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Message: [QUOTE="Lockysillegitimatechild, post: 2884163, member: 8814"] The fact this question is being asked and we are being bagged out/ridiculed/condemned for finishing 3rd shows how big a club we are haha. Even Manchester United fans would be branded spoilt if they were asking the same, and they dont have a salary cap! Yes we haven't won for 6 of those years bennett can't be blamed for and he's doing pretty well cleaning up the mess Cullen has created (2nd, 5th, 3rd). This team and the coaching staff aren't where we are having issues. It's the medias manipulation of the nrl. They continually push this "Brisbane have an unfair advantage" so much that it would be a massive-against the odds premiership if we win one. Case in point: "Brisbane are always offside (numerous commentators pointed out that every team does it every set)- next game we get a pivotal penalty for being offside on a 5th tackle when we had them pinned and they were threw a forward pass: by a linesman, a bloody linesman! whens the last time they had a say in a match?! 1994?!. Everyone is going on about 2015 like we have went backwards from it. We haven't! The nrl has gone backwards. Look at the grand final and the way the 2 teams in it played. The attacking teams were rewarded and the speed of the play the ball was ridiculously fast compared to this year. Now watch the game against the storm. Every tackle we were spun on our back and twisted towards our own in goal AFTER the ref called held. Every tackle! I'm sure someone can find it but I'd love to see the data on the number of play the balls each game this year compared to 2015. The reasons for this are simple: the HIA is getting manipulated so that the 8 interchange is now null and void when combined with fitter teams, this means the wrestle is prominent because the players don't need to save energy. The other reason is that the spotlight has gone off of the wrestle again. It's actually worse then 4-5 years ago. Super league, 90's games and the 2015 season were so much more attractive football. This year we have a team that has gotten in to the gf due to wrestling dominance and a team that runs nearly EVERY TRY off the back of the player who skittles 3 players and gets quick play the balls (nullifying the wrestle). We have a great footy team that plays the type of footy I want my team to play (when it's on there is no more exciting team yet we are not rewarded for it) but sadly, if we are going to win a premiership in the next 2-3 years Bennett has to change a couple of things.... 1. We have to bite the bullett and focus on wrestling, 2. He has to make friends with the media [/QUOTE]

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