There’s a big difference between not terrible and mostly successful.
Bad, but not terrible =40-45%
Not great, but mostly successful = 65-70%
I’m confused- did we enter in the goals per dollar spent Cup? Is there a premiership given for points v owners wealth and spending power? Are the media going to be praising us for winning the most sustainable or long suffering ownership model?
The closeness for second and the finals series qualification shows how tight the league is due to the cap.
I can agree there were some bright moments, but this season was not a successful one on the pitch. We threw away points and table position and produced a poor showing as the weakest qualifier to the finals series.
To argue, particularly in the last year of our coach, that we were successful because we have some continuity is odd. Every year important figures come and go. This year we may lose 5 key figures, depending on Elliot’s decision and a well performed left back in Mauragis. That’s half our starting team and our coach.
I’ve enjoyed the season as entertainment, but it hasn’t been a successful one on any football metric I can think of that we could have been expecting of the team.
Edit: maybe the last part is the difference. My expectations for this team were much greater than sneak into the finals. If we wanna compare them with the end of Merrick/Ricki or Darje then maybe this was successful. But we were a strong team with a good preseason. We were in the running for second and a return of home finals. We had every reason to expect a silverware challenge even with Waine and Old gone or limited.
Bad, but not terrible =40-45%
Not great, but mostly successful = 65-70%
I’m confused- did we enter in the goals per dollar spent Cup? Is there a premiership given for points v owners wealth and spending power? Are the media going to be praising us for winning the most sustainable or long suffering ownership model?
The closeness for second and the finals series qualification shows how tight the league is due to the cap.
I can agree there were some bright moments, but this season was not a successful one on the pitch. We threw away points and table position and produced a poor showing as the weakest qualifier to the finals series.
To argue, particularly in the last year of our coach, that we were successful because we have some continuity is odd. Every year important figures come and go. This year we may lose 5 key figures, depending on Elliot’s decision and a well performed left back in Mauragis. That’s half our starting team and our coach.
I’ve enjoyed the season as entertainment, but it hasn’t been a successful one on any football metric I can think of that we could have been expecting of the team.
Edit: maybe the last part is the difference. My expectations for this team were much greater than sneak into the finals. If we wanna compare them with the end of Merrick/Ricki or Darje then maybe this was successful. But we were a strong team with a good preseason. We were in the running for second and a return of home finals. We had every reason to expect a silverware challenge even with Waine and Old gone or limited.