the Tigers coach making no excuses for the poor performance against the Dragons<\/a> and declaring it \u201cstarts and stops with me\u201d.<\/p>\nMarshall extended with the club until the end of 2030 late last year and while the Tigers are trending towards missing the top eight again, the NRL 360 panel agreed there isn\u2019t any pressure on the club legend \u2014 yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve made gradual improvements on his watch,\u201d veteran reporter Brent Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re becoming a better footy team on his watch, and he\u2019s a magnet for players. We\u2019ve seen the players they have attracted and kept at that footy club. I don\u2019t think he should be under any pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Code Sports reporter Michael Carayannis, meanwhile, said this is the \u201cfirst year\u201d that Tigers fans can sit back and say they saw \u201cgenuine improvement\u201d in the team. <\/p>\n
Although he conceded that if the Tigers don\u2019t win at least four or five of their last eight games to end the year, it will be a \u201cdifferent conversation\u201d.<\/p>\n
“They’ve got to pick him!” | 04:36<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re far away from a top four side, like the Warriors and being able to have the resolve to play through injuries,\u201d Carayannis added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve had a much improved year, but it was just their performance on Saturday night. It just lacked intent. That\u2019s the concern. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dragons outperformed them. The Dragons outplayed them. The Tigers probably won the opening battle of that second half, but aside from that, the Dragons were all over them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ability to perform without their key players will be the next evolution of this Tigers team that was once one of the feel-good stories of the season.<\/p>\n
They are still well and truly in the finals race too, sitting just two wins outside of the top eight but their -104 for-and-against makes it that much harder for the Tigers to sneak in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wests Tigers don\u2019t necessarily need to end their finals drought for this season to be a success.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-782663","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\/782663","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=782663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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