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Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 48.0%

  • No

    Votes: 118 52.0%
  • Total voters
    227
T.S Quint

T.S Quint

Coach
Messages
14,473
I have not changed my vote from 'yes' as of yet.
I am not opposed to changing the coach. I haven't been for the last couple of years. My only issue is that BA has done a decent job with the Eels in his time here. Not fantastic, but then not completely awful either. He has won more than half his games whilst in charge of the team (71 wins, 43 losses over the last 5 years which is more than decent).

If we went with a change, then so be it. I will hope for the best and will cross my fingers it will be the catalyst for our charge to a 5th (and hopefully more) premiership.

My biggest oncern is that we have a lot to lose if we make the wrong decision. We aren't the Tigers, Bulldogs, Titans or Warriors (in previous years) who have been stuck down towards the bottom for years and need to do something to drag themselves up higher. We have been in a good position the last half a decade, even including this season where we were still a chance to play Finals until a couple of weeks from the end of the season.

We have a long way to fall. I afraid that it might happen. I don't want to go back to the days of 2011-2013 when we only won 5-6 games a year. I don't want to become like the Tigers only winning 3 games a year.

I know we need to improve, but I guess I'm just not much of a risk taker.
 
Noise

Noise

Coach
Messages
18,156
T.S Quint said:
I have not changed my vote from 'yes' as of yet.
I am not opposed to changing the coach. I haven't been for the last couple of years. My only issue is that BA has done a decent job with the Eels in his time here. Not fantastic, but then not completely awful either. He has won more than half his games whilst in charge of the team (71 wins, 43 losses over the last 5 years which is more than decent).

If we went with a change, then so be it. I will hope for the best and will cross my fingers it will be the catalyst for our charge to a 5th (and hopefully more) premiership.

My biggest oncern is that we have a lot to lose if we make the wrong decision. We aren't the Tigers, Bulldogs, Titans or Warriors (in previous years) who have been stuck down towards the bottom for years and need to do something to drag themselves up higher. We have been in a good position the last half a decade, even including this season where we were still a chance to play Finals until a couple of weeks from the end of the season.

We have a long way to fall. I afraid that it might happen. I don't want to go back to the days of 2011-2013 when we only won 5-6 games a year. I don't want to become like the Tigers only winning 3 games a year.

I know we need to improve, but I guess I'm just not much of a risk taker.
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There are numerous examples of teams that have changed coaches with similar or even greater success than us in recent years (BAs decade)and haven’t dropped to the Tigers / Dogs level of shite:
Souths
Sharks
Cowboys
Warriors
In fact in the last 10 years, 3 of those teams won premierships , 2 have been in multiple grand finals and all 4 are currently ahead of us on the ladder. They all won a premiership within 2-5 years after their coach was appointed. 3 of those teams have finished top 4 with their new coach, and likely the Warriors will make it 4 in a few weeks.
10 years without success results in a coach getting stale. When was the last time a coach won a comp with a club after having no success with that club for 10 years?
 
emjaycee

emjaycee

Coach
Messages
13,812
I reckon the Board have had and are continuing to have similar discussions and there are risk averse people on there like in every organisation.
 
King-Gutho94

King-Gutho94

Coach
Messages
15,230
emjaycee said:
I reckon the Board have had and are continuing to have similar discussions and there are risk averse people on there like in every organisation.
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We seem like a risk averse and reactive club in general atm that lacks a ruthless edge.

We don't take too many risks in the player market these days.

When other teams mock us like the storm or panthers we seem to cop it on the chin without standing up for ourselves in fear of hurting anyone.

We rarely take a charge to the judiciary and when we do it's probably the wrong one.

BA has us playing a style in defence to not slow the play the ball down & push the refs that the great teams do.
 
Noise

Noise

Coach
Messages
18,156
Noise said:
. When was the last time a coach won a comp with a club after having no success with that club for 10 years?
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If anyone knows the answer to this I’d be interested to hear? And if it hasn’t happened in rugby league, how often has it occurred in any professional sport?
 
hineyrulz

hineyrulz

Post Whore
Messages
153,467
King-Gutho94 said:
We seem like a risk averse and reactive club in general atm that lacks a ruthless edge.

We don't take too many risks in the player market these days.

When other teams mock us like the storm or panthers we seem to cop it on the chin without standing up for ourselves in fear of hurting anyone.

We rarely take a charge to the judiciary and when we do it's probably the wrong one.

BA has us playing a style in defence to not slow the play the ball down & push the refs that the great teams do.
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Sharks, Roosters, the Storm and of course the Panthers have all won a comp by slowing down the play the ball in the ruck. Super coach teaches the opposite no wonder our defence has sucked under him for a decade.
 
yy_cheng

yy_cheng

Coach
Messages
18,734
T.S Quint said:
I have not changed my vote from 'yes' as of yet.
I am not opposed to changing the coach. I haven't been for the last couple of years. My only issue is that BA has done a decent job with the Eels in his time here. Not fantastic, but then not completely awful either. He has won more than half his games whilst in charge of the team (71 wins, 43 losses over the last 5 years which is more than decent).

If we went with a change, then so be it. I will hope for the best and will cross my fingers it will be the catalyst for our charge to a 5th (and hopefully more) premiership.

My biggest oncern is that we have a lot to lose if we make the wrong decision. We aren't the Tigers, Bulldogs, Titans or Warriors (in previous years) who have been stuck down towards the bottom for years and need to do something to drag themselves up higher. We have been in a good position the last half a decade, even including this season where we were still a chance to play Finals until a couple of weeks from the end of the season.

We have a long way to fall. I afraid that it might happen. I don't want to go back to the days of 2011-2013 when we only won 5-6 games a year. I don't want to become like the Tigers only winning 3 games a year.

I know we need to improve, but I guess I'm just not much of a risk taker.
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yeah, the days with Fawcett and Scotty Mahon and Crnkovich.

The thing for me is I dont thnk BA is changing with the times coz he seems stubborn and void of risk taking so just stick to this power game and effort.

Over time, we could really fall behind and those Crnkovich days will be back coz we have a majority of 30+ year old players especially forwards
 
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