A better argument is that our club has no less resources or opportunity for success than any other club, if not more.
Results prove that untrue.
Our fans have an absolute right to expect more than we have received, including during the mediocre BA era.
Because the pre-BA era raised our expectations?
Where is our dominant team or dominant era?
It ended in 1986, and I'd love it to return, but not all clubs can have that. Most of them never do. Were we lucky? Will we be that lucky again?
Why would Penrith, Melbourne, Brisbane, Roosters or Canterbury have an entitlement to success above ours? Why would Souths or Cronulla.
Most of them aren't more successful than us, they were just lucky enough to jag a premiership in that time. With more luck we could've converted one of our last three grand finals into a win.
Some may exceed on individual metrics, but none have any greater right to expect success than Parramatta.
Perhaps only Brisbane could legitimately and unequivocally call themselves an objectively bigger club than Parramatta.
No one else. Your continual argument otherwise is indicative of the resigned, defeatist, "too hard" mentality that has infected this club for decades - undoubtedly much to your great delight and pleasure!
It's nothing to do with too hard, I'm not the one responsible for the club's success. I put it to you that no single person is responsible for it, and that the people we've gotten have all done their best. I also suggest that the people required to bring us exceptional success (Politis, the owners of the Storm and Broncos (whoever they are), some of Gould's wealthy contacts, even Russell Crowe) don't exist at our club, and they don't need any salary we could offer.
Your latest bullshit trick is to smear any club that has any success as a salary cap cheat and to imply that it is impossible to compete for success - this is how mediocrity and failure is rewarded with interminable longevity, through endless "bulletproof" excuses like "everyone else is cheating".
I don't think they're all cheating, I only think some of them are. We know clubs cheat, because several of them have been caught doing it. We also know it must be worth the risk or they wouldn't bother.
No straw man here - you are just pathetic.
So pathetic you chase me around the forum making personal attacks.
People bemoan the fact that the BA debate lives on, but you are the one who keeps it going.
I haven't said a word about BA, I am defending the people currently at the club. The ones who are the new scapegoats after sacking the coach didn't fix anything.
Most of us are hoping that Ryles has rinsed the defeatist culture out of the playing group, but idiots like you continue to take your sly little jabs, all in an attempt to justify the mediocrity of the BA era in comparison and to attempt to shore up your little internet "victories"- at least in your own mind.
You can keep your defence of mediocrity - I want Parramatta to be the powerhouse it rightfully should be.
The players have a 'defeatist culture' now? And yet we've been told they in fact just aren't good enough because Serdaris/MON/etc. didn't want to sign any better ones. Can you see why it looks like you're just lashing out at things you don't understand? I can't let it go unchallenged. It would do us both a disservice.