This was what Hindy was saying last night.
Jarryd Hayne NRL: Eels, Titans form, Nathan Hindmarsh’s brutal assessment on Matty Johns show
NRL Premiership
Who to blame: Hayne or Henry?
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IT’S the most brutal, damning critique of Jarryd Hayne yet.
The Late Show with Matty Johns crew have carved up the superstar on all fronts, as a cold war with Neil Henry rolls on amid his poor form at the Titans.
Matty, Nathan Hindmarsh, Gorden Tallis, Brett Finch and Paul Kent all weighed in on Hayne. Matty said Hayne had brought a rising Gold Coast team undone and been a poor role model to young players. Tallis said the $1.2 million per season star was immature and not having a go.
His former Eels captain Hindmarsh was most damning of all. The club legend said that Hayne often had game days where he took no interest in playing; that he had not responded to years of efforts from senior players to make him more consistent; and that he may have been responsible, as Parramatta’s flaky superstar, for a long line of Eels coaching casualties.
HAYNE vs HENRY
Segment host Kent says the current Hayne-Henry furore is exactly as it seems: The pair do not get on. Matty and Gordy had their say.
Gordy: “When you hear that all the players don’t have a problem with Neil and all the players don’t have a problem with Jarryd, it’s probably Jarryd and Neil...”
Kent: “There’s no doubt they’ve got a problem with each other.”
Gordy: “So those two need to work it out. The club’s bigger than any individual and if Neil’s liked by every other player and Jarryd’s got [a problem] ... I don’t know if Jarryd likes being told what to do. No one likes being told what to do but I think Jarryd needs to grow up.”
Matty: “What we saw last year under Neil Henry, Neil Henry has proved himself over a time that he can coach. And last year, they were a side - people were saying, ‘Who’s going to come last, Newcastle or the Gold Coast?’ They were incredible, what they did, to get in the finals was such a great coaching performance. Jarryd has arrived, he’s thrown them off-kilter. He has thrown them off kilter.”
Jarryd Hayne and Neil Henry at his Titans unveiling.Source: News Corp Australia
EELS COACH KILLER
Hindmarsh suggested that Hayne had a poor history with keeping his coaches in a job. He pointed out what happened while the superstar was at Parramatta - and what’s happened at the Eels since, with current coach Brad Arthur cemented in his role.
Hindy: “You look at the coaches. This might just be a coincidence. 2006, when Haynesy started - Jason Taylor, interim coach. 2007-08 was [Michael] Hagan - gone. 2008-09, [Daniel] Anderson (axed 2010). 2010-11, Steve Kearney - gone. Ricky Stuart was ‘13 (quit for Raiders coaching job). And BA [Brad Arthur] was there ‘14 and Haynesy seems to have gone (left for NFL) - and BA’s the only coach that’s still there.”
Foxsports.com.au understands that Arthur was not interested in Hayne returning to the club for next season, after lukewarm interest last year.
Nathan Hindmarsh and Jarryd Hayne before the 2009 grand final.Source: News Limited
SLACK ATTITUDE, HINDY’S LAMENT
Hindmarsh said that Hayne had days where he simply didn’t want to play. He and other senior teammates were never able to break his mood swings, with his outrageous 2009 Dally M season a mysterious outlier, before he finally returned to peak form five years later.
Hindy: “I’ve seen efforts like that before, I’ve played with him. You know, this is really what’s so frustrating about Jarryd Hayne, the player. He’s got so much ability but there’s weeks where he just won’t bring it out to play, and there’s weeks were you can absolutely flat-out know that he doesn’t want to play the game of rugby league on that day.”
Gordy: “So how do you get the best out of him?”
Hindy: “I tried for years and there was other senior players in the group that tried for years to get the best out of him. I don’t know what happened in 2009.”
Finchy: “Do you think that 12-week period, where he was in possibly the greatest form of any player...”
Gordy: “It’s the greatest run in our game.”
Finchy: “...Do you think that’s been worse for him, because since then, everyone expects him to play like that every week and it’s hindered him with expectations?”
Hindy: “2009 was a great year for him. 2010, ‘11, ‘12, probably ‘13 weren’t that good, 2014, comes out Dally M player of the year again.”
Matty: “That’s a long dry spell.”
Hindy: “It is, and it’s inconsistency. If you look at your top players like Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk... [that doesn’t happen].”
POOR ROLE MODEL
Both Matty and Gordy said Hayne had proven a letdown to his Gold Coast teammates, especially the young players. Hindmarsh could only laugh from experience at one example.
Matty: “The most damning, the most handicapping thing for the Titans is that, when he arrived at the Titans, there’s so many of those young blokes - they would have been idolising him. he would have been their hero. And I’m sorry, the effort’s just not good enough.
Gordy: “He’d be one of those guys that you’d look at when they’re pulling up their socks and going, ‘I’m playing with Jarryd Hayne’. I would even think that. ‘I’m playing with Jarryd Hayne’. So when the ball goes to him, you’d be looking - and you don’t have to make a break every time and some days you do your job better than others - but you’d expect him to really rip in and have a go.”
Hindy: “You want to have a go. You don’t have to be a game-winner every game, you can have a bad game - it’s all right to have a bad game. But as long as you’re having a crack.”
(Later) Kent: “There are times when the Titans are playing football this year, they’re rucking out of the tough stuff, and he goes down and does up his boots.”
Hindy (laughing): “Yeah! I know. I’ve seen that.”
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