Sack Adam O'Brien

[Woody90]

I’m fully on board with him getting sacked because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter how brave you are in defence if you can’t score points. I just hope they keep their grit though. The players’ attitude from the older guys to the younger ones really is great and AOB needs credit for creating that culture. Need to be able to keep that but also improve at football under the new coach.

 

[Woosh]

Being beloved by the players is probably the best reason not to pick Green as the next coach.

 

[Apey]

Yeah I mean I am proud of our defence this year especially and it's a strange feeling not expecting to concede every single play the opposition has in your 20 but it means very if you can't score points. We're running 14th.

That and the fact we only look first grade standard for the second half of the year when the year is pretty much gone and 3 of our best players are injured isn't good enough.

Toohey's on his #saveAOB campaign after that game lol.

 

[Knight Tales]

I’d give him 2 months into next year. And if Brown is not firing on all cylinders and our attack looks no different, he gets sacked! End of. I am very worried our defence will be the sacrificial lamb under a new coach. And that cannot just be gleefully ignored. The grit is something we have not seen in a very long time.

 

[Haffa]

Toohey's on his #saveAOB campaign after that game lol.

I can't read his nonsense at the moment. I think that's a sign he has a scoop within the AOB camp he's concerned will disappear if he gets the punt.

 

[ryan.a87]

guess which team won based on these two headlines

 

[Haffa]

I’d give him 2 months into next year.

266 points scored in 18 games at an average of 14.7 is not worthy of an extra two months.

 

[SamSepi0l]

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guess which team won based on these two headlines

Team missing 3 best players, without halves and who had a virus through the camp which resulted in one of their 2 starting quality props playing only 20 mins are happy to get through the game and be the better team and lead for 80 mins vs a top 6 team.

Top 6 team not happy to have accidentally fall over the line vs a bottom 4 side.

What a nothing burger.

 

[SamSepi0l]

I’d give him 2 months into next year. And if Brown is not firing on all cylinders and our attack looks no different, he gets sacked! End of. I am very worried our defence will be the sacrificial lamb under a new coach. And that cannot just be gleefully ignored. The grit is something we have not seen in a very long time.

Terrible idea. If you are going to fire him after 2 bad months then do it now. Why derail all of next year with an interim if that is where you're at now?

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Terrible idea. If you are going to fire him after 2 bad months then do it now. Why derail all of next year with an interim if that is where you're at now?

This 100%

 

[Woosh]

Brandon Smith: “It is interesting you said implement the coaches (game plan) cause Adam O'Brien is an attack coach. He was the attack coach for the Storm, he was the attack coach for the Roosters where they were so successful. I just wonder if he’s got a lot to say in that part of what Blake Green’s trying to do. I know Blake Green personally and I was coached by him. He’s a really smart, smart footballer and he’s a bloody good dude. So I can understand why there might be a player driven response to him wanting to be coach cause I feel like he builds a real close connection with the team.”

 

[perverse]

Please for the love of God don't give this man another year to waste. Please please please.

 

[Woody90]

Brandon Smith: “It is interesting you said implement the coaches (game plan) cause Adam O'Brien is an attack coach. He was the attack coach for the Storm, he was the attack coach for the Roosters where they were so successful. I just wonder if he’s got a lot to say in that part of what Blake Green’s trying to do. I know Blake Green personally and I was coached by him. He’s a really smart, smart footballer and he’s a bloody good dude. So I can understand why there might be a player driven response to him wanting to be coach cause I feel like he builds a real close connection with the team.”

Being a “bloody good dude” doesn’t make someone a good attacking coach. Neither does being a smart footballer.

With AOB, nobody is expecting him to be able to get wins against top 4 sides in the current state, so I feel like giving him the rest of the year to prove himself is silly and a bit unfair. They’ve had nearly 6 years to determine if he’s the right coach or not. If they want to sack him let it be known now and then the club can start off season with a new coach.

 

[SamSepi0l]

This 100%

I also don't think we should be firing him right now.

BUT in that scenario.. Do it the day after the final game, not 2 months into 2026.

 

[Knight Tales]

If we act prematurely, We will miss the chance of signing someone like Woolf who is OC next year. Coaching a club that Sully built.

 

[Burwood]

Pick up Robinson once he gets sacked 3 years early- Roosters have a tough run home, have had all 3 byes and already sitting outside the top 8.

 

[Knight Tales]

I do not see any scenario where a coach of Robbo’s stature would coach here any time
soon. Not to mention the price tag that would be attached.

 

[Woody90]

Can’t see Robbo getting sacked. They’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as apparently they were always meant to go badly this year even though they still have more rep players than most sides lol.

Not sure he’d be a good coach for us either.

 

[Burwood]

Robinson gets Newcastle. He’d build a great culture at the club.

 

[Knight Tales]

Robinson gets Newcastle. He’d build a great culture at the club.

He would. I just wonder if he has the patience when he has been at a club which is demanding success every year and can pretty much land any player they want.