Ando gone if we miss the finals

[born an eel]

what's good for the coach is good for the board.

if we expect to make any decent signings this year the board need to extend DA contract by a year and put this sh*t to bed. We need certainty and confidence to shown to be able to make the high level signings we need. What established player will risk their careers with an attitude that if we don't get instant results your gone.

 

[yy_cheng]

Maybe they will think Kearney would get better along with the players?

If DA was to go, I wouldn't mind JT back.

 

[metatulose]

DA has his opportunity. He has produced nothing. We have gone back in terms of performance. Some of the shortfalls -
Keeping Morts and Robson as halves. They have been sh&^t games after game.
He does not have game plan. His game plan is passing ball to Hayne.
He does not have guts. He can take strong decision. I have no clue how he left mortimer play for long. That kid is useless.
Since he is a head coach he should take responsibility for recruitment. Robson was rubbish, yet we extended his contract. We should have kept Kingston.
I think he has taken our club back wards same as Hagan.
Sorry DA has had his chance...

 

[yy_cheng]

DA has his opportunity. He has produced nothing. We have gone back in terms of performance. Some of the shortfalls -
Keeping Morts and Robson as halves. They have been sh&^t games after game.
He does not have game plan. His game plan is passing ball to Hayne.
He does not have guts. He can take strong decision. I have no clue how he left mortimer play for long. That kid is useless.
Since he is a head coach he should take responsibility for recruitment. Robson was rubbish, yet we extended his contract. We should have kept Kingston.
I think he has taken our club back wards same as Hagan.
Sorry DA has had his chance...

FFS, we could not have kept Kingston. We don't have brown paper bags :roll:

 

[Tin Man 4.24]

Why are people getting so worked up? This has come from Wiedler - a guy who has about as much journalistic reliability as that ass-clown who stared the Cooper Cronk house hunting thread.

When this gets reported by someone with a bit more credibility than Wiedler, then I'll be concrened about D.A.'s future.

 

[Fui!!!]

If this is true - the bit about Ossie being told to scout out options if the team doesn't make the finals under DA - then I'll lose all faith in the current Board.

Cutting employees' contracts early is not how you build pride and passion imo. It's abysmal behaviour, that will just keep the club in a bad cycle. Chopping and changing the coach every second year when there's an election coming isn't the way to get the best out of our playing squads.

It was the current Board that made big election promises about delivering our on-field performances (after DA was already appointed) - it should be the current Board that is accountable if they didn't deliver what they promised by the next elections. But instead, like a bunch of short-term self-interested politicians, they point the finger at everyone else but themselves...

Well said.

 

[Daneel]

Well said.

x2

 

[Fifty Metre Line]

Lol. Here we go again.

Seriously, Ando needs another year. Sacking him is crazy. If this is true then our player recruitment for next year is suspect. You don't look at replacing a coach who has made a big signing do you?

Brad Fittler.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...es-axe-from-eels/story-e6frexnr-1225905114539

Coach Daniel Anderson faces axe from Eels

* Josh Massoud
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* August 14, 2010 12:00AM

PARRAMATTA might have stayed alive in 2010, but whether coach Daniel Anderson lives to see another season remains to be seen.

Despite their finals hopes hanging on last night's brave victory in Brisbane, Eels officials had already made moves to appoint Stephen Kearney as 2011 head coach before the do-or-die clash kicked-off.

Eels boss Paul Osborne flew to Victoria on Monday to meet with the Storm assistant coach about taking-over from Anderson after this season, and also the club's now-futile bid to sign Melbourne half Cooper Cronk.

But The Daily Telegraph can reveal the Parramatta's fallback option - Wallaby Quade Cooper - dined with Osborne, chairman Roy Spagnolo and superstar fullback Jarryd Hayne in Brisbane on Thursday night.

While Kearney did not return calls night, a source close to the Kiwi mentor confimred that Parrmatta's interest was genuine. "Steve is off-contract at Melbourne at the end of this year and is obviously interested in becoming a head coach," the source said. "Craig Bellamy won't stand in his way if Parramatta make an offer."


Anderson learned of the Kearney negotiations from journalists in his media conference following last night's 30-14 win. "It's nothing I can control," he said.

"It's specualtion - that's for you guys to do. I'm sure there's some people in this room that know more than me about that.

"I want to do the job. I'm good enough to do the job. I'm contracted to do the job."

Kearney already has plenty of allies at Parramatta. The club's major sponsor - Pirtek - also held the naming rights for Kearney's 2008 World Cup-winning New Zealand side. Pirtek's general manager Glenn Duncan was recently appointed to the Eels board and is believed to a prime mover behind the push to hire Kearney. Anderson still has 12 months left on his current contract, believed to be worth around $300,000-a-season.

But despite leading Parramatta to a fairytale grand final appearance last year, the coach has been under mounting pressure to survive beyond this season. Two members of the seven-person Eels board turned on Anderson five weeks ago after Parramatta's 35-6 loss to New Zealand.

