Swarzey
Michael Hagan
It's pretty clear people expected Bennett to deliver a premiership and because he hasn't done so, they're quick to criticize and undermine even the success of last year's finals run, which was far from a fluke. The depressing exaggeration from so many fans here and elsewhere is quite honestly sad to see, I would expect better from Newcastle fans.
No club has suffered the issues we have had this season except for the Sharks, and look where they are. They're issues that would derail even the best of teams and the injuries, while no different to many, have just made things worse. Problem is even if we manage to pull ourselves to 10th or 9th, just missing the finals people are going to forget the ownership debacle, the payment issues and the player digression and say it was "accurate" and continue to bash Bennett's run at Newcastle. Way too many fans fail to see the off field issues as legitimate reasons as to why the team has failed on field in 2014. It seems there should be on field success regardless of what is going on off field.
It's disgusting to see so many people become so blind to this team's capabilities, seemingly just happy to fall in line with the other nuffies eating up the garbage that gets tossed about. Edit: Really, the best way to put it is that last September the negativity wasn't here. Those criticizing the team and giving them zero credit was doing the exact opposite and would have probably kissed the ground Bennett walked on.
No club has suffered the issues we have had this season except for the Sharks, and look where they are. They're issues that would derail even the best of teams and the injuries, while no different to many, have just made things worse. Problem is even if we manage to pull ourselves to 10th or 9th, just missing the finals people are going to forget the ownership debacle, the payment issues and the player digression and say it was "accurate" and continue to bash Bennett's run at Newcastle. Way too many fans fail to see the off field issues as legitimate reasons as to why the team has failed on field in 2014. It seems there should be on field success regardless of what is going on off field.
It's disgusting to see so many people become so blind to this team's capabilities, seemingly just happy to fall in line with the other nuffies eating up the garbage that gets tossed about. Edit: Really, the best way to put it is that last September the negativity wasn't here. Those criticizing the team and giving them zero credit was doing the exact opposite and would have probably kissed the ground Bennett walked on.
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) then we put in 2 incredible matches against both the Bulldogs and the Storm, no doubt they were some of the best games I've seen us play. Not taking away from that and from the incredible run we had, but my point being, at one stage of the season, we didn't look anything like a Bennett coached team and weren't even sure if we were to make the 8 or not. On paper we look like a top 4 team, the way we played that first half of that season, no way even a top 8 team. Which plays to my point, where was the consistency?
