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2025 First coach sacked

beave

beave

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Tiger5150 said:
Serious question, what is your biggest complaint about his coaching? Or is it just results?
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Player retention, look at whom we have let go under his control (Hammer, Feldt, Connelly Lemuelu etc)

Player recruitment (Luciano, Kyle O'donnell, Karl Lawton, Bateman etc all garbage)

Player weekly selection (playing Townsend in 2024 over Clifford after the mid point of the season was ridiculous when Townsend was so out of from....I could honestly make a whole thread on this aspect itself)

You only have to look at last night to see how poorly coached they are in D to see whatever he's doing with them isn't working.
 
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gerg

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beave said:
Player retention, look at whom we have let go under his control (Hammer, Feldt, Connelly Lemuelu etc)

Player recruitment (Luciano, Kyle O'donnell, Karl Lawton, Bateman etc all garbage)

Player weekly selection (playing Townsend in 2024 over Clifford after the mid point of the season was ridiculous when Townsend was so out of from....I could honestly make a whole thread on this aspect itself)

You only have to look at last night to see how poorly coached they are in D to see whatever he's doing with them isn't working.
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Cowboys need to move away from Drinkwater. When he is good he is very good but he hasn't been good enough for the past two seasons. Do you have any young decent fullbacks coming through. Two more years of that Taumololo contract doesn't help either. The club is clearly rebuilding at the moment, some decent looking young backs coming through but not much in the middle.
 
Leighton Rhino

Leighton Rhino

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gerg said:
Cowboys need to move away from Drinkwater. When he is good he is very good but he hasn't been good enough for the past two seasons. Do you have any young decent fullbacks coming through. Two more years of that Taumololo contract doesn't help either. The club is clearly rebuilding at the moment, some decent looking young backs coming through but not much in the middle.
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You'd think the Tamulolo situation would put most clubs off every doing it again wouldn't you
 
beave

beave

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gerg said:
Cowboys need to move away from Drinkwater. When he is good he is very good but he hasn't been good enough for the past two seasons. Do you have any young decent fullbacks coming through. Two more years of that Taumololo contract doesn't help either. The club is clearly rebuilding at the moment, some decent looking young backs coming through but not much in the middle.
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I'd offload Drinkwater to any club willing to take half his wage on the cap, he is absolute garbage. In his place i'd put Purdue back there ala Lockyer so he can grow into his body and chime in when needed. The kid is all heart which is something i cannot say about Drinkwater.
 
Vic Mackey

Vic Mackey

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Tiger5150 said:
Im hoping Cowboys punt Toddy and he takes up an assistants gig at Concord.
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Todd as our attack coach is my dream scenario. He has a brilliant record as an assistant. He fits the bill as being Benjis mate however would be seen as a threat so nit sure it would be entertained.
 
davi

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yakstorm said:
Arthur would be a good pick up for either the Knights or Titans considering where both clubs are at, though I'd say the Titans need him more.
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Brad Arthur is not that good. He did make a grand final with Parramatta, but his teams missed the finals six out of the eleven seasons with Parramatta. And it would have been 7 if he hadn't been sacked early in his last season. Even his Grand Final appearance squeezed out another contract after he was certain to be gone, only for Parramatta to produce rubbish after that. Arthur seems to be a protected species in the media; a lot of other coaches, the media would have been calling for their heads during the number of losing seasons he had under his watch.
 
beave

beave

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Phil McGrawhan said:
I’ll repeat myself once again in here
Please be Todd
Please be Todd
Please be Todd x1,000
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Reibel is gone in October, he needs to do what's required and sack that bald fraud today. But he's publically indicated he won't........

I didn't expect to win yesterday however that first half was completely unacceptable by a so called "professional" NRL side and the coach, football manager and CEO should be hauled into an office and read the riot act by the board.

The bloke he pinned all his hopes on to play #1 is pissweak, watch where he was on the first Sharks try, arguing with the ref over the play the ball instead of on his bike sprinting across the field to try and defuse the kick. Drinkwater is always looking for the easy option no matter the circumstance. If Vailea and Clifford are back this week, Drinkwater should be sent to Cairns/Mackay, Purdue put to 1 and negotiate with a club willing to take half of Scott's contract for the next 2 years. They're trying to band aid select a guy that wants to fling the ball around and be a hero like a 6 but can't defend in the front line so they have to hide him at FB but he lacks the courage and focus to play successfully at 1 so it's completely pointless having him in the side.

Bitungane looked better in his 17mins than anything KOD or Lawton have thrown up this year but the poor kid won't see another minute of game time this year over Paytens little ring in pets. And guess which one of the 3 mentioned doesn't have a contract for 2026???
 
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