Our rivals for the last 2 top 4 spots . The other 3 have all had changed coaching situations in the last 2 seasons and improved out of sight. They're on an upwards trajectory whilst good old BA has us on a 2020, 2021 trajectory . 5th -6th and not good enough.
The Cowboys sacked a coach who won them a premiership in 2015 because despite his success he was no longer getting the team in a position to compete at the business end . 12 months later they have overtaken us well and truely in the premiership race and could genuinely give it a shot this year. We aren't a genuine shot . We can beat anyone on our best day but there is no way in hell we are suddenly going to have 4 of our best days in a row the back end of the year . These habits are built upon through the season . BA had a great chance with roster stability and familiarity to build on last year and we haven't . Our defence still looks exactly the same , blokes looking at each other confused after try's. It's the same old story .
BA was our coach when NQ won the comp with Paul Green and Green led them to another Grand Final . BA hasn't had half the success and some people on here reckon we owe him for the job he's done . In that time he's led us to another wooden spoon. Really he was in charge during the salary cap debacle and it's debatable if he even had anywhere else to go then . Its a cop out to say we've had incremental improvement because we haven't . Beating a big gun in the regular season that you didn't beat last season isn't what classifies as incremental improvement . This year is a genuine opportunity to get in that top 4 but we're about to be trumped by 3 clubs that bit the bullet and had the guts to improve. Over a decade in charge and many of those seasons having fatigue fade outs and BA is still pretty much running 16man game day rotations .. you could argue 15.
If we want to qive ourselves any chance of success over the next 3 seasons it's time to kick BA to the kerb and face the backlash from his NRL 360 mates . He has a job waiting for him at the Tigers . Otherwise this is going to go backwards while we waste the prime years of Moses , Gutho etc and continue to label our best number 6 since brett kenny as purely a ball runner. We don't want to give BA another 2 years of this shit and then have key dudes entering their 30s. If we want to be a top 4 club it's time we did what these 3 teams saw the need to do . BA's effort , intent , winning the right , front loading , collisions message has taken this team as far as it will take it .
Even those of you who support BA must surely be able to see this team is crying out for some fresh ideas and his coaching is falling on deaf ears . He preaches the same thing every press conference , every week .. and our players can no longer execute the message . It's stale . It's why coaches who have been at a joint longer than 7 years NEVER suddenly win a comp . His used by date passed 2 years ago and shit is on the verge of getting ugly .
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