Anyone still want to sack Flanno?

[Surely]

Got me again

 

[island pro]

Training at Shark park.

Obviously something to behold.

An aging halfback running plays and looking the part until the weekend when reality hits.

No kicking drills - wait until we get into the game and then whoever feels like kicking it do so - on any tackle.

Dumb and dumber in charge of a boys club that runs the same drills every week in the belief that we will all wake up in 1988 and they are in fashion.

Widdop and benji ran plays to our left yesterday - created an extra man at will and threatened every set. Whereas Dumbo 1 is truly of the belief that whenever we shift it to the left to overweight-Wade we will trouble someone. Fatguts hasn't made a break or try assist since Dank drove into the car park for the first time. Except for James Roberts' try.

Then - if we go to the right we have Bird - who plays off the top of his head. So on opposite sides we have the choice of 'seen it all before Versus no idea what could happen.'

Up the middle we have boring as bat shite repitition and the fifita circus. How the f**k that hasn't been sorted out at training is beyond me. Have him do pushups or laps or whatever - but if he can't get the message bench the idiot.

For the same rot to be trotted out week after week...it must be perfected on the training paddock. They must practice it.

Either that or we're in Groundhog Day.

You trot out some strange shit sometimes... but I agree with this.

 

[Craigshark]

What is it with our forwards running back into the markers every hit up? It doesn't work. It hasn't for years.

 

[RUBIKS]

Making up the numbers in the finals?
Won one and only just lost the other without piss mouth

lol we almost knocked off manly without carney and may well have if robbo didnt brain snap

Gotcha, so we make the 8 with the worst points differential. Just barely beat the cows with a 7th tackle try and lost to a Manly side that was exhausted before a ball was kicked.

The argument that "Carney was injured so we lost" means the coach didn't do his job in preparing Townsend through the year (previous years) to take up where Carney left off.

 

[Surely]

Townsend is no carney

How do you think cows would have gone with no Thurston ?

 

[carcharias]

Making up the numbers is scraping into 8th and getting bundled out in week one.
Carney being missing was a massive blow to our team.
It would be the same if Thurston was out , or Cameron smith or Maloney
Also Chad had only come back from that bad sternum injury from memory.

Until Sunday dragons had scored the least trys in the comp
How they going?
Or is only a shit tactic when we have success doing it?

 

[RUBIKS]

Carney is no Thurston. Especially with his bung leg.

Did you honestly think we were going to win in 2013? The best we got from anyone was "Aww, bless 'em. They're trying hard."

Point is, we are playing the exact same footy now, that we were in 2010 when Flanno took over. Our team hasn't developed at all. The Dragons are playing to a completely new game plan (for them) and are still developing.

Flanno always said, we'll get the defence right then we'll work on attack... it's been 4 years, when do we start working on our attack? When is our defence right?

For the record, I think the Dragons will be making up the numbers this year when they reach the finals.

 

[whall15]

I think you guys are being harsh on Jeff Robson. If it weren't for the Storm's salary cap cheating he would've been a premiership winning halfback.

 

[carcharias]

carney injured again by the way.
torn pec.

that's gonna take a while to heal.

 

[Eion]

Carney is busted. Too much pizz, he's breaking down all over the place.

 

[Frailty]

Fair enough
I don't know why you guys watch those things
They are shit no matter what the score

I watch them because it can tell you a whole lot about a coach.

Let's have a look at Bellamy's response to a poor performance from his side last night.. Called them out for being soft. Didn't talk about how great the Roosters were and then answer 'no idea' when asked about his side.

 

[Feej]

Thats pretty much the difference between an NRL coach and tradie that thinks he's a coach. Should go back to tiling.

 

[carcharias]

how do you know Flanagan didn't say it behind closed doors or at training?

Publicly humiliating blokes might no be his go.

Bennett went years without saying a word in them

 

[Feej]

Bellamy didn't single any players out in particular. He just said it was a poor performance and they were soft. That's called owning the outcome. Our dingbat just went on about how good the opposition was. That's what happens when the coach has no idea and likes to deflect. A bit like how he kept saying he didn't know anything about the ASADA stuff. He's always looking for any excuse other than his own inept coaching. He doesn't own anything. He's pissweak.

 

[ghoti]

how do you know Flanagan didn't say it behind closed doors or at training?

