Tigers coach Benji Marshall has batted off ideas the membership’s administration are accountable for his or her second consecutive wood spoon.
The merger membership’s destiny was sealed in Round 27 with a 54-12 flogging by the hands of the Sea Eagles confirming their seventeenth positioned end.
It has been a turbulent season in Tiger-town with membership powerbrokers Justin Pascoe and Lee Hagipantelis constantly copping criticism from rugby league pundits.
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From their bundled ANZAC jersey design, to their choice to quick observe Sheens’ transfer out of the pinnacle teaching function in 2024 — it has been a season to overlook for the Tigers.
When requested if the membership’s administration have been accountable for the 2023 wood spoon, Marshall was blunt in his response.
“We are all guilty of the wooden spoons, everyone that’s involved in it,” he stated within the post-match press convention.
“I guess we all have a part to play and Justin Pascoe is as much a part of it as I am, and as this bloke (Api Koroisau) is.
“As a club, that’s where we have to be, we have to be better. That’s as far as I’ll go on that.”
The Sea Eagles simply picked aside the Tigers defence and Marshall additionally levelled an enormous warning to his squad forward of subsequent season.
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If they don’t make any adjustments, they could possibly be on observe for a three-peat of the NRL’s least-coveted prize.
“Before the game we spoke about competing for 80 minutes and giving ourselves a chance, from the start of the game we were off,” Marshall stated.
“They pulled us apart throughout the whole game… it was disappointing, we want to set standards here.
“I thought the last four to five weeks we did that, but today we let that go.
“We have to be better on the field and more consistent and get it right, because if we don’t it is going to be a long year.”
Meanwhile, there have been offended Tigers fan protests on the evening.
As reported by AAP, followers on the seventh minute “expressed disgust at Justin Pascoe’s performance as CEO” with a chant about ending the “Pascoe Fiasco”.
AAP additionally reported that banners have been taken down at Brookvale Oval as they have been deemed “offensive”.
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