- Joined
- 2 Dec 2018
- Messages
- 8,752
- Reaction score
- 6,372
Hey guys, now that Season 2024 is done, and unfortunately won (not by us), I thought I'd do a bit of a Season review that will include a quick overview of the year, the key reasons why I think it all went wrong, and a player-by-player review. It will be a long so I understand not everyone will want to read it, but I thought I'd do it anyway. Mainly for me so I can do a bit of reflection in my head, and then be ready to move on to 2025. But if some of you read it in your own time, and get something out of it, then that's awesome! So here goes,
Overview
2024. Well, the Season has come and gone just like that, and I honestly cannot believe how quickly it flew by. It feels like just a few weeks ago I was watching stuff about the boys being in Vegas and now, boom, it's whizzed by. I'm sure I speak for many Souths fans when I say I'm extremely relieved and happy to see the back of Season 2024 because it has been one of the worst I've ever experienced as a Souths fans. Literally just the most horror year you could possibly imagine where basically everything that could go wrong, did.
We literally only won seven games all year, sacked our coach and had an interim for the rest of it, were completely obliterated with injuries like I have never seen before, and had a lot of outside noise and negative headlines that were quite simply awful to deal with all Season. This saw us finish 16th which is our worst finish since 2006 when we finished dead last. The sad thing is that we all knew it was over before Round 10. Terrible, awful disgusting year that I can't wait to forget about and put in the rear-view mirror.
Missing the finals, let alone finishing in the bottom four, is simply not acceptable for our club. We seem to have gone from a powerhouse to the shithouse in a year and a half.
It was certainly depressing and never have I been so non-hyped about my team. In a normal year, I feel extremely hyped all week leading up to the game, and that just builds during the week to absolutely explode on game day. I think I only really felt that maybe three of four times this year, the rest of the Season I just felt flat. That is so unlike me, and I don't even remember being like that in 2016 or 17, when we had shit years, so that says a lot about the year. Jeez it was hard to get through.
Despite all this though, I supported the boys right through and I love this club now just as much as I ever have, and I take pride in that.
Overview
2024. Well, the Season has come and gone just like that, and I honestly cannot believe how quickly it flew by. It feels like just a few weeks ago I was watching stuff about the boys being in Vegas and now, boom, it's whizzed by. I'm sure I speak for many Souths fans when I say I'm extremely relieved and happy to see the back of Season 2024 because it has been one of the worst I've ever experienced as a Souths fans. Literally just the most horror year you could possibly imagine where basically everything that could go wrong, did.
We literally only won seven games all year, sacked our coach and had an interim for the rest of it, were completely obliterated with injuries like I have never seen before, and had a lot of outside noise and negative headlines that were quite simply awful to deal with all Season. This saw us finish 16th which is our worst finish since 2006 when we finished dead last. The sad thing is that we all knew it was over before Round 10. Terrible, awful disgusting year that I can't wait to forget about and put in the rear-view mirror.
Missing the finals, let alone finishing in the bottom four, is simply not acceptable for our club. We seem to have gone from a powerhouse to the shithouse in a year and a half.
It was certainly depressing and never have I been so non-hyped about my team. In a normal year, I feel extremely hyped all week leading up to the game, and that just builds during the week to absolutely explode on game day. I think I only really felt that maybe three of four times this year, the rest of the Season I just felt flat. That is so unlike me, and I don't even remember being like that in 2016 or 17, when we had shit years, so that says a lot about the year. Jeez it was hard to get through.
Despite all this though, I supported the boys right through and I love this club now just as much as I ever have, and I take pride in that.