Its been that long since we have even contended for a finals spot that we dont know how to handle ourselves as a club in total, both players and staff cant deal with the pressure, to go a step further even big time games like Anzac Day or a win to stay in touch with the top 8 over the years, we dont show up, no matter who the coach is. Like lets face it what has been our aspiration the last few years, either not to win the wooden spoon or to break into the top 8.
My point further goes that as a club in total our mindset is, we have achieved if we make the 8, not hey lets give the premiership a red hot go and at least show our fans that if we make the 8, we will be able to compete. Yesterday just proved that even if we were to make the 8 the Sharks could have been one of the teams we played first up, and what would we have said after that result, hip hip hooray we made the 8 but we were f$%ken cannon fodder first up.
As a club in whole, look at our KOE and JF sides as well, yes you can throw in NRLW, this will possibly be the 3rd year running where not one team from the Dragons has competed in finals. What makes our club so bad across the board, we won SG BALL, and this year JF had no excuses but they have self imploded, KOE have improved slightly but they still throw away games. I know Flanno is trying to get this winning mindset across the club, the NRL side has been the most inconsistent side in the league and certainly cant handle any pressure or expectations put on them. I do understand losing to the top teams but why must we give up huge scores to them.
When other teams are already predicting that they will be in the 8 at the expense of the Dragons there is certainly something wrong with the way our club is being looked at, and I'm sorry to say it's being looked as as a bunch of losers. We all know our leadership has been questionable to say the least and yesterdays game plus all the other critical games that we have lost, its been non existent. Our many great captains of the past, how many would have stood for the performances that we have had this year. I cant think of one, why because they loved the Dragons and they were winners and great men, they would never take from the club but they would always give !!!