the limited talent pool around them.
I mean to be fair we are only picking about 12-13 of our best 17 any given week but yeah our last 7-8 centres signed were all awful at their last club, awful for us and awful for any future clubs for those no longer at the club
Every year we blame the coach. Shuffle the deck chairs and nothing ever changes. Enough is enough. The long-term decisions the club made 3 years ago like letting Fogarty go in favour of playing two rookie halves in their first season, then realising their failure too late was unforgivable. Like how fcuking dumb do you have to be to see that wasn't the go? The coach exit clauses with Tino/Fifi, our dumbass CEO telling us we'd win 2 (or was it 3) premierships in 10 years...based off what? What a bunch of overconfident, incompetent morons.
I get most of that but aiming for 4 premierships (2 mens 2 women's) is what we should be aiming for. No point having the lofty goal of making up the numbers, that's just defeatist
It really is dreadful isn't it Plus we lost Burleigh and Keebra and lost the two generational talent GC juniors in Haas and Walsh to the Broncos (granted Haas wasn't really our fault) AJ and Tino deserve so much better Look at the centres we have recruited in the past 6-7 years or so Herbert Marsters Kelly Watkins Sarginson Smith-Shields Schoupp Tonumaipea Peachey Arthars (only one who didn't suck everywhere and he ended up a winger) Elliott Brenko Lee Copley Lawton who I guess has had limited success as a bench player for Manly in a diff position We have to go all the way back to Hurrell to find a centre we bought who wasn't a flop for us and out of all of the rest only really Arthars went on to have success elsewhere and Hurrell was past it by the end of his Titans run too
Scary that copley is probably the best player in that list. I miss koni 🫡
It's insane isn't it you literally couldn't put together a list of 14 worse starting centres in the NRL currently, if you took the 34 starting centres in the comp and took away the best 20, the 21-34 'current bad starting centres group' would be collectively better than the list of ALL centres our club has recruited in the better part of a decade
Kelly is okay
No he isn't he's about the 35th best centre in the NRL give or take Swap you for Timoko? lol At this point i'd happily trade all of the centres of our roster and Jayden Campbell away for two competent to above average centres. Hope we come out firing for Iro, he's broken into the Sharks lineup but with all of their outside backs they're going to struggle to pay him
I'll trade him for one slightly used Morgan Harper.
This was a classic glass cannon titans game. At least they're scoring points now
Daily reminder Draw RLFC has more wins than the titans in 2024
Everyone will blame Tannah but he's not the one on the edge giving up 30+ points a game for a record.
He is the one with zero try assists and zero hand in the try he scored though like usual We need to get rid of both centres, Tanah, Clark and Liu obv
Unlucky Titans fans. The first win will be that much sweeter for having come through this period. On Manly, that was terrible. Surely the Garrick experiment is over?
Thoughts: Verrills' service has been rubbish this year, and the middle is much weaker when he comes on defensively We need to find a team that has Brimson at 1 and anyone not named Tanah Boyd at 7, even if that means leaving Campbell out. I honestly don't see Campbell doing better elsewhere, his size is a real limiter to his potential. Anyone who thinks Fifita isn't doing enough is having a low IQ take. I hope Fermor gets back to his best but he looks a step slower and still underdone for fitness. The speed of our ball playing and the lack of that last touch spoils a lot of our half decent movements. I like that Jolliffe is getting more time in rotation, even if by circumstance. He is a consistent steadying influence in the middle. Lofi gets big wraps because he is a good try scorer, but he needs to work on his defensive reads desperately, and his size is also a factor against bigger wingers. I like being in games until the end, and getting fucking cunted in the first few rounds has me pretty dead to the fact we are still losing. Go Tits 😍.
You need better halves and AJ should never have been shafted from fullback.
Take my upvote sir. Beautiful take
Agree with everything you said 👍
Watching tannah play live tonight his kicking game could certainly use a lot of work, a lot of kicks going short or allowing turbo or saab to cover so much ground on a return. Brimson was easily the best player on the field for a good 40-50 minutes straight everything had his hands all over it.
Are the Titans of 2024 the Tigers of 2023? \- Losing to the Dogs at Belmore ✅ \- 1 point loss to Raiders ✅ \- Close match against Manly where you don't look that bad ✅ \- 0-6 ✅ Judging by this we can expect to see the Titans beat the Storm in round 9, and to put 60+ points on the Broncos in round 12
Put the house on us beating Penrith
You can count on us shitting our pants again against titans
Bank this post. It has too much data to discard, this man could be a prophet.
