The roosters i think will take 2-3 years to adjust to life without Brad Fittler, no question about that. You cant just take the worlds most dominant performer (as far as a team goes) out of the side and expect to get immediate results. Yep they bought well , but freddy fittlers influence and presence to all those players was so crucial to their success. You can see y finch played so well inside him for 2 years, why wouldnt u if u had the best 5/8 outside u who was going to take so much pressure off u. Now finch has all that pressure to himself and a whole lot more because all the players around him will expect him to play as well as he did when freddy was around.I also reckon ricky f---s around with his starting team too much which places undue added pressure as well.

Just my opinion.......CHEERS