This club has had some amazingly talented players for years with nothing to show for it
Indeed.
If you look at the 2008 kids that came through that really should have been a very strong Raiders side going into the future at least until salary cap pressures started squeezing the club. We could have players like Carney, Dugan, Ferguson, etc all in the same side.
But the talent has been hugely mismanaged.
The club can keep going but but but they are all naughty boys but some responsibility must fall upon the club. Stuart is really on a hiding to nothing here because
A) everyone hates him and
B) the Raiders were completely gutted of talent over the last few years.
The props are too big, the good players are all gone because they misbehaved, Campo is a ghost of his former self and even that was more inconsistent brilliance rather than anything special, Milford is leaving at seasons end.
There is a bit of a light Vaughan and Boyd are very good players and we might be able to offload some of the lugs, Edwards has been solid at worst and is a nice cheap backrower to compliment Paps and Fensom who attract more money. The Lee's look talented but Edrick has been a bit injury prone. Cronin might be able to replace McCrone long term and will hopefully be an upgrade and Cornish is playing FANTASTIC at NSW cup level so hopefully that will translate to the big boy level.
But the club is in a bad shape in the year 2014 thanks to being mismanaged. We can't blame Stuart but we can blame Stuart for playing like a bunch of boring bastards
