What has Hodgo learnt from Ivan..
Seriously we have tried harder this year and thats it !!! Ive said it months ago that is the ONLY improvement.. no real game plan, no increase in player skills, no actual tackling improvement.. bad recruitment.. etc etc etc.
Im sorry but Ivan has educated his coaching partners his theories that have turned out to be BS ... get someone like Toovey that was hard as f**k on and off the field and took a shit under the cap side to the finals
I agree with this. I’m not going to pretend Cleary is a bad coach, I want him to stay and I still believe he is the perfect coach for where we are atm. To me Cleary’s strengths are building a culture, the players obviously like him and want to play for him. He has certainly improved that at the club. We aren’t the pushovers we used to be and teams know they are always going to be in for a tough game when they play Wests Tigers.
However apart from that that and our defence (which I believe mainly is due to Craig Sandercock) I don’t believe we’ve improved at all this year. Our attack still has no structure, I see no set plays, no moves whatsoever. Pretty much all our tries are from individual play. Look at our 3 tries v Newcastle: Packer hit up, Brooks one off the ruck, Brooks one off the ruck with on offload. The one set move I’ve seen in recent memory was the Brooks try against Saints where Farah faked the kick, and that was from back in the Potter days FFS.
I would have hoped that by round 21 we had seen some inprovement in this but we haven’t. I don’t want Ivan to go but it’s obvious that he is. It’s all good though, we’ll get a decent settlement and buy another quality coach.