Nah mate, in a job you got to get results no matter the circumstances. I'm not settling for 2021. As if luke Thompson will be the messiah by himself... and what happened to our never say die mentality? Finding a way to win with our attitude and sheer will? Where did that go?
Look at what Pay's done so far.. does that instill any confidence that he'll get it right when it he had star players? One out footy, plodding it up. We went backwards from dessie. Dont blame dessie forever. He took manly to the finals first year back. The attack was a shambles last night, and the likes of the chooks and raiders would have put 20 or 30 on us
I never said Thompson alone will be any sort of panacea. There are 4-5 key recruitments we need to make for 2021 and I believe they'll be announced in the coming months. We have the money for 2021 that we don't for 2020 - that's well known.
I thought our attitude last night was great. We got beaten by a team who are at the very least Top-4 favourites (though didn't show it last night) and it was a soft try - we were in it all night. Many were predicting we'd get a touch up last night and we didn't.
I'm not 100% defending Pay - of course the attack needs work. But I think he's done a pretty damn good job with who he's had. I'm not blaming Des apart from his role in the salary cap disaster - the same as he did when he left Manly the first time (they took 5 years to recover from that, we're going to do it in 3).
Of course we all want success - but I'm a realist and therefore willing to be patient for longer, as much as it can be frustrating at times.
I've often posed the question to those who think the staff have or are doing a bad job - what would you have done differently in the last 2 years? It's a question that rarely gets answered or answered well in my view.