It's clearly a rebuilding phase for us; We've had like 8 coaches in 11 seasons since returning to the comp and we've finally got a promising young coach with some credentials on the board!.
Maguire comes to a club which has literally no room to operate under the salary cap so his hands are tied when it comes to player retention and player recruitment.
Maguire can't help the excess of the backending of contracts as we seem to lose more players then we gain especially in recent seasons so depth gets thinner and thinner; Luckily we've made some depth signings which we fit under the salary cap which together the salary stll would of fell short of what Chris Sandow wanted and got from Parramatta and maybe the club made the mistake of re-signing John Sutton before going to Heavy negotiations wit Chris but the way Adam Reynolds has been told to operate by simply provide a fluent and consistet kicking game and play expansive and feed the ball out to the backs without any sort of flashiness in attack and given we have a coach that has been labelled a genius by high opinions and will obviously bring some things he has learnt from Bellamy also will reverse trends we have at the club as an example fitness and conditioning will NOT be a problem in 2012 and it was a massive setback for our chances in 2011.
We've ditched a Cricket coach in the physio to help relieve and smoothen out recovery of heavy contact injures and brought a cracker of guy in Troy Thompson coming from Melbourne Rebels in 2011 and was part of SOO staff up until the 2010 series also so I think generally an improvement on player recovery and player durablity will be seen throughout.
I think the platform are there for a great season for the Rabbitohs; It's certainly a great platform for our inexperienced half combo to play off with talent throughout on the fringes and it's all down to commitment, execution and talking to each other because they will know the toughness of Madge and the slightest form slump could see them be demoted to the bench of further down to NSW Cup; So I think players will be constantly looking at gunning it at 110% capability every game.
It's certainly a great blend of players to have with an average age of 24 with some valuable experience and some very talented youngsters who may see their potential under a set coaching staff that will look to every little detail of anything that is related to on field performance; High hopes for James Roberts and the early shape of big George Burgess is also a very promising sign for him to realise what he has.
I am not one to talk up the Bunnies chances but they're is certainly the playing roster to make a serious go of it next year with GI, King and Merritt to DT, Sam and Issac Luke there is attacking prowess all over; The rest is performance, execution and durability over 80 minutes and the season
