Mate the season's over. It was over the moment we gave up on getting a 3rd or even 4th quality front rower for this season.
Or at least one or two outside backs that can take the hitups that we expect our two main boppers to keep doing now for 3 years and very little support to do so. Something had to give. RCG is still going strong most games, but Junior seems to be struggling.
Potato head coach has managed to slowly destroy our players. They are slowly deteriorating and showing signs of both mental and physical fatigue.
There is only about 15 players and that is being generous, that I would keep at the club from our top 30 next year the rest should all be shown the door.
There are so many great players playing in the lower grades for other clubs that if we were savvy and ruthless we should go in and poach. But we have Glacier as head of football and Patato Head as coach. So very little will change.
Oh for all the posters who think that we need to get an X-factor player and replace gutho, you have rocks in your head. He is our strength not our weakness. Our weakness is front row. We need one more if not two and one centre spot and both wings(unfortunately Sivo is useless unless he is within 20m of the line), but we could carry him no probs if we addressed the other spots. He would also then improve too in his yardage carries because the whole team would then be playing on the front foot. We also need another hooker if we can somehow convince the Geriatric to retire and not take up his option. Otherwise we are stuck with him and won't be able to afford another quality one since the Geriatric is on around $400K and pray that Hands can handle the load and a consistent level.
What is happening now is all teams are learning to start tough against us and pushing the boundaries with offsides and super fast line speed in defense to bustle us and work over our big boys. They know if they can minimise our go forward up front and around the ruck, there is no one else(no big backs(or speed men)that can chip in and wear them out) and therefore then they control the game. They can put all their efforts in a compressed defensive line and nail us. They know we have no plan B. We play the dumbest football. If the offloads aren't working for us we have nothing.
But Potato Head has no idea how or why this is happening. He will just say that the boys didn't chase the collision and or didn't front load their effort. He just doesn't get that they can't keep chasing the collision or frontloading their efforts week in, week out with the deficiencies we have in our player roster. He is dreaming if he thinks this team as is(and that was probably the strongest team we could put on the field this year) can sustain a consistent high standard of the type of football that he wants them to play.
When I saw the Broncos roster put up on the screen before the game last night then compared it to what was ours, I thought Oh Sh*t we will be lucky it we don't get 20+ put on us tonight. So as bad as it was last night(thank God it rain otherwise who knows what the final score could have been) we at least weren't humiliated with a total nightmarish blow out.
Buy now with RCG, our best and most consistent play over the last 3 years, out for who knows how long, we are totally done with a power game. So lets see what master Potato Head comes up with over the next few weeks. Hopefully he wakes up to himself and he convinces Glacier to high prioritise a vital quality signing or two. Otherwise it wouldn't surprise me or I suspect many of us on here, if we only win one or two games max over the remainder of the season. Not joking. If RCG is out long term, you can bank on it.
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