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RedVDave

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I have a good feeling that Mary will be sacked soon. In the past when players speak up to protect the coach it's usually the writing on the wall, all we need now is the CEO to say the coach has the full support of the board. Let's hope it happens soon.

SACK MARY!!!!
STEP DOWN MCGREGOR!!!!
FAIL MARY!!!!!
 

getsmarty

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Giant gun Jason Saab to ditch Mary’s Dragons as rivals circle
DRAGONS

  • June 4, 2020 6:01pm
  • by GEORGE CLARKE
  • Source: FOX SPORTS
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More bad news for Dragons fans with winger Jason Saab understood to be wanting a release. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images

Exclusive -
The problems of besieged St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor look set to go from bad to worse this week with giant winger Jason Saab expected to ask for a release as rival NRL clubs circle.


Saab, 19, is contracted to the Dragons until the end of 2022 but wants to explore his options in the coming days owing to his lack of gametime under McGregor’s tenure.

Foxsports.com.au understands that the 200cm tall winger, who bulked up to 110kg over the summer, has grown frustrated at McGregor’s unwillingness to back him in the top grade with other clubs after his services.

Saab, an Origin under-20s player for NSW, was part of the B Team that beat the Dragons A Team in a training session in Wollongong last week prior to the club’s embarrassing loss to the Warriors.

McGregor has persisted with wing combinations involving Zac Lomax, Jordan Pereira and Mikaele Ravalawa in the opening rounds.

Saab, who made his NRL debut last year and has scored three tries in as many games, has not been picked in the opening three rounds and that has led to sustained interest from rival clubs.

His size, aerial threat under the new rules, and ability to find the try-line has put plenty of clubs on red alert.

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Jason Saab isn’t getting a look in for first grade. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts)Source: AAP
As it stands, only a handful of sides have top 30 spots available.

Melbourne, who are set to lose Josh Addo-Carr and Suliasi Vunivalu next year, have one space open and are said to be one potential suitor

The Wests Tigers, who are expected to release Corey Thompson to the Gold Coast, could also be an option.

Souths, the Warriors and Manly are also believed to have taken an interest in Saab but, like the Tigers, don’t have the current space in their roster as it stands, unless they were to move a player on.


Saab is not the only rising star to have struggled for an opportunity during the last year of McGregor’s reign.

Tristan Sailor, Jackson Ford and Lachlan Timm have all impressed in the lower grades over the last 12 months but have not received a sustained crack at the top grade.

Foxsports.com.au revealed earlier this year that the Dragons tabled a three-year deal worth close to $2million for Manly’s Moses Suli.

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Jason Saab is understood to be asking for a release. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt)Source: AAP
And it paints a pretty damning picture that he took unders to stay at Brookvale and snubbed the Red V.

McGregor reportedly has two games to save his job, beginning with Monday’s clash with the misfiring Bulldogs.

The coach has been under the pump since he re-signed a contract last year, with the club scraping two wins with both of them coming against the equally-poor Titans.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/e1759e03d29e287e32b4681ffc83c5a9
 
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Seibs faces the music after the worst loss in the Donkey’s history.

It was a long interview and one I thought where he was thinking out loud a bit.

One of the key differences between him Mary was that he personally accepted blame for the loss, on my count, at least 5 times.

This contrasts starkly with Mary whom the only time he accepted responsibility, took the liberty of blaming everyone else as well. “ We all have to be better” which we understood, included the tea ladies at the Taj.

Seibs talked about the youth and relative inexperience of his side, but Mary just doesn’t have the same comforting excuses.

It’s not going to surprise me if Lomax is in the front row in a fortnight and Saab gets a run on the wing to try to prevent him from leaving.

Of course the Suli experiment and embarrassing rejection promises to cost the club a fortune by having to paying overs in the coming years.

The club is no longer seen as a destination club.

Still, McDonut sleeps a bit better tonight as the media pack prey on Seibs and his kids.
 

LINESPEED

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He would likely be not the only one. Frizz's departure was the start of this 2020 mess. Now its team selections, scrimmages A v B Team that mess everybody's head up in the joint.
Mary and his one liners + crystal ball press conference team ladder predictions has been doing my head in since the slide in 2015.


So Ryan Webb
On Day 60
(R U one “that matters”?)

