Why wouldn't the media accuse us of tanking this year?
One of our compensatory picks is determined by our ladder position. It's not too dissimilar to the priority pick.
Experimenting with player positioning; numerous, unexpected "outs" in Thursday's team sheet; long-term injuries announced on Monday.
And the big one: how does a team, almost identical to the one last year, go from winning 8.5 games (10 or 11 if circumstances were a little different) to 4 at best?
All I want is consistency on this. If 2009 is being treated as suspicious then this year's performances must be brought into question as well.
No?
Then [censored] THE [censored] OFF.