After a loss like that and the realisation that we won't see the maroon and white until next year, reflection on this season is a natural place to go and I think this season can be one we look back with reasonably fondly.
We had improvements across the park, our new recruits that came with little fan fare played their part admirably, most notably Sironen, Uate and Kelly. But importantly there was improvement from our high profile players in DCE, Taupau, both Trbojevic's (Tom will get even better by tightening up a few things) and Walker.
We leave the season as well with some absolutely brilliant memories - heart stopping wins and demolitions of opposition teams which left us all with a feeling of excitement and hope.
Some of the games below had me absolutely jumping for joy on the hill or in the lounge room.
* Our first win of the season against the Cows. Down on troops and a feeling of absolute relief to get our first points of the season with such a gritty win.
* Thrashing of the Bulldogs at Brookie. The calibre of some of the tries that day showed the talent within this team, and nothing better than beating Des and his dogs.
* The last minute win against the Roosters. Wow. Two centres linking up with less than two minutes to go, I'm sure the jubilation from the team after that try was matched by all of us.
* Golden point in the nations capital. I vividly remember the ups and downs of this game. Rapana going in with 10 to go with what looked like a match winning try only for Tommy to go in and leave Walks with an easy conversion to win it at the death. He misses...Then 40 metres out with the pressure on, off the post and in!
* Pummeling of Souths. After being embarrassed early in the year by them it felt bloody good to hit back at them two fold!
* Golden point at Brookie. Another tight one against the Raiders only for our captain to grab the two points for us with a golden point field goal.
* Victory at Shark Park. Arguably our most complete game of the season, that showed we had a real footy team with some potential on our hands.
* A victory against the Roosters just when we needed it. After beltings from the Dragons and Storm we had to bounce back and we did, emphatically on a glorious Sunday at Brookie.
* Get out of jail against the Warriors. With 5 minutes to go our season was done, finished with disappointment. I'm not sure how we did it but DCE showed his abilities to close out a game with those field goals against the wind.
* Ruthless against the Panthers. After five minutes of watching this game, you knew we were going to take the points. The boys were up for it and they wanted to book their spot in the finals which they did in style.
Yes, I'm disappointed this morning but after it settles, I'll roll the tape and watch a few of these games back and think, bloody hell this team made me happy through much of this season.
We had improvements across the park, our new recruits that came with little fan fare played their part admirably, most notably Sironen, Uate and Kelly. But importantly there was improvement from our high profile players in DCE, Taupau, both Trbojevic's (Tom will get even better by tightening up a few things) and Walker.
We leave the season as well with some absolutely brilliant memories - heart stopping wins and demolitions of opposition teams which left us all with a feeling of excitement and hope.
Some of the games below had me absolutely jumping for joy on the hill or in the lounge room.
* Our first win of the season against the Cows. Down on troops and a feeling of absolute relief to get our first points of the season with such a gritty win.
* Thrashing of the Bulldogs at Brookie. The calibre of some of the tries that day showed the talent within this team, and nothing better than beating Des and his dogs.
* The last minute win against the Roosters. Wow. Two centres linking up with less than two minutes to go, I'm sure the jubilation from the team after that try was matched by all of us.
* Golden point in the nations capital. I vividly remember the ups and downs of this game. Rapana going in with 10 to go with what looked like a match winning try only for Tommy to go in and leave Walks with an easy conversion to win it at the death. He misses...Then 40 metres out with the pressure on, off the post and in!
* Pummeling of Souths. After being embarrassed early in the year by them it felt bloody good to hit back at them two fold!
* Golden point at Brookie. Another tight one against the Raiders only for our captain to grab the two points for us with a golden point field goal.
* Victory at Shark Park. Arguably our most complete game of the season, that showed we had a real footy team with some potential on our hands.
* A victory against the Roosters just when we needed it. After beltings from the Dragons and Storm we had to bounce back and we did, emphatically on a glorious Sunday at Brookie.
* Get out of jail against the Warriors. With 5 minutes to go our season was done, finished with disappointment. I'm not sure how we did it but DCE showed his abilities to close out a game with those field goals against the wind.
* Ruthless against the Panthers. After five minutes of watching this game, you knew we were going to take the points. The boys were up for it and they wanted to book their spot in the finals which they did in style.
Yes, I'm disappointed this morning but after it settles, I'll roll the tape and watch a few of these games back and think, bloody hell this team made me happy through much of this season.