Your spin factory is in overdrive deflecting the truths about Waterboy’s systematic destruction of the Club.

The latest is that “those that matter”in the Club didn’t fight for Tyson:

“There is a feeling in the camp that his body has taken a lot of punishment and that he struggles to play well when carrying injuries," a Dragons insider told Wide World of Sports.
(Ha, now which curdog might that be?)


"He is a great player but that is the thoughts of those that matter in the place.

"They will deny it because he is popular and a good bloke but they will use his money to try buying someone younger and just as strong."

The culture of mendacity and shamelessness in our once flagship Club is tearing it apart

And I notice the classic “good bloke” syndrome wedged in there like a stuck turd

... no wonder Joey wants a bomb under the Club
...which he says has “no game plan” & hasn’t changed in years

Tyson averages forward high 132m per game & has played every minute in 2020.

You fuc/king unscrupulous liars

He left an amoral sinking ship to get a title and flee your Moron

And I think of the decimating ranks

... & the lost Morris boys smashing it -

and the departed, departing & soon-to-depart

...& of Aitken still sucking dic/k at 17
(You know, the trash “those that matter” shopped around to no avail!)

No one is coming Ryan
They all want out

Only the guillotine and a shiny head in a basket will stop a revolution Andrew.
 
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matPORTS

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Seibs faces the music after the worst loss in the Donkey’s history.

It was a long interview and one I thought where he was thinking out loud a bit.

One of the key differences between him Mary was that he personally accepted blame for the loss, on my count, at least 5 times.

This contrasts starkly with Mary whom the only time he accepted responsibility, took the liberty of blaming everyone else as well. “ We all have to be better” which we understood, included the tea ladies at the Taj.

Seibs talked about the youth and relative inexperience of his side, but Mary just doesn’t have the same comforting excuses.

It’s not going to surprise me if Lomax is in the front row in a fortnight and Saab gets a run on the wing to try to prevent him from leaving.

Of course the Suli experiment and embarrassing rejection promises to cost the club a fortune by having to paying overs in the coming years.

The club is no longer seen as a destination club.

Still, McDonut sleeps a bit better tonight as the media pack prey on Seibs and his kids.

For all of Seibolds acceptance of blame... the Broncos Management & Board will be sour at him overseeing the two biggest losses in their clubs history (the finals loss to Parramatta last year would have still been very raw prior to last night as well). Unless there is a massive turnaround in the next month, it is more likely than not he will be out the door by no later than seasons end. Negative - they now have the second worst F/A in the comp, and given the shortened season it's going to be very hard to re-build any sort of momentum. Positive - they will get Fifita and Te'o back in the squad in the coming weeks.

Our Maestro oversees some of the worst results in club history, yet still receives multi-year, multi-million dollar extensions. A win against the Bulldogs this week could well be justification for further extension looking at the history of decision making coming out of our boardroom.

The momentum we had going in the media this week RE: the potential demise of Mary has been extinguished, at least for now. These forums and wider supporter group need to keep up the noise and momentum.

Again, this thread was started in July 2016. It's June 2020 and finally we start to see some real media blowtorch on McGregor. Not even a week later, and that media focus will move to another area, and you would not have thought prior to COVID that Seibold was going to feel the pressure again so quickly. In this sport, a week is long time, a month is a lifetime, four years must be a couple of generations !!
 
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getsmarty

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For all of Seibolds acceptance of blame... the Broncos Management & Board will be sour at him overseeing the two biggest losses in their clubs history (the finals loss to Parramatta last year would have still been very raw prior to last night as well). Unless there is a massive turnaround in the next month, it is more likely than not he will be out the door by no later than seasons end. Negative - they now have the second worst F/A in the comp, and given the shortened season it's going to be very hard to re-build any sort of momentum. Positive - they will get Fifita and Te'o back in the squad in the coming weeks.

Our Maestro oversees some of the worst results in club history, yet still receives multi-year, multi-million dollar extensions. A win against the Bulldogs this week could well be justification for further extension looking at the history of decision making coming out of our boardroom.

The momentum we had going in the media this week RE: the potential demise of Mary has been extinguished, at least for now. These forums and wider supporter group need to keep up the noise and momentum.

