Changing my tune on season 2025

[bondi.boy]

Agreed. I think many of us had given up on him. Lucky the club didn’t.

I never gave up on him.
He's big, strong, fast...and when I saw him run thru the right side of an opposition team to score a great try I said to myself:
"I hope we keep him, he's something special".

[The Lip]

I never gave up on him.
He's big, strong, fast...and when I saw him run thru the right side of an opposition team to score a great try I said to myself:
"I hope we keep him, he's something special".

I wouldn’t be surprised if Billy is in the origin centre conversation at the selection committee table. Not saying he will be picked as there is a few that are ahead of him in Mitchell, Turbo and Best but if he continues his form he’d be discussed. So pleased to see him performing the way he has. Now a bit of luck with injuries and he will be a rep player for sure. I know he hasn’t played a lot but when he has he has been class ever since his debut against the dragons years ago.

[Swamptrout]

Yeah, it really depends on the perspective, doesn't it?

On one hand, 2-4 isn't ideal and we conceded 50 in one of those.

On the other hand, we should be 5-1 and have been in every game bar round 1 up to our eyeballs. We've had huge player turnover and the young guys are looking good. We also have some big names coming back later in the season.

The other thing to note is that the majority of other teams look very inconsistent/average. The Storm and Bulldogs are strong, and Raiders look great sometimes. Everyone else is dubious. The Chooks of last night would have fairly comfortably beaten the Bunnies or Cowboys today, based on how they played.

There are still some ways this season could go really positively, especially if we win our next few games going into the bye and Walker/Smith find good form upon their return.

Doggies being on top of the ladder is a false dawn.
They beat cronulla who are out of the eight but they have played every team in the bottom half of the ladder plus a bye.

whereas we have played broncos twice, soon to be panthers twice and every other game excluding titans are teams currently in the 8.

[The Lip]

Doggies being on top of the ladder is a false dawn.
They beat cronulla who are out of the eight but they have played every team in the bottom half of the ladder plus a bye.

whereas we have played broncos twice, soon to be panthers twice and every other game excluding titans are teams currently in the 8.

Regardless I think the Dogs finish top 4 - defence is good.

[The Brain]

You back on the Cheech and Chongs?...I still think we will experience plenty of heartbreak ..until Walker and Cheese come back and it's a big if by the sounds of things. The young bloods are going well win or lose.
Beating the Riff and the Merge on Anzac day would be massive and the kind of confidence the team needs to keep the fire burning.

[Mickie Lane]

Doggies being on top of the ladder is a false dawn.
They beat cronulla who are out of the eight but they have played every team in the bottom half of the ladder plus a bye.

whereas we have played broncos twice, soon to be panthers twice and every other game excluding titans are teams currently in the 8.

They're a very good side regardless of who they have played.
They've won every game with top players which brings confidence.
If the Storm & Broncos fall over they would be my next contender for the comp.
Their defence & defensive structure are top notch.
Canberra after them.

[Bates]

I reckon we're one of the fittest teams this season and the Bulldogs.

We would've pumped Souffs with a capable halfback. I'm still not over it!

[Roosterfarian]

We are definitely fitter than previous seasons. There is a steel I haven’t seen for a few years. Execution and errors are our downfall.

[The Lip]

What is everyone seeing to say we are fitter? We have faded in the second half in three games we should have won?

[Bansai Pipeline]

You back on the Cheech and Chongs?...I still think we will experience plenty of heartbreak ..until Walker and Cheese come back and it's a big if by the sounds of things. The young bloods are going well win or lose.
Beating the Riff and the Merge on Anzac day would be massive and the kind of confidence the team needs to keep the fire burning.

Oh yeah we're definitely going to lose plenty, don't get me wrong. Doubt we'll make the 8. But positive sights are there.

[caz]

Oh yeah we're definitely going to lose plenty, don't get me wrong. Doubt we'll make the 8. But positive sights are there.

yeah, keep the good spirit we've shown so far this year, develop the youngsters and we'll go alright. this year is probably a tough ask but we look like we're heading in the right direction

[Mickie Lane]

Am I?

Penrith are running second last and have been awful, St George are only ahead of us because of the bye, the Dolphins struggled as badly as we did and Cronulla are 3-3 but definitely beatable. These are games that we can expect our team to beat, it isn't like I'm expecting them to do Melbourne 13+ in Melbourne or something.

Hmmm

[On the Nose]

yeah, keep the good spirit we've shown so far this year, develop the youngsters and we'll go alright. this year is probably a tough ask but we look like we're heading in the right direction

You've just repeated Robinsons oft spoken mantra, which as usual is a string of empty words. If going backwards is heading in the right direction then you and Robbo are spot on. If upgrading the already overpaid Leniu while axing the cut price May is heading in the right direction, then you and Robbo are spot on again. Our current crop of "youngsters" are not that good, they can't even put 2 half decent games together, let alone 2 good games together. None of them look to be standouts or long term premiership winners. I know Robinson has a plan and has had one for a number of years. Well his plan sucks. At best we've been lucky to make the eight the first half of this decade. The next 5 years are not getting any better under his crap plan. What spirit are you talking about? The only wins we have had this year is due to the opposition's complacency. The one good point to our decline is the games are being refereed so badly Rugby League is almost impossible to watch any more. Hope Easts makes a come back before the real Rugby league makes a comeback.

[BTRD]

IMO, we will win 6 to 8 games only.

I just HATE watching the team get flogged (nearly as much as side ways running).

Come on Chooks - stay in the fight for 80.

Spencer if you don't want to be here then go, but if do, please show it.

[Rocky Rhodes]

You've just repeated Robinsons oft spoken mantra, which as usual is a string of empty words. If going backwards is heading in the right direction then you and Robbo are spot on. If upgrading the already overpaid Leniu while axing the cut price May is heading in the right direction, then you and Robbo are spot on again. Our current crop of "youngsters" are not that good, they can't even put 2 half decent games together, let alone 2 good games together. None of them look to be standouts or long term premiership winners. I know Robinson has a plan and has had one for a number of years. Well his plan sucks. At best we've been lucky to make the eight the first half of this decade. The next 5 years are not getting any better under his crap plan. What spirit are you talking about? The only wins we have had this year is due to the opposition's complacency. The one good point to our decline is the games are being refereed so badly Rugby League is almost impossible to watch any more. Hope Easts makes a come back before the real Rugby league makes a comeback.

haha...Poor old Zac can't even get his name in the right direction...no wonder it is confused. Imagine calling heading for the spoon the right direction hehe. Maybe Zac aka Caz is secretly wishing for Wobbo to get the spoon and chop too.

Yeah, other than White (who has been in our system for like 10 yrs) all the others have been inconsistent or poor. Foketi is ok without any wow factor...some of the rest are not worth feeding.