The Rumours Thread

[Auntie.Gerald]

If Jerome Hughes was playing for the Dragons yesterday I wonder what the score would have been ?

18-42

 

[Dragsters]

If Jerome Hughes was playing for the Dragons yesterday I wonder what the score would have been ?

18-42

He is the most dangerous half in the comp imo. Pace, a great pass, can kick well and plays eyes up footy and takes opportunities when he sees them..

 

[Dragon David]

He is the most dangerous half in the comp imo. Pace, a great pass, can kick well and plays eyes up footy and takes opportunities when he sees them..

Everything that Hunt lacks.

 

[John moz]

Flanno & Hunt not the answer we are slow in attack .
Dragons will not make breaks running of the 6 and 7 combination.

 

[Old Timer]

M

You've said this so many times but have never once actually told us what L plate Ryles was going to do better than what Flanagan has done with the roster he inherited.
Can you help me out by telling me how he would have recruited better, coached better or got better results in the first year of a rebuild if he had been given the job instead of Flanno?

Well you obviously can’t read nor comprehend very well.

If Ryles had been appointed

1. The BOD grip / influence over the coach would have finally been broken. It remains firmly in place with S F and it is a millstone round our neck.
2. No Dean Young stinking up the place.
3. No shit signings like Nu Brown, K F, J M and the bung winged Warrior.
4. An untarnished coach with no links to nefarious sports medicine Dr’s and illegal substances. I firmly believe that is somewhat a deterrence for some established players and parents of emerging player's.
5. The modern and fresh approach to the game that is integral at clubs that he has served his apprenticeship at but completely foreign to us and S F who is well and truly stuck in the Ricky Stuart / Mc Fookknuckle just play tough time warp.
6. Re recruitment he brings in it is hard to know the answer to that but I believe he is at least on good terms with players and managers from 2 of the very best performed clubs and systems in the comp and I see more potential in that than anything that S F did when previously here in a recruiting / roster management role or at Manly as an assistant or since he was appointed as our head coach.

Here we are applauding re signing J D B, Feagai and pushing hard for Hunt meanwhile the Roosters cut Tupouniua.

 

[blacksafake]

M

Well you obviously can’t read nor comprehend very well.

If Ryles had been appointed

1. The BOD grip / influence over the coach would have finally been broken. It remains firmly in place with S F and it is a millstone round our neck.
2. No Dean Young stinking up the place.
3. No shit signings like Nu Brown, K F, J M and the bung winged Warrior.
4. An untarnished coach with no links to nefarious sports medicine Dr’s and illegal substances. I firmly believe that is somewhat a deterrence for some established players and parents of emerging player's.
5. The modern and fresh approach to the game that is integral at clubs that he has served his apprenticeship at but completely foreign to us and S F who is well and truly stuck in the Ricky Stuart / Mc Fookknuckle just play tough time warp.
6. Re recruitment he brings in it is hard to know the answer to that but I believe he is at least on good terms with players and managers from 2 of the very best performed clubs and systems in the comp and I see more potential in that than anything that S F did when previously here in a recruiting / roster management role or at Manly as an assistant or since he was appointed as our head coach.

Here we are applauding re signing J D B, Feagai and pushing hard for Hunt meanwhile the Roosters cut Tupouniua.

Is number 2 a definite or was that part of his reason for knocking us back?

 

[Hound of Dracula]

M

Well you obviously can’t read nor comprehend very well.

If Ryles had been appointed

1. The BOD grip / influence over the coach would have finally been broken. It remains firmly in place with S F and it is a millstone round our neck.
2. No Dean Young stinking up the place.
3. No shit signings like Nu Brown, K F, J M and the bung winged Warrior.
4. An untarnished coach with no links to nefarious sports medicine Dr’s and illegal substances. I firmly believe that is somewhat a deterrence for some established players and parents of emerging player's.
5. The modern and fresh approach to the game that is integral at clubs that he has served his apprenticeship at but completely foreign to us and S F who is well and truly stuck in the Ricky Stuart / Mc Fookknuckle just play tough time warp.
6. Re recruitment he brings in it is hard to know the answer to that but I believe he is at least on good terms with players and managers from 2 of the very best performed clubs and systems in the comp and I see more potential in that than anything that S F did when previously here in a recruiting / roster management role or at Manly as an assistant or since he was appointed as our head coach.

