I thought Seibold would be rubbish this year. I was obviously pleasantly surprised for the most part as he had the team playing some great attacking football.When we belted Melbourne a few weeks before the end of the comp, we showed that we were serious contenders. Sadly, that was probably the high point of our year. By the time finals football came round it was completely obvious that the other teams had worked us out. We needed a tweak in tactics... Something a little out of the box that we hadn't done all year and sadly, Seibold couldn't produce it.
On top of this, we carried a reserve on the bench all the way through the finals series. In the final against the Storm, Cam Munster carved us up through the middle just before half time when he ran between Sam Burgess and John Sutton. Both were out on their feet. In the end, that try was the difference. If we had a fresh forward on at that point, that tackle is probably made. Fair enough, mistakes are made all the time but then the following game against the Dragons, the same gap is exposed just before half time and again we had a fresh player on the bench. It was at that point, that Seibold lost me as a coach. He's happy to tell all and sundry that he's progressive and constantly studying, yet here was a blatant error that cost us a finals game and he backed it up again just one week later. Same error, same time. That should have been picked up in the review and corrected.
The pressure will be on him big time at the Broncos. He'll have all the cattle and the resources in the world. He's an intelligent bloke, I think he will learn from this year but he also seems like one of these guys that can also be too smart for his own good at times. Will be interesting times.
