Guys, I worked in banks for the last 18 years.
We hire guys on contracts on a 1, 3, 5 years basis.
They don't perform, they are asked to leave. Unless they have done something untowards, they always have their contracts paid out in full. i.e. if they are on a 5 year contract with 1 month notice and they are asked to leave in their 2nd year, they will get paid out for the remainder of their contract + the additional month.
It is a business now.
Pete refers to the crow's handshake deals.
As suity mentioned, they are years gone by.
It is twitter and facebook and GenY. The players are more or less GenY.
They grew up differently and have to be managed differently.
I agree with Delboy. I haven't seen any structure in our play. Yes, you can argue that we couldn't execute because of our halves, but then it's time to find an alternate way.
If he did try to put structure in but the players didn't respond then, DA has failed. As he either can't get it through to these GenY's or he has no game plan of note.
I also don't buy this oh he didn't get the team he wanted.
There are very few jobs where you walk in new and DO get the team you want. You usually inherit the team. Just like DA has.
He had a 3 year contract. He knew that when he signed.
Does he think he can get the team he wants within 3 years? I doubt it.
For mine, his job is to make use of the cattle he has and improve it and make them work as a team.
If he gets the people he wants. Then great. If he can't, he has to use his cattle to make them successful.
So Grand Finalists to 4th last (excluding Storm). Did he succeed?
Maybe if we came last last year, he would be kept on for his 3rd year.
Finally, the squad is more or less the same in 2011 as 2010. If the board thinks he can't do anything with this team in 2010, he's going to fail miserably in 2011.
They tried to get a decent half. That might've just swayed the board to keep DA. But no done deal as yet.
If we perform the same next year, we could lose sponsorships. And possibly the 3rd party sponsorships that they have been talking about.
I think he naively saw that Mortz and Robbo were the answer.
I called it in the pre-season that these 2 could not execute consistently at NRL Standard and mentioned heaps that we needed a better half.
