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Eels Next Coach

Who will be Eels Next Coach

  • Hannay

    Votes: 30 29.4%
  • Hollbrook

    Votes: 12 11.8%
  • Ryles

    Votes: 33 32.4%
  • Morris

    Votes: 5 4.9%
  • Cheika

    Votes: 22 21.6%

  • Total voters
    102
  • Poll closed .

Pazza

First Grade
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9,793
Yep that's true.
So what's it all mean?
Bellemy will go down in the top 3 coaches of all time and his assistants have struggled to get success.
Well they are all different personalities who coached teams with different rosters, so we can't really compare them to Belly.
Not every coach gets to coach Smith, Slater, Inglis, Cronk and Munster in a roster.
Belly also by the way could not coach state of origin with any success (9 games, 7 loses)
The law of averages say a Storm assistant will have success as a head coach soon so maybe it will be Ryles.

With Melbourne it goes beyond coach. Everyone apaulds Penriths pathways systems but the Storm have been doing it for 20 years.

Imagine if we still had the same sort of success we had with juniors when cleal was at the club. We could have been a powerhouse.
 

Noise

Coach
Messages
18,175
Yep that's true.
So what's it all mean?
Bellemy will go down in the top 3 coaches of all time and his assistants have struggled to get success.
Well they are all different personalities who coached teams with different rosters, so we can't really compare them to Belly.
Not every coach gets to coach Smith, Slater, Inglis, Cronk and Munster in a roster.
Belly also by the way could not coach state of origin with any success (9 games, 7 loses)
The law of averages say a Storm assistant will have success as a head coach soon so maybe it will be Ryles.
I reckon it means that Bellamy is a very good coach and his assistants can’t replicate his style. If we are relying on the ‘law of averages’ to select our new coach then we are even dumber than I thought.
 

hindy111

Post Whore
Messages
62,875
No, I think if a bunch of deadshits on the internet can see what’s going on, so can the coaches.

As for how quickly their tactics evolve, it is limited by the roster. We play a heavy offloading style because it suits our squad. Our defence collapses when we don’t control the ball because we lack toilers in the pack. Tactics don’t fix that. ‘Tactics’ is the lazy fan’s excuse for every loss, so they can blame one scapegoat and hope everything will be better when he’s sacked.

It’s possible for some players, but really, if this was a problem Bellamy wouldn’t still be at the Storm.

Obviously. Look how the Panthers went from shit to great when the NRL decided to make the game faster during Covid. Shame Cleary wasn’t such an innovator before Covid.

So everyone on internet is a deadshit and has no idea yeah? I reckon some actually do have an idea. That's just my opinion but. Of course some fans also overreact also. I'm just glad the 11yr nightmare is over. BA had to go
 

Eelementary

Post Whore
Messages
57,213
If you want to understand the revolution Michael Maguire is bringing to the Wests Tigers — and why dropping club legends Benji Marshall and Chris Lawrence is just the start of it — you need to go back to the dressing-rooms at Brookvale Oval a few years ago.

Maguire, who was coaching South Sydney, wanted his team to belt the Sea Eagles into the middle of next week. To underline his point, he whipped out a baseball bat and started bashing up the dressing-room.

Swiiiiiing batter, batter, swing!

Manly fired in a bill for the repairs a few days later.

Then there's the story about "roadkill". According to his former players, Maguire would identify an opposition forward who needed to be stopped, and then a photo of the player's head would appear on the walls of the rooms with the word "roadkill" written under it.

The forward pack's job was to run him over. Turn him into roadkill, figuratively speaking of course.

Maguire was apparently so big on imagery there's an unconfirmed story he wanted to bring a boa constrictor into the rooms before one match. Strangle the opposition like a snake crushing a possum before devouring it.

The idea was rejected because, firstly, Sam Burgess was petrified of snakes and, secondly, BECAUSE IT WAS A SNAKE.


f**king lunatic...
 

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
Messages
91,398
Commercially for the club Cheika would be huge.

With his CV and network around the world. He is a household name.

Tbh the biggest decision to make out of all this is, if we do go the Cheika route - who will his assistants be?

If we can get proven/capable assistants we would be silly to pass up on Cheika.
Cheikmate
 

Tmars

Juniors
Messages
101
Trent loses his chance at head coach by first of all picking Asi in the centres and then by not changing Russell to defend into the centres in the first half after Asi was clearly not up to the speed of defence in the centres being constantly burned by Creighton and Tracey.
He would have been better being on the wing in defence.
lumelume would of been a safer choice to start on the wing.
 

hindy111

Post Whore
Messages
62,875
MMM just talking about Parra's coaching situation and Cheika. They reckon we should roll the dice and they made some really good points.
But they are just deadshits like all of us and know nothing so ignore this.

I wonder if they can wire a light?
 

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
Messages
91,398
Trent loses his chance at head coach by first of all picking Asi in the centres and then by not changing Russell to defend into the centres in the first half after Asi was clearly not up to the speed of defence in the centres being constantly burned by Creighton and Tracey.
He would have been better being on the wing in defence.
lumelume would of been a safer choice to start on the wing.
The problem is that alternatives like Harper and Cini played already this weekend.
 

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