Rumours and Stuff

[Poupou Escobar]

Mate, you can shove your stats up your arse....the real.world works on street smarts and instincts. We were never winning shit whilst BA was here and was a miracle he made a GF...

If we were never winning anything under Arthur's it was for the same reason we've won nothing for the previous 27 years. Arthur's is a solid coach.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

All players were lightweight when compared to the big boppers today. Not many poly players played then either.

Although forwards were at their biggest about 20 years ago.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Ryles is a complete unknown whereas RS had a poor record other than one premiership with a stacked Roosters side and two g/f losses or 33% record in g/f's.

Stuart won 9 of his first 12 finals matches ffs

 

[hineyrulz]

Stuart won 9 of his first 12 finals matches ffs

And how has he gone since Gus stopped holding his hand and he didn’t have a roster built by others???

It’s Bea Arthurish.

 

[lucablight]

If we were never winning anything under Arthur's it was for the same reason we've won nothing for the previous 27 years. Arthur's is a solid coach.

How do you know that? (Same reason as every other coach).

 

[Poupou Escobar]

And how has he gone since Gus stopped holding his hand and he didn’t have a roster built by others???

It’s Bea Arthurish.

Yeah shows that 12 games is a meaningless sample

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How do you know that? (Same reason as every other coach).

Well if those supposedly better coaches couldn't win anything why would Arthur's? You're implying he was holding us back. What was holding us back for the previous 27 years, and why did that no longer apply when he became coach?

 

[hineyrulz]

Well if those supposedly better coaches couldn't win anything why would Arthur's? You're implying he was holding us back. What was holding us back for the previous 27 years, and why did that no longer apply when he became coach?

Back luck ffs!!

 

[lucablight]

Well if those supposedly better coaches couldn't win anything why would Arthur's? You're implying he was holding us back. What was holding us back for the previous 27 years, and why did that no longer apply when he became coach?

I don’t see how that’s related to being the same reason we haven’t won anything under previous coaches. I think every coach should be assessed on their merits rather than applying a blanket rule to everyone.

 

[hindy111]

He’s a backup. He started the year behind May and Tago. And his defence is poor.

He's a terrible player and we are lucky to have secured the experience of Morgan Harper over this clown

 

[84 Baby]

And how has he gone since Gus stopped holding his hand and he didn’t have a roster built by others???

It’s Bea Arthurish.

Are you saying that it’s not BAs fault but MONs because he isn’t as good as Gould?

 

[King-Gutho94]

I don’t see how that’s related to being the same reason we haven’t won anything under previous coaches. I think every coach should be assessed on their merits rather than applying a blanket rule to everyone.

Here is my assessment of all coaches i have seen coach Parramatta.

All different in there own way and have different reasons why we didnt win a comp.

Brian Smith - Great tactical mind, defense orientated, got more out of the side then most. Though never mastered the big games and had the team on edge with mind games texting players and so forth when the stakes were raised. Giving the team an uneasy nervous energy which contributed to some horrific losses come finals time.

Jason Taylor - Came in and did a good job as caretaker coach hard to assess but unleashed Jarryd Hayne from game 1 and took us from 14th to 8th in the space of 10 weeks. Who knows how things turn out if he got the job instead of Hagan.

Michael Hagan - Made a prelim final with a bunch of hard core senior players but 2008 was a downright debacle and waste of year. Should never been signed and has Andrew Johns to thank for being known as a premiership coach. His depressing press conferences actually make BA's not sound as bad.

Daniel Anderson - A rough start but took a smart coach to take a back seat and let his ego out of the way and let the team just go with the flow with momentum in 2009 and it almost won us a comp. His rope-a-dope against Wayne Bennett in 2009 is one of the best coaching performances i have seen from a Parramatta coach.

Brutally unlucky had his job undermined a year later & was a dead man walking for half the season if he got 11 years i imagine we would have won a comp. What Spags did to DA was downright disgraceful and set us down a path that set us back a decade.

Stephen Kearney - One of the worst appointments this club has ever made a downright and utter failure that led us to winning B2B wooden spoons and the worst period this club has had since the 1970s. Signing a retirement home in 2011 and thinking we could play like a robotic Melbourne Storm with a spine of Matt Keating, Robson/Mortimer, McGuire & Hayne was downright stupidity.

Ricky Stuart - Never was the right fit for this place and it was obvious very quickly. Cleaned up some of the mess so BA had a clean slate in 2014. But backdoored it after 12 months when it became too hard. Thanks for 12 glorious months & our 13th Wooden Spoon Ricky.

Brad Arthur - Was fortunate to come in at a time where that had been so much instability from coaching to administration in the joint that BA benefitted from the need for the club to just become stable as a club as unify behind one coach after churning through 6 in 7 years. Lucky to survive in 2018.

Got us to the finals numerous times but like Brian Smith fell short and 2022 was a carbon copy of 2001 GF day where the players weren't mentally ready to play in a GF.

Was here too long cord should have been cut a fair while back.

