'Don't ask it': Benji bites back at 'silly question'

Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall wasn’t impressed with a question around the Tigers’ record at Campbelltown Stadium after the side’s 10th loss in a row at the venue.

Marshall’s troops were comprehensively defeated by the Broncos in a 34-10 scoreline, having previously lost to the Dragons 24-12 at the ground in a shock round six result.

The Tigers coach was asked towards the end of his press conference whether they should take all their home games to Leichardt Oval.

“What do you want to do?” he replied.

Benji Marshall wasn’t impressed with one question in his press conference.

Prompted on the 17,000 crowd figure, Marshall went on to praise the fans despite his frustration at the questioning.

“Yeah, our fans are great. They’ve turned up here twice in a row for home games,” he said.

“But we can’t, because of the loss, say let’s go and change everything. We just need to perform better. That’s it.

“That’s a silly question, man.

“Yeah, don’t ask it.”

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The Tigers were unable to get themselves on the scoreboard until the 69th minute with Charlie Staines scoring a late double.

Despite having their first choice halves pairing back in the side with Lachie Galvin and Aidan Sezer, Marshall was notably critical of the side’s last tackle options.

“I thought our last play options were terrible,” he said.

“I thought some of our sets were clunky and looked like we were just making it up on the spot.”

There was one notable shocker for Sezer when he kicked the ball straight to Corey Oates who took the ball on the full in the in goal before Samuela Fainu was sin binned for tackling him as he looked to run back for a 20 metre restart.

Marshall explained it was a simple misunderstanding for his young second-rower.

“You can point to finger at Samuela, we love what he brings to our team,” Marshall said.

“And he thought that he didn’t catch it on the full and just thought he was making a tackle, which is a mistake, and it’s a bad one because it cost us.”