Ben Hunt Takes Responsibility for Dragons Woes

[muzby]

So why go back to 2017, just post the very recent one's say from anywhere between the Charity Shield & Round 20 this year.

Go check the Serb votes from the start of the year, then come back and apologise..

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

Take DCE for example. People were laughing a couple of years ago when he signed for 10 years for a million a season. He looked like the biggest waste of money Manly had ever made. A couple of years later and a new coach and he's looking like a world beater - even being recalled into the QLD team.

Seriously, calling for his head at this stage while retaining Mary is a joke. The real issue is the coach. Until we get a better coach we'll never get a true picture of the roster we have.

Spot on post.....unfortunately every time a player comes out and admits responsibilty for a poor season it alleviates the pressure on McGregor....yes to a point some players should accept some responsibility particularly when they themselves havnt played the best.....but as I said its just giving The Imposter more ammunition to justify his shortcomings

 

[epDragon62]

Outside of some deadwood within our playing roster our real problems are all to do with SGI football management includeing the CEO, fitness staff, coaching staff and recruitment/pathways/retention staff.

Sign the following players for 2020:

• Ramien - right centre
• Gagai - left centre
• RCG - prop (using JDB's salary cap).
• Fill any other backup/reserve grade spots with our juniors.

Let go the following Players at seasons end:

• Dufty - swap for a good big fast winger/fullback if possible
• Field
• Maranta
• Timm - would rather keep him if possible
• Kerr - would rather keep him if possible
• Allgood
• Latimore - retired
• Graham - may retire
• Robson - going to NQ
• Masters - going to Souths
• Aitken - swap for Ramien
• Lafai - swap for an ESL outside back/fullback
• And maybe some others who we do not want.

Management staff:

• Let go Johnston
• Hire Gus Gould on a two year deal as CEO.
• Let go Mary, his coaching staff, Millward and his staff and the current fitness staff.
• Hire a new head coach Toovey or Griffin and let the new coach hire his own coaching staff, fitness staff and recruiting/pathways/retention staff.

So our run-on 17 for 2020 could be:

1. Lomax
2. Saab
3. Ramien
4. Gagai
5. Ravalawa
6. Norman
7. Hunt
8. RCG
9. McInnes
10. Vaughan
11. T Sims
12. Frizell
13. Leilua
14. K Sims
15. Lawrie
16. Blacker
17. Ford

Coached by Toovey or Griffin.

So it is very important that we act now on the management changes, sign Ramien, Gagai and RCG for next season and beyond ASAP and give young players like Blacker and Ford a spot on the first grade bench till end of season.

Possum, you have a propensity for demanding the unrealistic.

I don’t think Lomax is a fullback, Timm not getting a go really annoys the crap out of me; what is Mary’s issue there I wonder?

 

[Old Timer]

Go check the Serb votes from the start of the year, then come back and apologise..

Typical response but as expected
You’re as big a disappointment as Hunt.
Apology lol

 

[muzby]

Typical response but as expected
You’re as big a disappointment as Hunt.
Apology lol

Not much else I can do mate.. It’s all there in the threads if you actually have a look..

But if you won’t bother, I’ll let you keep carrying on like a pork chop..

 

[Crush]

Like sands through the hour glass......

 

[muzby]

Like sands through the hour glass......

Bo should have stayed with Hope..

 

[Wittenberg]

Title bit misleading. Thought he may have put his hand up to deflect from the coach. In reality he will take the money and run and give his all...come origin time each year.

He is not alone in that......

 

[Wittenberg]

Norman strikes me as a bit of a front runner only plays good when the team is!

Most Parra supporters thought the same.

 

[nontime111]

Possum, you have a propensity for demanding the unrealistic.

I don’t think Lomax is a fullback, Timm not getting a go really annoys the crap out of me; what is Mary’s issue there I wonder?

I know its bull(*^ isnt it Timm would smash through lines in first grade and never give up intensity...I think hes better than Lawrie

 

[Wittenberg]

It's hilarious how the alleged highest paid player in the club takes the blame but the coach and the leadership group are silent.

It speaks volumes about the culture of the club.

Who will get the blame when we lose to the Titans on Saturday?

So true. We look for this player or that player to blame for our woes but the problem lies at the feet of Johnston and MacGregor. Hunt has been disappointing but god it must be depressing trying to implement our ‘match plan’. I suspect that given half a chance Hunt would leave but he is being paid too much for another club to take him, and would cost us too much to unload him. So he is living in the land of the living dead, which is our team. For as long as Mary is with us many of our players will play below their ability and young players who have potential will not develop.

 

[muzby]

Hunt played pretty good in Origin..

Why isn’t he doing the same at club level?

He must be lazy or something..

 

[Wittenberg]

Hunt played pretty good in Origin..

Why isn’t he doing the same at club level?

He must be lazy or something..

I tend to think our whole Club is lazy.

 

[muzby]

I tend to think our whole Club is lazy.

That would be Hunt's lazy ass rubbing off on them...

 

[West coast dragon]

Hunt played pretty good in Origin..

Why isn’t he doing the same at club level?

He must be lazy or something..

Guaranteed money in club footy $30k extra for origin heck I remember slater couple of years ago pull out of a club game when he didn’t need to for origin because the club money was the same weather he played or not,you gotta show up for your origin cash!

 

[muzby]

Guaranteed money in club footy $30k extra for origin heck I remember slater couple of years ago pull out of a club game when he didn’t need to for origin because the club money was the same weather he played or not,you gotta show up for your origin cash!

Cool story bro..

Could you tell me it in english?

 

[West coast dragon]

Cool story bro..

Could you tell me it in english?

In other words they
All lift for origin for the money the club money is guaranteed Jesus muzz if you couldn’t understand that hand in your drivers license

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

So true. We look for this player or that player to blame for our woes but the problem lies at the feet of Johnston and MacGregor. Hunt has been disappointing but god it must be depressing trying to implement our ‘match plan’. I suspect that given half a chance Hunt would leave but he is being paid too much for another club to take him, and would cost us too much to unload him. So he is living in the land of the living dead, which is our team. For as long as Mary is with us many of our players will play below their ability and young players who have potential will not develop.

Couldnt agree more

 

[Knuckle-dragger]

Ben -if you're reading this and you care as I do about this club- you will save yourself untold angst and earn the everlasting gratitude of many St George supporters like me.

f**king lol.

 

[twinkletoes]

Hunt is not the problem...the forwards are the problem. We have the second worst defensive record in the comp...the forwards generally apart from McInnes, Vaughn & Graham have been pathetic. Hunt's defensive lapses are highlighted by everyone, but at least he is in position to make the tackles...most of the other forwards are missing in action!! Look at the replays and you'll see that we have a lot of passengers in defence...where oppositions can make large metres every time they have the ball