Opinion Is Ricky Stuart the most overrated coach ever?

[BadnMean]

Yep. It's ouch. The tension showing in the pressers is excruciating.

 

[nick87]

In fairness, the team is going through a horrific injury run right now.
Between injury and rep duty, we'll have 1/3rd of our entire FG squad unavailable this week, and the injuries have unfortunately come to guys like Baeteman, Raps, Beej, Tapine, Hodgson... i mean that is arguably 5 of our best 6-7 players

This week we'll be without JB, Rapana, BJ, Hodgson, Wighton, Cotric and Papalii... that's probably somewhere in the realm of 40-50% of our cap and the best players in the team, and impact performers in every level... hard to win games under these circumstances.

 

[Mr. Snrub]

In fairness, the team is going through a horrific injury run right now.
Between injury and rep duty, we'll have 1/3rd of our entire FG squad unavailable this week, and the injuries have unfortunately come to guys like Baeteman, Raps, Beej, Tapine, Hodgson... i mean that is arguably 5 of our best 6-7 players

This week we'll be without JB, Rapana, BJ, Hodgson, Wighton, Cotric and Papalii... that's probably somewhere in the realm of 40-50% of our cap and the best players in the team, and impact performers in every level... hard to win games under these circumstances.

We can never have nice things down in Canberra.

 

[The Enforcer]

Need more rep players.

 

[nick87]

Need more rep players.

He's got plenty now. Rapana*, Cotric*, Wighton*, Papalii*, Hodgson*, Whitehead, Bateman*, Tapine and soon Sutton will rep ENG, and George Williams is on the way.

That's 9 rep players, and 10 next year... But when a large portion of them are on the shelf thanks to injuries, it's tough.
Find me any team in the league, and then take our their best winger, their best centre, their best front rower, their starting hooker, their top 2 back rowers and let's find out how good they are.

 

[Drew-Sta]

He's got plenty now. Rapana*, Cotric*, Wighton*, Papalii*, Hodgson*, Whitehead, Bateman*, Tapine and soon Sutton will rep ENG, and George Williams is on the way.

That's 9 rep players, and 10 next year... But when a large portion of them are on the shelf thanks to injuries, it's tough.
Find me any team in the league, and then take our their best winger, their best centre, their best front rower, their starting hooker, their top 2 back rowers and let's find out how good they are.

Still doing miles better than Saints...

 

[AlwaysGreen]

We went 3 or so seasons without many injuries and were poor, what this current injury toll does is give the angry ant an excuse .

 

[BadnMean]

He's got plenty now. Rapana*, Cotric*, Wighton*, Papalii*, Hodgson*, Whitehead, Bateman*, Tapine and soon Sutton will rep ENG, and George Williams is on the way.

That's 9 rep players, and 10 next year... But when a large portion of them are on the shelf thanks to injuries, it's tough.
Find me any team in the league, and then take our their best winger, their best centre, their best front rower, their starting hooker, their top 2 back rowers and let's find out how good they are.

ha! All lies. Tapine doesn't make our 2 best backrowers!

I can't even remember what a Tapine plays like anymore- he just looks like bae.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

 

[footy75]

Got to love what the Stick is doing.

No one hurting in the sheds at the moment.

 

[nick87]

Haha imagine being a Stuart doubter?
What shame you bring to yourself and your family.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Texers averted.

Situation normal.

 

[BadnMean]

If he can nurse this team through the next 7 weeks without our best players in Leilua, Bateman, Hodgson, Rapana, Cotric, Wighton & Papalii & come away with 3 wins (+ bye) then he should be up for coach of the year.

*Assuming Papalli/Cotric/Wighton miss a few games for Origin if the leaks are to be believed.

He's just about done it ahead of schedule...

Nothing over-rated about turning Wighton into an Origin level half, guiding rookies through winning NRL stints while all the senior players were out & getting the 2 new Poms up to speed quicksmart.

4.2 mill of our cap on the bench for a couple of games (other clubs whinge for dispensation )

Shove it it their faces Ricky!

 

[Pete Cash]

Wighton is good

Most of the timr

And at football not as a human

 

[BadnMean]

Wighton is good

Most of the timr

And at football not as a human

You know him well? How he spends his weeks?

Never did anything drunk & stupid & potentially harmful in your life? Gees you're a top bloke.

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

Ricky Stuart has proven himself one of the top four coaches in the NRL. And his team will be in the top four at playoffs time.

 

[Travitoh]

Ricky Stuart has proven himself one of the top four coaches in the NRL. And his team will be in the top four at playoffs time.

And he ain't 2nd or lower

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

And he ain't 2nd or lower

Ricky Stuart is a man of great coaching talent. He has recruited four Poms and two Turks (Aiden Sezer and Emre Guler) who are all standouts. Few other coaches have Ricky Stuart's international recruitment imagination.

 

[nick87]

Top 2 and he ain’t 2!

 

[gerg]

Wighton is good

Most of the timr

And at football not as a human

When I played years ago we had a teammate dumber than a bag of marbles and the coach would always be saying 'do I have to draw you a f***ing diagram'.
Ricky has given Wighton the 'blueprint' to success.