Graham Lowe: Fans' faith wears thin

The Roosters are under even more pressure than the Warriors.

Coach Brad Fittler knows he needs to deliver a win this week - if not he may be on the next bus out of Bondi.

His halfback, Mitchell Pearce, is the key for them and has to come up with something special to quieten his own band of growing critics.

But the Warriors will not win this in an arm wrestle. They need to employ a "touch football"-type of attack. This should be an easy game plan for the players, most of whom have played touch footy since they were little kids out in the backyard.

They must use the ball and the full width of the field.

Those fans who braved the freezing conditions to watch the Warriors last Sunday paid for that privilege.

I get the impression some of the Warriors players think the game owes them something. It doesn't. They all owe the game - in fact we all do.

For many of the Warriors' fans, who have watched rugby league for 20 to 50 years, they know when a team is fair dinkum and when one is not.

They have witnessed too many courageous local club performances by some legendary players to be fooled by sugar-coated excuses from the Warriors about why they have failed. What they need now to keep them in hope is a fresh approach.