Gronk, we can agree on some things.
I am never sure we have all the things in place we need, but there has been a need to turn things on their head for a while. We compain when players leave , then maon when we try and sign them back.
No one is certain that a coach with a poor media personality can turn it around, but I do know how hard they are working, and how they feel about the need to make change. At the end of the day, critical to the club is a football manager, and if Lowe or someone like that can step ina dn bring some profile to the position, so be it as it will be a positive move. Personally would love Zappia to have that role, but the shockjock would be all over that one, unfortunately.
The tough part when you are at the bottom is getting your message across, and SK just doesnt have the personality to do it, look at what Cartwright did last year, he made the whole place look on the up just by the way he spoke. Sk needs a media man more than most
SK seems to need more than a media man...
I'm a bit confused by your take on this Delboy.
I too would like to be positive about the future - I thought last season we actually played good football from round 11 onwards (bar 1 or 2 games).
I liked what I saw and the 'tough' style we were playing with was working - we had issues "finishing" inside the opposition 20 unless Hayne was making it happen, but apart from that the signs were positive.
Some criticised SK for a poor year, part of his defence of himself was that he had little input over the playing roster since he signed on late in the piece.
The good news was that during the 2011 season we made a number of key signings in the areas that we struggled with. Creative halves were signed, a strike center and a "gun" was stashed away for the future.
One might be forgiven for expecting SK to build on what happened last season. Competitive footy, but unable to "finish" - that should be a thing of the past with our halves!
Except this year they've played competitive footy in 10 minute bursts - maybe combining 2-3 of those bursts within the one 80 minute game.
SK is coming out and whinging about the players - well newsflash buddy: you had those same players last year on the whole, the main difference is that the playing group has been
strengthened in
absolutely crucial areas.
What is the real reason for the pathetic performances we've seen in rounds 1-10 this year?
The Gold Coast are a "bad team"' the Panthers are a fairly talentless roster - but both of those clubs have not only triple our wins, but seem to at least compete to some sort of plan when they run out on the paddock each week.
What is the real reason for the pathetic performances we've seen in rounds 1-10 this year?
I could cop the whole "we're just no good" thing if we had been shocking all last year - but unfortunately we were quite competitive in almost every game last year.
I can't rationalize any reason we should be so bad
except that SK's pre-season preparation is way out of whack.
First 10 rounds last year were a shambles, this year, same story.
If we're "competitive" in all the rest of our games this year, then that won't give me "hope for the future" - it'll simply tell me that we shouldn't be wasting our time whinging about the players, but rather getting a new coach who knows how to do the pre-season thing properly.
Even to win 10 of our last 14 games would be bitterly disappointing. Missing the 8 because the coach couldn't be bothered starting at the beginning of the year?
In the end, if SK is too distracted by the NZ coaching job over the off-season, and in the first 5-6 rounds leading up to the ANZAC test, then that's his problem. I can't see why our footy club should have to suffer it 2 years in a row like we have. LET ALONE A THIRD.
It's hard to be positive when we're going backwards inexplicably.
