Do we punt a coach everytime we finish outside the 8? Good thing wests didn't have that attitude since 2005,would have ran out of coaches and yet they almost made the GF this year. Lets not forget that the competition is closer than it's ever been and teams are making the 8 with an equal win to loss ratio now. It's only going to get closer under the salary cap. Not alot in it. Someone has to miss out. DA didn't make us finish where we did. There is a personal agenda behind this. It's not performance based. Personally I don't really care who coaches at Our club, but whoever does, give them complete control over the football side, show some faith, let them see out their contracts and leave all the personal BS aside.
One could argue that because we looked like clueless tards for the majority of the season it meant he's a bad coach.
But in general, I agree with this, there are only 8 teams that make the finals, sooner or later every team is going to have to miss out at some point and I don't think the board had the level of maturity to digest the fact that we didn't make the 8.
I'm quite dumbfounded that we sack a coach who took an inherited team to the grand final simply due to a missed finals berth for the subsequent year, particularly in a year where the board felt the constant need to poke their noses about in the realm of coaching. Perhaps it was all Hayne last year, but first and foremost there are 17 blokes out there in a team, you don't take a team to a grand final if your a 'bad coach', that sort of logic should never exist, although it's something the board seems to believe. Considering my past history of non-stop whinging and questioning of DAs decisions this year, I may seem two-faced, but I never once considered an early ending to DAs job at the helm.
I hope i'm not alone in saying that DA at the very least should have been given the reigns for 1 more year so as to see out his contract and show whether he really was worth the value which took us to a magnificient grand final last year, he deserved that extra year and the board had no right to give him the sh*t treatment that he earned this year.
