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“We can really make a run for the finals now … anything can happen in this competition. We’ll just keep plugging away, week by week.”
The Tigers haven’t featured in the play-offs since 2011, when Twal was a 15-year-old coming up through the junior representative ranks at Parramatta, but they have finished just outside the top eight in ninth on three occasions since then.
Twal, the Tigers’ longest-serving player with 161 NRL games over nine seasons, is hopeful the boilover win against Canterbury – who have been entrenched at the pointy end of the ladder since the season kicked off – would be a springboard to bigger and better things.
“You look at where they sit on the table – they’re a top-four team for a reason,” he said. “We came out here and I think that’s our best 80 minutes [for the year], and we’re really looking to build on it.”
Tigers coach Benji Marshall was more circumspect when asked about his team’s finals prospects.
“It’s the furthest thing from my mind at the moment,” he said. “It’s week in, week out, putting in performances like we did today, and figuring out why we can do it today and why we haven’t for the rest of the year.
Alex Twal consoles former teammate Lachlan Galvin on Sunday.Credit: NRL Photos
“Obviously it helps having Jahream [Bula] and Samuela [Fainu] back and probably our full complement today. But yeah, we’ve got to figure out how we get those performances more often.”
The Tigers’ hopes suffered a setback on Monday when back-rower Alex Seyfarth was charged with a grade-two careless high tackle for a hit on Canterbury forward Harry Hayes that led to a stint in the sin bin.
Seyfarth is facing a three-week ban if he takes the early guilty plea and four weeks if the Tigers unsuccessfully challenge the charge at the judiciary.
Twal, meanwhile, was hopeful the Tigers would re-sign fellow Lebanon international Adam Doueihi, who produced one of the games of his career on Sunday.
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The 27-year-old utility is being courted by St George Illawarra.
“He’s a freak, I love him – he’s like a brother to me,” Twal said.
“I was just so proud of him today. He steered the ship. I can’t speak highly enough of him.
“Obviously I’ve been vocal about that [re-signing] and I’d love him to stay at the club. I’m sure the club will do everything they can.”
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“We can really make a run for the finals now … anything can happen in this competition. We’ll just keep plugging away, week by week.”
The Tigers haven’t featured in the play-offs since 2011, when Twal was a 15-year-old coming up through the junior representative ranks at Parramatta, but they have finished just outside the top eight in ninth on three occasions since then.
Twal, the Tigers’ longest-serving player with 161 NRL games over nine seasons, is hopeful the boilover win against Canterbury – who have been entrenched at the pointy end of the ladder since the season kicked off – would be a springboard to bigger and better things.
“You look at where they sit on the table – they’re a top-four team for a reason,” he said. “We came out here and I think that’s our best 80 minutes [for the year], and we’re really looking to build on it.”
Tigers coach Benji Marshall was more circumspect when asked about his team’s finals prospects.
“It’s the furthest thing from my mind at the moment,” he said. “It’s week in, week out, putting in performances like we did today, and figuring out why we can do it today and why we haven’t for the rest of the year.
Alex Twal consoles former teammate Lachlan Galvin on Sunday.Credit: NRL Photos
“Obviously it helps having Jahream [Bula] and Samuela [Fainu] back and probably our full complement today. But yeah, we’ve got to figure out how we get those performances more often.”
The Tigers’ hopes suffered a setback on Monday when back-rower Alex Seyfarth was charged with a grade-two careless high tackle for a hit on Canterbury forward Harry Hayes that led to a stint in the sin bin.
Seyfarth is facing a three-week ban if he takes the early guilty plea and four weeks if the Tigers unsuccessfully challenge the charge at the judiciary.
Twal, meanwhile, was hopeful the Tigers would re-sign fellow Lebanon international Adam Doueihi, who produced one of the games of his career on Sunday.
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The 27-year-old utility is being courted by St George Illawarra.
“He’s a freak, I love him – he’s like a brother to me,” Twal said.
“I was just so proud of him today. He steered the ship. I can’t speak highly enough of him.
“Obviously I’ve been vocal about that [re-signing] and I’d love him to stay at the club. I’m sure the club will do everything they can.”
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