Great to so much resilience in so many NRL players this weekend. Players getting paid high 6 figure salaries kicking stones and giving up because it's all too hard to give something back to their fans. Nope way too selfish and self absorbed to think that they should go out there and bust a gut to earn your $200K ,$300K or $400K salaries instead I'll just turn it up and have a pout.
Mate, I hear you. There's literally about 10% of our squad trying, and the rest have mailed it in. In fact, Des looks like he's thrown in the towel as well. The only way to change culture, is to CHANGE culture - we need a roster shake-up.
That means sending one / two big name players away (like The Broncos have) to set a standard and say as a coaching staff and club this isn't good enough.
Unfortunately, we've seen Mestrov has NO balls as seen by him saying nothing about gang **** and rainbow jerseys (falling back to the NRL should have said something) to any of the players , and more closely related to me, Arko.
It's obvious the players rule the roost. Des has lost the group (and I CANNOT fathom how anyone is defending this pretender).
FMD (since being back):
1. Last 6 years: .400 winning coach
2. 2nd worst defensive record EVER in the history of any team in the NRL over 20 games (magpies the worst)
3. Worst ever losing streak equalled (and on track in my view to break that record round one next season)
4. Beaten one top 4 team once in 2.5 years.
5. Beaten two top 8 teams in 12 months
6. Many players wanting out or seeking releases
7. No players wanting to come here (particularly marquee players)
8. Ridiculous team selections and numerous players being forced to play out of position
9. This will make 2 finals series in 5 years
I could go on. How bad do people want it to fall before they say we need change haha. It's almost comical.