Hagan will know his fate sooner rather than later, says Parramatta boss

[bartman]

I'd love to see Dean Pay in some coaching capacity at the eels.

I believe Dean Pay just recently took up an offer to be assistant coach next year at Catalans Dragons in Super League.

 

[stuke]

yeah, i read that too.

surely if they can entice him to France we could have got hold of him at some time in the past 3-4 years and got him involved in our club once again!

 

[El Diablo]

an excerpt from here http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24284564-2722,00.html

Already there has been speculation about the future of Parramatta's Michael Hagan and Penrith's Matthew Elliott, given their clubs have limped out of finals contention.

Despite having another year to run on his contract, Elliott is understood to be under the most pressure to keep his job past this season.

Several coaches, including St Helens' Daniel Anderson, North Queensland assistant Ian Millward, Castleford's Terry Matterson and Folkes have been linked to Penrith.

Hagan has been told by club management that a decision on whether he is retained past 2009 will be made in the off season.

"(Eels chief executive) Denis (Fitzgerald) has pointed out the process and I'm pretty comfortable with that to be honest," Hagan said.

"No one wants to underperform but I think there have been some reasons for that without making excuses."

like sh*t defence?

soft forward pack?

no cohesion after 25 rounds?

poor coaching?

enlighten me you gumby!

 

[bartman]

They weren't playing for each other. And only came up with the right talk about that at the end of the season when it was too late, and it only lasted a couple of games.

If they made a mystery-style telemovie out of a situation like ours this season, you'd put money on the detective finding out that one of the forwards was getting amongst it with a teammates wife, or something like that.

 

[Fathead]

Dont worry - its all part of the 'master plan'
Hages will tell the board that " we are pretty close to where we want to be right now"

 

[Twizzle]

I'd love to see Dean Pay in some coaching capacity at the eels.

I'd like to see a forward pack for him to coach

 

[Delboy]

Twiz, at the end of the day Hagan has had 2 years to mould the so called forward pack. What have we got, more of the same and watched other lesser clubs go past us.

His inabilty to move forward and structure the side to compete in the current competition, and the lack of drive and togetherness from the side, points to a rather ordinary coaching style. What you see is what you get, the press conferences and the lack lustre presence he provides has permeated the whole club. Time to move on, what we have is of the coaches creation, end of story

 

[forward pass]

If Fitzy is retrenching long time staffers then there is no chance in hell he is going to pay two coaches wages next year - we are stuck with Hages unfortunately.

 

[The EELiminator]

They weren't playing for each other. And only came up with the right talk about that at the end of the season when it was too late, and it only lasted a couple of games.

If they made a mystery-style telemovie out of a situation like ours this season, you'd put money on the detective finding out that one of the forwards was getting amongst it with a teammates wife, or something like that.

yeah i half suspect something is going on behind the scenes as well its blatantly obvious the players dont have their minds on football so what else are they all preoccupied with?

 

[big boppa eel]

yeah, i read that too.

surely if they can entice him to France we could have got hold of him at some time in the past 3-4 years and got him involved in our club once again!

We obviously prefer ex players like Fairleigh as oppossed to our own, how long since weve seem an ex Eel of any kind involved with our club in a coaching capacity, Ron Hilditch?

 

[Twizzle]

the Crow ?

 

[El Diablo]

Jason Taylor

 

[bartman]

Hages will tell the board that " we are pretty close to where we want to be right now"

And if any members of the Board buy that dribble, then they should never ever be voted back into their positions of responsibility again...

 

[salvy71]

well i read Hagan wanted it that way in his contract. i have no idea why they areed to do it that way for him though

Cos Fitzgerald and all other management at Parramatta are dopes ?

 

[Smartman]

No point blaming Hages.

He has come from successful clubs and ends up broken at the eels.

Maybe the whole club should look in the mirror first and foremost

 

[Swiftstylez]

No point blaming Hages.

He has come from successful clubs and ends up broken at the eels.

Maybe the whole club should look in the mirror first and foremost

THANKYOU MATE. Those are wise words.

There is nothing wrong with Hagan.

 

[The EELiminator]

THANKYOU MATE. Those are wise words.

There is nothing wrong with Hagan.

you must be really desperate if you are clinging to smartman for support :lol:
im not sure hagan is a bad coach but he is not the hard nosed my way or the highway coach that parra needs right now to rip into these soft nuffies and turn them into a lean mean playing unit

 

[jk13]

swifty, i liked u in a bizaar kind of way, but agreeing with dumdog is like sleeping with ya mother in law, aka grandma hagan

 

[salvy71]

No point blaming Hages.

He has come from successful clubs and ends up broken at the eels.

Maybe the whole club should look in the mirror first and foremost

Take Andrew Johns out of that Newcastle team and they couldn't win anything , the success there was mainly through having one of the all time great players in the club ......as well as half a NSW state of origin team from the days of Malcom Reilly and Warren Ryan.......