Again, this thread was started in July 2016. It's June 2020 and finally we start to see some real media blowtorch on McGregor. Not even a week later, and that media focus will move to another area, and you would not have thought prior to COVID that Seibold was going to feel the pressure again so quickly. In this sport, a week is long time, a month is a lifetime, four years must be a couple of generations !!

And if we beat the Dogs....back to normal transmission................Sigh
 

BLM01

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For all of Seibolds acceptance of blame... the Broncos Management & Board will be sour at him overseeing the two biggest losses in their clubs history (the finals loss to Parramatta last year would have still been very raw prior to last night as well). Unless there is a massive turnaround in the next month, it is more likely than not he will be out the door by no later than seasons end. Negative - they now have the second worst F/A in the comp, and given the shortened season it's going to be very hard to re-build any sort of momentum. Positive - they will get Fifita and Te'o back in the squad in the coming weeks.

Our Maestro oversees some of the worst results in club history, yet still receives multi-year, multi-million dollar extensions. A win against the Bulldogs this week could well be justification for further extension looking at the history of decision making coming out of our boardroom.

The momentum we had going in the media this week RE: the potential demise of Mary has been extinguished, at least for now. These forums and wider supporter group need to keep up the noise and momentum.

Again, this thread was started in July 2016. It's June 2020 and finally we start to see some real media blowtorch on McGregor. Not even a week later, and that media focus will move to another area, and you would not have thought prior to COVID that Seibold was going to feel the pressure again so quickly. In this sport, a week is long time, a month is a lifetime, four years must be a couple of generations !!
And they get Pangai Jnr, Glenn and Turpin back
Least their BOD reacts and responds and wont accept too much mediocrity
If it is not working time to change
meanwhile..back at the Dragons
 

LINESPEED

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And they get Pangai Jnr, Glenn and Turpin back
Least their BOD reacts and responds and wont accept too much mediocrity
If it is not working time to change
meanwhile..back at the Dragons

Yeah I know we need distractions in the trenches

...But at this point in the crisis

Who gives a fuc/k who plays where,
Or the finer points of rules,
Or other Clubs’ personnel

....it’s all tyrekicking & incidental to the real frontlines ATM?:

-Pressure on Andrew by the harbour
-And The Head in the basket

Fullfrontal
 

qld redvee

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Its amazing that everyone that has a run for the "B" team seems to outperform our more illustrious players .
Duffty thrown a lifeline for his training ethics efforts and B team performance/ Korbon simms great B team so is picked and then dropped so supercoach has this perform on paddock show us your ready and you will force your way in . well it would be fine if we were winning but coachy has a ready made out for dropping these guys back after a loss because they have to work on things mantra..
so we have the ludicrous ( yet typical ) aitken on the bench ( to cover for a back injury) when he didnt get a look in for the first 2 losses .. Did he suddenly come back into calculation due to Lafais melt down during corona lockdown and supercoach just had to have 1 experienced hopeless centre in the team squad in case of emergency ? as a steady she will be right moment ( I reckon so ) And if Saab is back from injury and killing it then HE should be afforded a chance on the wing its not like Jp and rava are 2 internationals and try scoring machines ( neither is the whole team)
Maybe just maybe the B team being coached differently to the a team maybe B team are playing LIKE the other 15 teams get coached and are excited about running and passing something they cant do under supercoach ..
Roll on the golden handshake
 

WepnutV

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Its amazing that everyone that has a run for the "B" team seems to outperform our more illustrious players .
Duffty thrown a lifeline for his training ethics efforts and B team performance/ Korbon simms great B team so is picked and then dropped so supercoach has this perform on paddock show us your ready and you will force your way in . well it would be fine if we were winning but coachy has a ready made out for dropping these guys back after a loss because they have to work on things mantra..
so we have the ludicrous ( yet typical ) aitken on the bench ( to cover for a back injury) when he didnt get a look in for the first 2 losses .. Did he suddenly come back into calculation due to Lafais melt down during corona lockdown and supercoach just had to have 1 experienced hopeless centre in the team squad in case of emergency ? as a steady she will be right moment ( I reckon so ) And if Saab is back from injury and killing it then HE should be afforded a chance on the wing its not like Jp and rava are 2 internationals and try scoring machines ( neither is the whole team)
Maybe just maybe the B team being coached differently to the a team maybe B team are playing LIKE the other 15 teams get coached and are excited about running and passing something they cant do under supercoach ..
Roll on the golden handshake
No.. The A team B team bullshit is a media g up.. There was a A team and a B team. Both teams mixed with top 30 players. With players regularly swapping teams through out the session.. It was not the top squad up against reserves or anything like that.. All being trained the same mate.. Yes we need a new coach, but this is propaganda
 

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Webster on the BSB this morning continued to put the heat on L plate.
We can only hope the media keep having their digs.
I'm expecting to see a real push by the clubs spin doctors in the coming days blaming everyone & everything but L plate.

