In the build up we'll get all these Churchillian speeches and hype that we are going to beat "the bottlers" from Saints.
Then after the game there will be loads of posts analysing why we are permanent also rans.
The reasons which will be discussed will include:
1) We spend too much money on overrated overpaid pension hunters from Australia and if we'd spent that money on the Academy we'd have the best Academy in the game.
2) We're "too nice". We need some players who have that "grub" in them.
3) We have a "jobs for the boys" culture on the coaching staff. If you used to play for the club or you have some other contact, you get a job. [Then with no sense of irony you will get someone saying we should bring Michael Monaghan or Matt King into the coaching staff]
4) In amongst all the poop being dumped on Karl Fitzpatrick, someone will bring up whizzy rascal.
5) If we had played Riley Dean as starting halfback from week 1, instead of farming him out on loan, we would have had a more successful season.
6) Some woke hippy will say "you guys are all too serious, most teams would love to be in our position, how many teams apart from Wigan, Saints and Leeds have won as much as us"
Tune in to this forum in a week's time for full discussion of these issues.