Here we are applauding re signing J D B, Feagai and pushing hard for Hunt meanwhile the Roosters cut Tupouniua.

'And they all lived happily ever after'

With crystal balls like yours O.T. be very careful when you sit!

 

[barry]

M

Well you obviously can’t read nor comprehend very well.

If Ryles had been appointed

1. The BOD grip / influence over the coach would have finally been broken. It remains firmly in place with S F and it is a millstone round our neck.
2. No Dean Young stinking up the place.
3. No shit signings like Nu Brown, K F, J M and the bung winged Warrior.
4. An untarnished coach with no links to nefarious sports medicine Dr’s and illegal substances. I firmly believe that is somewhat a deterrence for some established players and parents of emerging player's.
5. The modern and fresh approach to the game that is integral at clubs that he has served his apprenticeship at but completely foreign to us and S F who is well and truly stuck in the Ricky Stuart / Mc Fookknuckle just play tough time warp.
6. Re recruitment he brings in it is hard to know the answer to that but I believe he is at least on good terms with players and managers from 2 of the very best performed clubs and systems in the comp and I see more potential in that than anything that S F did when previously here in a recruiting / roster management role or at Manly as an assistant or since he was appointed as our head coach.

Here we are applauding re signing J D B, Feagai and pushing hard for Hunt meanwhile the Roosters cut Tupouniua.

I stopped reading after point 1.

 

[Auntie.Gerald]

He is the most dangerous half in the comp imo. Pace, a great pass, can kick well and plays eyes up footy and takes opportunities when he sees them..

He is for sure.
Jerome ranks below Hunt for try assists.

what I am trying to say is that if we replace Hunt with Jerome yesterday realistically we would have seen a marginal improvement in performance.

there is no way Jerome could have fixed our lack of intent and piss week line speed. He would not change our non commitment to hunt down the opposition when we were defending like they did to us.

if we did a complete swap with the rising star Walker with Hunt yesterday …..the Roosters still would have killed us.

we were massively behind the rotation of JWH, Collins, Spencer and May. These 4 stripped us alive.

those 4 with their trusty aggressive edge forwards hunted us down, scraped our intestines out of our rib cage and ate it raw.

everything happened to us because of our lack of ability to stand and strike in the centre of the ring. We got hunted and killed. Then their two halves played a little.

we need a web of changes still not just a mono solution.

 

[TruSaint]

He is for sure.
Jerome ranks below Hunt for try assists.

what I am trying to say is that if we replace Hunt with Jerome yesterday realistically we would have seen a marginal improvement in performance.

there is no way Jerome could have fixed our lack of intent and piss week line speed. He would not change our non commitment to hunt down the opposition when we were defending like they did to us.

we were massively behind the rotation of JWH, Collins, Spencer and May.

those 4 with their trusty aggressive edge forwards hunter us down, scraped our intestines out of our rib cage and ate it raw.

everything happened to us because of our lack of ability to stand and strike in the centre of the ring. We gut hunted and killed. Then their two halves played a little.

we need a web of changes still not just a mono solution.

Jerome is so far ahead of Hunt it aint funny.

He is a clutch player. A leader. Tell me one game on the line where Hunt stood up ?
Club game and not SOO.

Ben Hunt is not the problem, but he also isn't the solution.

 

[Old Timer]

'And they all lived happily ever after'

With crystal balls like yours O.T. be very careful when you sit!

Never said that that it would all be smooth sailing nor an easy road but I did say a very different road.

But having read Cameron Smith's take on it I guess the Ryles haters think Smith doesn’t know much either.

 

[Old Timer]

I stopped reading after point 1.

Well good for you champ.

You’ll be wearing long pants soon

 

[barry]

Never said that that it would all be smooth sailing nor an easy road but I did say a very different road.

But having read Cameron Smith's take on it I guess the Ryles haters think Smith doesn’t know much either.

Wow OT you really shot yourself in the foot with this one.

Do you really want to go down the path of ‘legends who know’ take on potential head coaches?

Give us some takes from Wayne Bennett… the greatest of all time… what does he think of your mate Dean Young ??

