I'm not even kidding... I've said it before, Lachlan Lewis was good player. Look at Cogger... Our club is fucking poison for good players. And there's zero we can do about it now. The rot set in with Malcolm Noad period, and the club is gone. When other clubs have grievances, they are heard. We used to be in this position, and now it's vehemently a culture of any grievance the club has, it's taken as given, that the opposite is true... And it's weakened everything about the club. Everything.
For example, I don't give a shit about what the media reaction is, the hostile element of our supporter base, if it still existed, might have got a rise out of players today. But you know... PR
It seems like everyone is ignoring this...we made two GFS, in 2012 and 2014... So what I've written above is surely falsified... Except both occasions, we were treated unfairly not just in the officiating, but in what the "certified" NRL media and community were allowed to get away with
We've been defenceless around slander of our club. And that takes a toll, in the public perception of the club... And the NRL officiating comes from the ranks is the general public (no duh).
Yet, not only does our club have no influence with the NRL, any "uppityness" specifically from our club is brutally punished.
The culture of our supporter base has been shaped over the years, by the elimination of most of the passionate elements of it.
There is no recovery from this. You can change the coach, the playing staff, etc, etc. we are regarded as the parriahs of the league. And to that end, no one cares when we are blatantly wronged. And that will continue in perpiruty, because the game has no interest in us succeeding