For many years I've been I've been writing about Parra's soft underbelly. It's something that I believe Brad Arthur is systematically addressing and I see great strides in terns of the whole club getting an attitude adjustment surrounding developing some kind of winning attitude.
And then I read some of the complete and utter crap that our supporters write when things don't go wrong. And it smacks me between the eyes how far we as as a club have to go.
So Jarryd Hayne decided to go and pursue another goal.
Well cry me a farking river.
Waaaahhh. We're going to win the spoon. Waaaaah. I'm not going to renew my membership. Waaaaaaah. Why doesn't Jarryd love us anymore.
This is the same commentariat that likes to call our forwards soft.
Let me tell you if the loss of one player is enough for everyone to throw their toys out of the pram then we were well screwed to begin with.
Rugby League has always, will always be, a team again. A great team will always beat a group of individuals. We haven't been a great team for a long time. And we've certainly not been a great team since we hoisted Jarryd Hayne up on a pedestal after 2009.
I've hated more than anything that we've been so reliant on one player. It goes everything that I believe Rugby League is. And it's a not a formula for success anyway as our dismal results have shown since 2009.
I'll take the liberty of suggesting that Brad Arthur would wholeheartedly agree with me. He's the type of coach that wants to build a team. A team that doesn't shirk its task. A team that works for each other and the club. A team that doesn't let obstacles stand in their way.
You look at Penrith. No big names. But they just kept winning. And then they started getting hit by injuries. And they still kept winning. God, I would have been proud to be a Panther's fan in 2014.
And that's what I want our club to be. Things go wrong, that just means you're going to have to work harder.
So stop contributing to the whiney, the-world-owes-us mentality that this club is trying to really hard to shake. Man up and let's all get on with building a club that's not build around one player, but the right culture and collective. For as much as I'll always appreciate Jarryd Hayne the athlete, he was never the personification of the attitude I wanted to see our club be based on and given his influence it was always going to make it difficult to get the culture right within that circumstance.
Forward and onward. Always Blue and Gold.
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Well said 1eyed!
if anything, this is just going to make me more passionate about parra.
I always wanted Americans to see our game because of how good our game is and wanted to be proud, but not like this. Be very careful what you wish for.
Agree, players that go on the field, do their job and go home.
amen
Agreed 100% well effing said!
Our reliance on one player seriously damages the team.
We need to be the parra eels not Hayne and the parramatta eels.
All I have read is the paranoia about who we need and how fast we need them. What we need is to settle down.
Just remember Hayne was a special player but there have been a few teams that have managed to win premierships without Jarryd Hayne in their sides.
Mammojo who been sneaking in some unicorn juice.?
7th without Hayne? I predict bottom 3. They haven't often won without him so I don't think BA can fix things so quick.
I guess lets wait and see our line up round 1.
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