No, McGregor is not the only problem, but from a football point of view he’s definitely the biggest. The playing group has rotated quite significantly and many would argue that it’s improved from a personnel point of view (as a result of recruitment, not development) and yet results haven’t changed on a whole. In fact, last years finish was the worst in JV history and that doesn’t reflect the talent on the park.
In terms of dragons fans complaining and calling for heads - considering in the JV history we’ve had to deal with appointment of Farrar, Brown, Price and McGregor, all underqualified rookie appointments who (with the exception of maybe Price) were only given the position due to their standing within the club and not based on their experience or past success, the continual calling for heads to roll is a reflect of the heads being put there in the first place. How to break the cycle? Employ a decent f**king coach!!! Make appointments based on experience, ability and past success rather than ridiculous measures like passion, emotional intelligence and ‘ran a business’. It’s really not that hard. And the fact that we’ve employed shit coaches in the past is not a reason to ‘break the cycle’ and keep the shit coach that we have in a job.
As for facts vs opinion; I admitted that the ‘smug’ comment was my opinion. Your opinion is that Mary is ‘stoic’. My opinion is that he’s not. That he’s offered up everything I listed as an excuse/reason for poor results (recruitment, injury, players lack of passion, tries off Ickes, JDB, etc) is a fact. So what’s opinion is whether or not you see that as stoic. Based on the definition of the word that you provided, I cant see how you can claim that it is.
