Saints are completely f**ked - McGregor sacked

[Marshall_magic]

To me Mar always felt like a stop gap option as a coach. When they won a few games under him and gave him the reigns permanently I was surprised and every year I get more and more surprised he is still there. I've never thought they were a real threat to win the title under him and I can't see it happening in the future. Why the board signed him up beyond 2019 I will never understand.

 

[Knuckle-dragger]

Can the Dragons afford to pay out his contract?

I'd say so.

 

[avocado]

Can the Dragons afford to pay out his contract?

They can’t afford not to.

We are 100% f****d

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Mary, Mary...quite contrary...
How does your gameplan go?

With kicking woes; D that's on the nose...
And hefty losses all in a row.

 

[tumbidragon]

Mary, Mary...quite contrary...
How does your gameplan go?

With kicking woes; D that's on the nose...
And hefty losses all in a row.

Just remember. No bunnies TRYs from kicks this week. It's only fair and gentlemanly...

 

[Drew-Sta]

Can the Dragons afford to pay out his contract?

He’s supposedly only on a few hundred thousand a year. With our wonderful benefactors the Gordons - praise their holy name, our Lords and Masters, the ones fated to take us to the promised land - there is no shortage of money.

Whats in short supply is backbone, common sense and the drive to improve.

We’ll have Something About Mary at the helm come 2020. You watch.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Boo hoo you premiership winning bastards.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Just remember. No bunnies TRYs from kicks this week. It's only fair and gentlemanly...

I'll see what I can do.

In all fairness, I think Saints are dead certainties this week.

 

[BennyV]

To me Mar always felt like a stop gap option as a coach. When they won a few games under him and gave him the reigns permanently I was surprised and every year I get more and more surprised he is still there. I've never thought they were a real threat to win the title under him and I can't see it happening in the future. Why the board signed him up beyond 2019 I will never understand.

Because our management don’t care about being successful. They just want to exist. For them, as long as the Illawarra has a presence in the NRL, they are doing their job.

Mary is the poster boy for the Illawarra, hence they will find absolutely any excuse to keep him there. The only ones who suffer because of it is the fans!

 

[Drew-Sta]

Boo hoo you premiership winning bastards.

We keep being told we can’t live in the past. We’re just trying to take everyones advice.

I'll see what I can do.

In all fairness, I think Saints are dead certainties this week.

How, exactly? Your second grade side would lap us.

 

[Dakink]

How the f%^k can they be starting a review into the season and not look into the coaching performance....probably the MAIN reason for our continual suckingness...

 

[Haffa]

Not his fault, it’s all the players he refuses to drop.

 

[Fangs]

Why are Kent and Hooper backing Mary so much?

 

[Hutty1986]

Lol, running 14th yet its only "season hangs in the balance."
That horse has not only bolted, it's been shot, quartered and plated on haynetrain's dinner table

 

[soc123_au]

They will sack Mary at the end of the year & then call in Matthew Elliott. Elliott is the obvious choice, played for the Dragons and cant coach.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Because our management don’t care about being successful. They just want to exist. For them, as long as the Illawarra has a presence in the NRL, they are doing their job.

Mary is the poster boy for the Illawarra, hence they will find absolutely any excuse to keep him there. The only ones who suffer because of it is the fans!

He is a simple operator, play basic football (complete sets and defend well) - you'll win games early in the season when teams lack match fitness. It puts you high on the ladder. His problem is he doesn't evolve his gameplans over the season so teams figure them out and they start sliding. The thing is coaches in the finals race never get sacked, so it means he keeps his position.

There are stories doing the rounds that he doesn't sign players. If they don't trust him to recruit players why is he trusted with the squad?

 

[soc123_au]

The thing is coaches in the finals race never get sacked,

Hold my beer...

 

[Marshall_magic]

Hold my beer...

and how did sacking him work out for Mr Gould?

 

[soc123_au]

and how did sacking him work out for Mr Gould?

Not so well for Gus, How it works out for the Panthers remains to be seen. We were treading water with Hook as nice as it was to make week 2 of the finals for 3 years in a row.

 

[BennyV]

He is a simple operator, play basic football (complete sets and defend well) - you'll win games early in the season when teams lack match fitness. It puts you high on the ladder. His problem is he doesn't evolve his gameplans over the season so teams figure them out and they start sliding. The thing is coaches in the finals race never get sacked, so it means he keeps his position.

There are stories doing the rounds that he doesn't sign players. If they don't trust him to recruit players why is he trusted with the squad?

They ‘trust’ him (ie keep him employed) because he is an Illawarra old boy. That’s it. It’s brutally obvious to everyone paying attention that his game plan is one-dimensional, his strategic/tactical thinking is no good for anything above bush league, his training methods are not effective and his development of basic skills for all players (especially youngsters looking to make the jump from ISP) is non-existent. That’s putting it nicely.

The simple plan you refer to only works if EVERYTHING goes in your favour - forwards are all fit and hungry, there’s individual talent within the backline and we don’t cop injuries or tough calls. But it’s easily combatted and by the time halfway point rolls around every year of his tenure, opposition coaches figure it out without much issue.