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They were.
One doesn’t need to have played at the highest level to know what needs changing.
I doubt anyone on this forum you included has played at the highest level mate. You would be a lot easier to take seriously if you didn't have an agenda. The only thing I have ever seen you contribute to this forum is 1.Bagging Lomax 2. Praising Aitken. It is just silly, I haven't seen you once say "I thought McInnes play well tonight" or "Must admit that was a great pass by Lomax" or "Jeez on the spread if Aitken passed instead of stepping inside JP probably would have been in space" Everyone else praises players good points and criticise bad points. Hopefully now that Aitken has left you will join the Warriors forum and we won't need to hear your rubbish anymore.
Haha fair enough I dont see it that way, I thought he went out with class. I just think that 7 years is long enough for anyone. He had a good shot but it is time to move on. I more agree with what Fittler said in that we always play tough and with passion but just don't play together and that is the coaches job to make us play together. If the next coach can build some combos I think we can build a very good side quite quickly.
I think Wiliame will more than do the job until Feagai is ready. There were at least three occasions last night where Clune tried to shift wide when the eels were compressed and as soon as it got to Aitken he stepped inside and made a few meters but JP was in space and could have made 20 meters. There was also one occasion where I seen Clune stuff up a pass because you could see the right person to pass to was Aitken to setup JP but he went for the cut-out because he knew the result. I love the way Aitken runs and he is starting to become a very good defender but one of his key jobs is setting up his winger and he just cant do it. JP outside a decent centre will score a bucketload of tries.
Yeah he's a strange C&&& no doubt. He doesn't get to me at all, I will just give him my opinion which he will value as much as everyone on here values his and leave it at that.
Haha, yeah you are probably right. No need to constantly bag someone else's son.
Mary's last address: Red V to reign again as 25-year tenure ends
Author
Dan Walsh NRL.com Reporter
Timestamp
Sat 15 Aug 2020, 12:04 AM
An emotional Paul McGregor predicts a swift turnaround for the Dragons, defending the club's culture after ending a 25-year association with the red and white.
McGregor was farewelled with a stirring 14-12 upset of premiership frontrunners Parramatta on Friday night, before similarly moving scenes in the St George Illawarra sheds.
Captain Cameron McInnes presented McGregor with the jersey he wore, a gesture the outgoing coach described as "one of the best presents I've ever got in my life from a person that I admire the way he plays the game and leads the club."
McGregor described his final day as Dragons coach, following his rise as a Steelers great and inaugural co-captain of the joint-venture over 20 years ago, as an "emotional" and "special" occasion.
Since a 2018 finals run McGregor's side has struggled without key players in Jack de Belin (no fault stand-down policy) and Gareth Widdop (injury before departing for England), while several representative stars have also underperformed in that period.
But given the quality roster interim coach Dean Young takes charge of, McGregor believes results will take care of themselves soon enough for the Dragons, pointing to the Eels upset as proof of a tightknit club.
"There was a lot of talk they weren't a tight group and they weren't playing for me, but that was too far from the truth, and they showed that tonight," McGregor said.
"The last 18 months; in 2018 we were pretty much unbeatable for most of the year and building really well; but in the last 18 months we just haven't been able to put those players on the park all together for different reasons.
"You only need to miss a couple of important players to lose close games. When you lose close games everything's spoken about.
"And that's what's happened at the place, everyone's speaking about all the negative things. There's a lot of good things in the organisation.
"For me, I think they've got a good leader in Dean. He's a good coach, a good person, he bleeds red and white. They've got a playing group that wants to play hard.
"And once we get healthy and get a full roster back they're going to be a very good footy team. Is there things to do there? Of course there is. But they've got the right people around to get it done."
McGregor will spend his first day out of the Dragons COVID visiting his ill father in hospital, who he hasn't been able to see for three months due to the NRL's biosecurity restrictions.
