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Surviving a 6 win season with a team tipped to go close to winning a comp was generous. Him being still here is absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing.
You have to remember that these were the guys writing detailed glowing profiles of a 12 year old Matt Arthur and a 14 year old Jakob Arthur…I like them but I think their perspective is clouded by the access they are granted under the Arthur regime
His profile and corporate sponsorship that he’d attract would be beneficial. You don’t coach your country for 5 years if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Cheika in my view would be the absolute dumbest decision ever. Would we seriously put a bloke in who has never ever coached a 1st grade rugby league team and give him the keys to one of the biggest NRL clubs??? This is complete madness. Are people seriously thinking this through? He would need to have some success as a rugby league coach before entertaining this..
Should have been a kpi in his extension at this stage in his ongoing tenure - make the finals in every year, or contract terminates with 12 months notice... or miss the finals two years in a row and termination with immediate effect.
I think Cheika with some very high calibre assistants would be the way to go. I suspect there are many decent assistants who are really running the show tactically anyway. I doubt Wayne has come up with a rugby league tactic for over a decade to demonstrate my case in point.
Didnt he play the Fiddle?
I disagree. He’d be my first choice.
Every season needs to be judged on its own merits though. It’s not an 11 year continuum with an inevitable premiership at the end. Each year we have had a chance of winning the comp ranging from zero to whatever. We’ll never know what our chances were so we can pretend they’ve always been zero, and always will under this coach, but I think that would be an incorrect assessment.
I think it’s likely that the board understands that premierships are ultimately a matter of probability and randomness. Bennett might’ve won a premiership over the past 14 years with more luck, and Arthur might’ve won in the past four years, also with more luck. The club was a f**kfight prior to 2019 though, so those years shouldn’t count against Brad Arthur. His results since that time have been far superior to his pre-2019 results. He might as well have been coaching at two different clubs.
Since 2008 Bennett has not coached at any club longer than four years (Broncos part two). Most of them (Dragons, Knights, Rabbits, Dolphins) it was only three years. Why didn’t he hang around at the Knights or Rabbits if he was a better chance of winning? Why not stay at the Dolphins?
He had women chasing him. He had to up and leave
I jumped on the Rhinos wagon back in the day because of their colours and I liked Danny McGuire, so at least I got to see them win something… Well a lot of somethings.
Surely it depends on the club? Maguire and Cleary are both premiership winners but couldn’t get Wests into the top eight.
You are right - premierships are a result of random luck, much like spinning a chocolate wheel!
I don’t know mate. At this stage it looks like his only two options next year are Souths and possibly us. I actually think we’re a slightly better opportunity than Souths going forward so I can certainly see an enquiry being made. Don’t believe the bullshit he peddles about not pushing a role where there’s an incumbent. He looks after number 1, and rightly so.
