Panthers sack Griffin 4 weeks from finals

[Bazal]

The heading on the NRL's website is a bit mis-leading (article in question - https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/08/06...h-anthony-griffin-four-weeks-out-from-finals/) as it says -



So it means he's gone at the end of the season, not straight away.

Fox News is saying he was told he'd be gone and said well f**k you, I'm out today.

Ciraldo to take over for the rest of the year

 

[age.s]

We've looked pretty scratchy in the past month or two, but every team in the 8 has at various points throughout the year. We're still well in this comp.

Amazed that a potential premiership is being jeopardised like this.

 

[gregstar]

i wish our board had those kahunas.

 

[catstorm]

The heading on the NRL's website is a bit mis-leading (article in question - https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/08/06...h-anthony-griffin-four-weeks-out-from-finals/) as it says -



So it means he's gone at the end of the season, not straight away.

Hmm that’s also dumb, what if they win it all you gonna sack a Premiership coach.

 

[yobbo84]

So they want a coach who has been proven to take a team of talented players and flashy youngsters in need of some discipline and direction to a premiership? Surely Michael Maguire would be an obvious choice.

 

[sandshark]

Would Manly or Penrith be interested in a premiership winning coach?
Comes with a maybe-not-so-good reserve grader son.

 

[parraeel]

Wow. Gus and his ego, eh?

I mean, I reckon Griffin is an ordinary coach and all....but four weeks from the finals? I just can't see how that improves their chances at all.

Guy has a great footy brain but agree he has massive ego issues.

since he has left the roosters and gone to the riff , that the roosters have a coach for 5 or so years and even got a contract extension , yet they ran thru coaches consistently when Gould was apart of their set il

 

[Captain Apollo]

Fox News is saying he was told he'd be gone and said well f**k you, I'm out today.

Ciraldo to take over for the rest of the year

Looks like you're right according to this article - https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...k/news-story/b23f8537d570fa1a10844aa79e10da4c

Griffin has decided to walk now rather than be dead man walking for the rest of the year.

 

[Eion]

We've looked pretty scratchy in the past month or two, but every team in the 8 has at various points throughout the year. We're still well in this comp.

Amazed that a potential premiership is being jeopardised like this.

Exactly. They’re almost better off actually sacking him now.

I spose it all depends on what he’s done and how it came about.

If 9 had 100% footy on before 10:15pm I may have even dialled in tonight to find out what Gus says...

 

[Gentle Herpes]

Pretty sure Griffin was sacked from his last club despite making the finals that year too. At least in that case the Donkeys had Bennett lined up to replace him.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Guy has a great footy brain but agree he has massive ego issues.

since he has left the roosters and gone to the riff , that the roosters have a coach for 5 or so years and go contract extension , yet they ran thru coaches consistently when Gould was apart of their set il

Just a bit of clarification. Gus became Coaching Director at the Roosters when Ricky Stuart arrived in 2002. He had no capacity at the club after he stepped down as coach at the end of 1999. He left the Roosters at around the same time Stuart did, if not before. The turnover at our club in coaches came after he'd left us.

 

[Meapro Ham]

I hear Penrith may be going back to this guy.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Jarryd Hayne ain't gonna make the finals with the Eels so he should coach Penrith for the remainder of the year instead

 

[axl rose]

He looked like a dead man walking the day he was announced as coach. The way Gus sacked Ivan Cleary in the off season he would have to be pretty naive to think his day wouldn't come.

Why doesn't Gus just take over. He has worked behind the scenes to undermine Graham Murray, Ricky Stuart, Matthew Elliot (oh wait,he deserved it) Ivan Cleary and now Griffin. Stop babbling with that old coot Rabs and coach again.

 

[Generalzod]

Penrith must have cash flowing through the Nepean river wasn’t he contracted for another 2 years more dollars then cents I guess

 

[parraeel]

Just a bit of clarification. Gus became Coaching Director at the Roosters when Ricky Stuart arrived in 2002. He had no capacity at the club after he stepped down as coach at the end of 1999. He left the Roosters at around the same time Stuart did, if not before. The turnover at our club in coaches came after he'd left us.

Gould has always been part of the setup till he went back to the riff . He may not have been "coaching director " but h had his nose in everything

 

[Johns Magic]

All about keeping Cleary I reckon

 

[OzDragon]

That’s a bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.

 

[billypilgrimnz]

QFT.

Bad timing though. Not sure we can have any shot at winning another game this year. Surely not all players will be happy with this.

We have Titans next week, so there is one.

 

[axl rose]

Gould has always been part of the setup till he went back to the riff . He may not have been "coaching director " but h had his nose in everything

Right. Even when he left for the Riff Gus said he had to clear it with Nick Politis. He was always on the Roosters payroll.