Man so much negative talk surrounding the team at the moment! It seems like anything less than going back to back this year will be considered a failure?
Whilst I appreciate we still have a great squad and the best coach in the game, the fact is the competition is so tight every year and it's tough to stay at the top, especially when there are 15 other sides looking to knock you off every week. The fact is that other teams are just a little bit more hungry because we have what they want!
Last year, the players had the pain of 2009 spurring them on towards the Premiership. On Friday, the Tigers had the pain of 2010 spurring them on.
I remember after we won last year's Premiership, after the game back at Kogarah Ben Hornby got on the mic and said that the team had pretty much put their lives on hold for the past 2 years while they chased the Premiership, and I remember thinking at the time it would be tough for them to stay as hungry now that they'd finally gotten their prize.
Anyway, please don't interpret this post as me writing off our chances for this year, because I have every faith we can knock of Brisbane this week and cruise past Manly straight to the GF. Our first half against the Tigers was clinical, and they're lucky we took our foot off their throats in the 2nd half because they might never of recovered if we didn't. Maybe we'll see them again in October.
It's wide open, and if we put together 2 x 80min performances, we will get to the first weekend in October, and once we're there we know how to do it!
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YAS!?! F*CK ME FIRE UP!!!!
