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Message: [QUOTE="Financeguy, post: 3440602, member: 8280"] I think it is a case of overachieving to be in or near that top 4 group of teams. Almost the worst thing that happened to us was to convince the rest of the league world whether it be media, other teams or fans that we were a premiership dark horse...its like our players thought it was job done and can rest on their laurels. It seemed like the internal target this year was to make the 8 and pretty much everyone thought that was a given after the parra win. The non origin player wins over Titans and was it Knights? just added to the over confidence in the team. Walters got a bit cocky with the introduction of Mariner to first grade and other selection choices (some forced to be fair), almost like he could afford to toy with the lineups and enforce the growing opinion he was actually doing a good job coaching the team. I think in the thread at the start of the year about where we would finish i had 10th so reality seems not far from that, just seems like such a bad result now compared to where we were 5 or 6 weeks ago. That loss against the Tigers was telling, reminiscent of the performance earlier in the year against the Warriors which was an early warning sign. I'm indifferent to Kevvie being the coach, he is certainly more likeable than our past coaches in general and i am old enough to remember his playing days fondly so he probably gets more leniency from me than others but i wouldn't cry tears if the club went in another direction either. To be fair to Kev, a team with a spine makeup of Niu/TMM/Walters/Mam/Paix/Turpin and a non consistent presence on the field with Reynolds wasn't really going to scare the top teams when they are firing. I really think we compare poorly in our backrow with Capewell/Riki vs. the teams we need to be better than. [/QUOTE]

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