Wakefield Trinity • Doing it tough

It appears as a group of elite sportsmen we seem to be a product of our circumstances, circumstances that every team is enduring.
Times like this In successful teams bring out the character of a group and leadership qualities of the coaches
After last seasons horrendous casualty list we found the rhetoric internally was all about the injuries And how that was effecting the team. As a group they didn’t show enough mental fortitude to overcome this and allowed themselves to serve up below par performances consistently
All is not lost buoyed by the start of a new season the talk was how we had learnt from last season and gone for a bigger squad to compensate lessons were learnt apparently and would be implemented
Fast forward to this season and in the Covid crisis we seem once again to capitulate and the circumstances are blamed for sub par performances
For me there is a sense that the integrity of the group is flawed the level of desire and professionalism required to compete is missing we just come off as weak mentally Unable to perform what is necessary to get the result
How did David fifita manage to find himself taking off the gps system if he respected his coach he wouldn’t dare take it off and rightly so when the tail starts wagging the dog it’s time for change what that change is who knows and due to financial restrictions it may not even be feasible
But please can we stop lumping so much praise on the effort of the players surely it’s a pre requisite for playing at this standard, what we should be looking at is the lack of skill and fundamental basics that are adding to the catalogue of losses
I don’t know what has to happen to change our fortunes but worryingly it seems nor do the coaching staff

Statistics: Posted by fullofhope — Sat Sep 12, 2020 10:50 am — Replies 0 — Views 111

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