Kearney

[Eels Dude]

I just saw the post match conference and the bullshit smiles coming from our coach. It's enough to make you throw up your lunch. Without doubt the worst thing to ever happen to us.

Did anyone see him on the GamePlan the other week? When they crossed to him before going to a break saying they were going to interview when they came back he was smiling and waving with his eyes lit up like he was a contestant on Deal or No Deal or one of those 80's dating shows.

 

[Eels Dude]

If this was game one of the season, we'd all be perfectly fine.

Tonight was about the first time this year they've played "Kearney football" - competing for the full 80 and working for each other.

Funnily enough it took them 10 games last year before they started doing the same.

Pattern?

And we still lost... so go figure.

If we lose we win 2 of our remaining 13 games but have lots of close losses over that period and 'compete' will people be saying it's a good season again...

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I am positive that thought that this year. pretty sure you did as well

I did. Because I was impressed with how we played last year.

Maybe we will also be impressed with how we play for the rest of this year?

 

[spartan2153]

I did. Because I was impressed with how we played last year.

Maybe we will also be impressed with how we play for the rest of this year?

Last time i checked season goes for 26 rounds not 16.

Coaches also get paid for results. In the end its all good to have stuructures & acadamies but the most important criteria for a coach is to get RESULTS.

1 from 11 is disgraceful but your loyalty is fantastic i will give you credit for that.

 

[Eels Dude]

By the way did anyone else notice in the post game press conference, after they cross from Kearney to Keating to ask him a couple of questions question, Kearney reaches out and puts his arm around Keatings back like he's trying to comfort and cuddle him, and he leaves it there for like a minute until Keating gives him a weird look and he removes it.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Last time i checked season goes for 26 rounds not 16.

Coaches also get paid for results. In the end its all good to have stuructures & acadamies but the most important criteria for a coach is to get RESULTS.

1 from 11 is disgraceful but your loyalty is fantastic i will give you credit for that.

this.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

By the way did anyone else notice in the post game press conference, after they cross from Kearney to Keating to ask him a couple of questions question, Kearney reaches out and puts his arm around Keatings back like he's trying to comfort and cuddle him, and he leaves it there for like a minute until Keating gives him a weird look and he removes it.

f**k you're clutching at straws now.

 

[bartman]

I did. Because I was impressed with how we played last year.

Maybe we will also be impressed with how we play for the rest of this year?

Didn't you say that how a team goes in the first year with a new coach all down to the previous coach? If so, maybe we can't even credit SK with last year's 6 wins then... so 1 from 35, and you reckon we'll be impressed from here? :lol:

 

[bartman]

f**k you're clutching at straws now.

:lol: the irony!

 

[Eels Dude]

f**k you're clutching at straws now.

Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but it was a weird thing to do in a press conference.

Poupou accusing others at clutching at straws... ;-)

 

[Tony Bongo]

Disagree because like you have said so many times before. Anderson was sacked for what we were gonna do the next year.

Kearney should be treated the same

Two wrongs don't make a right. I think it's the other way around - Ando should have been treated the same way as Kearney has to date, with the board supporting him, not interfering and not sacking him.
Thankfully yesterday was an improvement even if it was yet another loss. What can the board do now? Nothing IMO. It's like pulling a thread now and the more they touch it the more it will all fall apart. The course has been set and they all sink or swim. The next decision needs to be made by the members when we vote but there is still plenty of time for Kearney to prove himself between now and then. If he doesn't then we all know what is likely to happen but I don't want to see a new coach appointed now because the board are in survival mode. They made the decisions they have made and they need to see them through.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Didn't you say that how a team goes in the first year with a new coach all down to the previous coach? If so, maybe we can't even credit SK with last year's 6 wins then... so 1 from 35, and you reckon we'll be impressed from here? :lol:

Logic fail bart.

If we can't credit him with the wins, how can we credit him with the losses?

Anyway, I maintain wins and losses are down to the players. Coaches should be judged on seasons, not games, and Kearney hasn't even had one and a half seasons in charge.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Two wrongs don't make a right. I think it's the other way around - Ando should have been treated the same way as Kearney has to date, with the board supporting him, not interfering and not sacking him.
Thankfully yesterday was an improvement even if it was yet another loss. What can the board do now? Nothing IMO. It's like pulling a thread now and the more they touch it the more it will all fall apart. The course has been set and they all sink or swim. The next decision needs to be made by the members when we vote but there is still plenty of time for Kearney to prove himself between now and then. If he doesn't then we all know what is likely to happen but I don't want to see a new coach appointed now because the board are in survival mode. They made the decisions they have made and they need to see them through.

Spot on.

If they're true fans of the club they should back their decision even if it means getting voted out at the next election.

They can't keep bowing to the whims of angry, ignorant fans or the club will never grow stronger.

 

[The EELiminator]

Anyway, I maintain wins and losses are down to the players. Coaches should be judged on seasons, not games, and Kearney hasn't even had one and a half seasons in charge.

surely we can judge kearney on the team's improvement or severe lack thereof?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

surely we can judge kearney on the team's improvement or severe lack thereof?

We can, but why don't you wait until the end of the season.

 

[bartman]

why round 13? if you are bringing a new coach in to save our season he should have been turfed a month ago when there was still time to turn things around why bother paying kearney out if we cant make the semis with or without him

I agree, I think he should have been sacked a few weeks ago. But the Board have gone spineless and covering their arses.

The reason I reckon they might act after Round 13 is that it's halfway through the season, and exactly halfway through Kearney's contract... they can't be satisfied with the performance, and that's when (hopefully) they'll act for the sake of a better future.

 

[pk76]

It is a very weird and unhealthy type of 'suppport'. On the one hand, you're almost obsessed with spruiking the guy. You say that this is the same type of 'support' that you give to past Eels coaches. On the other hand, you 'laugh' at all the previous ex-Eels coaches.

Surely, there is a term for this - but I'm not a psychiatrist. Still, you'd be a fascinating case study for somebody.

Cognitive dissonance - hardly unique. Poopoo is not the only one that displays this on this forum.

 

[spartan2153]

Logic fail bart.

If we can't credit him with the wins, how can we credit him with the losses?

Anyway, I maintain wins and losses are down to the players. Coaches should be judged on seasons, not games, and Kearney hasn't even had one and a half seasons in charge.

Its pretty safe to have a decent judgement on his time at the club so far.

I am judging him on this year alone. As so many have said we cant jusge a coach in his first year.

2012 is a massive FAIL FAIL FAIL.

Just in case you dont understand the scenario. KEarney has lead us to the worst start in 50 years. We are 3 wins behind second last. With know shining light at the end of the tunnel.

WE have gone backwards since the dreadful year that was 2011.

The one shining light is when he finishes with us be it this year or next year he will be unemployable. So no other club will have to deal with his incompetence ever again.

 

[bartman]

Logic fail bart.

If we can't credit him with the wins, how can we credit him with the losses?

You're the one that introduced the logic about a coach's first year not counting, so chalk up the fail to yourself.

I've always been happy to credit last year's losses... and when you add in this years losses, you can see the magnitude of the problem our club now faces.

Anyway, I maintain wins and losses are down to the players. Coaches should be judged on seasons, not games, and Kearney hasn't even had one and a half seasons in charge.

You're entitled to your own criteria. But Kearney is one game away from a season and a half (and exactly half way through his contract), and in my criteria and from what I've seen I'm more than happy for his performance to be judged now.

 

[DeanPay98]

I hope so. I put my heart and soul into every post.

Maybe you should print them out and take them to work with you? Let me know what your colleagues think about that.

Way ahead of you.

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