I've just read Chooks post

[Aries]

Opinion

The losing culture that so many want to deny is alive and well and kicking it's way back to the top.

It's all gotten too hard and no one wants to fight. Just bail out back to the comfort zone with another Neville as coach and calls to bring back the old and battered pre corpses of once decent players.

Or we could stick with one that is past his used by date, that has sent the club backwards since his arrival, that has caused all sorts of disharmony and stress to the club, and may still be here in 2006, for a year longer than he already has, and he may well TOTALLY destroy the club... he's done a good job so far :?

Is the risk worth it?

Young coaches, with NEW ideas are the way to go... not some grey haired old fuddy duddy whose methods were already shown up badly, and he stubbornly stuck to for about a year longer than necessary...

 

[gunnamatta bay]

Football club board members remind me of politicians. It's only a matter of time before they vote themselves a wage rise and an overseas junket.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

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Young coaches, with NEW ideas are the way to go... not some grey haired old fuddy duddy ...[/quote]

Bit unfair to describe Stuart Raper like that.

 

[bull shark]

Opinion

The losing culture that so many want to deny is alive and well and kicking it's way back to the top.

It used to be just a rumour, but in fact it's been on top since round 1, 2003, and it's well-entrenched now. The results speak for themselves.

It's all gotten too hard and no one wants to fight. Just bail out back to the comfort zone with another Neville as coach and calls to bring back the old and battered pre corpses of once decent players.

It's not the issue of whether the flat attack works, or who should be half-back or who's in the playing roster. These are subsidiary things.

What has really damaged the club is the divisiveness. The in-group/out-group mentality. The attitude that "If you don't agree with me 200%, then you're a stupic merkin and you can f**k off". The aggression against your own club that is now a normal part of interaction between supporters - which we ALL are.

All of this is down to CA. He brought this culture which we have all become an active part of.

We've had lean times before. We've had occasions when the Coach couldn't get it working, when the board was all at sea. We've had strongly differing opinions amongst ourselves. But never before has so much aggression, so much energy gone into fighting amongst ourselves.

I don't care if he's arrogant. I don't care if he thinks he's better than everyone else. If he can lead us to the big one then that's what's important. But whilever CA is here we'll stay in the doldrums for the simple reson that this internal conflict came with him AND it will stay with him.

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

Young coaches, with NEW ideas are the way to go... not some grey haired old fuddy duddy whose methods were already shown up badly, and he stubbornly stuck to for about a year longer than necessary...

OK, Ricky managed one for the Goosters last year, but he had one hell of a squad to work with. Langy had a bunch of nuffs who finished third last year and managed to turn them into a team of champions this year. He's not exactly a spring chicken and I'd rather go with experience any day.

Anderson has got the runs on the board with other clubs and, if he ruffles a few feathers along the way, who cares, so long as he gets the results. Let him continue what he has started and let's see if we can achieve a Panther like turnaround in 2004.

 

[Chook]

It's not all doom and gloom Sharkies, my club was a laughing stock for many a year in the late 80s early 90s, transit lounge etc etc. You currently need what we needed back then, strong leadership, and your club hasn't got that. Back then we had Ron Jones (shudders) as our CEO and he was, to all intensin purposes, clueless! Football clubs today are businesses and as such need a business man, or at the very least, business smarts to run them successfully.

I also agree that the young breed of coaches (Elliott, Belamy, D Anderson, Hagan etc) are pushing the 'oldies' (including C Anderson, Smith, Sharp, Bennet) out of the code with their new approaches and training regimes. It is these new coaches that will lift our players to play our code at a higher standard than before and the older coaches who don't change with the times will be left behind along with their clubs.

Chook.

 

[millersnose]

gotta agree with chook

young coaches have done very well over the last few years revolutionalising the way RL is played

anderson does not appear to have adapted well