Flanno's New Signings

[maestro1]

If he fails to make the 8, which is barely a pass mark, he should be given the extension wrench back to plumbing.
There is NO more excuses.
He has recruited his team,it’s now time for RESULTS
He is the HEAD coach and the buck now stops with him.
We need to support the team but only RESULTS bring extensions.
Don’t see Penrith supporters or Storm supporters or Roosters supporters making excuses every year.Their coaches got results and won the competition after their first year.
It’s time we demand the same success.I’m sick of our supporters on here accepting mediocrity and making excuses that we are getting good results given the circumstances and yarda yarda.That is all BULLSHIT.
Fancy giving someone an extension based on where we landed in 24 or after a few rounds of 25.
‘We wait till the end of the year and see where we land.
If he gets courted by another team and leaves then he obviously doesn’t believe in what he is doing here,so why waste time with him.He needs to set himself the goal of top 4 minimum and go from there.
The ball is now well and truly in Flanos court on the length of tenure he will be coaching us.
Good leaders set the bar high for themselves and he should do the same and we should DEMAND no less.

I'm not suggesting we can't make the top 4, but top 8 is definitely a good result. Considering what our last 3 or 4 coaches didn't achieve. 14 years of misery. His summer recruitment alone deserves an extension. If the club fails to lock him in and we lose him, it will be the biggest bungle this club has made.

 

[possm]

Dave ,
I believe we are still in the"hunt" , woops sorry , play on words , for Matt Lodge ..
Has a pro fight in the coming weeks and have a feeling Flanno will step things up once that is done.
Hes not keen on players taking pro fights aka Lomax
Bunnies are keen , but also going hard for Bateman , depending on how much Tigers will chip in
Probably the pick of whats left

Is Bateman a prop or a lock? We need some hard nose action in the middle?

Should I adjust my team line-up again?

1. Gutherson
2. Lawson
3. Homes
4. Suli
5. Sloan
6. Atkinson
7. Flannagan
8. Molo
9. Cook
10. T Couchman
11. Leilau
12. Su'A
13. Bateman

14. Liddle
15. De Belin
16. Fifita
17. Sele

 

[redVinme]

Not sure what strides you are referring to?
We finished 11th with a pd of minus over 100
The strides will be determined by what results we get on the field this season
Are you suggesting you don’t think we will make the 8?
Remember the 8 is simply saying we are only better than half the comp.
So if we can’t even expect to make the 8 how crap is that and we have to give some one an extension.
Lets get serious,results bring rewards and only results.
As I said the Roosters Panthers and Storm coaches won the comp or made the grand final in their second year.
Thats the type of success we should demand.
Expecting a little bit better and measuring expected success against the previous coaches results is a sad state of our mental scaring that has left us with such low expectations.
I believe Flano himself should consider anything less than a top 6 to get a home semi as a complete failure.
That’s the minimum standards that should be expected or move on.

You can demand whatever you like but trying to make others hold someone to the same frankly strange standard you have is just weird.

You lack the capacity to understand context but that doesn't mean others should.

 

[Hound of Dracula]

You can demand whatever you like but trying to make others hold someone to the same frankly strange standard you have is just weird.

You lack the capacity to understand context but that doesn't mean others should.

He understands 'context'
His motivation is Flanno hate, and has been since day 1.

The stench of his hypocrisy can only be removed by use of the ignore function

 

[Jubilee]

Is Bateman a prop or a lock? We need some hard nose action in the middle?

Should I adjust my team line-up again?

1. Gutherson
2. Lawson
3. Homes
4. Suli
5. Sloan
6. Atkinson
7. Flannagan
8. Molo
9. Cook
10. T Couchman
11. Leilau
12. Su'A
13. Bateman

14. Liddle
15. De Belin
16. Fifita
17. Sele

Just looking at west's dramas with him, I am not sure that Bateman is a personality type we need.

