The Rumours Thread

[Bin Chicken]

Correct. But if we want our football department to grow and flourish across all parts we need to get the GM of football position right. We need to poach one of the big names who have NRL experience. Haran is holding us back

Curious . How is he holding us back ?

 

[denis preston]

Curious . How is he holding us back ?

He has been head of football operations the past 8 years? How have we gone on his watch? At the very least , as the head man , he has to be responsible for our crap performances during his tenure.

 

[Parko1310]

Curious . How is he holding us back ?

He is an incompetent, jobs for the boys hire who may be a good bloke, but not much else. He has no pulling power in the player market, no respect from managers, frankly isn't qualified for such a high position, and therefore leaves the head coach where he is now doing his job for him. It's an embarrassment that our so called GM of football is basically now just sitting on the sidelines at games running the interchange when Flano tells him to make a change. The Storm for example have Frank Ponnissi who is the complete opposite to Haran in all of these respects. Commands plenty of power in the player market because he looks after the players, has good knowledge of football and business and knows how to play the manager game. Every player in the game knows who Ponissi is. I think you'd be kind to say half of the player pool know who Ben Haran is.

Lets not forget the time Haran submitted the wrong team sheet an hour before kick off either. Or the time he re-sgined Lawrie and Ravalawa on big money, long-term deals and then trumpeted about how they were great retentions, clearly showing a severe lack of football and player market nous. Just amateurish bs that has been let slide for so long at the club. If you continue to let it go, you accept it, and that is one reason amongst others that we are where we are. Another example is the Dargon jersey f**k up and putting the wrong date on Nu Brown's jersey as well. Did this go through Haran's hands directly? Who knows, but it definitely went through the football department which he is supposed to be overseeing. He's not cut out for the job in pretty much every facet, and therefore needs to be removed asap.