Dreams don't often come true but not in Mick Potter's wildest nightmares would he have expected a debut like this.
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With the long shadow of premiership mentor Tim Sheens hanging over him, Potter would have prayed for a decent start to the season to take the eyeballs of the rugby league world away from Wests Tigers until he had time to bed in his gameplan.
Those hopes and plans, best-laid as they may have been, are now out the window as Tigers fans come to grips with one of the most embarrassing round one performances in recent memory.
The first game of the season is no time for condemnation or wild doomsayer predictions.
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Every team has a right to an abberation or the chance to blow out the cobwebs.
And give Newcastle credit where credit's due. As you'd expect of a team in their second season under Wayne Bennett, they looked organised, sharp and on the job.
Their new recruits, bought to add some extra bite to the forward pack, also had the desired effect of straightening up the Knights in attack.
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It was an impressive performance and would have been enough to put much better sides than Monday night's opponents under pressure.
Click on the video at the top of the page to watch as the Tigers' edge defence unravels time and time again in their round one defeat to Newcastle.
But the nature of the Tigers' defeat, lacking in energy, organisation, and most alarmingly, defensive structure, can't completely be consigned to history.
In round one no side can be excused for being flat or lacking desperation and after scoring the first try of the game through a hungry looking Adam Blair, you would have expected to see a lift in self belief from a Tigers side searching for a new identity after 10 years during which little had changed.
But the enthusiasm that usually comes from a fresh approach was lacking, or at least it seemed to be as the Tigers struggled to get in step with each other.
For years the Tigers have survived off an attacking blueprint light-on in structure, mainly due to the ability of Benji Marshall and Robbie Farah to attack off the cuff and create linebreaks.
An unstructured attacking game is one thing. A lack of structure and organisation in defence is suicide.
If Potter has a method in mind for keeping opposing sides below 30 on the scoreboard, either he forgot to tell his players or it went in one ear and out the other.
Particularly on the edges, too often the decision making in defence fell somewhere between lacking cohesion and completely disconnected.
If the centre came up and in, the winger would slide. If the centre was sliding, the winger would shoot out of the line.
These basic errors were repeated over and over again and it didn't take long for the Knights to work out what was happening and start to exploit it.
In the end all seven tries scored by the Knights were shared by their two wingers and a centre as James McManus got two, Akuila Uate got a hat-trick and Dane Gagai finished with a double.
It tells its own story and if the Tigers don't get it fixed soon, their fanbase will start to wonder if giving Sheens his marching orders was the right move after all.
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