Ok well that cleanout has yet to show any signs of success. We can get excited no doubt, but only time will tell whether that cleanout was a good thing or not and until we see then we should wait to credit him for that.
I think it's a solid plan and it has been very well implemented.
I don't even think it
can fail, on its merits as a recruiting/retention plan. So if the team does happen to experience no success, it will be for reasons other than recruitment/retention.
In my opinion (obviously), we needed a cleanout and we got it. That's a success. We are finally in a position where we are able to attract the players to the club that the coach wants, and we have done so - another success.
When you have a coach with a plan, and he is (relatively) unconstrained by legacy salary cap pressures, then the only way you can fail is either if the coach gets no support from the people above him, or if he is himself just a dud (including if he gets no support from the players - I see this as a coaching fault).
Personally, I feel I've seen enough from Kearney to think he's a good coach, and I expect success next year (top 8). If that doesn't happen I will be very surprised, but I will also know that the CEO is at least partly to blame - either because Kearney didn't get the support he needed (unlikely since the current mob signed him, and they've so far signed the players he wanted) or because Kearney is a dud coach (and therefore Osborne's fault for replacing one dud with another).
As above time will tell whether the decisions he's made were the right ones. I hope they are but I want our club to be a success. But in a years time if our high profile signings turn out to be duds then we'll all be highly critical of everyone.
Agreed but the fact is they're not duds; they're good signings. These players we've signed have proven themselves quality players. If they don't perform here next year it won't be entirely the fault of the players, and the coaching staff and thus the CEO will deserve to share the blame.
But if we're going to go into hypotheticals why posit the negatives? Is it because it's easier not to get our hopes up? That bullshit is for losers.
I'm a fan, and when I talk hypothetically about the future of the team it's all positive. The alternative is the whiny negative bullshit we constantly see all over this forum.
