2012 Season Expectations
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Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Top 6 finish.
Ability to compete with the "top" teams, especially at home.
Ability to compete with the "top" teams, especially at home.
Ballsout
Tony Townsend
Considering we almost finished top 4 this year I think top 4 should be a minimum goal. The Knight's usual injury tally will go a long way towards determining where we finish as it usually does but given an even amount of luck anything less than a top 4 spot will be underacheiving.
I don't really care what the injury toll is, but no matter when we played them (barring the first NQL game, St George game with no Origin players and the final Melbourne game) we never really looked competitive against the top teams. Even if we put in a great performance we were missing so much class.
I'm expecting that to change though and I don't expect anything less than being top 4.
That's not true, we blew away wins against Wests and the Warriors. We should be top four next year, if not, it's another failure of a season.
Top four EASILY.
Ballsout
Tony Townsend
not saying top 4 is not a possibility but that would be an overacheivment in my books
thats taking into account teams that have been playing together for a while now would also be "expecting" top 4 Manly, Tigers, Storm, Bronco's (still very good without locky)
im also taking into consideration new players and coach/coaching style the team may take a little bit of time to gel
Exactly, if we'd beaten the Warriors, Brisbane at home and Canterbury we'd have been fourth. And they were all winnable. If we had next Year's roster and coach then I think we'd have made it.
Playmaker06
Max Chapman
definitely should be top 4 !!
Warriors and Tigers had indifferent form and relied on a late streak to get them in. We never looked competitive against the Eagles, Storm and Broncos (we were only ever in that game because they were just as terrible but we still cuoldn't capitalize). Those are the teams that were relatively consistent throughout the season. It's also no coincidence theyre in the last 4. Every other team in the top 8 had a rough patch that they can blame for not being in there.
I'm not talking about being competitive throughout a whole game itself as well. I'm takling about being competitive in terms of being able to keep up with the top teams on the ladder by beating teams we're supposed to and nabbing around half of the tough games. That's what all the best teams did. During the tough games this year we seemed to fall away (except for the Parramatta one which was probably the worst game of the season). All the games we fought hard in and was close we lost, whereas the champion teams are the ones that are defined by them.
So why don't you think our much improved roster and best coach in the game won't give us the small bit of improvement we need to make the top four next year, again?
No, I do! I said anything less than top 4 is below my expectations.
Ballsout
Tony Townsend
The roster IMO is only a part of the puzzle..
Do we have a top 4 team - YES
Will we be playing top 4 footy - ??
And the only reason i have question marks is with Bennett on board i can see the entire culture at the club change including the style of footy
i just think it may take a little while to put it all together..
but everyone has their own opinions and expectations which is awesome
Im looking forward to the defence next year when we get in front and our defence keeps us in front even though they lost to brisbane, saints defence was great and if ours is that good next year with the attack we will have we will win this comp in 2012 and 13 woo hooo
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Theknightsrule7
Matthew Gidley
This
Also win at least half our games on the road.
Really wanna see us not get 1 crowd under 20,000 next season, (unless its a monday night game).