Rumours and Stuff

[DaveMc]

Storm, '03-'20	Games	Wins	Win %
With Smith	428	309	72%
Without Smith	48	21	44%

They lost 119 games with Smith FFS! What a f**king hack he was. They’d have probably lost by 60 in that grand final if he’d played.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I see you are a true mathemagician.

 

[T-Boon]

I take it pou and DavMc are Perth eel brothers.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

It’s all well and good to point out we are missing our two most important players, if we were losing close ones you’d almost look the other way. We got belted by a reserve grade Dolphins side and now a Storm side also missing two of its most important players from the start, which progressed to three of them by half time… And it was only when they were down Munster did they make us look like a pub squad and put on an extra 32 points.

I don't think the Dolphins result would have changed, but in other matches I suspect the rest of the team's 'belief' that the game is still live when down by 10 would be quite different with both Moses and Gutho in the side. And that makes quite a difference to players who aren't as sharp as they should be. And just having better executed kicking plays alone means your are a) in better field position and b) sometimes 4-6 points up on where we've been.

 

[Glenneel]

MON and BA have done a shit job at putting this squad together. BA has done a terrible job of developing our young players.

Its not BAs job to develop our younger players but his and I assume HOF job has been to create pathways to enable the younger players to develop. That has been a failure and also our ability to retain any decent juniors. Other clubs appear better at identifying our juniors and signing them from under our noses. That has to change and hopefully it will with BA (and hopefully HOF soon) gone.

 

[Soto]

I don't think the Dolphins result would have changed, but in other matches I suspect the rest of the team's 'belief' that the game is still live when down by 10 would be quite different with both Moses and Gutho in the side. And that makes quite a difference to players who aren't as sharp as they should be. And just having better executed kicking plays alone means your are a) in better field position and b) sometimes 4-6 points up on where we've been.

The floggings are what was most concerning. Can't score points at least defend like your life depends on it.
Browns kicking in the games he has kicked has actually been very good.
Asi did most of the kicking the other day and it wasn't bad.
I think the side being mentally weak knowing that Moses and Guth not being there to save their asses is also another massive concern.
This again speaks to a lack of leadership.
Blokes being paid $600k plus should be standing up and delivering..
In any case all done and dusted now.
I've not be as excited for TLT for a long time.
I hope Barrett rings in the changes.
Hopefully Lane, Lussick, Kelma, Makatoa and Sivo are sent packing to NSW cup.
In come Matto, Wiremu, Doorey, Mathur and I'd give Cini a crack on the left wing
If Moses is available out goes Asi. Also find a spot for Hands to share hooking duties with Marthur.

 

[Glenneel]

BA Gone! Effective immediately.

Can we have a million likes please!

Eels sack coach Arthur, reveal secret Bennett pursuit

Brad Arthur’s tenure as Eels head coach is over following a poor start to the 2024 season – but Wayne Bennett won’t be replacing him at Parramatta.

www.smh.com.au

Great but too little too late. If we'd acted sooner Bennett may have come here, instead now we have Barrett for rest of year! Another failed coach despite Gould talking him up.

 

[Glenneel]

Maroons job is temporary...he wants to coach 1st grade apparently

Slater would be good, a real student of the game, but won't leave Melbourne, has a horse stable there which appears his first love, coaching second. Maroons job is good for him as consumes little time and pays well.

 

[Glenneel]

i think the barrett jokes are going to be a hit

If you close your eyes and say Barrett quickly it almost sounds like Bennett.

 

[Gronk]

Yeah, apart from that shit accent, he's incredibly well spoken and shows a real in depth understanding of the game, well beyond the other talking heads .

Well apart from the incoherent rant about Andrew Davey.

Which events turned out to validate what Davey said, on the basis that the kid who was hazed at the Dogs is now suing the club.

 

[Jake the snake]

Slater would be good, a real student of the game, but won't leave Melbourne, has a horse stable there which appears his first love, coaching second. Maroons job is good for him as consumes little time and pays well.

Slater or Bennett, but doesn’t look like either are a chance now.

 

[84 Baby]

Great but too little too late. If we'd acted sooner Bennett may have come here, instead now we have Barrett for rest of year! Another failed coach despite Gould talking him up.

I think regardless of when we did it we were always going to have Barrett do it for rest of year. I don’t think Bennett would’ve come across midseason

 

[Obscene Assassin]

The bald ages are over! This forum is going to need brand new jokes!

New jokes? They're too big for their knees to think of new jokes

 

[Obscene Assassin]

I happened to meet Willie Mason, who was on the bulldogs coaching staff, at about the time that was blowing up. What you said might be true but Willie also said Davey was being out-trained and out played.
Whatever the truth, I like that Graham speaks his mind, unlike other ex-players.

Wow someone sticking up for the company who pays their salary

 

[Bandwagon]

I think regardless of when we did it we were always going to have Barrett do it for rest of year. I don’t think Bennett would’ve come across midseason

!00%. Sack BA now always meant Barrett 'till at least the end of the year.

 

[Snoochies]

Great but too little too late. If we'd acted sooner Bennett may have come here, instead now we have Barrett for rest of year! Another failed coach despite Gould talking him up.

Even if Bennett signs you'd still have Barrett for the rest of the year.

 

[King-Gutho94]

My Grandmother rang me after the news came out she reckons BA biggest stuff up this year was not putting Sanders to 7 and leaving Drown at 6 the moment Moses went down injured in round 3. And just keeping that combination letting it develop.

Chopping and changing the halves every 2 weeks has been a disaster and hasn't helped Dylan's game either trying to build combinations with his fellow half.

Would it have changed anything i suppose we will never know and i don't think we would be in the 8 anyway.

It will be interesting who Barrett goes with if Moses is still out.

 

[Legal Eel]

Great but too little too late. If we'd acted sooner Bennett may have come here, instead now we have Barrett for rest of year! Another failed coach despite Gould talking him up.

disagree on too late.

Change was needed and this will give the new man some time to prepare for next year and work out contacts etc to get the team ready for a proper window between 2026 and 2028.

I think yesterdays sacking moves the rebuild forward one year.

 

[Legal Eel]

My Grandmother rang me after the news came out she reckons BA biggest stuff up this year was not putting Sanders to 7 and leaving Drown at 6 the moment Moses went down injured in round 3. And just keeping that combination letting it develop.

Chopping and changing the halves every 2 weeks has been a disaster and hasn't helped Dylan's game either trying to build combinations with his fellow half.

Would it have changed anything i suppose we will never know and i don't think we would be in the 8 anyway.

It will be interesting who Barrett goes with if Moses is still out.

Barrett cant just rinse and repeat - if he wants to at least try for the top job (please no by the way) he needs to make proper changes and try to display a point of difference.

 

[gaffer]

Our results will likely improve dramatically pretty quickly once Moses and Gutho are back on deck.

Barrett has a real chance to impress pretty quickly.

If he's good enough, his chance with a decent playing group is there for the taking.

I suspect though he's had a considerable influence on the team and we've already seen he's not the man for the job.

when Smith got punted and Taylor took over did we make the finals? Then JT was punted for Hagan But i dont think barrett will be our saviour