Am definitely not a Stuart fan Ram. Cannot stand the man. Will never forget or forgive how the egotistical grub treated our great club as a door mat.
Obviously the jury remains out on Barrett but I've seen signs that maybe hes matured. Cleary has been an average coach for many years yet Penrith have improved 10 fold. I have a sneaky suspicion that TB has a lot to do with that. It may well be that TB is an outstanding Assistant and not cut out for the senior position. Time will tell. I think The Dogs missed the boat with Holbrook. Moving forward to "Parra-phrase" a respected forumite "its very exciting".
You just have to see Barrett's post game press conferences to see what type of temperament and person he is. Never takes responsibility and looks to blame anything and everything if he can to deflect his own failings. Stuart was the same, but now doesn't do that anywhere near as much.
Barrett will eventually turn out to be a good coach, but he is way short of the finished product. He will be tested big time with that average team at the Dogs. He will find many OTHER reasons for their losses. Do you remember BA ever really blaming anyone other then himself or the team for their losses over the years?
But coaches like Bozo, Stuart and now Barrett ,the new pinup boy of the media, all had/have this trait in them. They all were average coaches when they first started out, but their big mouths and egos tried to deflect their short comings because they weren't quite ready to be head coaches when they first started out. Barrett's second time wont be such a shock to his system this time around and he will be a little more prepared for sure, but the team at this stage is very average, so if they don't get many more quality signings from now to next season, we can all look forward to many post game meltdowns by Barrett.
As for Cleary being an average coach, I don't see him like that at all. I think he is a very good coach and always has been. When I think of all the teams he has coached from the Warriors to now, win, lose or draw they have always been well prepared and each player knew their roll well and executed it accordingly. Put simply they would play a very up tempo style and ran lines very well, with many players always in motion. Even when they would get it wrong, it wasn't from a coaching point of view, but from player error. Basically they almost always looked like they had an objective that they were working on and a style of play that would get them there.
That type of play does not happen through bad coaching. I used to always comment on this to my mates as we would watch games together. I would be surprised at how well some of his teams would actually play, considering the sometimes average roster he had to work with. Bad coaching is the Broncos this season. The players seam lost and devoid of ideas and constantly frustrated and make poor reads in defense. Seibold seems to have made it to complicated for a very young roster that is struggling to make it work on the field. I don't judge him on his Tigers stint because that all turned ugly very quickly due to lies, politics and selfish self interest behaviour(by him of course).
That doesn't make him a bad coach though. Look at Super coach Bennett and his double dealings over the years. Just makes him a flawed human like the rest of us. His stint last year the Panthers was derailed do to all the shenanigans within the club from the players that were out of his control. As for having Barrett there who has been a massive positive influence on the teams performance? I should hope so. The best coaches/teams have also got some of the best assistants, look at the Storm and the Roosters. Everyone keeps poaching their guys for a reason. Oh and Api Koroisau has made a massive difference as well.
clubs with massive TPA’s say hi.
