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If departing Tiger Robbie Farah thought he could publicly humiliate coach Jason Taylor by sitting alone on the deck of the Leichhardt scoreboard yesterday sipping a few beers, the ploy went off like a lead balloon.
If his club-mates were on his side they would have joined him, but not one bothered.
Last July, Taylor dropped 247-game Farah to the reserves, and he was mightily peeved.
How could the coach drop the NSW Origin hooker?
But to Taylor’s credit, the Tigers played infinitely better football to go within a game of making the eight.
But over the last couple of months, Farah has used the media, and loyal fans, to promote his “I’ve been badly done by” sympathy card.
Yesterday, after being feted by the Leichhardt faithful at half-time in the vital clash with the Raiders, Farah decided that wasn’t enough.
At game’s end, with the Tigers thumped 52-10 and missing the finals, that’s when Farah went to the far side of the ground to sit on the scoreboard deck with his legs dangling over the edge.
Foxtel’s Emma Lawrence interviewed Farah on the deck, who again used the opportunity to further his cause.
He hasn’t done badly out of not being wanted – the Tigers will pay South Sydney $760,000 of his first year at the club which will top up his wallet to the tune of $1.2 million.
Farah isn’t worth that much, and he was only the Origin hooker because of coach Laurie Daley’s loyalty when Michael Ennis and Nathan Peats were far better performers.
So the Robbie Farah saga has come to an end, but he did have the final say,
“I’m a Tiger for life”.
Souths will be so pleased to hear that.
By comparison, the Warriors are a disgrace. With four rounds to go they were well positioned to make the eight, but lost all four games to miss out.
But it was the way they lost – 41-32 to Souths at home, 34-6 to the Cowboys away, to finish with two home games and a 36-24 loss to the Tigers, and yesterday a whopping 40-18 defeat by the Eels.
That’s having 151 points scored against them in contention, while only managing to score 70 themselves.
That’s very unlike a New Zealand sporting side that always has inbuilt pride and passion without fail.
I’ve often asked the question why did the NRL invite the Warriors into the competition in 1995?
Why promote the Kiwis, then play internationals against them? It does make any sense.
It would be like admitting a Kiwi side into the Sheffield Shield. Not on.
And when rugby league fans in the northern suburbs of Sydney only have Manly to follow, with the closest club north in Newcastle – 170 clicks away – the Warriors are a waste of space, especially when they aren’t trying.
So dump the Warriors and admit the Central Coast Bears, and all will be forgiven.(Click to Tweet)