I hear people on here saying Mary is not much of a coach. but nobody here has been coached by him, watched him coach at training or been near him when he's coached. Me neither, but I think Mary will make an impression on the team. He said he wants a team that is poor losers. A team that doesn't accept losing. To me that is a positive. He also said he's happy we will have such a young team so they can be taught, not coached. I liked his interview. It was honest and not scripted. We all were filthy for the 2013 season, but like he said, we need to put it behind us. It's last weeks fish and chip paper now.
I was coached by both Neil Henry and Michael Maguire early on in their coaching careers and TBH I thought both of them to be poor coaches at the time. Turns out I was just a terrible footy player.
This has been brought up a few times both by Mc Gregor and Holbrook. But so does every other team. That's the point of the NSW Cup and NYC.o Talk is talk I agree, to be honest a lot of this stuff is scripted and cliches.. the whole thing was like a Job Interview.
o However in 8 minutes he already sounds more intelligent than 2yrs of Price's talk, anyone is an improvement on Price, but hes completely and utterly unproven.
o McGregor was a genius centre, but thats his individual skill, he still has to prove he has a good read of attacking structures & can coach that into the players... I mean our attacking will be much stronger with Widdop/Williams, but we need to utilise our offensive strengths.
o Cutters performance - im not sure what to make of that, I agree with what hes saying (that he has blokes coming in and out constantly), but still hes not putting his hand up as a coach.... I do think he struggled with his roster to some degree, especially in the halves.
This has been brought up a few times both by Mc Gregor and Holbrook. But so does every other team. That's the point of the NSW Cup and NYC.
Talk is cheap. Nothing will change.
He should be our coach. Everything he said was what Steve price was incapable of saying all year.
Yah same with Price and his excuses, our injuries werent that bad until late in the year when Dugan/Merrin went, before that it was a copout imo.This has been brought up a few times both by Mc Gregor and Holbrook. But so does every other team. That's the point of the NSW Cup and NYC.
Exactly, Wentworthville (Eels) managed to make the finals even though in the last couple of weeks we had difficulty finding enough players to field a team. We were forced to bring up some players from State Cup. Our spine was changing constantly yet we managed to win enough games.
Although, you could argue that the top teams in NSW Cup had relatively stable squads, with the Sharks for example hardly changing their first grade side throughout the year.
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Everything he said was spot on. Price is an absolute joke. Mary would be 1000 times better. I'd prefer an outside too too notch coach but that appears massively unlikely any time soon.
It's interesting that he said that these younger players need to be "taught" not "coached". Maybe Price is trying too hard to emulate Bennett's man management and neglecting the things he learnt as a lower grade coach - namely skills, position, match awareness or whatever else Mary has in mind when he mentions "taught"?