tbf we havent been pretty a pretty team to watch in a long time.. so noone looks forward to our games (other than dragons fans).. and it seems to lead to a predisposition where commentators want the favourite players/teams to do well.. Brandy I will say has seemed to really have it in for us for a very long time.. but tbf we have been horrible for a really long time...
What I dislike though is these 'experts' just ride the bandwagon... they are either "all in" with a lovefest and praising the bejesus out of us for our physicality that they will say was "clearly not there during <xyz games>", or they are all out bagging us as useless with "the dragons are rubbish, where was the physicality we saw in <xyz games>."
There is no nuance as to whats going on in the game.. whats the ref been doing with 6-agains.. did we get a dud call, did we narrowly miss a try that would have broken our opposition, whats our opposition doing, whos injured, whos gassed.. there are reasons that change the momentum of games, and at some point it breaks most teams... we are probably less resilient than most.. but even we have broken a few sides this year, including the dolphins and tbh 22pts in a half against the broncos.
We played pretty well against the Rorters last week too.. we competed against a far far far superior squad for as long as we could.. but they just see the final scoreline and thats the only relevant part to them.. anzac day was the same.. the dogs game another.. 2 serious injuries early and only lost our way in the back end.. no nuance.. no mention of what losing a centre and starting prop means..
