The only reason they are still in the 8 is not because of coaching its that its the weakest bottom 8 teams I have seen ..... top 6 teams are way ahead of the rest .....
I totally agree. And now we can see that we reached our pinnacle of success several weeks ago and we are now on the typical Dragons second half of the competition downhill slide but hopefully with just a whiff of a possibility to just miss the 8. The bottom teams have been generally been like us, poor, but a couple of those are starting to realise that they can make the 8 like the Sharks, Titans and Knights and are playing much better than before while we have gone backwards with still hard teams to play.
The decisions not to renew Norman's and Dufty's contracts ages ago possibly might have had a bearing on the overall players attitudes, together with engaging players who, imo, are more reserve graders than firsts and getting them to play consistently well every week was just too much on top of the injuries, suspensions this year.
My opinion is that, while it will not do, we just don't have a good roster this year. It is as simple as that and we have new coaches two of whom have been out of coaching for several years with Peter Gentle as an assistant coach in about 5 different clubs and 5 games as head coach of the Broncos in 2020.
To me the club should bite the bullet and pay overs for a couple of elite players and if Griffin and Co cannot improve the winning percentages for most of next year, then "sayonara baby".
