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Only Forwards
Just you wait and see
To be clear, since the break there’s enough evidence to show we are on the way back and that the List Management Strategy, continuity in messaging and solidarity in the coaching staff means we are on the right track.
There is also very clear evidence that this side has a really soft underbelly that every side knows if they push hard enough they will get on top of.
We are at a stage where we are pointing to close losses and saying progress.
We will finish this year on the same wins and worse % than last year.
We enter the final round and the spoon is still in play.
I am a mix of angry and sad at what we have become. It is not just being flogged by the dogs (I mean a we've slipped by 79 points in a matter of weeks) or losing to West Coast having been up where the goals required to beat us exceeded the minutes left on the clock. But it is what last week and this week represent.
Our team is soft, they have no idea how to win, and on days like yesterday there are far far too many who pick and choose when they are going to compete.
That our very best this year resulted in being beaten, or in eeking our meagre wins. 20, 21, 22, 23,24 five seasons of it.
We once had a team that hated losing, now we have a team that seems to believe that losing is their natural place in the universe.