I don’t get the shitcanning of Meninga …
He will be in the role first 3 seasons maximum …. He is there mainly trying to attract some players to the club whilst Gardiner is your Xs and Os guy that will do the leg work game weeks in the meantime…Reminds me a bit when the GWS Midgets went with Kalvin Shandy when they started off …
The Bears aren’t forgoing any premierships during that 3 year period Mal is in the chair … I don’t think Arthurs would have done much better attracting players or getting wins ….it might be some hard yards initially if you haven’t worked that out yet
I have some bias against Mal for picking Ponga for the roos even though it was obvious he didn't want to or see himself representing Australia. Before you could represent both the Island nations and state, he'd try and get them playing for the Maroons along with Kiwis- which also locked them into a roos jumper.
He's been undermining ( imo) the international growth of the game or at least trying for 2 decades.
For a slight improvement of his roster.. or to deliberately sabotage growing RL nations.
Then I take issue with the fact that he resided over the most talented playing groups I've seen in my lifetime and still receives credit for it being the coach.
Now, I'm a Titans fan, I grew up on the GC, went to their first game. It's been a long slog and the question for me has always been how can the GC forge it's own identity? Preston Cambell was the closest we came to that until Young Jayden came on the scene.. woohoo! Kid might be the next big thing and lead the Titans out of the dulldrums and he's as Gold coast as it gets!
RL was going to finally explode on the GC and be the franchise we always wanted it to be!
First players Mal goes after.. are you f**king kidding me?
Does he not want RL to succeed? Does he run purely on self interest?
Miss the opportunity to undermine the Titans..
Then it's a possibly PNG superstar....
That's how I feel about him as a person.
Now he did nothing a Canberra and that was 20 years ago..