 

[justadragon]

He is for sure.
Jerome ranks below Hunt for try assists.

what I am trying to say is that if we replace Hunt with Jerome yesterday realistically we would have seen a marginal improvement in performance.

there is no way Jerome could have fixed our lack of intent and piss week line speed. He would not change our non commitment to hunt down the opposition when we were defending like they did to us.

if we did a complete swap with the rising star Walker with Hunt yesterday …..the Roosters still would have killed us.

we were massively behind the rotation of JWH, Collins, Spencer and May. These 4 stripped us alive.

those 4 with their trusty aggressive edge forwards hunted us down, scraped our intestines out of our rib cage and ate it raw.

everything happened to us because of our lack of ability to stand and strike in the centre of the ring. We got hunted and killed. Then their two halves played a little.

we need a web of changes still not just a mono solution.

Beg to differ slightly there Auntie, if we had Walker our kicking would have been a 100 times better than what it was and we would have nailed the chances we had in the 1st half to score and apply pressure to the Roosters. I also didn't see Walker throw a falcon into one of his players heads for the other team to pick it up and score. I also dare say Hunt was genuinely responsible for not rallying or managing our troops just after we got to 14-12, nor did he have anything to match the opposition rookie half that schooled him again on half his pay packet.

 

[justadragon]

Never said that that it would all be smooth sailing nor an easy road but I did say a very different road.

But having read Cameron Smith's take on it I guess the Ryles haters think Smith doesn’t know much either.

I would prefer to see How good Ryles is in his first year at Parra before I declare him a good or bad coach.

 

[Hound of Dracula]

Never said that that it would all be smooth sailing nor an easy road but I did say a very different road.

But having read Cameron Smith's take on it I guess the Ryles haters think Smith doesn’t know much either.

Yes, it is a very different road. Interesting too!

How did we get to Cameron Smith? Wayne Bennet knows a lot but has never correctly anointed the next big coach, ooh that’s right The Ryles Haters

I don’t believe anyone ‘hates Ryles’

I certainly don’t ‘hate’ Ryles. He an excellent proposition but you only get one chance. Parramatta has a much better roster giving Ryles a much better chance at success.

Guess we’ll now know how good Ryles is soon enough

 

[Illusion]

Can anyone tell me if Sua is injured or he was dropped for the 3rd SOO .......

 

[BLM01]

M

Well you obviously can’t read nor comprehend very well.

If Ryles had been appointed

1. The BOD grip / influence over the coach would have finally been broken. It remains firmly in place with S F and it is a millstone round our neck.
2. No Dean Young stinking up the place.
3. No shit signings like Nu Brown, K F, J M and the bung winged Warrior.
4. An untarnished coach with no links to nefarious sports medicine Dr’s and illegal substances. I firmly believe that is somewhat a deterrence for some established players and parents of emerging player's.
5. The modern and fresh approach to the game that is integral at clubs that he has served his apprenticeship at but completely foreign to us and S F who is well and truly stuck in the Ricky Stuart / Mc Fookknuckle just play tough time warp.
6. Re recruitment he brings in it is hard to know the answer to that but I believe he is at least on good terms with players and managers from 2 of the very best performed clubs and systems in the comp and I see more potential in that than anything that S F did when previously here in a recruiting / roster management role or at Manly as an assistant or since he was appointed as our head coach.

Here we are applauding re signing J D B, Feagai and pushing hard for Hunt meanwhile the Roosters cut Tupouniua.

Most of that is rubbish OT. You raise some good points but it is not on Flanno

 

[Old Timer]

Wow OT you really shot yourself in the foot with this one.

Do you really want to go down the path of ‘legends who know’ take on potential head coaches?

Give us some takes from Wayne Bennett… the greatest of all time… what does he think of your mate Dean Young ??

We aren’t talking about a coach who scorches the earth after he’s ploughed the field.

We are talking about the world’s best player and captain in over 20 years who has no barrow to push or heritage to protect re coaching.

 

[Old Timer]

Most of that is rubbish OT. You raise some good points but it is not on Flanno

FMD Dean Young is here as is K F and that is all on S F’s head.

The board is still running the joint because they picked a compliant coach.