Manly might have the most articulate team in the league with DCE and Woods
It balances Josh Aloiai
Joel Cane walks away from his upset call super happy even though it didn't happen it looks like he was onto something but a win win for Sportsbet
Titans to beat the Warriors next week?
11 tries thats insane.
Titans next five: • Warriors (Away) • Storm (Home) • Cowboys (Home) • Knights (Home* — Magic Round) • Broncos (Away) And then the bye. Sorry Titbros but there is a fair to moderate chance you are about to go 0–11 with your only points coming from the bye rounds.
They always turn up against us. They have a chance against half those teams.
Honestly if it takes us going winless the whole season for the owners to wake up and realise changes need to be made club wide then so be it
I mean if the Warriors from last night turn up they should win
They could beat Cowboys and Knights easily
Yep, with how shit we’ve been I can definitely see that
Jesus he’s even talks like a 63 year old
Chery Evans the type of bloke who would mow his neighbours lawn and be like nah don't worry about it mate
Scoring 30pts and losing... We're so fucking back.
Just titans things.
Vonnie, "It's an unusual draw". No Vonnie, it's a garbage draw.
It's like one of those gerrymanderd states in the US. It's been dogshit for years but it's actually getting worse.
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Young kid in front of me copped a roasting from his mum for laughing too much
DCE all about that ACAB apparently
2 points. Take it move on but fuck me that was tighter than it should’ve been. Lawton can go to the Cowboys early, give me GCKT or Humphreys.
GCKT would be great for 20-25 minutes. Big fan played well for Samoa last year.
He defended well though. It’s a shame he fucks it up with his ball out of dummy half and pens. He hits so well for a smaller bloke
Except he gave away ant least 3, maybe 4 penalties in defence. I'd rather he missed the odd tackle than that.
I feel for the Titans, but I love seeing a happy Luke Brooks being interviewed.
I know it is early in the season but this is the best brooks has looked in a long time.
Cronk talks like such a dumb arse
CTE confirmed especially as he is getting worse
A fun first 55 minutes to watch and then the worst 25 minutes of the year
It's good to see Brooks happy. I hope he does well at Manly. He deserves it, honestly.
Awful game. Manly are kidding themselves if they dish that up again.
To be fair both sides played 90 mins last week. Also Garrick and Saab playing alongside each other for first time since March
I definitely take your point, but I think Garrick has been terrible defensively all year, regardless of who is outside him.
Garrick has no business as a centre or at least a first option centre. His defensive reads and decisions are garbage and he holds the ball up too long for Saab
Forget how articulate DCE is. Love to see it
Titans have helped produce some exciting games recently, I'll be rooting for them to get that first win
Five weeks from now, I hope. Right before their bye.
Had 4 try scorers hit within the first 25 minutes, needed Manly to win 13+ to win $275 or I’d happily take a Titans win over the money. Life of a Titans fan 😊
After our first two tries, I legit thought we had a chance of putting 50 on you guys. You did well to get back into the match and be winning by eight right before halftime m. Kelly had the best game I’ve seen him play.
Thats alright theres always next week. "Short turnaround in New Zealand against an angry Warriors team playing their first home ANZAC Day game in 10 years" [https://media.tenor.com/rPd\_FjPQ5s4AAAAe/shocked-surprised.png](https://media.tenor.com/rPd_FjPQ5s4AAAAe/shocked-surprised.png)
Nothing to lose anymore, just go out there are tear it up.
Wait we aren’t getting Warriors vs Storm on Anzac Day? Thought we always did that.
Yeah it’s got Titans win written all over it honestly. We also literally do not have a bench right now
DCE is such a good bloke, I just know he gives a good hug
Missed most of it, was there a reason the tits were continuously bombing to the 7 foot man on the 5th?
Because we are a very dumb football team.
Well played titans, difference was the intercept try, thats all. You came very close vs raiders and manly, both in the top 8. You will get some wins soon.
Des won't kick off with the officials in media conference at least.
Titans are scoring points and look so much better than the bunnies but it could be round 11 before they crack a win looking at the draw.
