Strawman.
Mate I simply stated that I am sick and tired of watching our club capitulate once again, no matter what the grade, by its own hand. It wasn't as if the Sea Eagles really stuck it to us and we weren't capable of going with them. It was, as it almost always is, a mental thing.
It's not as if we are a club brimming with success and we just had one of those games and we can all just put to the side and just simply move on. No this club does that as its MO. We need to really address it more then probably any other club. And the Storm and the Cowboys for that matter, have the mantra of "no excuse" and they live and breath it. It is constantly evident. Look at the way the Storm players weren't to happy with Cameron Munster when he gave away that penalty and subsequently sin binned against us. Even though it was the right option, they were still hard on him. Then look at the Cowboys, half the team played busted but still gave us and others a mental footballing lesson in how to play for the full 80 mins.
So when you and others bag out my "no excuses" attitude towards our club losing games that they should have won, that's your prerogative, but to me and others you sound stupid. Especially when most of you, I know not you but others, just constantly blame the refs and or the NRL itself being actively against us, when it is an obvious mental fade issue and has very little to do with external factors.
But your strawman argument is a typical chestnut and not unexpected. To ask what would I do to fix it is akin to throwing a shiny lure in the water for unsuspecting fish to see. You know we are just fans on an internet site venting and discussing our concerns and feelings, not a member of the coaching staff. So there for whatever I/we suggest will generally be mocked as ridiculous, wrong, stupid, the bleeding obvious, or if it were that easy, don't you thing that the coach would have done it already...and so on.
But as I already stated in my previous posts, I do think that the coach is addressing our mental weakness and is slowly getting there. But that performance by our U20s side was pathetic and was a throwback to all the terrible things that have haunted our club for decades. Sugar coating it with EXCUSES, is just a joke. Our club has to do something, whatever it takes, to make that type of performance a very, very rare thing. Leadership is one obvious thing, which the coach has tried to address already, but we need more. I believe the way we train maybe another. But I'm not the coach and I think he is doing a fine job thus far, but I also believe that we should make the "NO EXCUSE" mantra part of the way we do business.
So to throw out shade and then try to strawman me because you're a pathetic "she'll be right" kind of fan, even though it has been 32 F**KEN YEARS of "no it hasn't been right mate" is a bit rich when all I was doing was venting my obvious frustration at another self inflicted failure. Like I said, posters like you are quick to ridicule but very thin on putting any skin in the game. Probably for fear of having another poster who's just like you take cheap and easy potshots just to make themselves feel better. Sad really that my frustrated "no excuses" rant has gotten to this, but I suppose it is the internet.
Anyway like I said before, maybe you should look up the "Man in the Arena" quote, if you haven't already.
I'm done on this topic at this point. I will not be responding to your reply...basically because I couldn't be F'ed anymore. So lets just call it a draw. Cheers Gutful...hey, I just realized the irony in your name.
