Rumours and Stuff

[84 Baby]

Great post mate. He definitely needs to change the assistant coaches. It is way over due. They have been shocking to say the least. This team is more then just a contender if the coaching was high quality. Sadly our average coach has surrounded himself with average support staff and he fills comfortable in it.

He will find it very hard to change his ways now and even if he did I don't have the confidence that he will bring in the quality that we need to really fix our teams problems long term. The guy has a very basic mentality and I don't think he likes change much. He will just look for more of the same because in his mind we are going ok and just need a little tweaking.

I mean did you guys see his NRL 360 interview? He was going round in circles in the way he was describing our defense and attack issues. He had no clue how to fix it. We are done and dusted as far as premierships go this year and probably for as long as he is head coach of our club. End of 2023 isn't it? Now let that sink in fellas.

OMG are you Professor Charles Xavier?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/n...s/news-story/69d2b00ccfddb8a2708afd4ceffda1a8

Doesn't look like we will be attempting to sign Xerri anytime soon.

Daly Xerri-Evans

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Is it really a slump if you are winning?

it’s been 12 months since we’ve lost consecutive games and that term will increase if we beat the Warriors which we should.

we’d all love to be smashing teams and playing pretty, but is anyone going to whinge if we win the remaining games in the regular seasons, the finals and win the premiership with the games all being 14-12? Or 18-14? Or 8-6?

Yes

 

[eels_fan]

1 Embarrassing performance in a season and half you blokes have written off the club, players and coach for the next 3 years.

Pretty shit attitude imo... Especially considering not that long ago we were lucky to get a handful of wins in a season.

short memories it seems.

 

[parra pete]

Up up Cronulla....how high do they want to get?

 

[gaffer]

is the whisperer still around our club whispering sweet nothings into some players heads ?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

is the whisperer still around our club whispering sweet nothings into some players heads ?

The hoarse whisperer?

 

[84 Baby]

1 Embarrassing performance in a season and half you blokes have written off the club, players and coach for the next 3 years.

Pretty shit attitude imo... Especially considering not that long ago we were lucky to get a handful of wins in a season.

short memories it seems.

WTF are you talking about? Those blokes were writing them off 4 weeks into the season. And some of them have been writing them off for seasons. I don’t think @hineyrulz has ever written the club on

 

[84 Baby]

is the whisperer still around our club whispering sweet nothings into some players heads ?

Johns?

 

[TheRam]

1 Embarrassing performance in a season and half you blokes have written off the club, players and coach for the next 3 years.

Pretty shit attitude imo... Especially considering not that long ago we were lucky to get a handful of wins in a season.

short memories it seems.

The absolute opposite mate. Long memories. You seem to be a goldfish too.

 

[lingard]

Has there ever been a player who performed well with a muffin top haircut?

I actually can't think of one.

 

[lingard]

Well that's fine. It's up to us to support our own opinions with facts and analysis. If other people don't want to do the same that's their business. They won't convince anybody.

That's my opinion anyway.

Can you support that with some facts, please?

 

[lingard]

Unfortunately my faith in BA has diminished over the years. In the past 7 years he has got us to the finals twice for 1 win. Every year the team gets flogged at least once and the team slumps to poor losses for at least 3 concessive games. And our team won the wooden spoon during his tenure. This year the slump has lasted 2 months.

This year our roster is the best since 2001 and we are a genuine top 8 team, but have yet to look likely to make the gf. The common denominators for the last few years, besides BA, is the attack and defensive coaches. D has been problematical for years and the current problems with the Blakes yet to be sorted. Attack has been up and down over that time. Throughout that time BA has shown a reluctance to replace poor or under-performing players to the detriment of the team, and to persist with tactics that are not working for significant lengths of time. Few players coming here greatly improve their performances. For every player that improves there are more that fail to improve or even regress. We still fail to produce quality juniors each year with Dylan Brown being the only one since probably Junior Paulo. Not qualities that make for a great coach.

After last weeks loss BA's presser doesn't give me any confidence things will improve. 'For me it’s an easy fix. We go back to owning our effort areas and go back to being a team that is willing to build a game'. Unless he's been completely blind, Parra has been playing poorly for the last 2 months, and has yet has to be fixed.

Comparing BA with Bellamy and Robinson, their teams are always competitive, slumps are for 1 game, they improve their players and they play finals each year. As BA keeps changing his conditioning staff, and the teams fitness has improved, its time for BA to change his attack and defensive coaches. They have not been working and fluctuate up and down each year. There is not a sustained quality of performance each year. That needs to improve, but don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.

I'd also add this: when was the last Parramatta assistant coach who was looked upon as being ready to take on a head coaching role? The quality of our assistants doesn't seem comparable to those of the clubs who regularly make the finals.

 

[hineyrulz]

WTF are you talking about? Those blokes were writing them off 4 weeks into the season. And some of them have been writing them off for seasons. I don’t think @hineyrulz has ever written the club on

He’s right, never. Never will be on while ever Bea Arthur is in charge.

 

[emjaycee]

I'd also add this: when was the last Parramatta assistant coach who was looked upon as being ready to take on a head coaching role? The quality of our assistants doesn't seem comparable to those of the clubs who regularly make the finals.

Current Bronco's interim coach Peter Gentle was assistant coach under BA for 4 years.

Gentle was employed as the head coach of Hull FC in the English Super League in 2012 and 2013.[3] In Australia, he has worked as an assistant coach for various National Rugby League clubs, including Parramatta Eels, Wests Tigers, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Brisbane Broncos. In international rugby league, he has additionally worked as an assistant coach for both Australia and Italy. Gentle was appointed as acting head coach of the Brisbane Broncos from 26 August 2020 following the resignation of Anthony Seibold.

Left us at the end of 2017 to go to Souths and followed Seibold to Broncos as assistant coach.

 

[hineyrulz]

Current Bronco's interim coach Peter Gentle was assistant coach under BA for 4 years.



Left us at the end of 2017 to go to Souths and followed Seibold to Broncos as assistant coach.

I’m sure after this season Gentle will be high demand.

 

[T-Boon]

Unfortunately we don't have a good dummy half runner amongst our entire roster. The best is probably Gutherson who can cause damage at times but isn't a consistent threat.
We should be in the market for the best dummy half runner we can get because our pack is good and someone who is good could look great out the BOW (back of wrestle) in this team.

 

[T-Boon]

Rumour has it that in my opinion the hooker should now be called the BOW.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I'd also add this: when was the last Parramatta assistant coach who was looked upon as being ready to take on a head coaching role? The quality of our assistants doesn't seem comparable to those of the clubs who regularly make the finals.

When BA was the assistant coach.

To be fair, most assistant coaches are not seriously considered as NRL coaches in the near term. There's more of them for starters, and there are relatively few NRL coaching vacancies.

Kidwell was an assistant for the Storm (who regularly make the finals). Peter Gentle is currently the coach of the Broncos

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I actually can't think of one.

Well there ya go, proof. Good news is it's an easy fix.