We all watch our team, week in week out, Win or Lose, Top of the ladder, bottom of the ladder and all have our opinions. I watch this year in complete annoyance. Im annoyed with the sub standard skill levels and lack of pace of players around Mitchell.
Quite simply Is it time to give Mitch a better team. In my opinion he deserves better. A player that has developed into a very very good halfback nearing the top of his game, may very well not see the dizzying heights of being named a champion, simply because of recruitment / retention and biased contracts of some players out of form or past their prime. Does this land at the Boards feet, the Coach's feet or the Players feet.
Who makes the hard decsion to start culling contracted players in the ruthless way the Roosters and the Dogs are known to do, in their quest for a winning team.
Take it a step further, should Mitch be our off field and onfield leader, our captain. Of course that means the tempo man, the effort man in Gutherson would have to relinquish the captaincy. Thats hard because he is 110% effort. But this effort alone is not going to get us where we need to be. We need that effort but we obviously need more.
We sit stone motherless last with the Tigers, with not much chance of advancing a hell of a lot higher. So what changes. Im not sure anymore that a change of coach is the only answer.
Is it time to give Mitch a better team, and in the process making hard decisons on moving on contracted players, some that are even fan favourites.
I for one am leaning towards a change in the retention and recruitment team. To me they have it terribly wrong and have locked us into this team for an extended period still to come. Something more then just the coach has to change.
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Mitch is a top 3 halfback and the only way he will ever get his hands on a premiership is if he goes to the Storm, Roosters or Panthers.
Missing out on the Premiership in 2022 should've made the team hungry for more and driven them but it went the other way.
Wouldn't surprise me if after origin Mitch is starting to think this as well 😞
Would you be saying this if he didn't have a good game in origin
Trent if he plays shit then of course I wouldnt be asking the question. He would be part of the problem then wouldnt he. His game against Newcastle was good, the players around him let him down. He creates chances but some of our players dont have the skill , pace or footy nouse to capitalise on them.
He hasn't been the most consistent he is a great player no doubt but consistency is what's been lacking that goes for all the team
After watching our last game,Moses was the only 1 having a red hot crack. He tried everything to lift our team, he was literally saying cmon follow me, we can win this. Yes he deserves a better team, we have a team that is at least a top 8 side, but lethargy , laziness and self belief is sorely lacking
Are we really a top 8 team Bear
I've been saying this for a couple of months now but can you name another player in our team that is a top 5 player in his position beside Moses
no we are not our 1-5 are sub NSW cup level by many many metrics ......its crazy
Bluey, good blog & write-up. Fair question & do agree.
Yep I like what your saying NOS. The thought process for me builds on what yourself and Coryn have said previously about Dylan Brown. " ypu guys changed my mind". He is doing so much more and in my opinion does not trust the outside backs or his edge forward and because of that, he may be forced knowingly or not to go away from certain game plans. I do now believe that Dylan would be so much better if those around him were also much much better. I just see Mitch as a born leader where i see Dylan dancing to his own music sheet.
I have said all along that i think Lomax was bought to play fullback. Does that change now that BA is gone, if it was ever even a real thing. Lomax is a key sigining and will make us better. We just need another couple like him to come our way sooner rather then later.
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