The now 52-year-old had to be coaxed into playing top grade footy for the Steelers in the early 90s, a similar path saw McGregor begin his coaching career as he juggled successful business interests in Wollongong.
Having started out in strength and conditioning before progressing through the ranks to take charge in 2014, McGregor is keen to continue in an NRL role in the future, be it in charge or as an assistant elsewhere.
For now though, he offered perspective on a 25-year journey for first his own junior club, then one of the most famous in rugby league land.
"You start off as a player and that journey is a great one," McGregor said.
"Then you become a captain, a club captain and a staff member and then a coach.
"It has been a series of privileges the whole way through, I've never felt like it's an obligation.
"The close-out speech was something I will remember and some of the words said by some of the players were very special."
https://www.dragons.com.au/news/202...-red-v-to-reign-again-as-25-year-tenure-ends/
Can you organise a ride on the jet ski for me. Thanks
Green made a farewell speech half the size of McGregor's and he had actually won a premiership.Mary's last address: Red V to reign again as 25-year tenure ends
Author
Dan Walsh NRL.com Reporter
Timestamp
Sat 15 Aug 2020, 12:04 AM
An emotional Paul McGregor predicts a swift turnaround for the Dragons, defending the club's culture after ending a 25-year association with the red and white.
McGregor was farewelled with a stirring 14-12 upset of premiership frontrunners Parramatta on Friday night, before similarly moving scenes in the St George Illawarra sheds.
Captain Cameron McInnes presented McGregor with the jersey he wore, a gesture the outgoing coach described as "one of the best presents I've ever got in my life from a person that I admire the way he plays the game and leads the club."
McGregor described his final day as Dragons coach, following his rise as a Steelers great and inaugural co-captain of the joint-venture over 20 years ago, as an "emotional" and "special" occasion.
Since a 2018 finals run McGregor's side has struggled without key players in Jack de Belin (no fault stand-down policy) and Gareth Widdop (injury before departing for England), while several representative stars have also underperformed in that period.
But given the quality roster interim coach Dean Young takes charge of, McGregor believes results will take care of themselves soon enough for the Dragons, pointing to the Eels upset as proof of a tightknit club.
"There was a lot of talk they weren't a tight group and they weren't playing for me, but that was too far from the truth, and they showed that tonight," McGregor said.
"The last 18 months; in 2018 we were pretty much unbeatable for most of the year and building really well; but in the last 18 months we just haven't been able to put those players on the park all together for different reasons.
"You only need to miss a couple of important players to lose close games. When you lose close games everything's spoken about.
"And that's what's happened at the place, everyone's speaking about all the negative things. There's a lot of good things in the organisation.
"For me, I think they've got a good leader in Dean. He's a good coach, a good person, he bleeds red and white. They've got a playing group that wants to play hard.
"And once we get healthy and get a full roster back they're going to be a very good footy team. Is there things to do there? Of course there is. But they've got the right people around to get it done."
McGregor will spend his first day out of the Dragons COVID visiting his ill father in hospital, who he hasn't been able to see for three months due to the NRL's biosecurity restrictions.
The now 52-year-old had to be coaxed into playing top grade footy for the Steelers in the early 90s, a similar path saw McGregor begin his coaching career as he juggled successful business interests in Wollongong.
Having started out in strength and conditioning before progressing through the ranks to take charge in 2014, McGregor is keen to continue in an NRL role in the future, be it in charge or as an assistant elsewhere.
For now though, he offered perspective on a 25-year journey for first his own junior club, then one of the most famous in rugby league land.
"You start off as a player and that journey is a great one," McGregor said.
"Then you become a captain, a club captain and a staff member and then a coach.
"It has been a series of privileges the whole way through, I've never felt like it's an obligation.
"The close-out speech was something I will remember and some of the words said by some of the players were very special."
https://www.dragons.com.au/news/202...-red-v-to-reign-again-as-25-year-tenure-ends/
