Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

[Gary Gutful]

Jeez. Thank f**k we moved on from Rupert Rayner.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

You might have moved on but I haven't. The mere mention of that guy burns me up inside!

 

[hineyrulz]

* semen

Vulgar.

 

[Gronk]

F**king Ricky Stuart bailed out after two dozen games.

Love to have a beer with him one day (prolly buy him an Iron Jack ) and have a chat about Spags and what was so toxic that made him run to the hills.

 

[Bazal]

F**king Ricky Stuart bailed out after two dozen games.

Love to have a beer with him one day (prolly buy him an Iron Jack ) and have a chat about Spags and what was so toxic that made him run to the hills.

He won't tell you much in my experience

 

[T-Boon]

I wonder what their respective away win percentage is.

 

[T-Boon]

Having watched interviews on the Eels website I have not much confidence that the boys will be fired up this weekend against the Cowboys.
I know Brad is not a fire in the teams belly type coach like Bellamy or a professional doting the i's and crossing the T's suit wearing type like Robinson.
Supposedly the players love him. They certainly don't fear him, but do they respect him?
I think turning up most weeks less enthusiastic than your opponent is a sign they don't have much respect for him.

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

* semen

plop.

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

Having watched interviews on the Eels website I have not much confidence that the boys will be fired up this weekend against the Cowboys.
I know Brad is not a fire in the teams belly type coach like Bellamy or a professional doting the i's and crossing the T's suit wearing type like Robinson.
Supposedly the players love him. They certainly don't fear him, but do they respect him?
I think turning up most weeks less enthusiastic than your opponent is a sign they don't have much respect for him.

I agree 100% and havn't even watched the interviews.

 

[84 Baby]

Vulgar.

*vulvar

 

[84 Baby]

Jeez. Thank f**k we moved on from Rupert Rayner.

That is an amazing record

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

He won't tell you much in my experience

Would he send a texa?

 

[T-Boon]

I agree 100% and havn't even watched the interviews.

Hoffman got interviewed and said essentially "we love Brad and he always instills confidence in us". This to me is code for he mollycoddles us.
I say if they loved him in a respectful way they would out enthuse their opponent some/most weeks. A squads love for their coach should be measured by how much effort they put in on the field.

 

[lucablight]

Hoffman got interviewed and said essentially "we love Brad and he always instills confidence in us". This to me is code for he mollycoddles us.
I say if they loved him in a respectful way they would out enthuse their opponent some/most weeks. A squads love for their coach should be measured by how much effort they put in on the field.

I don’t think Brad Arthur is the mollycoddling kind of coach going off past history. He wasn’t afraid to drop Fui and deny him a final hurrah before he retired (which didn’t go down well with the big man). He also chose to let Nathan Peats go rather than play out the rest of the season without points. He also kept Bevan French out of his preferred fullback spot and told Norman and Moses they were free to go before their contracts were up. I don’t always agree with his choices but Arthur has shown he isn’t afraid to make the tough choices even if it means ruffling a few feathers.

 

[strider]

F**king Ricky Stuart bailed out after two dozen games.

Love to have a beer with him one day (prolly buy him an Iron Jack ) and have a chat about Spags and what was so toxic that made him run to the hills.

I reckon it was just obvious the parra job was gonna be hard to rebuild the roster and he got offered his dream coaching destination at canberra

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

Hoffman got interviewed and said essentially "we love Brad and he always instills confidence in us". This to me is code for he mollycoddles us.
I say if they loved him in a respectful way they would out enthuse their opponent some/most weeks. A squads love for their coach should be measured by how much effort they put in on the field.

You're preaching to the converted my son. I'm over the whole BA and Guth shitshow. and all the other useless merkins.

 

[Soto]

You're preaching to the converted my son. I'm over the whole BA and Guth shitshow. and all the other useless merkins.

Next time Guth fronts a press conference is when he signs a contract albeit with Parra or someone else. I don't think he is doing himself any favours with Parra and non Parra supporters...too much airtime for no result

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

Next time Guth fronts a press conference is when he signs a contract albeit with Parra or someone else. I don't think he is doing himself any favours with Parra and non Parra supporters...too much airtime for no result

Guth is massively over rated by a lot of people on here. I like him much more as a $300 000 centre option as opposed to a $650-700 000 fullback.

 

[Soto]

Guth is massively over rated by a lot of people on here. I like him much more as a $300 000 centre option as opposed to a $650-700 000 fullback.

I dont believe his game changes too much whether he plays fullback, wing, centre, five eight (or hooker - the new Cam smith). He can still make his quick darts from 20m restarts and dummy half, back up the forwards in the early hitups and marshall the troops...

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

I dont believe his game changes too much whether he plays fullback, wing, centre, five eight (or hooker - the new Cam smith). He can still make his quick darts from 20m restarts and dummy half, back up the forwards in the early hitups and marshall the troops...

The problem for mine, apart from his lack of speed, is that he tries to do all that from fullback. As a one off trickshot per game, fine. But trying to be everything all of the time and it affecting his role as FB is detrimental to his game IMO.