Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

[Chipmunk]

If BA mises the finals this year, sign up Adrian Lam from Leigh Leopards for 2025.

Lam must want to come "home" eventually to coach, and if BA chucks a Brian Smith and quits early during 2024 then Barrett can be caretaker.

Difficult to sign a coach for 2025 when we already have one under contract that covers that period.

There's f**k all chance the corporate governance specialists sack a coach with two years remaining on his deal.

The only hope is that there are Top 8 clauses where can be sacked on the spot if we don't make the Top 8. I doubt there is though.

 

[lucablight]

We rely purely on the brilliance of the individual to make everything happen though, so the next man up approach will never work at Parra.

I suspect alone if Matterson spends $4k out of his own pocket, then we win 2 more games to start the season, and our whole season looks completely different than it does now.

Our season was done and dusted 48 hours after last seasons GF.

But hyperbolic to say it was done and dusted after the GF. It still isn’t tbh.

 

[Jake the snake]

I'm not remotely a fan of the coach, and feel
his lack of ability has held the playing group back, but, the coach doesn't:
- pay $4k instead of missing the first 3 games of the season that were all close losses (Matterson)
- knock a blokes head off in the last seconds of a game we had already won against the Panthers and is forced to miss 2 weeks, and we lose one of those games (Paulo)
- commit a professional foul and get 10 in the bin and our opponents run riot and we're out of the match as a result (Gutho)
- spend the first third of the season deciding whether you want to stay at the club, when most top players get it done before 1 November, and clearly cause a distraction for everyone else (Moses)
- Grope a woman in a nightclub during the Bye and cause your team to be without you for 7 weeks (Drown)
- continually raise his arm in tackles when he runs the ball and hit opponents in the head when trying to tackle them so much that you get 3 weeks off (Sivo)
- Fight a stupid charge at the judiciary that costs your team another week without you (Sivo...again)
- Lazily go in for a tackle and knee a bloke in the back costing your team 4 weeks without you (RCG)
- Likely spend more weeks on the sideline after a pretty blatant hip drop (Matterson).

Whatever we think of the coach, the players have put themselves into this situation with self-inflicted actions.

Those things are on and off field Discipline issues. Which the coach and management influence. We have the most suspensions in a season by far. The rot starts at the top. If you have a coach the refuses to be tough on the small things whether it’s off and on field then the player will act accordingly. They obviously have no respect for him or management.

he has to go.

 

[yy_cheng]

Mag, hook are free. Checka? Sp... He'll probably pick really good assistant coaches

 

[yy_cheng]

The stuff we did for 5 wins were against average opposition. Souths were so so that night but i do think they are qualitty

Our style goes well against the average sides. Against the better more desperate defenses, we are pretty average.

Offloads are one of our weopons but we've canned that and last night showed how cows started back peddling when we started that.

Ba is just too 1 dimensional for me

U could see lane was struggling but no davey has to sit on the bench. Only an injury again forced bas hand

 

[hineyrulz]

I'm not remotely a fan of the coach, and feel
his lack of ability has held the playing group back, but, the coach doesn't:
- pay $4k instead of missing the first 3 games of the season that were all close losses (Matterson)
- knock a blokes head off in the last seconds of a game we had already won against the Panthers and is forced to miss 2 weeks, and we lose one of those games (Paulo)
- commit a professional foul and get 10 in the bin and our opponents run riot and we're out of the match as a result (Gutho)
- spend the first third of the season deciding whether you want to stay at the club, when most top players get it done before 1 November, and clearly cause a distraction for everyone else (Moses)
- Grope a woman in a nightclub during the Bye and cause your team to be without you for 7 weeks (Drown)
- continually raise his arm in tackles when he runs the ball and hit opponents in the head when trying to tackle them so much that you get 3 weeks off (Sivo)
- Fight a stupid charge at the judiciary that costs your team another week without you (Sivo...again)
- Lazily go in for a tackle and knee a bloke in the back costing your team 4 weeks without you (RCG)
- Likely spend more weeks on the sideline after a pretty blatant hip drop (Matterson).

Whatever we think of the coach, the players have put themselves into this situation with self-inflicted actions.

I'd argue these are all symptoms of a club where there are no real repercussions for poor form or behaviour for the senior playing group. It only seems there are if you are a young player or you are not a fan of the coaches sons footballing ability. In all his time here attention to detail and the 1%ers have been dreadful. It would be interesting to see what a real coach could have done with this playing group.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Mag, hook are free.

Madge "F**ken" Maguire = no thanks.

Hook = possible option.

 

[yy_cheng]

Toovey. Slater

 

[Incorrect]

I would give serious consideration to Billy Slater...

I don't know why but I have this feeling Robinson could yet end up coaching us at some point...

 

[Gazzamatta]

I would give serious consideration to Billy Slater...

I don't know why but I have this feeling Robinson could yet end up coaching us at some point...

No thanks re Robinson. He cant get it done with "Resources".

 

[Gary Gutful]

I would give serious consideration to Billy Slater...

I don't know why but I have this feeling Robinson could yet end up coaching us at some point...

Billy has the makings of an excellent first grade coach.

 

[JokerEel]

Toovey. Slater

Slater yes but we would have to throw the farm at him.

If he wanted to become a first grade coach we would a good option for him as the Broncos have Kevvy locked up and are playing well.

The Roosters though would probably sack Robbo and sign him..

 

[yy_cheng]

Slater yes but we would have to throw the farm at him.

If he wanted to become a first grade coach we would a good option for him as the Broncos have Kevvy locked up and are playing well.

The Roosters though would probably sack Robbo and sign him..

Is there a coaching salary cap? I'm sure we can get some 3rd parties to snag slater to help financially

 

[Chipmunk]

Is there a coaching salary cap? I'm sure we can get some 3rd parties to snag slater to help financially

He's one of the highest paid people in the sport, coaching 3 games a year and living where and how he wants to, why would he bother?

I find the talk on Slater ridiculous.

 

[Jake the snake]

I would give serious consideration to Billy Slater...

I don't know why but I have this feeling Robinson could yet end up coaching us at some point...

Yes please

 

[Incorrect]

No thanks re Robinson. He cant get it done with "Resources".

Yeah not saying I'd want him as coach, but I have a feeling he's the kind of coach we'd look to if and when BA exits the club, if the Roosters and Robinson part company in that time also...

 

[JokerEel]

He's one of the highest paid people in the sport, coaching 3 games a year and living where and how he wants to, why would he bother?

I find the talk on Slater ridiculous.

Of course it's ridiculous but it's better than thinking about Holbrook or Toovey as our next coach.

 

[Noise]

So we apparently had a contract clause that triggered his extension when we made the top 4 last year. Did the dopes in charge put a clause in when he misses the 8? Or did we just agree that a 10 year coach with zero premierships and a spoon gets all the favorable clauses?

 

[Chipmunk]

So we apparently had a contract clause that triggered his extension when we made the top 4 last year. Did the dopes in charge put a clause in when he misses the 8? Or did we just agree that a 10 year coach with zero premierships and a spoon gets all the favorable clauses?

You'd hope there is something in it.

Actually you'd hope it was like most contract with the Australian Government where they can terminate the contract at anytime, for any reason, with zero compensation. We couldn't be that lucky.

 

[JokerEel]

This is why Bellyache is a top coach knows when to have a crack at his players...