Crusher_Cleal
Bencher
Back to things on-the-field related, where do you guys see us needing to improve next year in order to go back-to-back. It's obvious just how hard it is to get yourselves back up for a title defence (none since Brisbane in '93), especially with all teams now gunning for you.
Last year was a pretty perfect year in my view, and was mostly illustrated in the fact that we only got blown out once all year (against the Dragons), and peaked at the perfect time. We were also pretty lucky with injuries in the end, and didn't have many rep obligations. All combined to form the perfect season. We're missing a bit of outside backs depth this year, which is a bit of a concern, but apart from that, I don't see too much difference (Rodney's loss will be tempered by Buhrer and T-Rex stepping up). Thoughts? Anything glaring we need to work on? We may be missing Glen, Choc and T-Rex at Origin time, and I have no idea how we can handle this (although our byes might fall favourably for us, not sure?). We saw how Origin affected the Dragons this year.
Last year was a pretty perfect year in my view, and was mostly illustrated in the fact that we only got blown out once all year (against the Dragons), and peaked at the perfect time. We were also pretty lucky with injuries in the end, and didn't have many rep obligations. All combined to form the perfect season. We're missing a bit of outside backs depth this year, which is a bit of a concern, but apart from that, I don't see too much difference (Rodney's loss will be tempered by Buhrer and T-Rex stepping up). Thoughts? Anything glaring we need to work on? We may be missing Glen, Choc and T-Rex at Origin time, and I have no idea how we can handle this (although our byes might fall favourably for us, not sure?). We saw how Origin affected the Dragons this year.