 

[Hound of Dracula]

Is Bateman a prop or a lock? We need some hard nose action in the middle?

Should I adjust my team line-up again?

1. Gutherson
2. Lawson
3. Homes
4. Suli
5. Sloan
6. Atkinson
7. Flannagan
8. Molo
9. Cook
10. T Couchman
11. Leilau
12. Su'A
13. Bateman

14. Liddle
15. De Belin
16. Fifita
17. Sele

Bateman?
Noooooooooo!

 

[Gareth67]

Is Bateman a prop or a lock? We need some hard nose action in the middle?

Should I adjust my team line-up again?

1. Gutherson
2. Lawson
3. Homes
4. Suli
5. Sloan
6. Atkinson
7. Flannagan
8. Molo
9. Cook
10. T Couchman
11. Leilau
12. Su'A
13. Bateman

14. Liddle
15. De Belin
16. Fifita
17. Sele

I am sure that he as well as Lodge are off to the wabbits possum - er , or is that they are off to the possums wabbit - er whatever , you know what I mean .

 

[KogarahWarrior]

Not sure what strides you are referring to?
We finished 11th with a pd of minus over 100
The strides will be determined by what results we get on the field this season
Are you suggesting you don’t think we will make the 8?
Remember the 8 is simply saying we are only better than half the comp.
So if we can’t even expect to make the 8 how crap is that and we have to give some one an extension.
Lets get serious,results bring rewards and only results.
As I said the Roosters Panthers and Storm coaches won the comp or made the grand final in their second year.
Thats the type of success we should demand.
Expecting a little bit better and measuring expected success against the previous coaches results is a sad state of our mental scaring that has left us with such low expectations.
I believe Flano himself should consider anything less than a top 6 to get a home semi as a complete failure.
That’s the minimum standards that should be expected or move on.

If you want to compare the Roosters, Panthers and Storm, let's compare.

Roosters: Robbo inherited a team with Maloney, Pearce, Minichiello, JWH, Cordner, Jennings, SKD, Guerra (at the time), and plenty more. There was not one weak spot in that 2013 team.

Panthers: Ivan inherited arguably the best batch of young players in the comp on the basis of talent and potential. Cleary, Luai, Crichton, To'o, Leniu, and JFH, while also having multiple experienced players in Mansour, Maloney and Tamou. And yet in their first season they went worse than us with what I'll be honest in saying was a better roster than what we actually had this year, let's be real with the cavalry we had.

Storm: Bellamy came in, and guess who else did? Cronk, Slater, and Smith. They also had a very experienced team otherwise. Don't get me wrong, I believe Bellyache is probably the best coach of all time, but we can't expect that level of success so soon.

The reason being that at all three of these clubs, their board has been shown to be shrewd, competent, and invested in the club, and these coaches have had full support during their entire tenures.

On the other hand, we have Flanno, who was almost not in the job thanks to Craig Young, Mr. Moral Virtues, who supported a convicted paedophile, while we also have Piggott, Doust, and all the other stupid old boys and nepo babies such as Haran that have been wrecking the joint for years, forcing Flanno to overwork himself in every field. On top of that, our squad in 2024 was arguably the worst in the comp bar a few players. Flanno seriously overachieved this year.

Don't get me wrong though; I totally get where you're coming from. You want success at the Dragons. I want it too! And it'll definitely come if we have Flanno on board with us moving ahead. But he inherited a shambles, and we're on the way up for the first time in over a decade.

 

[Jubilee]

If you want to compare the Roosters, Panthers and Storm, let's compare.

Roosters: Robbo inherited a team with Maloney, Pearce, Minichiello, JWH, Cordner, Jennings, SKD, Guerra (at the time), and plenty more. There was not one weak spot in that 2013 team.

Panthers: Ivan inherited arguably the best batch of young players in the comp on the basis of talent and potential. Cleary, Luai, Crichton, To'o, Leniu, and JFH, while also having multiple experienced players in Mansour, Maloney and Tamou. And yet in their first season they went worse than us with what I'll be honest in saying was a better roster than what we actually had this year, let's be real with the cavalry we had.

