Learnt a lot about US sports culture today. A lot of flexing for only just beating a nation of 6.6m in a sport they invented. Acting like Jokic fans are committing treason.
We here would never do this to a small Pacifica nation in rugby league. We embrace the competition
“I’m not putting that shit in my body” - the anti vaccine builder says after finishing his breakfast of Krispy Kreme Donuts, a large can of Monster and two sticks of Winnie Blues he bought at 7Eleven...
#melbourneprotests
People saying Embiid is a better scorer than Nikola Jokic and yet Joker literally has more FG than anyone else in the NBA this season and at a higher % than the entire top 20. Embiid? Not even on the list
@DNVR_Nuggets
@EPtheDreamer
@Shelby_FO
@TheDunkCentral
I’m a Nuggets fan, not disagreeing. But that’s not the point. A World Champion is crowned when you’re in a competition open to the world. Here in Australia we don’t call our rugby league or Aussie rules champions, world champs, despite them being by far the best team in the world
Hey
@scg
if you’re so worried about RSA and people drinking too much mid strength beer, how’s a smart idea to have water filters around instead of charging 6 bucks for plastic bottles. We shouldn’t have to ask bar staff to fill up our water bottles for us
Shawn Blore shedding tears as he heads to his first grand final. After such terrible luck with injuries for years, the grand final will be his 26th game played this season (2 with Norths). You can’t not be happy for him
#NRLStormRoosters
Can finally make it online official, the
@WestsTigers
will definitely one extra member come September...Marshall if it’s a boy, Farah if it’s a girl? 🤷♂️
So the
@WestsTigers
membership numbers will officially go up by one in the Barnett house next season.
Leo Joseph Barnett arrived just a couple hours after the
@Nuggets
beat the Lakers yesterday. 24 hours later and Mum and bub are doing great.
This isn’t just a Clive Churchill winner, Nathan Cleary with one of the greatest grand final performances I’ve seen in three decades watching footy. I can’t remember a player carrying a team himself like this
#NRLGF
Last night, we lost the man who was half the reason I was a
@tigers1908
fan and now
@WestsTigers
. He grew up in Balmain (both grandfathers did). Saw the 1969 GF live. Leichhardt Oval is like church for my family. It’s only fitting Tigers will play there this weekend. RIP Pop
I have Robbie Farah to my right, Blocker and Sirro to my left, Kevin Harwick behind me. Literally in heaven rn. This is my religion right here 🧡🙏🏼
#ShowYourStripes
Not to take away from the Panthers and the incredible run they’re on, but 35k for two Sydney teams in a prelim? Their fanbase has grown massively. Would be incredible to see us get to one again against Dragons/Dogs/Souths one day. Accor would be full to the brim (like in 2010)
Had a spare minute. Decided to do a
@nuggets
jersey stocktake. Got a new Murray white on the way too. Might have to buy the son one soon too as he’s growing out of his rainbow skyline
@jacksonhinklle
No cuisine? Mate we go to school and get a meat pie or sausage roll from the canteen with a side of not being shot by an angry teenager
So many people bitching about Neds sponsoring the Wests Tigers. If you honestly think a label on a jersey is going to turn someone into a gambling addict, you’re as dumb as shit. If you don’t like gambling, don’t gamble! You’re an adult, you can make your own choices!
Recently re-watched the QandA with George Pell and Richard Dawkins on YouTube. There's a point where Pell says "so we prepared some altar boys", he awkwardly pauses, some audience members chuckle and Dawkins smirks...some stereotypes turn out to be true. Off to jail you sick fuck
Walking down Waikiki wearing my
@WestsTigers
training singlet and a guy was sitting at the front of a restaurant in this year’s Indigenous jersey...he waved to me and gave me the thumbs up and I smiled and gave one back. Name one group of suffering fans with this such pride?
Congrats to all my Serbian friends. The bronze meant so much to us in Tokyo and so happy for Nikola Jokic, the best player in basketball, get an Olympic medal
@MiroslavCuk
🇷🇸🇦🇺💛🏀
#Basketball
🥉
I started
@WestsLifePod
in 2019 because I knew that the Wests Tigers fanbase was a large and loyal one, which it still is. But I’m not sure how many more beatings we can all take. I’ve got people messaging/commenting to me, apologising that they don’t want to tune in as…
Is there anyone under the age of like 50 that gives a shit about the
#Coronation
, especially here in Australia? It’s 2023, are we really still playing “that family is better than us”? Old dudes in dresses whispering voodoo shit as they put a $60m hat on his head. It’s fkn weird
I have about a week or so to convince the wife that Nofoaluma Barnett is a great name for a boy. Or a girl even. What ya reckon
@m_larks
?
