Yeah I don't know what the deal is there, but I saw Head running water for 1st grade last week whilst his team were bein g flogged against Wyong Roos. As coach you would expect him to be with HIS team. No wonder they are performing like crap, maybe they just don't have a coach.
Maybe Head doesn't want the job (anymore) and would prefer to just be a runner for 1st grade, if so, get him out now and appoint a coach for these guys, after all they are the reigning premiers and deserve more respect.
They are a really poorly coached side and it's such a shame considering they have arguably a better side than last year. Their forward pack has some very classy players like Kerr, Leilua, Hind and Lawrie that should be dominating every game and allowing their backs like Nona, Field and Dufty to run riot, instead it seems to be every man for himself and very unstructured. Demetriou would have them firing. I just watched their last game against Wests which was a very undisciplined game from both sides, it was like the ball was a big cake of soap. One of the commentators remarked that a few players were out to get themselves on the highlights reel and playing one out and he would have been referring to Fai Fai Loa and Herbert who kept running into dummy half at every opportunity to make runs whether required or not - Havili should have taken control of that - we'd have 3 or 4 forwards ready to hit it up and FFLoa with his silly hair cut would come in looking for glory. You won't see on the highlights reel FFLoa continually racing up in defence and missing everyone but you will see the opposition tries scored down his side and not just last week. Glad he's not in 1st grade.
On the flip side Leilua needs a run in 1st grade, he would go really well with a good team around him - his touches are always class, great off-loads, backing up , hole and angle running and solid defence. He ran a great line to collect a short ball from Nona and burst through a tiny gap, then was ankle tapped but got a miracle ball away for the ever present Field to go in under the posts. He'd be great at getting us second phase play making our attack even better. We're traveling well but it wouldn't hurt to have him on the bench.
