Jack Gibson once said that winning starts at the Front office. Doust should have been sacked years ago, he never should have even got the job in the first place. This is the same Doust who in 2012 referred to Dan Hunt, Brett Morris and Jason Nightingale as marquee re-signings. They were our marquee players, on big money. I didn't believe it at the time either. You don't have marquee players as wingers and Dan Hunt was never a decent starting prop ever, let alone a marquee prop. That BTW contributed to our salary cap problems.
As for team coming second. We were leading the comp about this time 2 years ago too. We made the semi's once in the last 5 years. The problem is that Doust still does not looked to have got us to a competitive position regarding 3rd party payments. We still can not compete with the likes of Easts, Canterbury and Brisbane off the field. Doust has now had many years to sort this problem out, but has failed to do so. We were not even mentioned as a club in contention for Tedesco's signature and that is with Dugan unsigned and on 850K a season right now. If Doust had MANAGED to get Tedesco's signature, then I would say that Doust is starting to look pretty good. I still say that Doust should be sacked.
Mate.... the original post i put up had absolutely nothing to do with doust.
He wasnt mentioned or talked about.
YOU bought up dousts name.
I gave my response.
I was never a big fan of dousts or marys... but unlike many on here, ileave the back office stuff out of my love for the team.
If im not able to orchastrate anything to remove or change the back office stuff... then i dont let it consume me.
You mention 2 years ago... i mention this year.
Im not hiding from the events of the last 5 years... or covering them up... or sticking up for those responsible.
Im supporting my team.
But people like to twist shit around and mention names to de rail a topic of conversation.
One last thing... your obviously a big tedesco fan... thats your opinion.
I wouldnt trade Dugan for tedesco.
Tedescos defence is pathetic.
If we lost dugan for the simple fact that we wanted to sign tedesco... id be dirty at management.
Imo, dugan is the best FB option available atm.
Enjoy 2017 champion... stop worrying about the past.
Something funny? Please tell me what i said that is so amusing?
Keeping in mind my original post had no mention of doust or relevance to him.
Are we not signing the players? Are we not coming 2nd?
Time to wake up to yourself... waiting for one remark to jump on with a LOL...
Good contribution yet again champion ;-)
Short term gain often leads to long term pain.
Doust, Millward and Mary are hiding behind success derived off the back of our forward pack. If/once the forwards become injured and/or tired, the team will flounder.
In addition, fancy going into the 2017 season with only one first grade player in the halves. We could have signed any one of the multitude of off-contract halves on a 1 year deal, by not signing Nona and McCrone for 2017.
Possm.... please stop mate.
If this happens... if that happens... bla bla bla....
Its rugby league... injuries happen... theres a salary cap that restricts you from having the australian team as your starting 13 and kiwi team as your nsw cup team!!!.
So much negativity over "what ifs"...
What halfback could we have signed last year?
Please tell me a halfback that was available that was a solid excellent first grade halfback?
We stuck with McCrone and Nona and Mann as back ups along with the emergence of Jai Field.
They havnt been up to scratch? Oh well, its a gamble mate.
And ps... McCrone (who i have been a critic of) hasnt played all to badly.
You need to relax with the constant attacks on recruitment mate.
Your sounding like Vas towards widdop.
Iv read alot of your posts and your WAY above this mate.
We are finally going in the right direction... on the field at least... we are signing and re-signing players...
Lets start supporting the team without being side tracked into negativity regarding things that dont concern the actually team and players.
I saw a tweet where a fan asked a player if the player was also pissed at management...
Like WTF??? Really??? Instead of tweeting the player "mate well done teams going great" this is what its getting too?
Your a smart man possm... revert back to the great posts you contribute instead of this constant attacks on recruitment buddy.