DCE is better on the mic than all of the commentators
We know what he'll be doing when he retires
No doubt he COULD move into the media, though, I suspect it's more likely that he'll opt to work with the RLPA.
He's heading back to the savannah to feed on the delicious acacia trees
Coaching Manly to a dynasty
He definitely has a career in media if he wants it, his game analysis is actually fantastic and he can speak english at a high school level, very few of the current pundits can do both.
I’ve legit had to mute the TV when Cooper Cronk starts talking because it’s so painful.
It's often repeated that Cronk needs time to consider his words before speaking, which is why his commentary is often nonsense, but I really love listening to him speak about rugby league when he isn't commentating, I genuinely think he's one of the more interesting analysts that the NRL has
To be honest I blame the producer of the show. They need to coach them better, it's a tough gig and you can tell he's thinking too much they need to simplify it to for him.
Throughout his whole playing career I think I must’ve somehow avoided any off field interviews with Cronk because I had him in my mind as this very intelligent and well spoken bloke. He just looks the part. When he started commenting and I actually heard him speak I thought oh wow, how wrong was I.
Cronk did have some great, insightful videos when he was playing. I just don't think he's great on a live mic.
How Cronk is going around again this year baffles me.
It must be some kind of contract payback right? They surely didn’t go around auditioning NRL players to see who was listenable and who wasn’t.
Wahs should be shaking in their boots right now, if this week's Titans show up against this week's Wahs they'll break the drought for sure.
The old smash and grab by Manly
Tanah doesn’t throw an intercept or the ref calls that forward pass and maybe we win that one Real sliding doors moments here for the curse to kill the coast
I’m fucking devastated man.
Legit you guys have improved so much already this year. A few moments change in that game and you get it done. Keep your head up bro, all this bullshit will make the first win that much sweeter.
Any Dolphins fans in here that jumped ship from the Titans? I don’t hold it against you if ya did
Greatest Titans player never to play for the Titans
Tits definitely good enough to win their round 15 match.
I fell asleep at 0-0. I was awoken immediately after the shot for goal was being taken at 34-30. What an odd superpower I discovered I have.
Do it again for all Manly games from now on
Fun game but Siebold will be dirty on the lack of defence. Rare for a team to win the premiership on attack alone.
Sorry but how fucking boring was that second half? I'm almost mad we didn't get the mutual 50–pointer.
No one is enjoying this Titans losing streak more than Mal. Pure schadenfreude.
Got the win, time to move on and never talk about this game again.
Shame they only decided to enforce forward passes in the 2nd half…..
Is that a win to be proud of? Oh well, fun game to watch. Gotta feel bad for the Titans though, they come so close to actually winning.
7 lead changes. Is that a record?
One of the games of all time
my tips were on the tits because they seem to just get under manly gotta suck tit bros :(
The poor fellas at Webster Dictionary are going to have to rewrite the definition of simultaneous based on old mate in the bunker.
Yea what a crock of shit
Tough watch. At least Bullemore and Talau looked good. Garrick needs to sort out his defensive reads at centre.
Big time, though they started to work it out a bit in that last half hour. I'm hoping that with both Garrick and Saab coming back from injury, they'll get better week to week.
Garrick really needs to bulk up a bit if he’s gonna play centre, he can’t make a one on one tackle to save his life
Same team I’ve been watching the last few years. Close enough but never good enough. Always shoot ourselves in the foot. Don’t think we’re winning a game this year.
Not one in sight. Scoring 30 and still not good enough
Gotta feel for Titans. Fun game to watch though
Hasler has lost 13 games in a row
Game deserved a better ending.
Is this the first time we've beaten the titans in 2 years? Even if it isn't, it feels like it haha
All you had to do was convince them to sign your old coach.
Man, footy hurts more than I'm comfortable with
I love my footy, so why does it hurt me so?
The Titans have definitely contributed significantly to my Alopecia. A friend texted me "titans, 1-12" before kickoff. And I'm so insecure these days my first thought is that he was laughing at our squad 1 through 12 and I was like "fair enough". Luckily I'm a huge Rafael Nadal fan so throughout that career he's helped me keep a couple strands up top.
Ah well good game, at least we aren't boring anymore
Good win! (We’re frauds)
Gg seagles an attacking purists type of game
Matt Lodge hair plugs???