The thread title is 'New recruits for 2023'...
Who honestly gives a rat's about new recruits, when we have a coach that can't put together a consistent and effective game plan. When we have a coach that is responsible for an attack that continually dishes up unstructured garbage that resembles headless chickens running around a paddock.
I have to laugh reading some of these posts. Posts that seem to be offering up excuses for Griffin. Excuses for his recruitment strategy and excuses for what we've dished up on the field, which he is directly responsible for. People seem to want to make out that Griffin is paying the price for the last decade.
Give me a break
If we had a coach, like a Bellamy or Robinson, a coach that was capable of bringing structure in attack and defence, don't you think we would see an immediate improvement with the glaring issues that we have, especially with our attack? Sure we wouldn't be ladder leaders but i reckon we'd be playing finals football, and that, all of a sudden, makes us a much more attractive proposition to any potential recruits. With the style of football Hook has us playing, i doubt anyone would want to be part of our club.
And as far as Hook's recruitment goes, he was the one that went out and signed a broken down, 31 year old, tortoise to a three year deal. With the carrot of the three year deal, we could have enticed someone that provided much more than McCullough out of dummy half. You've only got to look at how much better we look when Bud is playing in that position and HE'S NOT EVEN A DUMMY HALF. But no! Hook knew who he wanted and offered the 3 year deal to get him down here. A blind man would have known that, with the way the game was changing, you needed speed in that position, yet Hook went out and signed the slowest hooker in the competition to a long term deal.
It was also been widely reported in the media that Hook wanted to re-sign Norman last year and we all know he tried to sign Israel Folau. How would that have been good for our juniors? Which of our promising kids would have stuck behind those two? The argument that Hooks recruitment was with the thought of not putting road blocks in front of our juniors is ludicrous.
Basically i think that, sure we had issues when Hook arrived, but far from fixing those issues, he's added to them the last two years. Anybody who thinks Hook is part of the solution and not the problem, is deluded.
We could reincarnate puff and put him in the centres and he'd just be given no room to move, like the rest of our edges and outside backs struggle with. He'd have no room to move because our coach is incapable of providing that room through attacking structure.
Talking about recruitment is basically a waste of time until the club does what needs to be done and moves Hook on. The sooner the better.
I thought he was the way to go. I endorsed him when the club signed him. I was wrong!
Time to fix that mistake...
