Farah is a natural born loser. Tasted success far too early, got completely full of ego, and despite absolutely butchering attacking chances left and right at rep level is still held as untouchable for NSW (much like Gallen).
He is the only player I know of who brings up his own personal stats for games in interviews. I think Tim Sheens drilled it into him. I recall an interview a few years ago now in the Sheenius era when Farah was asked about what he focuses on each game, and he said he gets given targets for tackle count, dummy half runs, kicks in general play etc for a game. He'll then check in on those at half time, and whatever he is down on he'll try and focus on getting up the next half. It was f**king ridiculous to hear a first grader talking like that, and ever since then while watching him I can see it affecting his game every week.
He is not the primary cause of the tigers problems, sure, but he is also not the solution to them either. Whatever the solution, it is going to take a couple years of pain in order for it to take effect. We at the roosters slogged our way through almost a decade of shit (barring a flukish 2010 season) before we got it right, so hopefully the tigers can get their shit together quicker than that. The fans just need to trust that the new board is not going to make the same mistakes as the old, and allow them some slack to do their thing for a couple seasons.
