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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 3150845, member: 1847"] I take your point about fitness, however I can't go past what for me is the single biggest problem for our side - the lack of true leadership on the field. It's been downhill since we lost Lockyer (obviously), then Hodges, Parker, Gillett and to an extent, Thaiday. It's been a one way street. We lack a leader pure and simple. It's fatal and we are seeing that. It's almost as if the club has focused on recruiting individual brilliance as opposed to building excellence in a team. The old adage about a star team as opposed to a bunch of stars. The Storm are a great example of this. A bunch of mostly good, not great players except for Munster and maybe Papps, but with Smith pulling the strings and inspiring them, keeping it all together. I guess the club wanted to rely on Boyd and Milford but what a huge mistake! The writing was on the wall about that when Bennett was punted, which seems to show that any resolve Milford and Boyd had was also punted. With the end result that now we have nothing to fall back on when the going gets tough. What depresses me most is this. I can't see us being truly competitive, giving our all for 80 minutes until we have a true leader on the park. Maybe I'm wrong. The next few weeks will really tell [/QUOTE]

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