Opinion Is Ricky Stuart the most overrated coach ever?

[Vic Mackey]

The last 3 weeks were peak Sticky.

First he rests most of the squad and gets put in the 50 thread. Then he whinges about a 6 day turnaround despite most of his squad being rested and gets the sunday finals game which provides Walsh with the perfect conditions to do exactly what he did which in turn leads to his team having a 6 day break for week 2 after a GP week 1 match and the opposition who finished lower gets a seven day break.

You cant make this stuff up.

Was so desperate to make himself/his team the victim he cost them a likely prelim spot and went out in straight sets

History has shown that since the mid 90s Canberras premiership windows only last a year or two. Interesting to see if they can make this one last longer.

 

[Tiger Shark]

It's a young squad. The Stickster will need to blend Sanders into the team and see if he can get them thereabouts the top 4 again.

They won’t be close to top 4 next year

- easiest draw off all teams
- one of the least injured teams
- No Fogarty and yeah he was bad last night but he’s been good all year

 

[mongoose]

I think a lot of the blame for the piss weak performance last night can be put on Stuart. As soon as Strange wasn't named in the team, he reverted back to a conservative 1 out running, no offloads, defensive mindset of seasons gone by instead of what was working so well for us this year. Sticky can be a decent coach but he will always be a rung below the top ones. His tactical mind is very poor.

 

[mave]

You can only run on a siege mentality for so long, and the Stick has a long way to go before he reaches Hasler levels of insular insanity.

 

[Generalzod]

Can anyone tell me did Klein blow the whistle to end the game last week? if so than how did the bunker overide his authority.

 

[JamesRustle]

Can anyone tell me did Klein blow the whistle to end the game last week? if so than how did the bunker overide his authority.

Short whistle, long whistle... you know... stuff we've had coached into us and known about since running around in u6s.

 

[Generalzod]

Short whistle, long whistle... you know... stuff we've had coached into us and known about since running around in u6s.

Don't forget the siren.....

 

[some11]

The last 3 weeks were peak Sticky.

First he rests most of the squad and gets put in the 50 thread. Then he whinges about a 6 day turnaround despite most of his squad being rested and gets the sunday finals game which provides Walsh with the perfect conditions to do exactly what he did which in turn leads to his team having a 6 day break for week 2 after a GP week 1 match and the opposition who finished lower gets a seven day break.

You cant make this stuff up.

 

[Generalzod]

A bit Ironic when all goes well he loves the camera...

 

[Wb1234]

Fogerty is very replaceable

Jed Stuart is awful

Nobody knows how they go next year this year could give them confidence even if expectation is higher

Depends on how the new halfback goes they could be better

Stick has been a bit of a leader for other coaches to follow and to give young players a chance (Andrew Webster looking at you)

Asking for the Sunday game on week one was stupid and probably the reason they are out in straight sets

Stick needs to stop always looking to blame others and look to how they can stop blowing match winning leads

 

[Someguy]

Fogarty played his role brilliantly for most of the season his defence wasn’t the greatest but that is also on the centre and edge forward plenty of teams can carry a half that can’t defend. They definitely go backwards on the table next year, still look good chance for top 8. A few changes have to be made outside of the 7. I think the Owen Pattie experiment is not working he has a lot to offer in attack but not much time of field, he tries too hard and ends up attempting high risk plays that kill momentum. A Brandon Smith time hard running bench hooker that can also play lock might be a better choice

 

[some11]

Stick needs to stop always looking to blame others

 

[footy75]

A lot of hurting in the sheds right now.

 

[Valheru]

Was so desperate to make himself/his team the victim he cost them a likely prelim spot and went out in straight sets

History has shown that since the mid 90s Canberras premiership windows only last a year or two. Interesting to see if they can make this one last longer.

I think he was legit hoping (expecting) the NRL to not grant his request so he could play the victim further. They granted it which kind of put the air out of his tyres.

He should have let it play out then whinged about the schedule once it was finalised

 

[Apey]

I think a lot of the blame for the piss weak performance last night can be put on Stuart. As soon as Strange wasn't named in the team, he reverted back to a conservative 1 out running, no offloads, defensive mindset of seasons gone by instead of what was working so well for us this year. Sticky can be a decent coach but he will always be a rung below the top ones. His tactical mind is very poor.

Yeah its obvious the Canberra Crashplays were back. Dire stuff really.

 

[BadnMean]

They won’t be close to top 4 next year

- easiest draw off all teams
- one of the least injured teams
- No Fogarty and yeah he was bad last night but he’s been good all year

But even if you swapped our draw and gave us 3 more games vs top 8 teams AND if you flipped our results vs the top 8 during the season (7/8) and say we lost 2 of those 3 new games vs top 8... we still finish equal first and 2nd on differential...

We had a nice run with injuries most of the season. But were down to playing Jed (4th choice winger) for the last 10 rounds and lost our form half for our biggest game. So like any team, had our ups and downs there. Our middle/edge depth was excellent so ironically we could have done a few more injuries there just to get some games into Noah Martin and maybe keep Mooney around.

Arguably moving on Fogarty is correcting our biggest finals liability and will flip the script on our weak right edge defence, because Strange moves right next season and defends there. Moving a weapon into the spot we used to have a target.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

We return you now to our regularly scheduled programming.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

We return you now to our regularly scheduled programming.

Are we going to get an irrational, emotional and immature response in the presser?

 

[Captain Apollo]

Are we going to get an irrational, emotional and immature response in the presser?

I only saw a little of it, but he seemed calm. Certainly no mention of "textas" either.

 

[Wizardssleeve]

I can’t believe the blokes been able to hold onto his career so long. Thats the only thing impressive about this clown as an NRL coach.