South Sydney chief executive of football Shane Richardson has conceded "attitudes after we won the grand final" contributed to their fall from grace. After Sunday's shocking 54-4 loss to Canberra, he said: "There's a whole lot of little contributing factors, there's not one big factor, [from] attitudes after we won the grand final to recruitment to performance. In the world of the NRL, you only have to slip slightly and you go backwards quickly." Asked to expand on his "attitudes" comment, he said: "I just think sometimes you have to have a want factor, to continue on. You've got to go to the next level. You can't stay where you are. We did and we didn't, we lost a couple of key players ... look, I don't think there's any one person, one problem, one thing ... we let little things slide and we've got to get them back. They're not big things and I don't believe it will be that hard to turn it around."

Jersey swapping causing confusion

Fans on social media over the weekend were in a tizz over two issues: the Cowboys wearing Melbourne-like jerseys against Melbourne, and why there were few retro jerseys during retro round. To answer the second question first, retro round was a Fox Sports promotion, not an official NRL initiative. Here at Set of Six, we'd like to see the governing body take it on. A Cowboys spokesman explained the jerseys worn on Saturday night were for the Women In League round. "That's next week but we are away next week," he explained. "Our jersey launch was at the start of the year and we unveiled the Women In League jersey then." Unfortunately, Melbourne was the worst possible game in which to wear it. The Warriors also celebrated W.I.L. a week early. Why? One motivation is to be able to sell the merchandise at a home game.

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