{"id":662433,"date":"2026-05-10T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:57:27","slug":"benji-marshall-press-conference-after-wests-tigers-loss-to-melbourne-storm-video-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662433\/","title":{"rendered":"Benji Marshall press conference after Wests Tigers loss to Melbourne Storm, video, injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an excuse-free zone for Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall after Sunday\u2019s blow out 44-16 loss to Melbourne Storm<\/a> at AAMI Park.<\/p>\n

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Despite the team\u2019s injury crisis, Marshall is adamant the Tigers should be better than what they have served up in conceding 52 points to Cronulla and 44 to Storm in two heavy defeats over the past fortnight.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt just creates a bit of like a negative smell around what we\u2019re doing with those two scorelines,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially given defensively before the last two weeks, we were pretty high up in the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, our standards are better than that, but I\u2019m not going to make any excuses around that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019ve got to try and find is solutions and what\u2019s going to help and how we get out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers were blown out of the water by Storm in the opening 12 minutes, conceding four tries.<\/p>\n

They made a late run in the second half with centre Taylan May scoring the second of his two tries and Luke Laulilii getting on the board to trim the deficit to 16 with 14 minutes to go, but the damage had been done.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust seemed like no matter what we did [in the first half], we couldn\u2019t find a way out of turning the momentum that they had,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t give anyone that sort of start.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it creates is scoreboard pressure and you start playing a different type of footy to try and catch up and win the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was proud of the fight in the second half, but ultimately we just weren\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers have a nervous wait on the Magic Round availability of Alex Twal, Latu Fainu and Kai Pearce-Paul, who were placed on report.<\/p>\n

They can ill afford to lose any more troops given their extensive injury list.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHonestly, specifically I don\u2019t remember a lot of them, but we\u2019ll have to have a look and see what comes out,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously not ideal, but that\u2019s rugby league mate, you\u2019ve got to take the good with the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers will get back forward Terrell May, who was a late exclusion for the Storm game to attend the birth of his child, for the blockbuster clash with Manly Sea Eagles at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Tigers skipper Jarome Luai praised the other May, Taylan, for starring against Storm with two tries, 179 run metres and nine tackle breaks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a beast,\u201d Luai said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the boys love playing alongside Taylan.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust the X-factor he brings, but he also values the stuff without the ball as well, so he\u2019s an awesome player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an excuse-free zone for Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall after Sunday\u2019s blow out 44-16 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-662433","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\/662433","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=662433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}