@geo said in [‘It’s the truth’: compelling new doco](/post/1330616) said:
Well I guess they could just do nothing...
I think they're doing a wonderful job of doing nothing. Nothing in regards to football success anyway. Surely there's more pressing issues than this stuff.
So recruiting blokes like Laurie, Utoikamanu, Simpkin, Blore, Simpkins, Tuilagi ..attempting to re-balance the playing roster moving on Reynolds, Mbye.. not paying overs to keep Aloiai getting Ofahengaue with Donkey's contributing to his salary etc is doing nothing to improve on field success ..OK..
Yeah, we've seen a huge improvement on field.
That wasn't the your statement..the above is doing something ..
He's lucky he has a fan base with no expectations of success.
Doubt that's true of any fan base..all have expectations..
Expectations of success I said. Quite a few on here have none going by their comments. But I havnt done a survey .
In what way do fans have none..?
When you watch how we played on Monday and then comment that we 'played ok'. Well ,I think that person is happy with us just turning up each week because last monday was garbage.
Back to back polls a few years ago where a majority voted that missing the 8 was a successful year.
You know i could go on....
Or ,
Just an alternate way of thinking , work with me here for a sec,
You may have unrealistic expectations on a squad that has major problems , and are still getting ironed out . And that it’s not that people have low Expectations , but rather, they’re being objective , and when your level headed , and not emotional , you can better analyse to find what exactly , specifically needs to be improved . As saying “you guys suck and are the worst “ , has basically never worked ever , and
Nearly always gets dismissed and ignored . So basically doing the exact opposite of what you wanted it to .
Just an idea .
If this was a one off year, I'd agree. But I'm talking about nearly a decade of this club producing squads that perform like that. I feel a lot of our fans just accept that.
I have an expectation that the club should not have an 8 year finals drought. I don't think that's s high expectation.
Yep . But this isn’t the same , as hard as that is to accept.
What you’re watching is a core of kids no older than the 150 game half , who’s only 26 . Especially in the key positions . Sure there’s old blokes there in the squad , but really there’s 1 guy over 30.
All the stuff previous , really isn’t applicable. We aren’t watching a core , where the youngest person was brooks , which was as recent as last yr . But losing sux I agree . But I don’t feel bad about competing , with a team that’s been together for years .
Again, your taking the team. I'm talking the club. Year after year of assembling awful teams but the general consensus is we're going great.
How many years do we miss the 8 till you think, hang on, maybe they're not doing a good job? 10? 15? How long?
Yea , I posted on this earlier . I think the biggest issue , is , we went from a development club , to the bulldogs , which meant we had no chance at recruiting decent players , to realising we are a development club , but now instead of being further along the timeline we are near the start . Irritating stuff.