I am a pragmatist when it comes to the Warriors ladder finishes.
The way i see the last (approaching thirty years of Warriors pain) is that we have very rarely shown any consistency when it comes to making the finals.
The best we have ever done was under Anderson. Anderson gave us a debut season in the finals, a second season in the GF, and a third season in the Semi Finals that came down to
Logan Swann not passing the ball for a repeat GF appearance two years straight.
Nothing Cleary or anyone else did at this club even comes close to that. level of consistency.
If
Logan Swann had of passed the ball to an unmarked player on the try line we would have done back to back GFs fuck him night and day and after I am dead.
Now anyone with any common sense would appreciate that this clubs best ever era was a GF followed by a loss on the eve of two GFs in a row.
Nothing Ivan did came even close to that, he got one GF and a bunch of up and down hap hazard scrapings into the lower eight which is why Warriors management made the stupid decision to go with someone else.
Since then we have been horrible when it comes to finals. One of the worst in NRL history.
So after last year, if Webster can get us to the finals in any position we will be in the epoch of only the third ever repeat finals showings in the Warriors history.
The way I view this season all I want is eight place please Jesus to stem the tide of no finals then a rare year where we make one.
Everyone in the fan space that is the NRL respects teams that make the finals every year no matter what position, and so this is my dream, that we make it there somewhere, don't care if it is a scrape in at 8th so long as we do it every year = we are no longer a loser outfit with a sprinkling of lucky runs to the finals like the Cleary years....which frankly are not good enough.
I want a return to the age of
Daniel Anderson when this club did its best ever, an era where we were seen as one of the best teams in the NRL and everyone was scared of us.
Under Cleary no one was scared of us, we snuck under the radar for a lot of upset wins during origin under Cleary to get into the finals. Fuck that, I want to see us hardcore outright, no Origin period come backs.
Consistency, consistency, consistency.