Sacking Ivan. Re-hiring Ivan. One or both of those was a mistake.
Hiring Hook without interviewing anyone was a mistake. Extending him last year only to ssck him this year was a mistake.
Our cap management has made a lot of mistakes recently. Being forced to release players to stay under the cap. Not sure how anyone can think its good management when you need to shed ~5 players a season to be cap compliant.
2017: tmm. Hiku. Moylan. Carty. Latu. Rein. Just enough to fit Maloney in apparently.
2018. Wallace. Browne. Peachey. CHN. Mckendry? Just enough to be under the cap apparently.
Now the reasons for players leaving range from forced retirement through to us pushing them out or them wanting out. But the fact remains in the past 2 seasons weve cut 10+ players early to sign 1 top 17 player and keep the rest of what we had together. Thats poor cap management.
That's why ive been livid since we went out paying overs for Tamou. Ontop of already having paid overs for Merrin. Only for both to plod along. Mez was understandable but still a poor decision to invest so much in. While Tamou has been a huge mistake considering what it cost us. Paying overs to these guys HAD to affect our cap. Even moreso when we pay overs to every singe guy in the team. God forbid a reserve grader only earns $100k a year.
Gus has made mistakes. His mistakes require 'luck' to fix. Medical retirements or players accepting job offers elsewhere. Where would our cap be if we didnt suffer injuries and players wanted to see out their contracts? Spending say $10.5m (just a figure for my example) and then offloading $1m to get back under the cap means we made mistakes that needed to be rectified
Most of this is speculation. You don't know what players have been paid. It's your opinion about what is overs, the market decides what the going rate is, nobody else. It's your opinion Tamou was a massive mistake. I don't agree. Again this is all opinion. You are "livid" based on numbers speculated on by journalists.
I can't argue that hiring a CEO was done professionally. Clearly it wasn't. Whether Hook should have been extended is a matter of opinion. Same as the Cleary sacking. Those decisions have cost some money, although we don't know how much. However, we also don't know how much money Gould has saved in moving players on and negotiating contracts and finding sponsors. Although, you seem to think players moving on is luck, hmmm. Do we ignore the credit/plus side of the ledger, or, only focus on the negative/debit side of the ledger? If we sacked every GM who made a mistake, we would have a new one every six months.
You are focusing on HOW, Gus does his job. You would do it differently. But of course you would. You don't have access to the same information as he does, you have less experience in management of rugby league and in senior management in general. You have no idea what the market rates are for players, how much they have been signed for and what the actual cap looks likes right now.
You should focus on RESULTS. Are we growing memberships? Are we successful in lower grades and therefore getting a return on our investment in juniors? Are we qualifying for semi final football? Are we generating rep players? Are sponsorships increasing? Are we staying within the football departments cost budget? Do we have a strategic plan for the next five years? Do we have a clear understanding of our roster commitment and cap management for the next five years? Obviously, we want a premiership and if that was the only measure, we might sack him. Since we win one only every twenty years I think we can cut him some slack for a little bit longer. I'm sure there are other measure of success I haven't thought of, but that's how we should judge him, actual results.
For some reason, you don't like the results he has has achieved and want him sacked because you don't like the HOW. The results don't seem to support your view as a reason to sack him. Do you have access to other information we don't have?
