Ryan, do you put that down to getting older or just unfortunate. This is where I'm heading. The majority of players that win games are the younger group who have several years of experience. Darius Boyd, Soward, Burgess, Morris, Sandow, Taylor, Inglis, Slater, Jennings, McKendry, Carney, Pearce etc. I know you can throw up others but without doubt our age grouping is horribly top ended on older players and the young ones are 18-20 and won't have the experience to be dominant.
I reckon we will get these unfortunate "injuries" most of the year because all our older guys have been in this league for 8-10 years and their bodies surely cannot handle the hard grind that the NRL has become. I'm not saying they cannot play but interesting to note at end of last season King, Choc, Rodney, Lyon etc were struggling every week just to play. Â
I'm sorry that people don't agree with my ideas but when you think 2010 and needing a leader who could step up, choc, glenn, lyon all injured trying to stay on paddock, not winning matches.
Will this email come back to haunt me, let's look at August and see how we are travelling. Will we be in the 8 but limping home like 2010, play 1st semi with half of the team struggling to get on paddock. It this happens then time to change some personnel because surely we wouldn't go down this track 3 years in a row!