@WestsTigers
Just had a random thought. If my wife gives birth in a couple days, September 11th could become a day of celebration for us instead of that tragic day that everyone remembers where they were when Braith Anasta kicked that damn field goal in the 2010 to take the semi to extra time
To rub salt into the wound, I’ve dropped my wallet at Campbelltown somewhere. If anyone finds a black one with my wests tigers membership card in it, plz let me know
My now wife and I have been together 8 years today. Travelled the world together, got married, bought a house and made a child….but we still haven’t seen a Wests Tigers finals game together 😭
Is anyone old enough to remember using the slang word “yonks” to emphasise a long amount of time. E.g. “the Parramatta Eels haven’t won a Comp in yonks”
Love this from Joe
@Joe_Hildebrand
. I'm sick of the acts of clearly mentally disturbed people who commit atrocities against women becomes a "male culture issue". No man I know would commit rape, murder or harm a woman. So where the fuck are these animals?
“What if the Wests Tigers still had this Benji Marshall?”...uh, we have a 22yo
#6
doing just as much, if not more. Also, he’s a big fan of his coach. 36yo Benji isn’t making a difference to our results this year had he stayed nor would he be helping build for the future. Move on!
.
@PenrithPanthers
coach Ivan Cleary has called for the NRL to take a position on coaches publicly manipulating the game’s officials. Direct shot at Wayne Bennett.
@telegraph_sport
Benji has been an NRL coach 8 games, we’ve got huge signings coming where he is a huge reason for it…but apparently Benji isn’t doing well. Very unfair to make this conclusion this early.
We fell into the trap of being told that this year would be different under Benji Marshall, but despite the renewed hope fans are suffering the same dismal results, writes Dean Ritchie.
STORY 👉
@bertkreischer
Pete Sampras’ missus in Billy Madison...I married a school teacher and only just realised being a teenager fantasising about her dragging me by the ears might have subconsciously made me do that 😂
Australia the number one test cricket nation again. India, you might need to get the population to 2 billion before you find 11 men to topple our little island nation of 26 mil 🤷♂️
#INDvsAUS
Full credit to the Norm from Cheers looking bloke who put the piece of shit in his place. So many young self-entitled ‘everyone deserve a medal’ fuckwits in society now who have no manners because they never got the kick up the arse they deserved when they were kids.
@andrewbogut
People don’t realise how many people have loved ones across state borders and the mental toll it takes from enforcing separation. Yes Covid is serious, but mental and emotional health needs to be considered when making these rash decisions
A WT Facebook admin just told that I needed to add a white heart to my post with 🧡🖤...how the hell are fully grown adults getting so mad about colour ratios still? Wests Magpies were predominantly black!
People bagging out the club for turning off the comments in the full time score tweet can fuck right off. The social media team doesn’t need to hear your opinion and the amount of abuse that would’ve been in the thread would’ve been disgusting.
You will never convince me that the Wests Tigers are referee’d different to other teams. No matter who you support, I bet you can’t think off the top of your head more times a team has been given a deplorable game-changing decision than us
@telegraph_sport
Usually coaches get more than 8 games to be judged upon. I don’t think anyone expect him to flip that roster instantly into a top 8 team. Him being coach is the reason players are COMING to the club as opposed to begging to leave
Looking at this Gosford crowd and wondering about how the
#NRL
totally fucked up not giving Central Coast the green light in 2006 over the Gold Coast Titans. Half a million people who love footy. This is what they do for their soccer team, imagine a rugby league team
#CCMvMVC
Thanks to all the legends that sent bday wishes. Spent the day at Wests Ashfield with the fam and my brother from a much taller mother Shawn Blore (I wish). Well done to
@hollis_k_
and co for organising the Ambush! Was an awesome atmosphere watching the game on the big screen!
My little brother plays 3rd grade rugby for Terrigal and yesterday was subbed off for former Bulldogs player Arana Taumata...what a fall from grace. For my brother that is
What would NRL journos do without the Wests Tigers franchise? We’re like the Lindsay Lohan of the NRL. Even when we’re not doing anything, people just keep talking about us 🤷♂️
AUSTRALIA IS WAKING TO A GOLDEN SHOWER THIS MORNING 🥇🥇🥇🥇. Most gold ever, third on the tally well ahead of the hosts in fourth…a nation of just 26 million people!
#Paris2024
Kids need to learn how to lose as do parents need to teach them. My wife runs the athletics carnival at her school and gets parents of non-winning kids asking her for ribbons. She absolutely refuses to. We’re creating a generation of self entitled sooks and it needs to stop
A leading psychologist says not keeping score in junior sport, is part of the "wuss-fication" of an entire generation, with young kids not learning how to be resilient. Agree?