His team are bottom of the ladder and had just slumped to a seventh loss in their last eight games, but try telling Jason Taylor there is trouble in Tiger land.
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As Parramatta opposite Brad Arthur snarled at his side's attack - despite a Semi Radradra-inspired third win in a row - it was Tigers coach Jason Taylor who would have fooled anyone post game his side had lifted themselves out of the NRL cellar.
"We want performances," Taylor said after his side surrendered a four-point half-time lead as Parramatta stormed to a 28-16 win at ANZ Stadium on Monday night. "We want strong performances. And that's what we got tonight.
"I know you guys and everybody out there is focused on the competition table and the scoreboard at the end of the game, but we're all working really hard to turn this club around.
"We've been a long way off for a lot of years and right now on the table we're still a long way off. There was some fight in us and it was a response to our poor performance last week. There was a lot to like about that performance."
Having showed promise earlier in the season, the Tigers' round 13 caning over premiers South Sydney is their only win since the Anzac Day weekend as they sunk to sole possession of last spot.
And on the wrong side of a 12-4 penalty count ledger, Taylor wasn't about to read the riot act to his young side missing State of Origin regulars Robbie Farah and Aaron Woods.
"We'll have a look at [some of those penalties] and I'll talk to Tony Archer about that situation," Taylor said.
The highlights will make for better viewing for Arthur, whose side butchered an early 12-point lead before Radradra's double was the catalyst for their third straight victory.
The Fijian international was lamenting his opposite number and countryman Kevin Naiqama scorching over for a first-half brace of his own, before Radradra won the aerial duel in the second half to score one of his own and set up another for enigmatic halfback Chris Sandow.
His second try broke a more than 60-year-old record held by Newtown winger Ray Preston for the most amount of consecutive games with multiple tries, now standing at five.
Radradra has scored 11 tries in that period - and 16 for the season in total - to join Bulldogs winger Curtis Rona atop the NRL's try-scoring charts.
"I only found out tonight when they told me after the game," Radradra said of the record. "It feels good. I was very disappointed [with Naiqama's first try]. It's my job and I let the boys down with that try."
After an enthralling battle on the flank all night, Radradra and Naiqama sunk to the ANZ Stadium turf after the siren and prayed. Arthur will be praying he can keep the Eels' cult hero fit for the last two months of the season after they closed to within four points of the top eight.
"Semi has been really good for us scoring tries, but we've been working really hard with him on the little bits and pieces," Arthur said. "Tonight in the first half he wasn't great and in the second half, to his credit, he aimed up."
Radradra's try-scoring heroics overshadowed a drought breaker for skipper Tim Mannah, who crossed for the opening four-pointer and first in more than three years.
"It's selfish to see someone get that many and I've been waiting three years for one," Mannah quipped.
"A lot of credit goes to him because our structure is really good and it creates opportunities, but he's the finishing it. And he's been rock solid in all aspects of his game. He's starting to grow as a player and as a person."
Eels centre Brad Takairangi and Tigers hardman Martin Taupau were both placed on report for separate incidents either side of half-time.
