I have it on good authority [from a parent of a player] that in one of those finals we Essingtoned, the players were more keen about discussing their international travel plans for the next week than winning the final.
Even as one of the most pessimistic people on this site, surely that will never happen. Mendozaaaa in particular will have a field day reminding everybody of that day.
The correlation we are looking for is the result versus the aim. If we aim to debut lots of draftees, and we achieve that OK, but if thats what we want to do, it precludes a possible aim of settling the team into a gelled state something like the way the team wants to play to win games.
JLT2 cant come soon enough. I am so pessimistic after that first game. Last year it didn’t worry me when we performed so horribly in the JLT. But we carried that form into the season, I am thinking something similar is going to happen again this year. Please prove me wrong!!!
Yep. I’ve reverted from very, very optimistic to – ■■■■! it can probably still get worse, it can keep happening!
Don’t know where I am at the moment. And as I said earlier, it wasn’t JLT 1 that shifted my optimism. I think its just the mental scars now. I don’t think even a very good win in JLT 2 would change it to be honest, not that I’m expecting it - think we’ll still stuff around with structures and manage players.
Mark Harvey in the 1984 Premiership was the last Premiership player who was born after we had won the previous flag (1965), but even he was born after we had last won a final (1968).
Will we have someone as young as him or the '93 baby bombers the next time win a flag?