Re: Reset Rants
Reply #66 –
I think the problem with progress and decline is that neither is linear and both can be hard to detect. We finished 11th in 04, won the preseason cup in 05, and I'm sure people thought we were on the up, but clearly we weren't. Tigers finished 13th in 2016 and looked gone for all money. Predicting all this is the stuff of nightmares.
I didn't realise it at the time, but with the benefit of 6 rounds of footy, it seems as though this season is the "recession we had to have", the dip before the rise.
OK so we haven't yet reached that critical "flex" or "click" point yet where we suddenly start showing improvement? The Tigers may be a good example to give us a glimmer of hope as it doesn't seem long ago that we joked about their talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Now, with a cup in their cabinet, they specialise in just grinding teams down into submission with relentless pressure footy.