My opinion of Des is that he is a money hungry control freak that will have a falling out with Greenberg if he hasnt already,this merkin wants total control over everything and the riots that you blokes cause were not appreciated by the filth ridden merkin,he's a decent coach but he did shit in 2009 after winning a premiership,if i remember correctly we got flogged by melbourne in melbourne and Saints lost to the eels which meant that Manly (5th) was therefore eliminated
In 2010 we made the 8 but couldnt play for 80 minutes due to a shit fitness regiment employed by Hasler in that year,we were never a real threat for the premiership
In 2011 he finally moved the worst winger in the history of the NRL to the backrow and we ended up having a successful year,which resulted in a premiership
In 2012 Toovey was left with no other coaching staff than himself,Donny Singe and David Warrick and had to build up from nothing his coaching staff,he had a successful year coming 4th one game away from the Grand Final,my take on why it all went wrong was a team to tired to keep fighting after a bullshit first half of the draw
Adding to Hasler's legacy at Manly is the unusual signings for multiple years on massive contracts of our oldest players,including Brent Kite who is reportedly getting $400k for next year when he isnt even worth half of that in my honest opinion,i presume that after he shook Greenberg's hand he decided to give Kite a big contract along with another few aging players including Joe G who IMO has been a good player for us so far but will fade next year,hopefully not as it would ruin his legacy but who knows?
Also adding to that was when he was signing marquee players that we have he thought it would be cool to add in a No-Hasler clause which meant if he wasnt there for any reason the contracts would be null and void,it tied up a lot of our salary cap ridding the last remnants of Desmond from our wonderfully resiliant club
