All jokes re: mickeylane aside, there's something very wrong at Parra. Seems to be a poor culture embedded in the place. Plenty of money, loyal fans but a set up that rivals the mess in our own back room.
Arthur is out of his depth. He is a good tactician and man-manager, but he's got no idea how to deal with the split in the playing group. I read last year that of all the NRL coaches, he has taken on the biggest workload in terms of responsibility for all coaching, recruitment and performance. For all Mary and our clubs epic failures, there was enough brain cells in the place to take High Performance and Recruitment responsibility away from Mary and give him some support coaches. Arthur needs to learn to rely on others.
The playing group is a mess. Individually there's some great players there, but their recruitment has yielded many powder puffs and there is just a lack of effort, which indicates a real split in the group. Norman has a lot of talent, but who knows where his head is at. Gutherson cant do it all on his own and you can see his frustration. There are some good forwards - Brown, Ma'u (although he's been very down on form), Moeroa and even Alvaro has a try. But they are complemented with pillows like T-Rex, fake-tough-guys like Edwards and over-the-hill plodders like Beau Scott. Hooker is an issue - Pritchard is not very well-rounded and King is more injury prone than Dugan. Their best forward was Radradra and they replace him with 'poster boy for small players' in French, who almost runs for negative metres!
Then of course, there's egos! Norman is a big one. Mitch Moses is laughable. I cant believe there were some here calling for him to play SOO! He's the ultimate downhill skier, with an ego that makes Jackson Hastings say 'man, that guys got a terrible ego'. The guy claims that blasting his teammates is 'part of the game'.
Throw Hayne into the mix, and it's easy to see where they are falling down.
