MIGHTY PANTHER MAN said:
You are kidding roopy, your obviously still bitter about the loss.
To the contrary - no game this year has made me happier.
The Knights have taken a very different approach this season.
Last year they had a fantastic squad of all rep players that came together in the pre season and they basically cruised through the year in second gear till a few other sides got up to their standards in the finals and the Knights thought they just had to show up on grandfinal day to win - and we know that didn't quite work out.
This year they got the best squad together and won 6 of the first 7 before going very 'experimental' by basically taking the top players out of the squad and sending them all to the gym for 3 months mid season (we lost 8 out of 10 games mid season).
In the last month the top players have come back bigger and better and the coach has been settling on our top team and getting a few combinations going - and the boys have won three and had a two point loss to the top side and were pretty unlucky to lose.
I know the team is still way below their potential and i would be reasonably happy if we had lost by 20 because i know there is plenty of improvement still to come.
Last year we cruised and failed to peak for the big games.
This year i am very happy with the way things are falling into place at the right end of the season.