All too rare victories, countless floggings, years of heartache and perennially dashed hopes – following serial losers cannot be explained rationally
Apisai Koroisau of Wests Tigers gives his jersey away after the club picked up their third straight NRL wooden spoon.Apisai Koroisau of Wests Tigers gives his jersey away after the club picked up their third straight NRL wooden spoon.It’s the biggest event on the rugby league calendar. No, not Origin. Nor the seemingly inevitable Panthers v Storm grand final. Not even the NRL’s now-yearly foray into Las Vegas.
Inside the stadium, though, the atmosphere is electric – halfway between a grand final and the last week of school, when everyone gets a bit silly. Fans have made their own spoon costumes and Spoon Bowl diamante jackets. The half-time race between the Tigers and Eels mascots gets a rapturous reception., the Spoon Bowl is as close as it comes to free therapy. In what feels like an especially cruel cosmic joke, he missed almost the entire first half – “someone just had to break down on the M5”.
Adam, whose name has been changed “because I don’t need angry Penrith or Parra enthusiasts coming after me”, has been churning out fatalistic memes about the Tigers’ woes since 2022. He takes inspiration from depressed fan accounts of struggling teams around the world, like the Baltimore Orioles – “God, they sucked for a long time” – as well as his fellow Tigers supporters online. “You have to have a certain level of patience.
“We actually flew over to Fremantle to watch their last game, knowing full well they were going to get absolutely pumped. But that’s what you do,” Brian says.
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