A month ago ( ignoring the bye ) our previous months games were......
Vs Titans - W26 - 8
Vs Penrith - L12 - 13
Vs Dogs - W36 - 10
Vs Tigers W40 - 12
Seriously, I'm not saying there wasn't some deficiencies in our game, but which of these results is indicative of terrible defence and attack?
The month before was....
Vs Knights W40 - 4
Vs Rabbits L38 - 20
Vs Manly L28 - 6
Vs Warriors W34 - 18
Comparing those two samples where's the regression?
The only consistency between now and then has been merkins calling for BA's head.
I think we could include the Raiders game in that first list as that’s 3 days off being a month ago. We were terrible in that game. We lost with 59% possession FFS. There were some earlier signs such as the Manly and South’s game, but the bulldogs game when we were down at half time was really when we became vocal about our decline. Since then we had a respectable showing but a loss to a Clearyless Panthers, a solid enough win against the Titans and then a shocking loss against the Raiders, followed by a complete capitulationa against an understrength Roosters, Souths and Manly.
You don’t have to agree, but IMO, despite some decent wins in between, the wheels started coming off at the start of that Manly game and we haven’t recovered.