{"id":458956,"date":"2026-02-05T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458956\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:37:12","slug":"api-koroisau-opens-up-on-dark-wests-tigers-days-dealing-with-lachlan-galvin-drama-will-tigers-make-the-eight-benji-marshall-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458956\/","title":{"rendered":"Api Koroisau opens up on dark Wests Tigers days, dealing with Lachlan Galvin drama, will Tigers make the eight, Benji Marshall, news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers may be a club on the rise and for some, a sexy pick to improve into the top eight this season, but there has been several very dark moments in recent years to overcome.<\/p>\n

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Skipper Api Koroisau admits he ran out of answers during the Tigers\u2019 horror three year wooden spoon streak from 2022-2024.<\/p>\n

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Koroisau was fresh off back-to-back premierships at Penrith when he arrived at the Tigers at the start of the 2023. <\/p>\n

Reality soon set in for Koroisau as the Tigers would lose their first eight games and win just four the entire season. <\/p>\n

With just ten wins total across 2023 and 2024, Koroisau doesn\u2019t look back too fondly on those times.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh man, it was a slog,\u201d he told foxsports.com.au.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on the bottom, struggled to get off the bottom, and week in, week out we were trying new things but not coming up with the results.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, after a while we started to hurt but we had some boys here who just kept turning up regardless and it\u2019s those guys you love paying back at times like this when the club does start to get better.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mindset was just footy. For me footy is simple, it\u2019s probably the stuff that happens off the field and the lives you have to worry about as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s 30 blokes in your team who all have personal lives, some were finding it tough from how hard footy is in general \u2026 It\u2019s just hard because I didn\u2019t have the answers when the boys were asking the questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After some tough years for Api Koroisau and the Tigers, things are looking up.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Tigers improved up the ladder to 14th last season and were in finals contention up until the final few weeks of the season before losing their last three. <\/p>\n

In what was co-captain Jarome Luai\u2019s first season at the club, there was a lot to like about the 2025 campaign given there were a few bumps along the way, notably the Lachlan Galvin saga.<\/p>\n

Galvin left the club to join the Bulldogs in a controversial mid-season switch. It placed a huge microscope on the club, especially the leadership group of Koroisau, Luai and coach Benji Marshall.<\/p>\n

\u201dTo be fair, it was quite a rollercoaster,\u201d Koroisau said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started off better than a lot of other people anticipated and sort of started proving a few points to ourselves, but it got derailed halfway through the season there, but a credit to the team for not falling away too hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year was up there in terms of where this club\u2019s been at and where we sort of finished up.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderstanding the group of players that we have here, they all just want to compete. They\u2019re guys you want to go out there and win with. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the results haven\u2019t gone our way in the past, but they are a bunch of blokes that\u2019ll keep turning up each week. You love playing with these kind of guys and it\u2019s a privilege to lead them out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers may be a club on the rise and for some, a sexy pick to improve into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-458956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}