Phil Gould

And part of me being here today or us having to deal with what's in the media is part of that process and helping our people get through that.

And that's what we're doing.

We're not hiding from what's going on at the moment and we're not playing victim to it at all.

And the world's not against us.

It's just our turn.

Teams go through this all the time.

Now you can pick one or two incremental things over the last 18 months and say, well, that was the cause or that was the cause.

I say no.

And I say that eventually there'll be blue skies again.

When we win they're there.

It'll be worth the wait when it comes.

I've never ever speculated about how long it's going to take to win a premiership.

That's a different animal to what it means to build a club and get a club in a successful, sustainable condition.

That's what my job is.

Winning premierships is pretty hard.

It takes time.

Parramatta won one in 1986.

They haven't won one since.

Who would have thought in 1986 when Ray Price and Mick Cronin picked up that trophy, they wouldn't win a competition for at least another 40 years.

They're hard to win.