Trent Barrett - Bazball like game plan all out attack with no defence. Had a shitfight with availability at backend of the year but kept us competitive. Will never be a head coach again but Baz can hold his head up high for the role he played this year in avoiding the spoon and the cards he got dealt as a caretaker coach.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I don’t see how that’s related to being the same reason we haven’t won anything under previous coaches. I think every coach should be assessed on their merits rather than applying a blanket rule to everyone.

Well they all won f**k all. Isn’t that the merit we’re judging Arthur’s on?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He's a terrible player and we are lucky to have secured the experience of Morgan Harper over this clown

Harper would’ve been on minimum salary. Blaize Talagi was picked ahead of him, and is a better player than Alamoti too. Harper and Talagi were both behind Penisini and Simonsson. Dunno why you’re banging on about Harper. Did he stop us signing anyone?

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Here is my assessment of all coaches i have seen coach Parramatta.

All different in there own way and have different reasons why we didnt win a comp.

Brian Smith - Great tactical mind, defense orientated, got more out of the side then most. Though never mastered the big games and had the team on edge with mind games texting players and so forth when the stakes were raised. Giving the team an uneasy nervous energy which contributed to some horrific losses come finals time.

Jason Taylor - Came in and did a good job as caretaker coach hard to assess but unleashed Jarryd Hayne from game 1 and took us from 14th to 8th in the space of 10 weeks. Who knows how things turn out if he got the job instead of Hagan.

Michael Hagan - Made a prelim final with a bunch of hard core senior players but 2008 was a downright debacle and waste of year. Should never been signed and has Andrew Johns to thank for being known as a premiership coach. His depressing press conferences actually make BA's not sound as bad.

Daniel Anderson - A rough start but took a smart coach to take a back seat and let his ego out of the way and let the team just go with the flow with momentum in 2009 and it almost won us a comp. His rope-a-dope against Wayne Bennett in 2009 is one of the best coaching performances i have seen from a Parramatta coach.

Brutally unlucky had his job undermined a year later & was a dead man walking for half the season if he got 11 years i imagine we would have won a comp. What Spags did to DA was downright disgraceful and set us down a path that set us back a decade.

Stephen Kearney - One of the worst appointments this club has ever made a downright and utter failure that led us to winning B2B wooden spoons and the worst period this club has had since the 1970s. Signing a retirement home in 2011 and thinking we could play like a robotic Melbourne Storm with a spine of Matt Keating, Robson/Mortimer, McGuire & Hayne was downright stupidity.

Ricky Stuart - Never was the right fit for this place and it was obvious very quickly. Cleaned up some of the mess so BA had a clean slate in 2014. But backdoored it after 12 months when it became too hard. Thanks for 12 glorious months & our 13th Wooden Spoon Ricky.

Brad Arthur - Was fortunate to come in at a time where that had been so much instability from coaching to administration in the joint that BA benefitted from the need for the club to just become stable as a club as unify behind one coach after churning through 6 in 7 years. Lucky to survive in 2018.

Got us to the finals numerous times but like Brian Smith fell short and 2022 was a carbon copy of 2001 GF day where the players weren't mentally ready to play in a GF.

Was here too long cord should have been cut a fair while back.

Trent Barrett - Bazball like game plan all out attack with no defence. Had a shitfight with availability at backend of the year but kept us competitive. Will never be a head coach again but Baz can hold his head up high for the role he played this year in avoiding the spoon and the cards he got dealt as a caretaker coach.

You never saw Ron Hilditch with his 19-44 record. What a time to be alive that was.

 

[gaffer]

You never saw Ron Hilditch with his 19-44 record. What a time to be alive that was.

certainly had some dud coaches over the years

 

[King-Gutho94]

You never saw Ron Hilditch with his 19-44 record. What a time to be alive that was.

Nah I missed out on those glorious 1990s and thankfully wasn't old enough to witness 1998.

My first memory and game of Rugby League i remember going too I was 4 years old at the opening of the Olympic Stadium double header when we played the Dragons in 1999.

We won that night as well.

That year was my first Parra jersey as well the 99 Blue Asics Jersey as well. Probably our best jersey of that era.

Considering the first 3 years of watching Parra we made 2 x prelims and a GF i just assumed we were some super power always in the finals and would win a comp pretty easily.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Back luck ffs!!

*resources

Or maybe none of them can coach?

Hagan and Stuart are premiership winners who won nothing at Parra. Could it be that there are more important things than coaching for a champion team?

 

[Parra Pride]

Yeah but just as odd is Kevvie not telling them to GGFd.

Honestly if I got sacked and then a few weeks later was offered a job by them to do nothing and get paid for it I’d take it.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Nah I missed out on those glorious 1990s and thankfully wasn't old enough to witness 1998.

My first memory and game of Rugby League i remember going too I was 4 years old at the opening of the Olympic Stadium double header when we played the Dragons in 1999.

We won that night as well.

That year was my first Parra jersey as well the 99 Blue Asics Jersey as well. Probably our best jersey of that era.

Considering the first 3 years of watching Parra we made 2 x prelims and a GF i just assumed we were some super power always in the finals and would win a comp pretty easily.

I was there that night. The only thing I remember is wondering who the giraffe was when Mick Vella came out.