SaintPauli
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Screw the Roosters. They represent everything opposite to the great Dragons ClubLove it. Current and ex-players opinions have no credibility but your roosters supporter mate does....
Screw the Roosters. They represent everything opposite to the great Dragons ClubLove it. Current and ex-players opinions have no credibility but your roosters supporter mate does....
Only happened because the upgrade prices for players was putting roosters way over salary cap. The NRL was sniffing in their chook pen!Yet they lost RTS and let Maloney go to keep Hastings? The person you spoke to is a moron and a hypocrite.
Hey OV, nobody has posted on the sack McGregor thread for over a week!I really hope so, monster.
Straight Shooter
My mates always ask how in the hell do we never sack our CEO.A friend of mine who's a very keen follower of rugby league (supports another team), made the following observations:
*how in the world have the Dragons managed to lose two of their best players within a couple of weeks? There'd be an uproar if that was to happen at his club (and it just never happens without ready replacements to come in - no shocks, no surprises, recruitment always under control).
*it's laughable that the head coach doesn't have a material and direct influence on recruitment.
These are his points which I didn't raise. Just providing an outside perspective from a knowledgeable guy.
Straight Shooter
My mates always ask how in the hell do we never sack our CEO.
If we aspire to winning the comp we need to upgrade the coaching staff as well as the playing roster.
Let's agree to disagree Mr possum funny that years ago one of my greyhounds had a possumI'm at a loss to know what to day to you. I suppose, suffice to say that I am very confident if Dugan and Packer stayed, we would have the best chance of competing for a GF spot in 2018 since 2010.
The single biggest factor if you had to choose only one, is the injection of McInnes instead of Rein.At the moment most of us are enjoying the ride this season.
The jury is out as to what has caused the massive change in performance.
May be a combination of:
1) Better physical training by the new staff has increased explosiveness and stamina
2) Most of squad playing for contracts has lead to greater focus and effort
3) abysmal 2016 performance embarrassed the players to the point where they have taken it upon themselves to prove to the public that they are good players
4) Introduction of Vaughan and McInnes has provided much better go forward. Vaughan has lead the way with barnstorming runs. McInnes has provided first class service from dummy half allowing the ball runners to do their jobs rather than continuously slowing down/stopping because passes are sailing behind them/over them or hitting them in the shins
5) Better go forward has contributed to more time for the halves to seek out weaknesses in the opposition defence.
6) Better completion rates means more time with the ball in hand. Conversely apart from tiring the opposition out by forcing them to tackle more than us it provides the opposition with fewer opportunities to obtain good field position.
My view is that use of the bench still remains a problem.
Use of Mann generally remains poor.
Faillure to utilise Mann/Dufty/Field recently at FB as a starter is shortsighted.
Have Mary/Hornby/Young improved as coaches. One would hope so.
Are they equal to Bennett/Bellamy ? No
If we aspire to winning the comp we need to upgrade the coaching staff as well as the playing roster.
I have thought upon this for several days and I have come to the conclusion that I actually think he is doing the opposite to white anting Mary and in fact, Mary is probably doing more to white ant his future than Basil is. At this stage, Mary is highly likely to be re-signed this year. The team is playing exceptionally well, and for the most part, Mary has done a pretty solid job at turning it around. He still has much to learn, but it seems he is getting there.Maybe wants his job, Mary been looking good lately, can't have that , time to f**k up some contract negotiations and lose players.
Let's agree to disagree Mr possum funny that years ago one of my greyhounds had a possum
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...im-lucrative-sponsorship-20170520-gw995m.html
"....,although the decision to leave Belmore will cost the Bulldogs playmaker a lucrative sponsorship."
"The Dragons and the Eels also call ANZ Stadium home but are yet to nominate their new ambassadors. Benji Marshall was the man for the Red V until his switch to Brisbane..."
I am too old and too slow to understand this... does this mean there is an opportunity to use a Red V player profile.. and receive extra $$$ for that player .. an amount possibly to help cut a deal.
Would seem like an opportunity the club is not utilizing .. time to start thinking smarter.. but that hasn't been our strong suit for a while now.
2016 we still had a decent go forward but got crucified by poor service from dummy half.
St. George traditionally has great hookers but Rein wasn't one of them.
The coach still has input he just doesnt sit in on the negotiations.. mcgregor advises basil that he ( the coach ) wants a new player in a position and basil finds a list of available players coach then says go for him and basil negotiates . It would be the same with what player resigns ( hopefully those worthy of 1st grade not like our cutters forwards ) Remember when mary was signing by himself we got marketo mathews lui havili ( 1'2 decent but not first grade ) kiti george rose and another fringe second rower thats playing sl. Remember the famous quote Ive got the players I want ??? . SO would you all like that type of recruitment OR what basil is doing which includes stitching up promising juniors Ill take millward over fringe second graders any dayThe decision to take the recruitment/retention of players away from the coach means we will ALWAYS now only have a rookie coach at the helm. We are the only club with this setup which means your experienced and successful coaches with proven records (i.e. premierships) would never consider taking on the job.
Speaks volumes of the coaching and retention staff who kept selecting Rein year after year.
Straight Shooter
Great for the old boys club.The decision to take the recruitment/retention of players away from the coach means we will ALWAYS now only have a rookie coach at the helm. We are the only club with this setup which means your experienced and successful coaches with proven records (i.e. premierships) would never consider taking on the job.
The decision to take the recruitment/retention of players away from the coach means we will ALWAYS now only have a rookie coach at the helm. We are the only club with this setup which means your experienced and successful coaches with proven records (i.e. premierships) would never consider taking on the job.