as I watch the wabbitohs get slaughtered again tonight...I'm taking pride in the fact it was us that started them on the slippery slope to ruin. They came into the game in form...top four side...and we smashed them. Plus they had Inglis, if I recall correctly. I think we broke them.
They were struggling before they played us, they have not been right since about round 8, key injuries to their spine has hampered them and they have struggled to cope with every other club wanting a piece of them as well.
It hurts that we lost to the eels and riff twice. Both teams that are below us. Even one win each against those two and we would have been in the semis
I reckon they lost 50% of their ability to win when the best burgess and teo left. They are a shadow of a team without those two.
Aren't they just! I don't think I'd want the other burgess boys in our side now... They look like useless plodders compared to how they once played.
The rot set in for the rabbits when they started talking about going the season undefeated......then they lost about 4 in a row and have just looked like a shadow. It always cracks me up when teams start talking about going undefeated in a season. Given origin, injury, fatigue, the closeness of the comp, being the reigning premiers. Going undefeated would be one of the most amazing modern day feats.
Average of 8 players up until round 12 broke us.Look what happened when most of the players came back.
Like most disasters, there are typically multiple failures that contribute- Penn's, halves fiasco, injuries, zorba. Any one on its own is manageable...
