This is just my opinion but I am seriously thinking that it wouldnt matter who our coach is or who we sign or let go, we have developed a bad culture of being mentally soft. We cannot get ourselves up for important matches and when we are seen to be favourites we crumble. Im not sure what will fix it but i do know that aside from some horrendous refs decisions and some things that didnt go our way, a tougher mental side would of put up more fight than we did. EVEN if by some miracle we were to make the 8 (which I do not believe we will now) we would capitulate at some time anyway. Its really quite depressing.
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We do have a history of losing to teams that we should beat, which there is no excuse for, it's pathetic stuff from the players. They always go through the motions against crap teams, which is mentally weak.
I think our main problem in the last few years has all come from Hagan, he let the lunatics run the asylum. DA tried to change it when he come in but the damage was done, the team was full of players that just didn't respond to structure. I think DA is a good coach but this is the one point I think he seriously screwed up with.
He should've persisted with what he wanted to do and any player that couldn't cope should've been shown the door, his way or the highway. DA didn't do that though, he threw out his playbook and let the players play ad-lib footy, the lunatics were back in charge.
Sure we made the GF last year, and should've won it if the Storm weren't such cheating scum. The same footy wouldn't have kept on working though, it never does. You can go on a run playing ad-lib but to be a consistently successful team you need structure, you can still have some ad-lib, but just don't rely on it like Parra does.
We look like we are chasing a team, playing from behind, right from the start of a game. We could have a slight lead and need to settle the play down coming towards the end of a game but we still throw it around as if we're chasing.
The team is just brainless at times, which is also the fault of the halves, they need to step in and settle the team down and show some direction.
I saw some clown in the NRL forum saying Parra has a sh*t team, which is just plain wrong. On paper we have a one of the best backlines and one of the best forward packs, we are just bad in the halves. If we had average halves that could organise a little, show a bit of direction and have a half decent kicking game then we'd be sitting in the top 4 easily.
Swap our 6,7 and 9 with nearly any team in the top 4 and the teams would swap positions as well.
Of course I'm pointing out the obvious so it must be tripe according to some of the geniuses here. Hayne being bad at positioning was tripe too, it doesn't matter that he had Burt covering for him and holding his hand against the Titans.:lol: How many fullbacks need wingers to do their job for them?:sarcasm:
