lmfao... half you blokes have been hating on SK and death riding anything positive thats happened over this off season... now all of a sudden your trumpeting Webb's weight loss... :lol:
and for the record... The big joke doing the rounds at the moment is that this has been the toughest pre-season in Mateo & Inu's careers... which is down right embarrassing as an Eels fan.
and from the sounds of the hype coming out of SK's first pre-season... it sounds like theres a fair amount of truth to it...
Totally agree with your first point. A lot of fellow Eels fans have spent the entire off-season posting crap about how we will fail, it's all doom and gloom, we need to sack our halves, and so on and so forth.
I can assure you that most Eels fans don't spend their time whingeing like this.
It's hardly embarrassing for us when you consider both of their backgrounds. Mateo and Inu have universal reputations as lazy trainers. The unfortunate thing about our recent coaches is that none of them really seem to have given them the stick about it, especially considering when both are on they are two of the most talented players in the NRL.
If Mateo and Inu had stayed on for 2011 I can guarantee Kearney would have done the same thing to them that Cleary has done; what I respect Cleary for immensely is that he has really identified the issue with both of them and gone to fix it.
We have lacked a real backbone for years, in my opinion. We show it at times but we never show it consistently, which is the huge problem at the club. It's always "well we won't start well so we will just try to run in at the end" which is completely unacceptable and something Kearney is on his way to curing.
Whether Kearney is successful in his tenure here, he will have regardless planted the seeds for the club to move forward again.
