Perhaps.
He could have just said he loves the club, and the boys.
As I said - maybe I'm reading too much into it.
Look he and other players like Gutho obviously have a great relationship with Potato Head. But many players have great relationships with all levels of coaches. They get along like a father figure, mentor or whatever, they click. I got on brilliantly with some of my lesser bosses simply because they were great human beings.
In many footballers cases at NRL level most haven't had all that many to compare either so they get used to the character and idiosyncrasies of the man in charge that they know and fall into a groves with them. And as we know with footballers and football clubs unless there is genuine dislike and or character clashing's most footballers will back the coach to the end. It's almost like the army. Look at Pou ffs!
But when little Moses was exposed to a true ideas man and motivator, it blew his mind because he had never encounter it before at the Eels, Tigers or even SOO and he said as much. For players that have had the privilege of a Bennett or Bellamy, imagine if then they had to go to a Potato Head for a few years? Look at the bagging's Cobo directed to Walters. What has saved Walters though is Reynolds and his presence and coaching of the team. It is Reynolds team, not Walters, who is a nice enough fella, but hardly a master mind coach as we have all heard the murmurings around the traps say about him. As long as Walters has an elite roster and a half that can do all the thinking, he will be sweet. Walters real test will be when Reynolds retires and what happens next. I suspect though that Reynolds will remain on the payroll as an assistant coach with a progression plan if successful to advance to head coach.
Back to Parra. We have a very one dimensional coach. If we ever replaced him with quality the likes of Michael Cheika the fortunate players at the club will be astonished and over the moon with the improvement in preparation and motivation that will follow naturally and what he brings to the squad as a whole.
You don't know what you don't know. Moses was teased when he played for Lebanon. My fear for him and us the fans is that by the time we finally cut the cord with Potato Head, Moses and our senior squad members will be way past their prime or gone and they will never have benefited from having a great coach at their best years, let alone win a Premiership.
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