Coaching preference for 2024

[AyiosYiorgos]

Now that is what I call jumping to conclusions! Maybe Dean was visiting his dad and decided to catch a game being played by his old team.

Ok, maybe not too, but we really don't know do we?

You do know that the cowboys are playing dolphins next, good opportunity for him to visit family and catch a glimpse of their next opponent

 

[denis preston]

How’s Young going this year ? Does he take some responsibility for their indifferent form ?

 

[BLM01]

How’s Young going this year ? Does he take some responsibility for their indifferent form ?

No not really as defensive coach

 

[possm]

It will not be a surprise to most members of this forum, but I would prefer

 

[OneEyedDragon]

It will not be a surprise to most members of this forum, but I would prefer

Don't leave us hanging @possm ! I'm guessing the word "Hasler" would make an appearance soon!

 

[possm]

Don't leave us hanging @possm ! I'm guessing the word "Hasler" would make an appearance soon!

So it seems the message is getting through to the most important poster!.

 

[Captn]

2 WINS does not change anything about Hook. Still indifferent performances, still indifferent use of bench and swapping of starting line ups? Still talk of player unrest. Had his chance, time to go. More time same story. Move now before best candidates have contracts for 2024.

 

[Ghostrider22]

I do t understand why Hornby’s name doesn’t get a mention. Has servered a great apprenticeship under Bennett and now demitriou. South’s are a well run club with good pathways. I’d be happy for this legend to come back

Cussy your right except for one thing 2 boards on a joint venture don’t get on and do not work for the same thing everyone on here wants so badly.

Remember we had Coach running the football Club and no one I mean no one would go against Coach. Remember Doust stated I can sleep at night because of Wayne. There is so much politics in a football club. Having 2 boards don’t work period. Look at the tigers what a basket case that joint is.

 

[Illusion]

Here we go the Hook and Hunt love affair continues. https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...e/news-story/4c31123cdec12d0b84b0dab67ef87b5b

 

[dungay dragon]

Here we go the Hook and Hunt love affair continues. https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...e/news-story/4c31123cdec12d0b84b0dab67ef87b5b

It's the Cam Mary yarn all over again , and we all know how that ended
BH has a million reasons to stay . but no player is bigger than the Club
Personally would rather try n entice Payne Haas to the Dragons and give Sullivan the 7 jumper
Can build a powerhouse Club around those two

 

[dragon thomo]

Griffin has to go due to losing parts of the shed.
If Hunt pushes the fact he would leave due to Griffin departure then so be it.
But as it has been mentioned he is under a pretty good contract.
As for Haas I would rather have a crack at big Nelson. I think he would be a great leader for our pack.Imagine our young forwards grow in confidence if we signed him.

 

[BLM01]

Griffin has to go due to losing parts of the shed.
If Hunt pushes the fact he would leave due to Griffin departure then so be it.
But as it has been mentioned he is under a pretty good contract.
As for Haas I would rather have a crack at big Nelson. I think he would be a great leader for our pack.Imagine our young forwards grow in confidence if we signed him.

NAS to rugby most likely

 

[SEAT 1A]

Here we go the Hook and Hunt love affair continues. https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...e/news-story/4c31123cdec12d0b84b0dab67ef87b5b

Got no issue with Hunt giving his opinion on club matters however, the club hasn't reached the finals in god knows let alone the top four and a chance of winning the competition. Making the finals would show the club has gone forward with Griffin.

Hook did sign Liddle, Big Ben and the Manly dudes for Woods which has made the team go forward but his job is to make the eight.

 

[Dragon David]

Got no issue with Hunt giving his opinion on club matters however, the club hasn't reached the finals in god knows let alone the top four and a chance of winning the competition. Making the finals would show the club has gone forward with Griffin.

Hook did sign Liddle, Big Ben and the Manly dudes for Woods which has made the team go forward but his job is to make the eight.

...and the only way that Hook can get the job done and make the top 8 at the end of the 2023 comp is by remaining as the coach for the duration of the year. Hunt sees that with Hook being banished and sent to oblivion midway through the comp will destabilise the team ..“If we get four or five weeks down the road and we start again, it will set this club back a couple of years,”.

Hook is contracted to the end of the year and Hunt wants him to keep going I guess.

 

[ChocOConnor]

I don’t mind Hook I think he really loves the club. But Benny mate if the club thinks it can move forward with someone else don’t you think you being the club captain should not force the clubs hand and threaten with leaving. If that’s the case I’d put you at 9 move Bud to 7 and if pan for next year cause I’ll open the door for you to walk out if you don’t want to be here cause may be you should think what’s best for the club not just yourself you selfish P!!!!k

 

[hewi]

Dragons meet with agent for 2024 coach, Gould urges club to hire Hasler

With the Dragons’ top job up for grabs for next year, the club has opened a line of communication with one of the NRL’s leading agents, George Mimis.

www.smh.com.au

Plain as mud to me

 

[Coffs dragon]

Dragons meet with agent for 2024 coach, Gould urges club to hire Hasler

With the Dragons’ top job up for grabs for next year, the club has opened a line of communication with one of the NRL’s leading agents, George Mimis.

www.smh.com.au

Plain as mud to me

The more our club flounders & dithers around, they’ll miss out on the prime target and end up with 3rd choice & still blow their own trumpets.

 

[HenryTatana]

As a matter of urgency coach recruitment and announcement needs to be made now so that they can work on 2024 player retention and recruitment. The longer this pans out, the deeper the hole we dig.

 

[hewi]

It’s time the board faces reality, by round ten we will have three wins probably and the bye. We have had 12 years of rebuilding, the club is a disaster.

 

[Mojo]

IMO Hunt is a very good individual player, but not a great hooker or halfback and not a great team player or captain. He excels at rep level because having great players around him really suits his individual style of play. He scores Dally M points at club level because his individual skills really stand-out. However, I think we're feeling the effects of the excessive reliance we've invested in him - on the field but also, especially, off the field, since he came to us in 2018.

He seems to be very 'political'. There's been such a sequence since he came to the club: Mary and McInnes exit, Hook employed, McGuire, McCullough, Mbye recruited. Hunt, McGuire, McCullough all played in the 2008 Brisbane Broncos Toyota Cup premiership winning side. Mbye and Corey Norman also came through the Qld junior sides and into the Broncos around that time. Hunt's first grade career really started in 2010. Hook coached that Toyota Cup side and took over from Ivan Henjack as 1st grade coach in 2011. He had a pretty good coaching record, which got even better, in fact, it was very good, while he was at Penrith.

It's very noticeable that Hunt and Mbye have spoken publicly in support of Hook. It's also starkly obvious that all of these guys are rusted on to each other. No doubt they're justifiably proud of their past achievements and it seems they really have faith in Hook as a coach - but their real high-point with Hook was 15 years ago now!

Also, no doubt, coaching the Dragon's has been an absolute prick of a job. I think it's just very obvious that this 'Qld mates' thing has made the task much more difficult (even though they think they've 'got this') and the challenge has been compounded by the fact that the favouritism, which, let's be honest, has been stubbornly on full display, must have been incredibly demotivating for everyone else.

Whether it's been with the best of intentions or poor judgment, it hasn't worked at all. It's time to face the facts. They might have been a great team 15 years ago, but not any more.