blogging it real

real late here as I've been away but these are the picks I would have made/ are making...

Rabbitohs vs Bulldogs - Bulldogs
Roosters vs Broncos - broncos
Knights vs Storm - Storm
Cowboys vs Tigers - Cowboys
Eels vs Raiders - Eels
Sea Eagles vs Warriors - Warriors
Panthers vs Titans - Panthers
Sharks vs Dragons - Sharks
 

Picking after the games ain't right.

Nor is picking the Warriors.

I still feel about them the way I did about the Football Kingz/Knights.
 

People often talk of them in the same breath which I find slightly ridiculous given the large difference in the quality of both competitions and the fact that the Warriors have never come last and have done very well at times (which is no different from any other sporting team). Hell they are even on a 5 match winning streak at Mt Smart.
 

The problem is they promise a lot but deliver very little.
 

To me they have never really promised anything beyond what they have delivered. They have had a lot of ordinary players and teams over the years. They just look better than they are because most NZers dont know the NRL too well so dont realise how shit hot you have to be to do OK.

because we have one team in the whole country everybody knows all of our players even if they are mediocre by the comps standards. this gives people an inflated impression of how good they are.
 

Trust me. My faith in their abilities isn't over-inflated
 

What do you put their under achievement down to? Management at stages hasn't helped but they have had crap sides quite often during those periods of poor management so they have reaped what they sowed.
 

I actually have wondered about this a bit. I think what disappoints me the most is the lack of planning within the franchise. They just never seem to be looking beyond the season they're in.

It's all very well to do well this year, but if you're not thinking about next year, and the year after, when the time arrives you find yourself behind the 8-ball.

There were moments when I thought they had the right idea. When they brought in some old heads to give some guidance to the new blood. But then they piss it all away by letting some of the new blood with potential slip through their fingers.

The Bronco's strength (to me) has been their ability to develop players for the future and hold onto them ... to constantly have the mix of the old and the new and to continually develop and reinvent the side.

But for all that I remain a Bulldogs fan (even if they are a bunch of cheating drug raddled women abusing tosspots)