Well, Sele and Host are youngsters being developed. Too many ill-considered arguments being made.
I hope Mary proves us wrong and gets the team back on track. I've never thought we could go all the way this year. Mary got us to having a sniff at too 4.
Missing the 8 would be a major failure from our position and I feel certain that we have a team that can do better. There are some tweaks necessary.
Development is what is happening with Hess and Crichton.
Start in the run on side and now playing close to 80 minutes every game.
They chose them, stuck with them, kept backing them and now reap the benefit.
Development is what happens when a back is injured and they replace him with a 19 or 20 year old from lower grades who plays that position and he starts in the run on side and plays 80 minutes.
We have the nucleus of senior players that have not been able to do it consistently so they are obviously not the way forward.
If Mary in your opinion got us a sniff at the top 4 then he is obviously not consistent either because twice in 2 years exactly that has happened and we fell from grace both times.
IMO people are over estimating what we achieved as against what others didn't achieve early in the season.
Every team is now up to full match fitness and any advantage we had from boot camp is now long gone.
At the start of the season everything was about "boot camp" well it doesn't count for shit now and what else do we have left in the locker?
Again we are pinning our hopes on 1 major signing in Hunt to turn us into a premiership chance, well that is not going to happen under current circumstances no matter how good he is because the playing style and the current roster do not cut it when it counts.