You've just proved my point.
No I didn't.
We've always started better then where we finished up.
No we haven't. In 75% of the last four full length seasons (excluding 2020) we finished higher than our mid season ladder position. Personally I think the difference is statistically negligible, but it certainly doesn't show that we've finished seasons poorly.
But I'm talking about is a marginal drop off in performance of the big men (due to big minutes played in games over the full year) which imo leads to us not winning the big games against strong opposition when it matters most at the back end of the year.
I think they are just better than us. Since 2017 we have lost eight finals matches, and three of those have been against Melbourne and three against Penrith.
Only in 2022 did we perform well in the finals series but were burnt out by the gf.
Oh right, so we weren't burnt out by the preliminary final but we were burnt out the following week? The year before I suppose we were burnt out by week two of the finals. The year before that we were burnt out by week one even though there were only 20 rounds played. You can't just say we were burnt out as soon as we lose a game. We belted Canberra two weeks before the grand final, then came back to win in Townsville. Were we burnt out in those weeks? How about week one where we shat ourselves after Moses got hurt? I suppose we were burnt out then too. Crazy how fresh we were the following weeks against the Raiders and Cowboys.
Less minutes, being rested to overcome niggling injuries will lead to a better outcome imo.
No doubt rest is important but there is 10000 minutes to recover between games. An extra ten minutes on match day means nothing.
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