Opinion Is Ricky Stuart the most overrated coach ever?

[Incorrect]

Mentioned something along the lines of "young players making mistakes, need to learn" or words to that effect.

Lucky he's got a 7 year deal, his 3rd season there and they are still not learning yet. Another 4 years and I'm sure those young blokes, who will then be old blokes, will have learnt from mistakes.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

^^ Well that will be true if the form of likes of Jarrod Croker and Edrick Lee is anything to go by. These guys are playing well below what you would expect from them on prior evidence.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Lucky he's got a 7 year deal, his 3rd season there and they are still not learning yet.

He has a what now?

 

[El Diablo]

i'm pretty sure he got a 3 year deal and they extended that by 2 years just before the season started

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.raiders.com.au/news/2015/12/16/ricky_stuart_extends.html

 

[Walt Flanigan]

i'm pretty sure he got a 3 year deal and they extended that by 2 years just before the season started

That's correct. Not sure where people keep pulling this 7 year crap from.

 

[Spot On]

Yeah, like the players the Raiders have paid 40 million over 2 years for.;-)

 

[Incorrect]

That's correct. Not sure where people keep pulling this 7 year crap from.

5, 7, 10, whatever.... They're all too long a deal to be given to Ricky Stuart IMO...

 

[Avenger]

Yep. Suck shit Ricky.

 

[RedVDragon]

I think out of the current crop of NRL coaches the worst of them is Nathan Brown. The worst ever is Steve Price.

Sticky is a good coach.

 

[THE CHAMP]

I think out of the current crop of NRL coaches the worst of them is Nathan Brown. The worst ever is Steve Price.

Sticky is a good coach.

Exactly his record speaks for itself............

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I think out of the current crop of NRL coaches the worst of them is Nathan Brown. The worst ever is Steve Price.

Sticky is a good coach.

Nathan Brown has done well to get any sort of results out the rabble he's coaching. You reckon Sticky would be going any better?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Nathan Brown has done well to get any sort of results out the rabble he's coaching. You reckon Sticky would be going any better?

No - evidence, eels 2013

 

[herbert henry1908]

Doubt there's enough overhead projectors in Newcastle for sticky to clear out all the dead wood there...

 

[Paullyboy]

Every single game this year the forwards have been absolutely steamrolled. Even the games we won, our forwards were dominated (in defence). If you’re playing against the Raiders and can’t make it to within 30m of our tryline on every set, you’re doing something wrong.

The other massive problem we have is that every other team has worked out that they can just hold the Raiders down indefinitely in the play the ball. They are willing to cop the penalty because if you do it on the right tackle it doesn’t matter. Plus they also know that referees will eventually start giving square ups later on (no matter what) and they’ll benefit from them.

 

[Incorrect]

Every single game this year the forwards have been absolutely steamrolled. Even the games we won, our forwards were dominated (in defence). If you?re playing against the Raiders and can?t make it to within 30m of our tryline on every set, you?re doing something wrong.

The other massive problem we have is that every other team has worked out that they can just hold the Raiders down indefinitely in the play the ball. They are willing to cop the penalty because if you do it on the right tackle it doesn?t matter. Plus they also know that referees will eventually start giving square ups later on (no matter what) and they?ll benefit from them.

Dean Pay needs to relieved of his defensive coach duties. Hasn't done anything for the Raiders or the Eels in that role since 2013

It also serves the purpose of making it look like the Raiders woes are someone else's fault, not Ricky's.... will buy him some more time!

 

[Glen]

Congrats to Ricky for entering the 300 games coaching club with a belting on his home ground and the worst winning percentage of all 15 of the 300 game coaches

 

[bileduct]

^^ Well that will be true if the form of likes of Jarrod Croker and Edrick Lee is anything to go by. These guys are playing well below what you would expect from them on prior evidence.

No, they're actually not. Lee has been hot and cold the entire time and teams figured out how to nullify Croker's few attacking tricks years ago. That's why you always see him playing for penalties instead of genuinely trying to contest the ball on cross-field kicks, etc..

 

[Mogsheen Jadwat]

I dunno what's up with Lee, ha has everything in his locker to be a top class winger. What's his problem?

 

[Paullyboy]

I dunno what's up with Lee, ha has everything in his locker to be a top class winger. What's his problem?

He became a father the night before the game this week, he was clearly disinterested a couple of times early in the game and I think you could probably blame that.

Having said that, he has had his fair share of very quiet games. I'm far from ready to move on from him, but at this stage he's a real risk of being another of those players who doesn't kick on at the top level.