Yeah.
Thing is though it is an extension of Websters personality/life philosophy to not use excuses (cue the Webster frequent sound bites about not blaming Refs and accepting responsibility).
We are in a rebuild. I do not see that as a negative thing. When you look at rebuilds objectively, and lay aside Warrior angst, every single club goes through them when the Chief play maker retires, when other key players age and slow down, when GLue type players like your Mannerings or
Tohu Harris's retire.
The four best Warriors players of a rugby league cycle were here last season and have either gone or are on the wane.
SJ, best in a generation.
Harris, best ball playing forward in the generation. The best hands since Ali Lauitiiti, but could tackle, probably the greatest forward to ever pull on a Warriors jumper.
AFB best Prop of a generation.
Roger Tuivasa Sheck, best of an era, now aged and like Tohu diminishing.
Those are the most important guys in a RL team, the halfback, the fullback, the ball playing forward slash defensive rock, and the line breaking prop.
Take them out or have them on the decline without like for like new signings then you are in a rebuild.
Train spotters will point out we did get like for like with James F H replacing AFB.
While that is true, both top of their game, the Warriors are a special case, unlike the Roosters, or the Storm, who have enjoyed coaching stability, the new Star player coming to the Warriors is not the same as the new star joining those other outfits under coaching dynasty's like Bellamy and Robinson.
Which leads me to my core point about rebuilds. The Warriors are in constant rebuild because more than any club in living memory they have made the short sighted decision to sack more coaches than any club in existence.
This is why we are in constant rebuild and this is why it is absolutely critical that the Warriors ignore results and commit to Webster for six years minimum, absolutely minimum....because that would have given him time to have over seen our best sixteen year olds and bring them up in a stable system to eventually be a team with an age range in early to mid twenties in ninety percent of the run on side with years of playing together to threaten the comp.
The fact that this has not been tried since Cleary reinforces to me even more that the Warriors need to do a long term Webster commitment and suck it up till the young stars are all available for him to pick as men who have played grade together for five and more years together.
