My fear if we miss the 8 this season...

[elo]

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Which one is our OP?

[HEGtheROOSTER]

We won't miss the 8............

[ism22]

The way that I see it is in 2010 we took a hell of a lot more risks than in this preseason.

We signed a 5/8th for 3 yrs, when he had continually fallen off the bandwagon at his old club,

We signed a coach who had never won a NRL premiership in his coaching career and was unanimous with his silly mind games,

We signed a veteran prop (Ryles) who was over 30 yrs and had been one of the most hated players at his old club, the dragons. He had the reputation of being ill-disciplined and giving away stupid penalties.

We had persisted with a man who had taken a crap in a hotel corridor and only really played 3 good games a year....for QLD.

We had signed a fringe forward in Conn who was injury prone.

We still had Anasta at our club, even though he had shown no promising signs since when he started in 06'.

Our only real positive was the removal of Willie Wanker.

The way I see it, this year has a lot more promise than the start of 2010

That's a point!!! But again... I think an all or nothing situation. When things went bad we had 2 dead rubber seasons.

For those who keep saying I'm negative, all I'm trying to do is promote "what if things don't go as planned" discussion.

I' hardly a pessimist, granted my feeling is we WILL go all the way.

[stephenj]

its not as if we put It all on red or black we invested in rwb! with quality players and coaching inevitably we will achieve!

[Rooster_Luke]

What a ridiculous way to look at things. Our club has made some promising moves and most people are getting excited for the start of the season! Instead, you're worrying about us not making the finals and everything else that could go wrong. Cheer up!

[Thirteen]

What a ridiculous way to look at things. Our club has made some promising moves and most people are getting excited for the start of the season! Instead, you're worrying about us not making the finals and everything else that could go wrong. Cheer up!

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[Guest]

What a ridiculous way to look at things. Our club has made some promising moves and most people are getting excited for the start of the season! Instead, you're worrying about us not making the finals and everything else that could go wrong. Cheer up!

Cover/address all the negatives and you can only get a positive. Well done ism!

[SConcierge]

never fear smith is here!

[Guest]

Something I just thought of. We've put all of our eggs into 1 basket this season by spending our entire cap. I personally think it will pay off... but what if it doesn't? We'll:
- Lose SBW (and potentially not even want him)
- Be stuck with Jennings playing $hit for another 3 years.
- Lose Mortimer and not want Pearce or Maloney... so basically have no halves.
- Be jack of our coach before he's even started (and miss out on Bellamy.)
- Have SFA left in the coffers to do anything about it.


Biiiig risk we've taken this year!!! All or nothing IMO...

But the good thing is there is always next year.

Im looking forward to 2020.

[Thirteen]

never fear smith is here!

Never fear cause Smith ain't no longer here!

[Guest]

Is this positive or negative?

I think 2 negatives make a positive, don't they??

edit: My apologies I just read the whole thread whereby this aspect of positive negativity was covered by others, I hope this doesn't come across as me being negative, because I'm positive I'm not negative about Easts 2013 !