There probably are a few big guys over there who would be worth looking at.
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There probably are a few big guys over there who would be worth looking at.
14 wins. I will be pleased with that next year. 16 the year after.
Yeah, generally happens when you go from a top 4 team to a multiple spoon team, or vice versa.
There's a reason why South African Rugby players are not recruited
Ooops.
A leftover from the Apartheid days no doubt, when once again the working man's game was shit on and marginalised by the elite fascist class. Just like with post-Vichy France, when most of the sport administrators who were in charge during the nazi oocupation held their positions after it, its the same with the Afrikaaners post-apartheid
OK so can you please tell me of a player that has gone to the WT from another club and has become a superstar, under any of your coaching or club admin. I'm interested to see what the progression of one Mr Jack Bird will be under your tutelage.
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So your saying that the coach that got JB his premiership and his best footy and couldn't get him to his best again will be outdone by Benji. Well mate good luck with that.
No one under our previous peanut coaches who were buying hasbeens and rejects. But our coach as has been proven has the ability to get the best out of players, Lomax an example. I'm not saying Benji cant, its just a matter of that we havent seen it yet, if we ever do. I would dare say Benji would be feeling a bit more pressure this year with the R + R you have done and money spent. But yes all the best to you and I do look forward to Magic round, I actually dont mind the Tige's we have a lot in common.
@Das Hassler
Few coaches have natural predispositions that lend themselves to leadership & man management (Think Bennet & Bellamy.) Most others, including Benji, do not.@Das Hassler
@justadragon
Are you saying your team is a basket case Justin
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I think Benji was a champion football player.
Can you image the pressure a young man, barely having pubic hair, who had just sat for his HSC run out in front of 82,453 screaming fans in a GF. Even before that game he showed his brilliance time and time again.
Well as a fan of his, I can tell you that feeling the pressure just isn't in his repertoire.
So I can't see being a coach under all this scrutiny being an issue.
His biggest task is trying to get players to gel with each other and buy into his coaching techniques and game plans.
It has already surfaced that some resent his style of giving the kids like Lachlan Galvin special treatment when Bateman spat his dummy out.
More like no other human could understand a word he said.
Benji will have to learn quickly that everyone has their way of doing things because they've won Harold matts grandfinals, NRL grand finals or played for their country and are reluctant to change.
This is going to be a huge test of character as he has to get all these different types of players singing off the same lyrics sheet.
Shane Flanagan has done it before and can recognise these bad traits surfacing early and will nip it in the bud before it stuffs the dragons teams up.
Benji needs to learn this and other things of course like using his subs to the best effect and have game plans that are simple but effective.
100% HOD, we all know the old story only too well, great players dont automatically make great coaches
