Red hot favourites for the wooden spoon. No key signings like the other bottom sides (coach or player), false hope based on 13th position, players getting worse and older, off field noise and distraction...
I'm a realist. I was actually quite optimistic last season with the recruitment and preseason camp etc. but it seems very little changed. I am not accepting mediocrity
It is a massive rort. Having a bye in round 5 compared to round 1 is big for example. You could have a poor start and then a break after a bit of early hiccups is good. Or a great start and you get to refresh the troops and plan 2 weeks ahead. Looking more and more like we will get the spoon...
The 4peat he won alongside cleary. Taking samoa to the world cup final was without him. The 2024 origin series win was without him. So far it's been 1 year at the tigers where he has had multiple different halves partners, a mid season debacle, extremely different coaching and training staff...
I think he's stopped being a 'lair' on the field this year. He's got the odd discipline issues with giving away 6 agains and some dumb decisions particularly the middle of the year but he's dropped the grubby acts he used to get away with at penrith. I think he is much better when talking in...
Losing a narcissist is not a negative, especially when you consider the alternative was keeping him here long term on a million dollars when he hasn't earn it