Storm had Bellamy & the best spine in NRL for the past 5 years.
NZ had the best player in the world and a bunch of other world class players around Benji Marshall, who together have clarified their status as world champions in RL.
Now SK has a club without a top class spine and without superstars bar one player who is playing nowhere near his best and it looks like the late last season hamstring injury is still concerning Jarryd. It seems to be holding him back.
If SK does not produce a bunch of wins over the coming 7 rounds it will show that he is a very average coach. The fact that Mannah only played 40 minutes last night shows SK is half asleep at the helm. He also did this same stuff up with Issac Luke in last years Tri Nations Final.
If it wasn't for Benji & the other very good NZ players & if it wasn't for Craig Bellamy and the Storms spine + Inglis, SK would have been shown up a lot earlier as the average coach he appears to be.
I've said it before and will say it again, it is P3 & Paul Osborne who have ripped the spirit of our great footy club apart. They messed with Daniel Anderson making it almost impossible for Daniel Anderson to do his job and this interference began during the early mid part of the 2009 season and only got worse. We are now witnessing this devastation, from seeds to fruits, our team is now the laughing stock of the NRL.
Paul Osborne & P3 sabotaged everything Daniel Anderson planned. The image Daniel Anderson was creating for the Eels was no longer in his image, each time Daniel looked into the mirror of his image there was Paul Osborne & P3.
The problem started at the top and it is there the sharp axe has to swing very hard and very fast ASAP this year.
As SK is now the coach I fully support him as I do with players who pull on the Eels jersey but just as some of our current stock of players are not up to standard and need to be moved on ASAP, the same applies with SK if he does not pull this squad into both an attacking & defensive unit that keeps our team competitive in all games.
I'd rather have a team that can attack and score tries and is maybe a little wobbly on defense but has a chance to win a game, than a team that has been trained to play safe, can't win points and, if they don't do well on defense, get slaughtered and have no chance of winning.
This is what we are all witnessing and if SK does not turn this around we should arrange a mutiny by getting rid of 3P at the next elections, sacking Paul Osborne and reinstating Daniel Anderson if he is still available and wants to come back to the Eels, knowing all the trouble makers up top have gone. Maybe Wayne Bennett could be offered a mega mega 2 year deal to sort everything out and put in place another coach to carry on in Wayne's tradition. Yes I know the Wayne factor is just a dream but if we move fast we might have a chance to capture his interest in restoring the Eels just like Jack Gibson did for us long ago.
