Yep, I don’t think there are fractures, I think the team is running out of belief. This needs a player led correction. The leaders in the playing group need to get the group together sans everyone else and deliver some truths, take their own accountabilities and make commitments with each other. Whilst the coaching group is not performing, the players need to lead the recovery. If the group is mature enough, they can do it. Whilst this year is looking like an inevitable end, it’s setting more groundwork for years following that needs to be addressed by setting some standards now.
This to me is an between the ears issue
Newsflah-Every playing group had players in it that others dislike. It’s never changing, regardless of what we think….they can still align to a common goal though.
We will likely never be at 13-1 with a percentage of 150% again for the foreseable future if at all.
We have blown a golden opportunity in a extremely even year unfathomable, we have not tried to address anything in 2 months to fix our starts, we have managed the squad extremely poorly.
A coach is supposed to be intune with the players how can you have a coach look completely defeated in the press conference with nothing to address other than "it doesnt happen often" really i guess John has wiped 2022 and 2023 out of his memory then.