I’m imagining the following from Hinkley in his post-game, post-loss presser (all grammatical errors are intentional, because Hinkley):
We was good today, but we know this competition is so hard, so we’ve got to be better, and harder, for longer. When you lose in a close one like this, it gives you a lot of insights and a lot of learnings. We’ll take those learnings and we’ll review them, and we’ll find a way to get better. We know where we’re at. We know we can be better. But, we also know that any team on any given day can win. It’s about who can hold on for longer, and today, we couldn’t hold on for as long. It’s as simple as that. And youse can say and print whatever you like about our performance and about where you think we are, or are not, at, but inside our walls, we’re confident we can get better at the right end of the season. This season in particular is so close, there’s really nothing separating 2nd from bottom of the ladder. So we’ve gotta be switched on and ready, and today, we couldn’t get it done. We was close, and I felt that with another 5 minutes we might just have snatched it, but ultimately, we couldn’t do it. And that’s, really that’s the key takeaway from the game for us. We’ve got to be better, and harder, for longer. And there’s no doubt that up here in Sydney on their home turf, it’s a tough, tough proposition. For anyone. And we was taught a bit of a lesson by them. But that’s good. It’s not good in terms of losing, but in terms of learning from that lesson, that’s good. That’s really good. And I think the players understand that. Thanks guys.
We was good today, but we know this competition is so hard, so we’ve got to be better, and harder, for longer. When you lose in a close one like this, it gives you a lot of insights and a lot of learnings. We’ll take those learnings and we’ll review them, and we’ll find a way to get better. We know where we’re at. We know we can be better. But, we also know that any team on any given day can win. It’s about who can hold on for longer, and today, we couldn’t hold on for as long. It’s as simple as that. And youse can say and print whatever you like about our performance and about where you think we are, or are not, at, but inside our walls, we’re confident we can get better at the right end of the season. This season in particular is so close, there’s really nothing separating 2nd from bottom of the ladder. So we’ve gotta be switched on and ready, and today, we couldn’t get it done. We was close, and I felt that with another 5 minutes we might just have snatched it, but ultimately, we couldn’t do it. And that’s, really that’s the key takeaway from the game for us. We’ve got to be better, and harder, for longer. And there’s no doubt that up here in Sydney on their home turf, it’s a tough, tough proposition. For anyone. And we was taught a bit of a lesson by them. But that’s good. It’s not good in terms of losing, but in terms of learning from that lesson, that’s good. That’s really good. And I think the players understand that. Thanks guys.
