Rumours and Stuff

[Poupou Escobar]

You paid 700k for Bud just to come last.

Would will Smith make you come laster?

I’d rather win six games than a lower number of games. I mean wtf are you doing each week? Waiting for the finals? Every win is reason to celebrate.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I agree that Arthur did show a ruthless side on occasions when it came to roster management. Nathan Brown and Fui were dealt with pretty harshly. Would he have done the same for Gutherson and RCG tho? I have my doubts because they were obviously two of his favourites. If he let his personal feelings get in the way of what’s best for the team then you can certainly say that’s a weakness of his as a coach.

It’s got nothing to do with personal feelings getting in the way of what’s good for the team. Coaches need senior players they can trust, and that has proven to work for Brad Arthur and our club in the past. However we go next year, we’ll never know if we would have gone better or worse if we’d kept Brad Arthur’s, Gutherson or RCG. That’s a fact.

As far as finals records go we have to look at the outcome at the end of the day. If people are calling Penrith a dynasty now despite two of their grand final wins with a victory of 2 points then would we be saying a similar thing if they had lost them? No we’d be looking at the outcome and saying they’re chokers. You can say our two point loss in 2021 was because of bad luck but at the end of the day we weren’t clutch (despite the dubious refereeing) and Penrith were clutch for two of their grand final wins.

Right but this is my point. People have dopey lizard brains and assume the thing that happened was the only possible outcome. Then they create post hoc causal narratives that completely ignore the impact of randomness (luck) on the outcome. Some of these dopey merkins even support the Eels.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I dunno.
I was pretty excited when BA took over from Stuart as well. Was even more excited when we didn’t finish last that year.

I thought the grass was greener too!