Picking a New #7

[Saint_JimmyG]

Still have a feeling we're lining up a new coach for 2018. Otherwise, why would JD walk to be Bennett's assistant? Mary was odds on to be the first coach sacked in 2017, so you'd think he would have bided his time here. Unless he had mail that we were already lining up a new coach for 2018 and it wouldn't be him. The rumours about Hasler seemingly won't go away.

New coach for 2018 that can finally land an established 7. Plenty of cap money to spend after a roster overhaul, plenty of juniors coming through, 2018 might just be the year we turn it all around.

Apologies for bursting your optimism but allow me to answer your question with one of my own.

Why do individuals such as Brett Morris, Trent Merrin, Benji Marshall (to a lesser degree), Peter Mullholland, Andrew Gray, David Warwick, Tony Ayoub, and Steve Folkes all have in common?

Answer: they all didn't want to be involved with a club that features McGregor and/or Doust.

Demetriou's departure was an indictment of the CEO's torpor compared to Wayne Bennett's ability to entice talent rather than an impending announcement about a new coach for 2018.

(I do suspect he enjoyed rubbing it in though)

 

[dragonssamy61]

Some people are born to be a 'Waterboy'!

Pity Mary didn't stay as waterboy lol

 

[JDHD]

Apologies for bursting your optimism but allow me to answer your question with one of my own.

Why do individuals such as Brett Morris, Trent Merrin, Benji Marshall (to a lesser degree), Peter Mullholland, Andrew Gray, David Warwick, Tony Ayoub, and Steve Folkes all in common?

Answer: they all didn't want to be involved with a club that features McGregor and/or Doust.

Demetriou's departure was an indictment of the CEO's torpor compared to Wayne Bennett's ability to entice talent rather than an impending announcement about a new coach for 2018.

(I do suspect he enjoyed rubbing it in though)

We'll get a new coach this year, but it'll be Ben Hornby or Dean Young, and they're the assistant coaches anyway, and any person who's ever been near a footy team knows that the assistants run the game plan and training so this would fix nothing. Matt Head did a good job with the 20s but that's a Micky Mouse comp where you can score 50 points and still lose by 20.

We need an established coach but none of them want a bar of us because, well, can you blame them? So we'll get another 'club legend' and wonder why the results still aren't going our way when the only truly successful years (09, 10 and 11) were because we had an externally hired coach with some recruiting power.

 

[Saints Forever]

Apologies for bursting your optimism but allow me to answer your question with one of my own.

Why do individuals such as Brett Morris, Trent Merrin, Benji Marshall (to a lesser degree), Peter Mullholland, Andrew Gray, David Warwick, Tony Ayoub, and Steve Folkes all in common?

Answer: they all didn't want to be involved with a club that features McGregor and/or Doust.

Demetriou's departure was an indictment of the CEO's torpor compared to Wayne Bennett's ability to entice talent rather than an impending announcement about a new coach for 2018.

(I do suspect he enjoyed rubbing it in though)

Fair call, the problem is deep rooted

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Pity Mary didn't stay as waterboy lol

Water boy? Is that like the Craig Bellamy or Des Hasler variety?

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Fair call, the problem is deep rooted

"Rooted" being the operative word.

 

[possm]

If we sign Hunt for 2018 and not extend Widdop, who will be our goal kicker?

 

[Farrquarr]

Field

 

[Dragonslayer]

If we sign Hunt for 2018 and not extend Widdop, who will be our goal kicker?

Great question.
Field maybe.

 

[since77]

If we sign Hunt for 2018 and not extend Widdop, who will be our goal kicker?

Widdop doesn't have a great strike rate as a goal kicker - shouldn't be hard to find a better kicker if he leaves