Mate, I take your point on the coaching turnover.
But besides Cleary, look at who you guys have had in that time: Iro; Elliott; McFadden amd Kearney.
Holy shit what a steaming pile of dogshit that is!
Get a good coach and that team IS top 8. Easily.
Disagree, not necessarily on the coach, but on a good coach making this a top 8 roster easily. The talent just isn't there in the forward pack to make the most of where our talent is which is the spine/backline.
Since 2011 just about every pack has gotten bigger while we may have actually gotten smaller. It's embarrassing watching teams roll 60-70m a set while we struggle to get outside our 40m line. It's more than just simply coaching. A coach can't give players brains they don't have and he can't get them motivated if they have no desire beyond collecting a paycheck.
If it were up to me I'd blow the whole place up, coaching staff, playing roster, you name it, but unfortunately that's not possible.
What I just can't get passed though is that while the coaching line up isn't stellar, the same group of players have put in the exact same apathetic performances week after week for 6 years. Even ordinary coaches have their own style/strengths/weaknesses, but the exact same flaws and shortcomings are being exposed no matter the coach.
To me that doesn't excuse the coach, but it certainly points to something beyond it simply being a coaching issue.
Part of the problem is the development pathways, and to be fair to Matt Elliott this is one area he actually started to get right, but a bigger problem is identification of talent from the Warriors. They've been too enamoured by physical wow factor. The Warriors are a team of athlete's, not footballers and that's why I think even a good coach would struggle with this lot.
