denis preston
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"Why on the planet did Paul McGregor get another two years?
I get it. Running a footy club is a difficult business. There is lots to do, lots of people to keep happy and plenty of decisions which have to be made.
But blind freddy could see Paul McGregor shouldn’t have been re-signed as early as he was.
While decisions have to be made for next season so the club can start locking in contracts and looking at the player market, this was one of those rare times where it would have helped to hold off, rather than bite the bullet and sign him.
What probably makes it even more confusing was that there wasn’t exactly a massive rush from around the league to sign McGregor. No other clubs were sitting there going, yeah, let’s get him.
A virtually unproven coach should never be snapped up on the back of a couple of wins in a row, especially when you look at how the Dragons have been managed from the top down in the last couple of years under the control of McGregor.
It follows a trend for the Dragons though, who have a way of signing former players of the club. According to most reports, Trent Barrett will be coming on as an assistant coach, and this level of recruitment can be traced right back to the Nathan Brown days last decade, when he was far too young and raw to be a head coach.
They have now lost six of their last seven, more or less since the re-signing of McGregor was announced, and memories of 2017 have come flooding back for Dragons fans, who watched a similar drop in form after the last re-signing of McGregor, as the Dragons fell from the top of the table mid way through the season to win 4 of their last 11 matches.
Simply put, the way the Dragons have been managed isn’t good enough, and what the side are dishing up on the field is anything but good enough.
On paper, this is a side who have the talent to be solidly in the top eight and pushing for a top four berth, but they have struggled big time, and while there were a couple of weeks of relent, plus a big win over the Bulldogs last weekend, the finals are starting to look a long way away in 2019 for the Red V, despite having one of the best forward packs in the competition.
Of course, it’s not just Mary who cops the blame, and the whole club needs a clean out.
Sure, they have off-field distractions and injuries, but so does every club across the competition. Mary has failed to handle it for the best part of five years now, and surely, with a huge loss to a rampant Manly on Sunday, his time should be closer to the end than the beginning."
At last someone in the media has come out and said it like it is ! More to come i hope ( but not from Crawly ! )
I get it. Running a footy club is a difficult business. There is lots to do, lots of people to keep happy and plenty of decisions which have to be made.
But blind freddy could see Paul McGregor shouldn’t have been re-signed as early as he was.
While decisions have to be made for next season so the club can start locking in contracts and looking at the player market, this was one of those rare times where it would have helped to hold off, rather than bite the bullet and sign him.
What probably makes it even more confusing was that there wasn’t exactly a massive rush from around the league to sign McGregor. No other clubs were sitting there going, yeah, let’s get him.
A virtually unproven coach should never be snapped up on the back of a couple of wins in a row, especially when you look at how the Dragons have been managed from the top down in the last couple of years under the control of McGregor.
It follows a trend for the Dragons though, who have a way of signing former players of the club. According to most reports, Trent Barrett will be coming on as an assistant coach, and this level of recruitment can be traced right back to the Nathan Brown days last decade, when he was far too young and raw to be a head coach.
They have now lost six of their last seven, more or less since the re-signing of McGregor was announced, and memories of 2017 have come flooding back for Dragons fans, who watched a similar drop in form after the last re-signing of McGregor, as the Dragons fell from the top of the table mid way through the season to win 4 of their last 11 matches.
Simply put, the way the Dragons have been managed isn’t good enough, and what the side are dishing up on the field is anything but good enough.
On paper, this is a side who have the talent to be solidly in the top eight and pushing for a top four berth, but they have struggled big time, and while there were a couple of weeks of relent, plus a big win over the Bulldogs last weekend, the finals are starting to look a long way away in 2019 for the Red V, despite having one of the best forward packs in the competition.
Of course, it’s not just Mary who cops the blame, and the whole club needs a clean out.
Sure, they have off-field distractions and injuries, but so does every club across the competition. Mary has failed to handle it for the best part of five years now, and surely, with a huge loss to a rampant Manly on Sunday, his time should be closer to the end than the beginning."
At last someone in the media has come out and said it like it is ! More to come i hope ( but not from Crawly ! )