And despite a three-match winning streak proving some respite, Parramatta's failure to live up to their premiership favourites tag has convinced enough board members that the club needs to head in a different direction next year.

Anderson's relationship with some of the Eels' players is also a factor.

Having publicly supported Anderson through the recent speculation, Spagnolo would not comment on the coaching saga last night.

"Like everything, we'll sit down and review that situation at the end of the season," Spagnolo said.

Speaking on Thursday's dinner with Cooper and rumours the Eels are willing to offer the Reds playmaker 500,000-a-season to switch codes, Spagnolo said: "It was a good meeting with Quade - we had some dinner and discussed a few things."

 

[hineyrulz]

Another Josh exclusive :roll:, can't believe our club is still feeding this lowlife stories.

 

[Eelementary]

Haha God bless the Australian media and its inconsistencies.

 

[Kornstar]

Can someone answering the question of how well Kearney has done with the Kiwi's since Bennett is no longer involved??????

Last year in the four nations he managed to take a very good NZ team and crash them out before the finals, what are his crudentials, seriously?

Assistant of a severly overstacked team, head coach of a very good NZ team and couldn't even make the finals and beat England ffs! Only success he had was when he had the BEST coach to ever coach the game!

Do the people making the decisions at the club follow the game as closely as us????????

Kearney may make a great coach but serioulsy, if we are pinning all our hopes on an untried coach and expect him to do better than what we already have, then i am sorry i ever voted for 3P

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/n...d-have-saved-job/story-e6frfgh6-1225905112579

Daniel Anderson's win could have saved job

* Phil Rothfield Sports Editor-at-large
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* August 14, 2010 12:00AM

DANIEL Anderson is the last person Parramatta chief executive Paul Osborne wanted to sack.

Osborne and the besieged Eels coach have struck up a close friendship over the past 18 months despite constant boardroom pressure to remove Anderson from the job.

Earlier this year, Osborne approached the board and tried to extend Anderson's contract but directors rejected the request when the Eels won only one of their first four games.

Pressure mounted as the Eels continued to underperform and two directors sent emails demanding Anderson's sacking after the recent thumping loss to the Warriors.

Osborne refused to react and, with the support of chairman Ray Spagnolo, resisted pressure to look for another coach in the hope Anderson could repeat last year's charge to the grand final. Last week's loss to the Gold Coast at Skilled Park forced Osborne to act.

Under instructions from Spagnolo, Osborne secretly boarded a flight to Melbourne for talks with Craig Bellamy's assistant coach Steve Kearney. The irony of the talks on Monday is that Kearney was originally interviewed for the job by former boss Denis Fitzgerald before being overlooked for Anderson.

To protect his friendship with Anderson, Osborne was determined to keep the talks with the Storm assistant coach secret and even booked the flight to Melbourne without any of the football club staff knowing. He met with Kearney to sound him out as a "Plan B" option if the Eels failed to make the grand final.The Parramatta board see New Zealand Test coach Kearney as the ideal type to handle the large Polynesian element at the club.

He is extremely well regarded by The most influential figures in the game, including Bellamy and Wayne Bennett. Cashed-up Parramatta are prepared to offer Kearney one of the richest coaching deals in the NRL to make it happen.

But Eels board members are understandably anxious to get off to a flying start in next year's premiership because they are under pressure to be re-elected at the annual meeting next April.

The majority of directors feel it is too risky to stick with Anderson, in case Fitzgerald's old supporters mount a campaign to get rid of them.

 

[El Diablo]

But Eels board members are understandably anxious to get off to a flying start in next year's premiership because they are under pressure to be re-elected at the annual meeting next April.

The majority of directors feel it is too risky to stick with Anderson, in case Fitzgerald's old supporters mount a campaign to get rid of them.

oh dear

 

[hineyrulz]

So we are willing to throw massive coin at a guy thats never coached in the NRL before????? :crazy:Honestly these clowns have no idea......

 

[Forty20]

oh dear

It's just like real politics!

No surprise to hear that this is all a huge attempt to deflect attention away from their own failures.

Anderson is going to be their sacrificial offering to appease members/voters.

 

[bartman]

^^^^ Exactly El D.

At least that part of the article gets right to the crux of what's behind all this sacking DA talk - the f**king Board just trying to look after themselves in April's election.

Put the club before yourselves for once, pack of merkins :evil:.

 

[Eelementary]

Surely us fans and members should have a say? Surely we can tell the board to f**k off and at the very least let Ando stay for his whole tenure?

:crazy:

Or are sponsors more important than the fans?

 

[Kornstar]

Is there even any point emailing the club and expressing dissapointment with getting rid of DA?

 

[fish eel]

On that bit el d posted about the election influencing the decision

There's no quotes, just some Rothfield speculation.

Somedays we'll laugh at what he says. Somedays we seem to take it as gospel truth depending on what we want to believe

Go figure :crazy:

For the record, I think if we miss the finals, it's not good enough and he does have some questions to answer.

Whats disappointing though is someone obviously leaking that we spoke to Kearney at such a critical stage of the year.