I gotta admit, I was excited when I heard Kimmorely was coming to the Sharks, I thought we had a shot at getting that elusive Premiership. We had a current Dally M Medalist and one of the greatest attacking players in the game in Preston already here and our team was pretty solid.
Fast forward a year and we are getting towelled 74 nil or some sh*te while Noddy is "in charge" and Presto warms the f**king bench.
Noddy was thrown HUGE amounts of money to win us a premiership. He FAILED. Year after year he tried to play the same flat style and year after year our forwards got smashed and the scripted inside balls was shut down by opposition teams like taking candy from a baby.
No one can deny the guy has heart and gives 110% for his team, but he just isn't a natural attacking halfback, he is an organiser.
Now I myself am employed as an electrician of sorts, if I was hired to do a wiring job at a building site and I was paid a truckload of money and 7 years later I hadn't finished the job, but I was great at ordering the rest of the guys lunches, would you be happy???
I find it very funny that people blame any of the Sharks past failures
solely on Noddy's head.
I could list at least a half dozen players or
coaches who were paid similar amounts of money or
MORE whilst they were with us but didn't deliver but Noddy soley cops the brunt of abuse of a Club littered with failure despite being one of our best contributers to the team whilst he was with us.
Finally the pathetic front office fell on it's sword and a board who thinks outside the square are in.
Now we need the on field stuff to get in order.
And it starts with the coach.
Ricky needs help and he should be man enough to ask for it.
If what I've seen in the trials is a result of what they have been working on in the off season then anyone of us on this forum could've done a better job coaching the team in the off season.
We've scored 3 tries in the trials.
Pom's try wasn't even a try as he dropped it.
Out of the two tries left one was scored by Gordon from a simple offload in a tackle by Tautai.
The other was scored by a bit of pass interchanging up the ruck.
Not exactly inspiring stuff in the attacking department in two games of footy.
Yet I don't see many people here hammering our current halves.
(God knows what would've been said if Noddy was currently playing in the halves.)
I don't see the greater proportion here hammering Ricky Stuart.
(God only knows what would've been said if Stuart Raper or Chris Anderson were the current coach)
For those here that think the sun shines out of Barrett's arse and Ricky Stuart's arse enjoy your season!
