The fact that after all the good we have done so far this season can be undone so easily and quickly sums up this club perfectly.
It does not matter who our coach is, who our players are it's within the clubs DNA to just lose.
We got embarrassed last night, only Parramatta can grind out a tough gritty win last week and then have to travel to a neutral ground to play the Storm and they give us that.
You have to nail every single effort area and all the 1% and if you do not the Storm of all teams are going to obliterate you.
They deserved everything they got last night, if they think they can play one week and then fall asleep the next they're gonna get what they got last night.
I am over seeing this bullshit every year, we are and have been in a seriously awful position for years and the fact that no matter how good we are going every single year we turn out at least 1 or 2 of these performances just shows we will never win a comp until that disappears.
Yeah but how how do you change it?
I mentioned after the Knights game some of what you mention here and the usual suspects gave it a hammering. I agree with you FTR. It's not the current coach, it's not the current players, it's not the current admin. Every one of those has been changed time and again and the same things keep happening.
Ultimately, since about 2006, we have been an average club with tremendous off field mismanagement. That saw us sack too many coaches in a short period and eventually cheat the cap to try and make up for financial mismanagement.
In turn, that has given us a stigma. It's tough for a club with that stigma to attract top coaches or players. So we wind up with decent coaches at best who have to try and take risks on players. Or pay big overs. That goes for every coach since Smith, not just BA. In turn, that cycle perpetuates because we perform like an average side. Coaches then get moved on, and/or the players we want don't want us.
How do we fix it? Firstly at some point, we have to suck it up and deal with being average. We've sort of done that the last few years. BA may or may not be extended, but we are showing the right patience IMO with his deal, along with Gutho and even Moses. That is good management where we would have caved previously.
Secondly, we need to make a smart decision, with a smart length of deal, and stick to our next coach for the duration, whoever it is. That has been hard in the past, partly because of factions wanting to take control for their own ends and members/fans turning on their own quicker than piranhas in a drought. We may need to stick by another average coach to show a good one that we are willing to give coaches every opportunity to succeed.
Thirdly, we need to be smarter with the players we recruit and re-sign. Guys like Taka and Terepo are average players who are made below average by their attitude, for eg. You are always much better with safer average NRL players. Like Alvaro, or Mannah. We need to learn that sometimes the safe play is better than the high risk play, especially when it comes to players of limited abilities.
Unfortunately I'm concerned this is all just wasted words, because if we don't get the off field reform we need dicks like Eagleston are going to continue the same squabbling shit we've put up with since the early 2000s and nothing will change.
That is seriously the root of all our problems IMO. And I expect quite a few well known folks to take exception to that. But whatever
