His coaching was uninspiring imo. Off the field he seemed to have a plan and the right people in the right places but on the field the players looked lost the entire time, like they never trained together at all.
I feel for Hindy most of all, what a shit way for a legend of the club to end his career!
They looked ok his first year - but seemed like they needed a bit of direction inside the 20. We lacked a genuine playmaker who could create in the halves.
2012 it was obvious Kearney lost confidence in his own plan, and that translated into the players looking tentative. He also tried a few pretty dumb things, then brought in Chris Anderson as coaching director. Oh dear.
The bigger issue for Kearney wasn't the ability to put together a coherent game plan, it was managing a club. He's admitted himself he was out of his depth on that front, and he threw big bucks at crap players - in a sense it was good, because he was backing himself to bring them good, but then again, no matter how much lipstick you put on the pig, it will always be a pig (ie, Lussick got paid like an Origin forward, and played like a fringe first grader - 1 good game every 2 months).
Feel slightly sorry for the bloke, but pretty happy that he gave us a stunned mullet shot we could put alongside the Hages and Ricky ones... :lol:
