Does anyone else no longer care? What makes you continue to show up?

GNR4LIFE said:
You think there could be a worse way to go into an off season losing by 50 in spoon bowl at fortress Cambo? Everyone forgot about in no time.
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I get your point, but I think each season of failure knocks people down a peg or two more. This year has really killed it for me, going backwards again after a slightly promising rise up the ladder last year is unacceptable imo, but there will always be the eternal optimists I suppose.
 
TTTiger said:
I also have checked out. Have followed the Tigers (Balmain) and Wests Tigers since I was 8 years old, I am now 70, do the maths. Find myself very depressed with everything that's been going on, not just the loosing, but all the crap besides that. To try to balance this, I have recently adopted a second team, the Dolphins, don't get me wrong, I still follow the Wests Tigers and will for eternity, but having a second team to follow helps me mentally, at least I can look forward to perhaps some good news when they play, hopefully a win.
I deliberately chose the Dolphins, not because of where I live, or that they are favorites, but because they are a new entity and partly because I dislike all the adjoining clubs such as Bulldogs, Eels, Roosters and Manly. Besides that I personally think that the Dolphins play an attractive style of football.
Just my way of not feeling as depressed just following the basket case of a club such as the Wests Tigers.
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I hear you. I’m following Dolphins too for the same reasons. They play like winners. Not like our sad bunch.
 
I’m checked out but I still watch every game and look for news stories (which are usually fake and just for clicks). I live in hope I guess. What frustrates me are how new clubs can enter the competition and be competitive from the get go. And teams that are bottom four manage to make the eight in the next year with a new coach. None of that happens for us.

I don’t like where the game is going either. Why do we need more teams when there is a such shortage of talent? It diminishes the reputation of the game and sets up a ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ situation. WT’s will struggle for a few years yet until their juniors become truly first grade ready. Good signs this year but you can see the young fellas coming through are still raw and it has cost us games this year. I hope we can hang onto junior talent when we are playing like losers.

This season is nearly over. I’ll peel the membership sticker off my back screen and spend summer looking for good news stories!
 
You never know where the bottom is.

I haven't watched a full game in weeks. Prefer to check scores and avoid.

Have been like that for several seasons, barring the beginning of this season. They fooled me yet again.

I was actually not happy when AD kicked his field goal on the weekend. That's a new one for me.

I turned it off just before the siren, not out of rage or sadness but because I didnt want to see Parra look happy lol
 
I don’t like the Sharks at all, but I admire how every year for decades except the odd season they win more than their fair share of matches. They do it by a very simple formula, they play very uncomplicated style of football based on discipline, winning the grind and consistency.

Our mob for decades are the complete opposite and that is why they are perennial losers. We have no discipline, we fail miserably at the fundamentals and when the going gets tuff we turn it up.
 
The sun will rise.
Excitement for the new season will build on the forum in January.
Predictions of glory will follow early season wins.
There'll be a string of losses.
Lurking death riders will emerge wringing their hands with Shakespearian tales of doom.
The sun will set.
 
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