DCE reflects on record milestone amid big hint on future<\/a><\/p>\nJarome Luai and Benji Marshall.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
However, Marshall refused to use losing two playmakers as an excuse for the loss and took aim at his side\u2019s defence. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo excuses, every team is playing with injuries,\u201d Marshall said. <\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has to cover stuff. At the end of the day we had the opportunity to win it with our defence and we didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a credit to the Cowboys though I\u2019ll be honest, at 12 points down they had every right to throw the cue in the rack. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut they kept fighting and in that five minutes scored three tries and we need to be better. \u201cIt\u2019s just hard because I just feel for everyone, the hope and the hype and the results last night giving everyone a bit of hope into where we could end up. It\u2019s all been taken away after tonight, so I guess everyone\u2019s feeling the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall is focused on improvement rather than finals, but he admits it was a bitter pill to swallow after losing in front of 16,000 Tigers fans. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have got the team of competitors who want to win,\u201d Marshall said. <\/p>\n
Tigers link up for ‘try of the year’?! | 00:43<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you lose, it\u2019s never easy and you just want to do everything possible to win and today we missed the mark a bit in that back end of the second half. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m proud of my team, the way they\u2019ve been preparing, fighting, giving themselves a chance. <\/p>\n
\u201cI love the way they\u2019re driving each other, training to be better and starting to find what our DNA looks like. But again it\u2019s just disappointing.\u201d <\/p>\n
Luai admitted the result did spoil his 150th milestone, but was still proud of his team. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt does for me a little bit, I would have rather the two points than the try and things like that,\u201d Luai said. <\/p>\n
\u201cLike Benji said, I hate to lose bro, but at the end of the day, I\u2019ve got to put things into perspective and I think this milestone is more of a celebration for my family and for anyone who\u2019s really invested to get me to where I am today. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m disappointed for me and my team, but I\u2019ll get home and have a pretty good time reflecting with my family and friends.\u201d <\/p>\n
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The Tigers had the members of the 2005 Grand Final win over the Cowboys at the game and were playing like them in some of their tries, but Marshall denied his current team can be successful in the same way. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to have everyone here, I\u2019ll be honest,\u201d Marshall said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked about it a little bit. Heritage round and the people who have gone before us, but we\u2019re probably a completely different team to that era. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe game\u2019s changed so much. We probably can\u2019t play like how they played, although there was some tries tonight that made me feel like that a little bit. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s not going to be our DNA moving forward. We need to be better defensively. Tonight there\u2019s some lapses there, but we\u2019re still figuring that out at the moment. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of work to do still, but I guess from a coaching perspective, I want to finish the season as good as possible.\u201d <\/p>\n
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In some good news for the Tigers, it was announced at half-time that the club has received $100 million in funding to play home games at Leichhardt Oval and in Campbelltown for the next 15 years. <\/p>\n
\u201cSuper happy for the players, the fans, both here and Campbelltown,\u201d Marshall said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s important for us to know where our future lies and especially for our fans. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s credit to Richo and their team for what they\u2019ve done to be able to get that funding and that\u2019s not really my job to worry about, but from the players and coaching perspective, we\u2019re happy about it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benji Marshall was flat after the Tigers blew a 28-16 lead to go down to the Cowboys 34-28…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7189,68227,63,689,9421,4428,68514,68512,68511,68513,38426,67084,43,64029,68229,4582,39262,4746,6407,7801,673,4495,44,764,677,68515,68516,68228,777,41,39,42,40,4515],"class_list":["post-92341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-adam-obrien","tag-addresses-horror-show","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-benji-marshall","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-campbelltown","tag-coaching-perspective","tag-comfortable-actions","tag-facial-fracture","tag-finals-drought","tag-golden-chance","tag-headlines","tag-home-games","tag-horror-show-v","tag-jarome-luai","tag-jason-taumalolo","tag-mark-st-john","tag-michael-maguire","tag-milestone-match","tag-new-south-wales","tag-newcastle-knights","tag-news","tag-north-queensland-cowboys","tag-oceania","tag-slim-finals","tag-suspected-facial-fracture","tag-tigers-link","tag-todd-payten","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92341","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=92341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}