We are pretenders.

[milanja]

Our halves are both shit.

Our full back is a liability.

Our forwards are morons.

We are going backwards.

Chook.

You forgot to add, our future fullback can't catch a cold.

[Chook Norris]

Not over quite yet. With Dragons, Tigers and Titans, we should return to the mindset that we'll find form before the finals. And with Warriors in NZ, Storm and Rabbitohs at home, it'll be the perfect test to see where we are before then.

It'll probably be like this.

We'll beat the Dragons with a fairly solid performance.. get lulled into ANOTHER false sense of security that we're again contenders
Get beaten by the Tigers in a close one due to said complacency
Go into another camp!!! (no)
Get our mojo back
Beat the Titans.. lulled into another sense of elitism
Then play like absolute turds again

[Rooster_6]

Friend to 6 and piss Pearce off into the 9 jersey

Talk about having no idea.

The irony gets me every time...

[Guest]

We won't win the comp this year. The season is over. We are appalling....

Sorry to be so heartless to the optimists among us but let's have a little realpolitik here on The Wa... I mean, the Chookpen! Ah old habits die hard....!

Manly are specials, Canterbury a real danger and souffs a dark horse.

As long as the Verm from the 'Fern don't win it, I couldn't give a fark.

2013 was a fluke, a beautiful and deserved fluke... But flukes rarely strike twice ladies and gents!

[ROC181]

Yes our halves are below average when it comes to creativity. That Tyrone something for the knoughts was being made to look like Johns and Lager in comparison to Pearce. Is there a #7 in the club that can have an ounce of creativity???

[sydroosters]

We won't win the comp this year. The season is over. We are appalling....

Sorry to be so heartless to the optimists among us but let's have a little realpolitik here on The Wa... I mean, the Chookpen! Ah old habits die hard....!

Manly are specials, Canterbury a real danger and souffs a dark horse.

As long as the Verm from the 'Fern don't win it, I couldn't give a fark.

2013 was a fluke, a beautiful and deserved fluke... But flukes rarely strike twice ladies and gents!

we dominated teams last year and our defence was impregnable, embarrassing to call it a fluke

[chook 56]

we dominated teams last year and our defence was impregnable, embarrassing to call it a fluke

Correct.
Even others teams supporters commented to me that our defence was what made us "The" team to beat.
We were lucky with injuries, as well.

Different game this year and injuries/rep duties have taken their toll on us.
It's still possible but it might resemble 2010 to get to the big dance.

Who knows?

I look forward to more love fests/fights/wrist slashing/membership burning.

[Guest]

I thought Friday night was very different to the sharks game and, I suspect, a reaction to it

Against the sharks we chucked it around thinking we would rack up a score, wasted possession and sharks won off the back of that

Against the knights we were super conservative which nullified some of our strengths.

Our loss Friday wasn't complacency, it was fear.

I doubt we can kick on from here but gees I'd love to be wrong

[Ray Stehr]

Our halves are both shit.

Our full back is a liability.

Our forwards are morons.

We are going backwards.

Chook.

And yet you carry on like a stuck pig when I suggest that Pearce is rubbish and is a big part of the problem.

[Arties Pie]

Talk about having no idea.

The irony gets me every time...

Things Friend can do Pearce has difficulties with

1/ Repeat sets
2/ 40/20
3/ Pass the ball
4/ Tackle
5/ Consistantly make yardage

It's my opinion you are entitled to yours, there's no need to be nasty.

[milanja]

Things Friend can do Pearce has difficulties with

1/ Repeat sets
2/ 40/20
3/ Pass the ball
4/ Tackle
5/ Consistantly make yardage

It's my opinion you are entitled to yours, there's no need to be nasty.

Shame you can't throw out willy nilly bans just for a power trip.

[IRoosterManI]

[milanja]

Banned!

[bondi-boy]

We won the comp only a few short weeks ago in time.

This season the rules have changed [funny about that], other teams have improved, and we sure seem to have been penalised out of more than one game.
We have more injured players than last season, more 'rookies' in vital matches, and our playing roster has changed.
We're still in the 8, and are in with a chance.
It was always going to be more difficult this season.

[Vasco]

I agree with an earlier post about our backline.

We look like an under 10s team when we spread the ball.

I can't see us turning things around.