Kyle Flanagan

[AyiosYiorgos]

And the chooks, which is the team we beat in the last gf we won, have won 3 gf since then. Meanwhile we haven’t even looked like getting back to a gf.

Aah ha you are WRONG, we were 85 minutes away from a GF, also if kicks from try's didnt count we would have made a couple of more and also if the field was 98m instead of 100m we are looking at even more GF, we could have challenged our 11 in a row...

 

[Saints supporter]

I know I'm out of step here but I just believe we should have trust in the coach. Never mind the Murdoch press commentary from Creepy Crawley and the like. He just needs some help in recruitment the of 1 or 2 hard-nosed forwards aka Felise Kaufusi style to compliment our up and coming forwards.

 

[TheRev]

I know I'm out of step here but I just believe we should have trust in the coach. Never mind the Murdoch press commentary from Creepy Crawley and the like. He just needs some help in recruitment the of 1 or 2 hard-nosed forwards aka Felise Kaufusi style to compliment our up and coming forwards.

Yeah I hear ya.. hes still the man for the job even though hes pi$$ing me off a bit lately with some of his selections...

I'm hoping at some point in coming weeks, we will start to hear more from the CEO after hes got a chance to make some moves.. lets hope we get a recruitment manager as a priority.. thats the piece I think has set us back 1-2yrs.. we have missed a bunch of targets I feel we could have secured with a classy negotiator in our corner.. let Flanno coach, and let an expert spend his 24/7 fixing this roster... and its gonna take some serious time to fix it.

 

[possm]

All the more reason Old Timer that I was so disappointed we didn't seem to have a real crack at Fogharty...he would have been ideal for a couple of seasons while we progressed say Reed through the ranks...I just can't understand how this club operates...

For me, DCE was the one we could have gone for. He could have helped to bring Akinson or LPT through on a two-year deal.

And the chooks, which is the team we beat in the last gf we won, have won 3 gf since then. Meanwhile we haven’t even looked like getting back to a gf.

All blame can be put on our BOD. They have failed to put the right people in place to facilitate good results. Through a budget process, they need to delegate the sign-off of player recruitment to the CEO or GM of Football.

We could very quickly move the club to a more positive position by:
1. Sacking Haran, Millard, Millward, and Flannagan from the Football Department and replacing them with more professional staff.
3. Ridding players from our top 30 roster who are not up to first-grade standard.
4. Recruiting two alfa international props from rugby union.
5. Recruiting an experienced marquee halfback.

2026
1. Ramsey if fit
2. Lawson or Nick T
3. Gutherson
4. Homes
5. CT or einau
6. Atkinson or LKT
7. a marquee halfback
8. New prop
9. Cook
10. New prop
11. Eagan
12. Su'A
13. De Belin

14. Liddle
15. Tonga
16. Stewart
17. T Coucman or R Couchman or Jett Liu

Clean out the deadwood in our roster, and we will have plenty of cap space to cover the recruitment of the above 3 new players.

My belief is:
1. We need to ensure we have 17 or 18 players of first-grade standard.
2. Then, backfill with 12 or 13 budding juniors.

Using this system we should ensure a reasonable squad that is balanced between experienced and junior players. It should also facilitate a more balanced roster for salary cap purposes.

 

[possm]

Yeah I hear ya.. hes still the man for the job even though hes pi$$ing me off a bit lately with some of his selections...

I'm hoping at some point in coming weeks, we will start to hear more from the CEO after hes got a chance to make some moves.. lets hope we get a recruitment manager as a priority.. thats the piece I think has set us back 1-2yrs.. we have missed a bunch of targets I feel we could have secured with a classy negotiator in our corner.. let Flanno coach, and let an expert spend his 24/7 fixing this roster... and its gonna take some serious time to fix it.

Flanno has lost my support mainly because I feel he has not gone after a proven halfback after letting Hunt go, purely to ensure his son gets selected in first-grade.

As far as props go, why did not he recrit a couple of union internationals?

 

[Captain Apollo]

For me, DCE was the one we could have gone for. He could have helped to bring Akinson or LPT through on a two-year deal.

All blame can be put on our BOD. They have failed to put the right people in place to facilitate good results. Through a budget process, they need to delegate the sign-off of player recruitment to the CEO or GM of Football.

We could very quickly move the club to a more positive position by:
1. Sacking Haran, Millard, Millward, and Flannagan from the Football Department and replacing them with more professional staff.
3. Ridding players from our top 30 roster who are not up to first-grade standard.
4. Recruiting two alfa international props from rugby union.
5. Recruiting an experienced marquee halfback.

2026
1. Ramsey if fit
2. Lawson or Nick T
3. Gutherson
4. Homes
5. CT or einau
6. Atkinson or LKT
7. a marquee halfback
8. New prop
9. Cook
10. New prop
11. Eagan
12. Su'A
13. De Belin

14. Liddle
15. Tonga
16. Stewart
17. T Coucman or R Couchman or Jett Liu

Clean out the deadwood in our roster, and we will have plenty of cap space to cover the recruitment of the above 3 new players.

My belief is:
1. We need to ensure we have 17 or 18 players of first-grade standard.
2. Then, backfill with 12 or 13 budding juniors.

Using this system we should ensure a reasonable squad that is balanced between experienced and junior players. It should also facilitate a more balanced roster for salary cap purposes.

"Alfa" props?! I'm sure its a typo and you meant "alpha" but when I read it this is all I could imagine -



It gave me a right old chuckle

 

[R&WTILLIDIE]

Aah ha you are WRONG, we were 85 minutes away from a GF, also if kicks from try's didnt count we would have made a couple of more and also if the field was 98m instead of 100m we are looking at even more GF, we could have challenged our 11 in a row...

Well…when you put it that way, we haven’t been too bad.