The issue this year is the sense of entitlement.
There has been this continued notion it is ours to lose, we have the best team, best squad when in reality this current side is perhaps not quite as good as those in past seasons.
I have suggested on more than one occasion I think we have done extraordinary well given all the adversity.
We are in with a chance, home final, if we are able to lift and beat the Roosters we will be one game away from another potential grand final.
You understand that the shit talking on here has absolutely zero bearing on how the team plays?
The frustration comes from what we are dishing up in comparison to what we are capable of.
There has been plenty of distractions/reasons for some of it, but it feels like some players are just not where they should be.
Stupid errors and poor disipline are far too common. A few of the players need a big wake up call. They are better than what they are delivering, we know, because we have seen it.
Yeo and To'o have delivered pretty much every week. Edwards as well mostly, his form the last few weeks can be forgiven due to injury, it's clearly not an attitude issue.
A few others need to have a good dig.
There are positives, Smith is going nicely, Henry is also coming along well. Casey is going to be great, he just doesn't have the experience yet.
Nathan back will help, hopefully he can hold together long enough.
The experienced members of our pack, Yeo aside, need to step up and rip in and Kenny needs to cut the shit out.
Ivan has made some odd calls this year, but it's too late to change much now apart from picking a bench we will use.
We can still get it done, but even with the players we have lost, injuries we have had, we should be romping this in.