Storm: Bellamy came in, and guess who else did? Cronk, Slater, and Smith. They also had a very experienced team otherwise. Don't get me wrong, I believe Bellyache is probably the best coach of all time, but we can't expect that level of success so soon.

The reason being that at all three of these clubs, their board has been shown to be shrewd, competent, and invested in the club, and these coaches have had full support during their entire tenures.

On the other hand, we have Flanno, who was almost not in the job thanks to Craig Young, Mr. Moral Virtues, who supported a convicted paedophile, while we also have Piggott, Doust, and all the other stupid old boys and nepo babies such as Haran that have been wrecking the joint for years, forcing Flanno to overwork himself in every field. On top of that, our squad in 2024 was arguably the worst in the comp bar a few players. Flanno seriously overachieved this year.

Don't get me wrong though; I totally get where you're coming from. You want success at the Dragons. I want it too! And it'll definitely come if we have Flanno on board with us moving ahead. But he inherited a shambles, and we're on the way up for the first time in over a decade.

Melbourne are awesome talent-pickers. There are salary cap shenanigans ofc but even so the way that they can spot talent and release good-but-not-quite-good-enough youngsters is amazing.

 

[jak]

I am sure that he as well as Lodge are off to the wabbits possum - er , is that they are off to the possum wabbit - er whatever , you know what I mean .

meds man meds

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Is Bateman a prop or a lock? We need some hard nose action in the middle?

Should I adjust my team line-up again?

1. Gutherson
2. Lawson
3. Homes
4. Suli
5. Sloan
6. Atkinson
7. Flannagan
8. Molo
9. Cook
10. T Couchman
11. Leilau
12. Su'A
13. Bateman

14. Liddle
15. De Belin
16. Fifita
17. Sele

I wake up every day and thank Christ you are not the coach mate.

 

[WepnutV]

Not sure what strides you are referring to?
We finished 11th with a pd of minus over 100
The strides will be determined by what results we get on the field this season
Are you suggesting you don’t think we will make the 8?
Remember the 8 is simply saying we are only better than half the comp.
So if we can’t even expect to make the 8 how crap is that and we have to give some one an extension.
Lets get serious,results bring rewards and only results.
As I said the Roosters Panthers and Storm coaches won the comp or made the grand final in their second year.
Thats the type of success we should demand.
Expecting a little bit better and measuring expected success against the previous coaches results is a sad state of our mental scaring that has left us with such low expectations.
I believe Flano himself should consider anything less than a top 6 to get a home semi as a complete failure.
That’s the minimum standards that should be expected or move on.

Flanno is doing a great job so far. You should be praising him

 

[Phantom V]

I wake up every day and thank Christ you are not the coach mate.

Why be a dickhead? Just keep it to yourself

 

[Draginzaaar]

Is Bateman a prop or a lock? We need some hard nose action in the middle?

Should I adjust my team line-up again?

1. Gutherson
2. Lawson
3. Homes
4. Suli
5. Sloan
6. Atkinson
7. Flannagan
8. Molo
9. Cook
10. T Couchman
11. Leilau
12. Su'A
13. Bateman

14. Liddle
15. De Belin
16. Fifita
17. Sele

Atkinson is not coming until 2026. Where is Ilias?

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Why be a dickhead? Just keep it to yourself

Fair enough mate

Put me hand up.

 

[Old Timer]

Not sure what strides you are referring to?
We finished 11th with a pd of minus over 100
The strides will be determined by what results we get on the field this season
Are you suggesting you don’t think we will make the 8?
Remember the 8 is simply saying we are only better than half the comp.
So if we can’t even expect to make the 8 how crap is that and we have to give some one an extension.
Lets get serious,results bring rewards and only results.
As I said the Roosters Panthers and Storm coaches won the comp or made the grand final in their second year.
Thats the type of success we should demand.
Expecting a little bit better and measuring expected success against the previous coaches results is a sad state of our mental scaring that has left us with such low expectations.
I believe Flano himself should consider anything less than a top 6 to get a home semi as a complete failure.
That’s the minimum standards that should be expected or move on.

