WHAT’S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n The result marked another frustrating chapter in the club\u2019s difficult season having all but extinguished any hopes of breaking the finals drought.<\/p>\n After showing promising signs to begin this year\u2019s campaign, the Tigers will now miss the finals for a 15th consecutive season, with the dramatic collapse continuing against the Bulldogs, led by former teen sensation Lachlan Galvin.<\/p>\n \u201cThe start was pretty poor from us. We\u2019re really struggling at the moment with confidence (and) playing our type of footy,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n \u201cThen off the back of it we struggled to defend our sets so it\u2019s tough at the moment for us but I thought we showed a bit of fight at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n \u201cThen moments got away from us and then the scoreboard next minute is 32-nil, so yes it\u2019s disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n Continuing to speak, Marshall admitted that confidence within the playing group had taken a significant hit due to their recent poor performances.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard. I guess we\u2019re all in that place at the moment where doubts, confidence (is down),\u201d the Tigers coach continued.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can see the teams battling out their stages and sometimes we were fighting but in the wrong areas.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot to learn and take away but at the moment we\u2019re just not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Marshall and co-captain Api Koroisau refused to blame the defeat on the turbulent week the club endured after it was confirmed that Jarome Luai would depart at the end of the season to link up with the Eels.<\/p>\n \u201cOn a personal level, I didn\u2019t even think about it once,\u201d the club\u2019s co-captain said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had one of our best weeks of training so I don\u2019t know if that plays a part.\u201d<\/p>\n Marshall continued, \u201cHe went out and tried to do his job.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe scoreboard got the better of us, so we\u2019re trying to catch our tail there at the back end but he was trying hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall has conceded that his side is battling a growing confidence crisis after they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-808275","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\/808275","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=808275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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