She's done. No need to waste precious emotional effort and destroy confidence.
2015 was the peak for this squad.
2017 rebuilding year with a new game plan (whatever that might be) with all these promising young forwards and an injection of youth into the backs. Milford will get better...
Not confident at all.
Our mentality now is, we just need to be there come September and it will all be alright on the night.
No it won't. This year is gaawwn.
In the past 12 weeks (since the Sharks loss reall whenever that was) we've beaten Manly (pre-late season energy) and Souths...
Boyd just trying to massage the media skills for his 2017 captaincy campaign.
Oates is fucked since the AC joint earlier this year and has been timid since.
Played into an Origin jersey off the back of those magic 5 or 6 rounds and a complete lack of roster depth in the Maroons through...
I invest 90 mins a week and not a full time job in determining why this year is looking like a failure.
Bennett is the man for that.
My own mood about this year, was that a loss like that in the GF put the players eyes purely on redemption.
Almost like, I'm saving and committing all...
A great example of a guy who was a late bloomer, out of the system player who made the most of his opportunity in 2011 to build an NRL career, play for England and play in (and score a try) in a NRL GF.
Well exceeded his ability, a great clubman and always gave 100%.
How?
What's happened behind closed doors??
Bennett pushing Parker out, banning Milford from Samoa, going overseas sojourn mid season.. the cocaine incident. Origin? Injuries? There's no aces left in our hand at all.
Other than pulling a 2006 esque shuffle and throwing Milford to the...
We haven't a hope in hell of beating the Storm or NQ in a finals match this year.
Our only chance at GF redemption is Melbourne and NQ knocking each other senseless in a major semi-final somehow and us playing the winner.
As we're tracking for outside top 4 finish, that's unlikely...
Haven't posted on here pretty much all season.
The result sucked, and felt oh too much like 2013 and 2014 losses where we'd look like a formidable outfit for 15 minutes only to go down a try and quickly go into a slump and the shit referreeing decisions and name calling would be thrown around...
Haven't watched an international rugby league game with any interest for about 10 years.
Australia - better team, bigger talent pool, if they turned their mind to it from day 1 of camp and applied a game plan that wasn't more than a glorified training run, they would win by 40 each fixture...
For mine it is his ability to pull off the clutch play, and in the big games too (his line break in the GF in what should have been the set to ice the game, the Roberts try assist two weeks ago, the try against the Cowboys in the first game of the finals last year). He knows where to be...
It is a very complicated thing to run a proper decoy, and this is the exact risk you take.
Cowboys got the timing wrong.
It's only Round 4 though. They've got the 2015 GF trophy in the cabinet and we've got hopes and dreams for 2016.
... and 21 years of dominance and 6 premierships.
The thing that encouraged me most was that we managed to pull out the game breaker play (Milford's linebreak) that we couldn't in last years GF.
And Milford's field goals - we've got a tie-breaker, finally.
Hopefully that is the 1% that will get us the title this year.
These...
...what a game that was too.. When the Broncos ran with depth (look a those crisp almost cross field passes) and the Storm went out to maim the opposition in every tackle.
In the scheme of things, the only thing that matters in Rugby League is improvement on your performance last week.
Psychologically, someone nailed it early on. We're almost disinterested in the first 26 rounds + 3 finals games + 75 minutes of a grand final and just wanting to test ourselves...