TheRam
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Or he has no clue and after yet another failure, realised the error of his ways and has now had to go the more correct route and adjust by promoting the more experienced and NRL ready Asi instead.
It's not rocket science ppl. It's footy and anyone with a little footy knowledge(ala me) could see that Blaize was struggling defensively at NRL and that we were extremely lucky that Manly lost their way after the first 20 mins and we took the ascendency which masked over Blaize's more than obvious major defensive issues.
By this of course I don't mean Asi will necessarily be our savior either and the solution to our problems at this point. Our problems are way deeper that just one player(Moses missing) but they can not and will not ever be fixed under Potates as coach. I mean he has had 10+ season to get it done.
No I'm afraid we will limp around for the remainder of the season, probably miss the 8 and then have to go through the coming dramas of will he or won't he be sacked and then who will we replace him with type of bullsh*t that will ensue.
Unfortunately, the only free NRL standard coach that I would have loved to replace him with is now with the Dragons. Bennett at this point is an option, but even he might be snapped up before our management finally decide to pull the pin on Potaes. Also Bennett comes with a massive negative backend sting in the tail so to speak in that he just comes in for a short stint and hopes to get the title within that period and leaves. But does F-all for junior development in the meantime. One could say however, 'so what's the difference' and it would be very hard to argue with that sentiment.
Anyway I expect the Cowboys to beat us this weekend unless they themselves come out and play like crap, which with the Cowboys can be a possibility, but I doubt it somehow and don't expect Dylbags to change much in his inability to read a game correctly.
All the natural talent in the world that kid but not a student of the game. And for ppl like @Gronk that think his stellar efforts in defence make up for his inabilities to read a game and be a running play maker, they are missing the point.
It is easy for someone like Dylan to work his ringer off in the one percenters, especially defensively, since that is part of his natural talent baseline attributes. He is naturally super fit and only behind Gutho at the club for fitness. So that part of his game is not something he had to work on per se. It is the play making stuff that he has neglected and not done enough work on and it shows. It shows terribly. He has the skill set to be a top line play making half, with a great short kicking game and at least an ok long kicking game to, but lacks the awareness and timing that real study and years of long hours, daily practice can only give you for NRL level success. Finding mentors within the club and outside of that can add to his learning curve and so on. I would love for him to approach someone like Cronk and ask for advise. That guy would teach him exactly what it takes to go to the next level.
This is why I am so hard on him. I know he can do it and do it better than most, but he hasn't knuckled down and worked on it enough. Oh well I expect us to miss the 8 this year now and well hopefully the powers that be will finally move on from Potates at long last.
Let the circus begin.
