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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    You’re presupposing the new coach wouldn’t have made the grand final with that squad. #dogma
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    Rumours and Stuff

    He’s going to be 30 next year. We already have enough old geezers in the side. He’s only going to get slower. Not worth the risk.
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    2024 Week 3: FINALS Sept 27-28

    The cap is working though. Look at how many players both the Panthers and Storm have lost in the last 5 years. The difference is we lose a couple of key players and we miss the finals. Panthers do a 3peat. It’s not their fault if their systems are better than every other team. It’s up to...
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    2024 Week 3: FINALS Sept 27-28

    Rooster premiership window closed for the time being.
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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    He’s acting under the presupposition that we are incapable of getting the best people for the job at any given time. That serves his rhetorical purposes but it’s not a true reflection of reality. For example if the Dragons and Knights landed Bennett there’s no reason we couldn’t have. We should...
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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    Dogmatic means taking a position and refusing to change it regardless of the evidence contradicting said position.
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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    You can be dogmatic as well.
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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    I thought they overachieved this season.
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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    Hope he’s right but Peter Peters and Phil Gould are on record as saying similar things about Barrett.
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    Rumours and Stuff

    I agree it’s an outlier. Unlikely doesn’t mean impossible though.
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    Rumours and Stuff

    Well there you go. We were the 8th best team and had to beat 4 teams superior to us in the last 8 games to reach the finals and we did exactly that. The data for that season doesn’t match the claim being made by Pou. It’s the coach’s job to try and get upsets. You don’t just handwave it away...
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    Rumours and Stuff

    Exactly. So being the “superior” team isn’t something that is always predetermined. Do you think our team was the second best team in 2009 or did they play above themselves?
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    Rumours and Stuff

    If you keep winning enough you become the “superior team”. Do you think Penrith started the 2020 season as the premiership favourites?
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    Rumours and Stuff

    I always think the argument about “but they played the best sides” to be entirely unconvincing. Figuring out how to get your team to beat stronger sides than them is part of the coaches job. Upsets do happen in sports.
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    Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

    I bet we do better than the Rabbits next season. I’d much rather have our roster than theirs.
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    Rumours and Stuff

    Any rugby league team with Hayne and Fui was capable of redlining.
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    Rumours and Stuff

    We redlined in 2009 against the Dragons in the first week of the finals. A shame we couldn't do it in the grand final. They were an objectively better side than us. They even went on to win the premiership the next season.
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    Rumours and Stuff

    It’s not semantics. Your claim about the Cowboys being hot favourites in the 2022 prelim final is just wrong. If they were paying $1.70 the line would have been around 2.5 which means there was a 50% probability of them winning by 2-3 points or us losing by 2-3 points. That’s not hot favourites...
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    2024 Week 1: FINALS Sep13-15

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