For those that have not seen Websters article in the Herald some of his points were.

McGregor enjoys a close relationship with Gordon, although it’s already assumed he won’t be re-signed when his deal finishes at the end of next year.
That’s a long time persisting with a coach you don’t want and especially one who's not winning matches.

With just two victories (against the lowly Titans) from their past 13 matches, no victories this year, and only one finals win since McGregor took over from the sacked Steve Price midway through 2014, it’s painfully clear the coach’s position has become untenable.

A very simple question: how many other clubs would have tolerated such mediocrity? Roosters chairman Nick Politis would have sacked three coaches by now.

There isn’t enough space in this column to talk about the roster and baffling team selections, but if you’re after one that sums it all up it's Zac Lomax.

McGregor was telling anyone who would listen during the off-season that Lomax was his fullback of the future. Which was puzzling because most other coaches consider Lomax a gun centre of the future.

Lomax lasted one round in the No.1 jumper before being shoved out onto the wing for round two, then back in the centres for round three.
 

hazzbeen

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Webster on the BSB this morning continued to put the heat on L plate.
We can only hope the media keep having their digs.
I'm expecting to see a real push by the clubs spin doctors in the coming days blaming everyone & everything but L plate.

For those that have not seen Websters article in the Herald some of his points were.

McGregor enjoys a close relationship with Gordon, although it’s already assumed he won’t be re-signed when his deal finishes at the end of next year.
That’s a long time persisting with a coach you don’t want and especially one who's not winning matches.

With just two victories (against the lowly Titans) from their past 13 matches, no victories this year, and only one finals win since McGregor took over from the sacked Steve Price midway through 2014, it’s painfully clear the coach’s position has become untenable.

A very simple question: how many other clubs would have tolerated such mediocrity? Roosters chairman Nick Politis would have sacked three coaches by now.

There isn’t enough space in this column to talk about the roster and baffling team selections, but if you’re after one that sums it all up it's Zac Lomax.

McGregor was telling anyone who would listen during the off-season that Lomax was his fullback of the future. Which was puzzling because most other coaches consider Lomax a gun centre of the future.

Lomax lasted one round in the No.1 jumper before being shoved out onto the wing for round two, then back in the centres for round three.
Look we have to lay off Mary , because as I have said before the Guy's a Genius , as you say he can't coach , but he is a Genius because he is still coaching and will only need to win 3 games in a row and he will get an extension ...... GENIUS ......
 

to_ddeath

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Webster on the BSB this morning continued to put the heat on L plate.
We can only hope the media keep having their digs.
I'm expecting to see a real push by the clubs spin doctors in the coming days blaming everyone & everything but L plate.

For those that have not seen Websters article in the Herald some of his points were.

McGregor enjoys a close relationship with Gordon, although it’s already assumed he won’t be re-signed when his deal finishes at the end of next year.
That’s a long time persisting with a coach you don’t want and especially one who's not winning matches.

With just two victories (against the lowly Titans) from their past 13 matches, no victories this year, and only one finals win since McGregor took over from the sacked Steve Price midway through 2014, it’s painfully clear the coach’s position has become untenable.

A very simple question: how many other clubs would have tolerated such mediocrity? Roosters chairman Nick Politis would have sacked three coaches by now.

There isn’t enough space in this column to talk about the roster and baffling team selections, but if you’re after one that sums it all up it's Zac Lomax.

McGregor was telling anyone who would listen during the off-season that Lomax was his fullback of the future. Which was puzzling because most other coaches consider Lomax a gun centre of the future.

Lomax lasted one round in the No.1 jumper before being shoved out onto the wing for round two, then back in the centres for round three.

Webster another devils advocate like Crawley etc...all telling all & sundry a year ago to get behind him & now turn the other cheek.
Hypocrisy much
 
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