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Message: [QUOTE="Howie, post: 3670783, member: 18168"] I'm not so sure about the comparison. 1. By 1988 WB had won a title in the then BRL, overcoming a Wally Lewis-led Wynnum Manly (a unit now considered to be about the BRL's best-ever), after two disastrous Grand Final defeats in '79 and '84. So he had demonstrated a capacity to not only succeed but also to deal with and learn from failure. 2. WB was very much into roster refresh and regeneration and was quite prepared to pension off those in the tail end of their playing productivity - I'm not sure KW has it in him to muster the cojones to show the door to the one and only Wally Lewis. 3. From 1988 to 1991 the Broncs were showing more or less solid improvement year to year: 7, 6, 2 then 7 * (I'd forgotten about [I]that [/I]one but it's not quite in the leaue of dropping from 2 to 12 is it ?). Indeed when they won their first six games in '88, many thought that the center of Rugby League gravity had all but permanently shifted north of the border and I'd bet many of the players themselves started to think that too. Wayne though, by medium of his 2 years in Canberra ('86, '87), knew better, that 3 x SoO per year was one thing, but consistent week-to-week prep/playing at a level they were yet to be accustomed to was another ... [ * Finishing position on the regular season table, not the subsequent playoffs. ] Has any accounting ever been made for the late-season 2022 collapse, or een [/QUOTE]

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