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I thank God I’m not a Warriors fan. While many supporters approach a new season with optimism only to see it slowly, or suddenly, fade away, Warriors fans experience something else entirely.
It seems every new year brings a host of talented signings and, more often than not, a new coach with new ideas.
Then the season plays out in three possible ways.
1) The team starts average before going on a run mid-season, culminating in a finals appearance ranging from first round to grand final, but always ending in defeat, e.g. 2011;
2) Team plays average to OK before going on a run mid-season, then choking as they slump out of the finals race, e.g. 2015;
3) Team plays average, then continues to play average.
WARRIORS DROP SIX PLAYERS FOR OFF-FIELD BEHAVIOUR
2016 has the feel of the later.
Heading into Round 9 the Warriors sit in 13th, having only won three games.
They are coming off a pathetic 42-0 drubbing at the hands of Melbourne and one could argue their season is on the line against St George on Sunday.
In many ways this game is well suited to the Warriors conundrum.
Much has been made of the Warriors’ dazzling brand of football (when it comes off), as has the Dragons’ inability to score, with a measly 79 points for.
It’s a team boasting the likes of Shaun Johnson, Issac Luke and Manu Vatuvei against the competition’s worst attack.
It should be straight-forward, but it never has been with the Warriors.
If a team boasting so-many attacking weapons are out-scored by a team that raring crosses the white line, then it will just a continuation of the problems faced by this club.
Andrew McFadden must be at pains to work out just why this team cannot play to its’ potential.
Heading into this year the Warriors had built-up a flashy back-line, featuring Manu Vatuvei, Konrad Hurrell and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, since struck down with injury, as well as the brilliant Shaun Johnson.
Their forward pack is not too shabby either, featuring Ryan Hoffman and Luke, both established representative players.
What is the Warriors’ problem? Why can’t one of the most talented rosters in the game get it together?
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