Of course I f**king can. :roll::x
I've been following this mob since the early 70's.
I'm just not prepared to race off and be a sook this time.
We've made horrible mistakes in the past and no doubt we'll make them again in the future. Maybe we've even made them now.
I just think it would be the worst decision we could make to f**k around now with something that could seriously pay dividends in years to come.
Tell me Korny, what plan(s) did Hagan or Anderson have to ensure the long term future of this club?
Do you not rate Brad Arthur?
Do you think Peter Nolan is just talking out of his arse regarding future recruitment and retention policies, and preparing the best possible juniors we can obtain and fast tracking them to first grade? Why do you think the Broncos have so many great young talented players playing NRL?
Mate, I'm f**king ropable that we are last.
I must have spent 60 minutes of yesterdays game with my head in my hands, and walked away thinking that the last 13 minutes was just a gallon of No More Gaps.
But, I've faith that we've got a brighter future than we've seen since the 80's, and I'm not prepared to be reactionary and throw the hope away.
Sure, things are shit and we are shit. If it takes till 2014-15 to win a comp, I'll wait.
Tell me who's going to bring us one before then anyway?
No guarantee Kearney will, but there's no guarantee anyone else will either.
Suity
This. But our goal shouldnt be to 'win the comp', it should be to be highly competitve (top 4) for a couple of years in a row, 2013 (doubt it) ,2014,2015,2016, being up the top will eventually pay off and we will win the premership.
This isnt NRL2, you cant out the settings on easy and buy who you want and win a comp. it takes time, effort, years of work etc...
take the last 12 years of premership winning sides for example...
2000- Broncos - made finals every year up until 2008 i think so no wonder they got there
2001 - Knights had a highly competitve run between 1997-2001, accumulating with victory in both 97 and 01. Andrews johns enough said.
2002- Roosters started a 3 years power run in 02 under new coach ricky stuart, winning it in 02, losing the GF in 03 and 04. Roosters players had finals experience and a GF experience already though participating the in the 2000 GF and the 2001 finals series.
2003- Panthers come out of nowhere to win it. had the team performing at the right time etc, everything came together.
2004 - The bulldogs had the right side to win it for a couple of years, 2002 was striped from them and 2003 hey finished 3rd. years of hard work.
2005- Tigers come from nowhere to win it, benji marshall plus prince and young side that worked well together.
2006- Broncos finished 3rd in both 04 and 05 put it accumilated in GF victory in 06, ironically against a young storm side. years of hard work from the broncos.
2007- Storm win it. accumilation of years of work from bellemy and co. id say 3-4 years of hard work.
2008- Manly win it after making the finals since 2005. years of hard work under hasler.
2009- Storm win it...
2010- Dragons win it, competitve since bennent arrived. years of hard work.
2011. Manly win it - more so a lack of competition in GF/finals tbh, storm should have won this. regardless manly didnt just come from nowhere.
It takes years of hardwork to get competitve, years of hardwork being competitve to win a comp. Ladies and gentlemen, the hardwork began in 2011/2012 so we are just starting out. im sure if you investigated this closer youd realise some of these teams were to an extend shithouse before being dominant...
