Give us the option to find out after 5 years of not making the finals.
I know it's an opinion and everyone's entitled to it, but I feel like you're way off on McFadden. You say 2014 doesn't count. Why? McFadden was the assistant in 2013 and 2014. He knew the players, he knew the systems. He was in as good a position as any first-time or new NRL coach could be. We started well under his guidance then fell away. 2015, same stuff. 2016, potentially exactly the same again. It's basically a 14-team comp with the worst NRL side in history and one that was docked 12 points. Yet we can't make the 8??
Then you go on to say how long did it take Ivan? It took Ivan 1 season, after being an assistant himself. So exactly the same situation. He would've made the finals in his first year if not for Mick Watson's dodgy dealings. Had us in the top 4 the season after, and one win off the GF the year after that. Hardly comparable is it? And in terms of basket cases, what do you reckon was worse - Elliott's side of early 2014 or Tony Kemp's 2005 squad? Can happily answer that for you if you're not sure.
Interesting that you also say Fusi was moved from FB because we all demanded Tui go back there. The coach operates that way does he? He makes decisions based on what the public think? Actually yeah, I believe he does - I think he dropped Ayshford because PR-wise it was a no-lose situation. Found out he couldn't drop Tui that easily.
You know why we say sack the coach sack the coach? Because all four since 2011 (Iro, McClennan, Elliott and McFadden) have been f**king useless. McFadden might've been turfed last year if not for our coaching merry-go-round...not for any show of ability, just because we couldn't sack another one. So yeah we'll keep saying it until a coach is decent. I never once said it about Ivan, he was a genius. Course his detractors say he never won a premiership, but gee, enough wins to play finals in 6/7 years, a GF then onto another club where he took them from spoon rabble to 5 mins off a GF? That's a coach. And he's available, he said so this week. Maybe not to us but someone is going to get him.