Heaven forbid you mention accountability.

Evidently according to some experts this best coach needs to have more time than other best coaches and his disciples need to have excuses at the ready just in case.

I just don’t quite get how a premiership winning coach should get an extension for a similar result that posters said a dinosaur coach should be sacked for.

Now if he has us rocketing along at the 75% mark of the new season then by all means I understand the need to open the discussion and secure his extension.

I’ve heard all the yelling in this place about players “who owed the club” and “needed to repay the clubs faith in them” etc and all the “he’s a scummy prick for not staying criticisms” etc and the “general vitriol” against any decent player that leaves even for personal reasons but evidently S F is none of those things if he decides to take up an option elsewhere and it’s all on us for not extending him purely on potential.

If ever there was someone who owed a debt of gratitude to this club SF would be extremely high on the list and if he was take up an option elsewhere this early in his contract with us then should be called the merkin of all merkins.

I hope that he is a man that truly knows the level of support our club has given him and that he just gets on with his job, proves his ability and then negotiates in good faith.

 

[blacksafake]

If you want to compare the Roosters, Panthers and Storm, let's compare.

Roosters: Robbo inherited a team with Maloney, Pearce, Minichiello, JWH, Cordner, Jennings, SKD, Guerra (at the time), and plenty more. There was not one weak spot in that 2013 team.

Panthers: Ivan inherited arguably the best batch of young players in the comp on the basis of talent and potential. Cleary, Luai, Crichton, To'o, Leniu, and JFH, while also having multiple experienced players in Mansour, Maloney and Tamou. And yet in their first season they went worse than us with what I'll be honest in saying was a better roster than what we actually had this year, let's be real with the cavalry we had.

Storm: Bellamy came in, and guess who else did? Cronk, Slater, and Smith. They also had a very experienced team otherwise. Don't get me wrong, I believe Bellyache is probably the best coach of all time, but we can't expect that level of success so soon.

The reason being that at all three of these clubs, their board has been shown to be shrewd, competent, and invested in the club, and these coaches have had full support during their entire tenures.

On the other hand, we have Flanno, who was almost not in the job thanks to Craig Young, Mr. Moral Virtues, who supported a convicted paedophile, while we also have Piggott, Doust, and all the other stupid old boys and nepo babies such as Haran that have been wrecking the joint for years, forcing Flanno to overwork himself in every field. On top of that, our squad in 2024 was arguably the worst in the comp bar a few players. Flanno seriously overachieved this year.

Don't get me wrong though; I totally get where you're coming from. You want success at the Dragons. I want it too! And it'll definitely come if we have Flanno on board with us moving ahead. But he inherited a shambles, and we're on the way up for the first time in over a decade.

Check mate

 

[possm]

I am sure that he as well as Lodge are off to the wabbits possum - er , is that they are off to the possum wabbit - er whatever , you know what I mean .

If you are correct, that is a shame and a little sad. I really believe that we could have a great team if we could land a alpha prop for 2025.

So I hope and pray that Thompson signs with us.

 

[Gareth67]

meds man meds

You must know how easily confused I get , meds or no meds . Besides the doc told me it was merely another phase of the life cycle .

 

[Gareth67]

If you are correct, that is a shame and a little sad. I really believe that we could have a great team if we could land a alpha prop for 2025.

So I hope and pray that Thompson signs with us.

Now that Flanagan has all but secured the players that he was after for the Dragon backline he will be free to concentrate on the forwards .

Perhaps not this season - unless there is a castoff from another club due to salary cap restraints , but most certainly during the next off-season poss.