Forgive me, I need to get this off my chest!
Yes the cattle is a problem, we knew that in probably every game we have won this year, just the same! I am/was devastated last night, the effort against Titans was probably a low point of the season ......so far? BUT I actually saw some effort in last nights game !!!!.....that's why it hurts more than normal after a loss. Yes I know people will laugh at that but what I cannot accept is the execution....lack of focus and the giving up of the ball
......The inability to realise with Melb making so many errors, there was a real opportunity to beat them. Even at 10 - 4 after half time and us butchering 2 tries in 5 minutes, we could still win this game with 20 minutes to go!
Now Melb were atrocious as well, I said to my wife that Bellamey must be thanking god his team was playing Parramatta.
I can get over most things Parramatta and have made horrible statements about them in the past, but there was something special in that game....a new level of ineptness, not courage or passion, just a junior team making errors that confounds me. I think I am writing this blog to purge myself.....I think we hit a new low.....I can only imagine what Ryles and his staff must think, like, its not like it was bad coaching, you couldn't coach a side to drop balls, miss tackles and position themselves as badly as they did.
Player's that excelled previously like Volkman and TDS showed why they are fringe players, I have no doubt now that we will see Pezet back in the side ahead of Volkman. Volkman only has to look in the mirror with a lot of his mates if they ever manage to be honest with themselves about being First Grade Footballers.
Oh! Parra, why have you forsaken us! LOL..... there are worse things of course...... to our knowledge no one died in that game, but you never can be sure if we lost a few supporters during it!
I know a few old blokes up in heaven who would be pretty grumpy this morning.
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I think about that Pricey, but I also think about Penrith in terms of location....I reckon I could sell our location when we train at Kellyville and play at Com Bank.
The hills district out to Hawkesbury is as good an upmarket area as it gets with not having a beach.
Now that said I haven't lived in the area for 45 years, but being born in Epping and living my childhood at Ermo and also at Kellyville, I have a fair understanding of how I would go about selling it. Yes I could organise a Helicoptor Treat (club sponsored) for any player and their family that would shock the shit out of them.....so there maybe a perception of negativity about Parra but I could definately make a case. The other thing is the socio economics of Rugby League Players is probably not that snobbish, I would add though that beachside suburbs are by nature attractive.
Ryles is a coach that I admire because he has a vision of what we could be, getting a name coach with out a vision is a waste and so I support Ryles.
I would like to see our juniors following the current path and accept we should pay over's for the talent we want to identify.
It seems to me we probably lack an entrenpenaur to bring commercial packages of interest to those identified players we want.
All that said I can visualise where we are coming from and the "truth" of Rome not being built in a day definately has application.....who spends the money (non cap issues), whether its the Leagues Club or the Football Club, ideally both needs to be more of a catalyst, and exercise the required enthusiasm, not just playing standards but also the people that make our club more livable and desirable for players to come to.
We have the money and resiurces to do that, but if we could adopt a plan to do so, talk about it and then make it happen, we will get the players we want!
Contrary to all that I believe that Parra has a stigma about it as a club over the years of being unsuccessful. It was only 10 years ago that we were put in administration, this and our now inconsistent performances means we are tainted and the last 3 years means also that we/will have to pay overs. There is a perception that nothing is glamourous, but Penrith set a standard that says, successful players want to play with successful clubs.
Parra is easily accessible from the beaches. Plenty of businesses with offices in Parra have owners who live in the Eastern Suburbs or Northern Beaches.
If anything our connection to Western Sydney should give us a massive advantage because that is NSW Rugby League heartland demographically - that's where a lot of the players are born and bred, even if they don't stay there when they come into money. We should be able to sell our location as a plus - we should be deeply connected as a club into the Western Sydney heartlands around us and the footy mad cultures that dominate all of those suburbs.
You can be proud of being a "westie" even if you now live in Bondi. Aussies love a cashed-up bogan.
Can you kinda see that by saying we are an easy commute from Manly, Bondi, Cronulla etc. isn't going to work as a sales pitch? Doesn't really do much to have a large segment of your playing group that in reality don't want to associate with the area they represent. Do you think Gutho was truly passionate about the club and the area or was his interest self serving?
It's even a rough drive from Parra to Kellyville...let alone the beach
Well the road from Parra to Kellyville, would only need to be traversed once a fortnight Rudolph, and its so far away....at least 10/15 minutes.....back on your sleigh .......you failed this one and you had been going so well lately.
Spoken like someone who has never sat in traffic from Parra to Bella Vista...15 min my arse. At midnight maybe.
Well you could use Wiz's jet, he was also worried how far the COE was from ComBank.
In the interim I have been back to Sydney and that road is fine and the commute is 10/15 mins on horse back from Kellyville....I used to be a participant in the riding school once based there and I was no Midnight Cowboy.....
Its easy from Penrith😳
Well plenty of Manly players have made that commute, Gutho did it for 10 years, Blacktown workers busloaded junior players back and forward....no sorry Adam your negativity is just that, I didn't mention the southern beaches.
With regard to passion go back to what I said about Penrith seemingly having no problems in this regard and they have a lot less to offer. Succesful players want to go to successful clubs, you need to start the journey somewhere!
Whether Gutho was passionate about the club was irrelevant, he most certainly was passionate when he played, if they all had the will to win like Gutho, we would not be having this conversation.
Yeah, I would drop 200,000 a season to live near the beach that I go to 3 times a year. Have any of you seen the cost of living lately?
Who can afford to drop a million over 5 years. Telling your grandkids that you played in a grandfather but you are broke would indicate that you played in your comfort level for 200000 a year less ,you were a follower, not a leader and that you had no perception of the economic impact to your family's life later on
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