Last year we were predicted for the spoon and obviously for many and varied reasons we didn't get that but more of that in a minute.
This year some pundits are again predicting us for the spoon so how will we rate our season if we did win it or in fact even when we don't?
Looking at 2024
Did we finish as high as we did due to Sua, Suli, Liddle & Lomax improving under S F?
or
Did we finish as low as we did under S F due to Hunt's obvious inefficiencies, Sloan not progressing nearly far enough, Rava having a completely forgettable season, Cake being cake and the team being highly disorganized / leaderless (for the want of words) as highlighted by S F's podcast with James Graham?
Looking at 2025
Will we finish as high as we do due to Gutho, Holmes, Cooke & Illias providing experience and the things Hunt could not ?
or
Will we finish as low as we do because we have under-whelming halves, an inefficient and under-powered forward pack & poor depth in key positions ?
What praise and what scrutiny should be applied to the coach, his team and the playing group and should that be based upon us judging our final result off the initial media expectation?
I don't believe we will get the spoon but should we be disappointed if we don't get into the eight after all we have a coach coming into his 2nd year and we either have a better squad or we don't so people need to get their heads around that and make a decision as to where we finish based upon that and not the media expectations.
If our squad is better then is anything below 9th a failure and somewhat akin to winning our own spoon?
