I'm heartened by that post emjaycee - it's exactly what I wanted in a new coaching team. I wanted long-term success, not a quick fix.
Obviously all the whingers just have higher standards. Either that or they know how easy it is to build a club for sustained success. Maybe they should tell Wayne Bennett, because he looks like he's struggling.
Brian Smith took us to the finals in his first year in charge.
By those standards you are definitely not getting long term success. We've had 35 games under Kearney for 27 losses and 7 wins and one draw. That is a debacle of epic proportions when you consider the calibre of the coach he replaced. At best you might get delayed success, but that is quite a different thing to long term success.
We had long term success under Brian Smith from 1997-2002. In retrospect even 2003 doesn't seem so bad if you factor in the injuries. And then from 2005-2009 with four different coaches we still made two prelim finals and one grand final.
What I think we need to consider is the relationship between the bad old days of 1991-1995 and the long term success of 1997 to 2009. Did enduring 1991-1995 lead us to the 1997 to 2009 period? Other than the simple passage of time, I don't think so. It took the Super League war to revamp Parramatta's roster and then a new coach to put in place the structures etc to turn the roster and the juniors into real success.
All that is happening at the moment is that Kearney is leading us into a 1991-1995 type of period. There is nothing to indicate that the short to medium term failures will lead to prolonged success. In fact, its likely that the opposite will occur.
What you still haven't done, after months of supporting Kearney, is to point out what Kearney has done that will clearly lead to long term success.
