Everything else you've said tonight, fair enough.
But this one, GTFO of here.
I didn't do a great job of explaining myself so I'll try again.
The difference between us and the better teams is those three things, we aren't strong enough in each of them. Forget tonight, that's irrelevant, losing mid season games to the raiders and titans when they were going like busteds sealed our fate.
We don't have the cattle, established and coming through, our junior nursery is barren if Roberts and tets are examples. Compare us to big guys and it's pathetic. We haven't exactly hit the market either, Scott is our only recruit for 2013.
We don't have fierce competitors in the team, blokes who just push through adversity through sheer willpower, we used too, not anymore.
Finally, the hunger isn't there like the top teams, we don't want it enough, dropping 5 straight mid season was proof of that. Look at the 1%'s, we just don't scrap and fight for every last possession and in every tackle, things runs against and we drop our bundle.
We used to be unbeatable at home, now we likely won more on the road than we did infront of the fans.
Bennett won't be happy with 2012 and neither should we, we have a better team that's performed worse than previous years.
Until we get the same mentality as the top teams, we arent in the race, ffs Manly are going to go close to winning the comp 3 times in about 5 years, with all their infighting and financial issues.
When are we going to be a challenger again?
