"Taylor said all the players had gained great confidence from the way they finished this season"
😱pen_mouth: How they gained great confidence from a 50 point drubbing when their season was on the line and they had everything to play for is beyond me! Easily pleased or very low expectations? Perhaps a bit of both.
Pretty well going to turn into another Taylor bashing thread I think - what is new.
TAYLOR - WHAT A JOKE HE IS!!!!!
How dare he be positive about the coming season, how dare he talk our halves up and the full back of the year as well. He really is an idiot. He also let the fans know what his plans are for the number nine - how dare he let the supporters know what is going on. He also has many other indiscretions to answer for - like filling people in on Jamal etc.
Like some on here say - he should be **much more** negative - he should talk about how we were thrashed by Canberra twice this season by a total of over 100 points. How being a young team that can be a "rocks and diamonds" affair is no excuse - they should play like a SOO side every week - just because you are learning is a totally unrealistic reason.
He should also flaunt the second tier salary cap by playing who he likes, when he likes. The NRL would never know he is not sticking to the rules - would they?. It is also boring, saying we have no money all the time - maybe true but that is no excuse. is it?
What a goose this guy is - it is all plain sailing for him. he took over a team that was going to win the comp - didn't he? - everyone could see that.
He should be spruking this stuff as often as possible to gain more fans, tell all and sundry we have nothing to look forward to, that would increase the memberships tenfold I am sure, it would promote more positive articles and drag more people through the gate…..
YOU GUYS!!!!!
No Russell I'm not trying to turn it into a Taylor bashing thread at all - whilst I'm not a huge fan of his coaching methods, I am not one of the forum members who continually posts negative stuff about him. I have always been prepared to give him a go and I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do with the team, especially now that all the drama with Farah is finally out of the way.
However, the mindset of the players and the culture of whole club, in general, is what really worries me and that is what I am alluding to in the above post and have also commented on in posts on other threads.
It's a very fragile mindset, a mindset of accepting mediocrity that has plagued this club for many years now and until it is properly addressed, we will continue to be dwelling in the bottom half of the ladder, sometimes hovering around the 8 like this season, but failing at the last hurdle, as we have done many times in the past. Is Taylor the man to change the mindset and culture of this club, once and for all, and take us over that hurdle mentally and physically? I don't know, but how anyone - player, CEO or coach could be happy with the way the team finished last season is beyond my comprehension.
That round 26 performance and the performance against Penrith, that 851 mentioned, just a fortnight before, when they had everything to play for were just bloody appalling! A good club would have been livid with such a capitulation at the pointy end of the season, and rightly so, but we somehow think it was ok to end it that way and take great confidence from it? I'm sorry if my expectations are too high for some, but a mentally prepared team, in the dream position that we were at the end of last season, would've made the 8 without question (except for perhaps the Warriors, who seem to be plagued by the same mental fragility that we have).
I hope they can come out next season and learn and grow from the disappointment of that capitulation - because, let's face it, that's what it was and it's great that they can take some positives out of the games they could grind out and when they put it altogether for 80 minutes (i.e. against Cowboys/Brisbane), but in all honesty, until something changes within the mindset of the players and the club overall, until they are willing to put in for 80 mins every week (not just once every 2 months) we're most likely gonna be in for yet another season of the mediocrity and inconsistency, which we've all become accustomed to way too easily.