True, but don't you want to see just a hint of some insight in a post-match press conference? This year in post-match pressers, Flanno has: admitted that he wasn't sure who our field goal option was in dying moments, said he had no idea how we lost against the Dragons, said he thought the two points call vs the Titans came from a trainer... there's so much fuel there to indicate that he's not to NRL standard as a coach with on-field organisation and understanding..

..and that's BEFORE you consider that he went under the board's radar to organise mid-season player transfers that didn't transpire... played an interchange winger for three rounds... assembled a squad void of a long kicking game that is meant to play the grinding, territory/possession style of football..

All you need from a presser after a loss is a sign that there will be an improvement next week, but Flanno honestly just sounds and looks confused every week.

 

[carcharias]

"We weren't disciplined, we weren't controlled and we didn't do our jobs properly."

"I don't know why it happened but give credit to the Dragons. We were poor. We couldn't get out of our half. We probably didn't fight hard enough and we certainly have some work to do."



Flanagan quotes after the game..

dunno what else you want him to say.

It was not like ( as has been claimed ) he didn't say anything bad about the performance.

 

[Feej]

It's one thing to give some credit to the winning team, but at least 80% of that presser was flanno and Graham praising the Dragons.

So much so, this is how it gets reported:

St George Illawarra Dragons turn in "best team performance of the season"

Brad Walter
Published: May 31, 2015 - 11:25PM

Cronulla captain Wade Graham described St George Illawarra's 42-6 win in Sunday's local derby at Jubilee Oval as one of the best performances by any team this season in a glowing endorsement of the Dragons' premieship credentials.

Led by star fullback Josh Dugan, who St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor said was in "career best form", and star halves Benji Marshall and Gareth Widdop, the Dragons turned in a near perfect second half to move to the top of the NRL ladder on for-and-against unless Melbourne beat Sydney Roosters on Monday night.

At a loss to explain the errors that cost his team any hope of winning against such an opposition, Graham could do little but praise St George Illawarra.

"That second half was probably one of the best team performances this year," Graham said.

"They beat us to the punch on everything, on all of the little things and then, even when they got their roll on, they were still disciplined to stick to their plan. They did what they practice and they put us to the sword there late."

Sharks coach Shane Flanagan said there had been little between the teams in the first half but it was a one sided contest after the break.

"I got a sore neck looking down one end of the field in the second half, we just did not get out of our own 50 metres," Flanagan said.

Dragons coach Paul McGregor said he felt his side had focused heavily on completions in the first half but lacked intensity.

However, he was more than pleased with the way they responded to his half-time challenge to score 28 unanswered points after leading 14-6 at the interval.

"They found another gear and came away with a convincing win," McGregor said. "Certainly in that second half our attack clicked into gear, which we knew was coming, so that was a really good response.

"Whether that was the best 80 minutes of the year I am not convinced but certainly the second period probably was our best of the year."

McGregor praised Dugan after the NSW fullback backed up from Origin last Wednesday.

"I think it shows his professionalism and it shows his preparation, he is now an Australian player and he has gone to another level," he said.

"I think he is in the form of his career and to back up after a tough performance on Wednesday night in which he ran 160 metres then and 220 today, he is in an elite class there.

"He is the current NSW fullback and the Australian winger so he has got a lot of things right but he has been working hard on that for a while."

Asked about Marshall and Widdop, McGregor said: "You've got two special players there. Benji has captained his country over 20 times ... and he is enjoying his training and the way he is working to improve his game. With Gareth, he is a current international and one of the best if not the best No.6 in the game".
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/st-george-illawarra-dragons-turn-in-best-team-performance-of-the-season-20150531-ghdnb7.html

 

[Generalzod]

Our great club deserves better where the laughing stock of the NRL

 

[carcharias]

Our dingbat just went on about how good the opposition was. That's what happens when the coach has no idea and likes to deflect.

no deflection at all.

""We weren't disciplined, we weren't controlled and we didn't do our jobs properly."

I don't know why it happened but give credit to the Dragons. We were poor. We couldn't get out of our half. We probably didn't fight hard enough and we certainly have some work to do."

lets not let the truth get in the way of a good old fashioned witch hunt ey boys?

 

[Surely]

But but flanno didn't say enough bad things