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No one is saying he is the only problem, but most of us are saying he as sure as shit isn’t the solution. Is Bennett?? Who the f**k knows but I reckon he’s got to be more a chance than sticking with the 11 year dud.
You just said “Pou thinks the coach is not the problem”. That implies that there is only one problem.
Talk about semantics ffs!! Not a problem how's that better??? If Pou had his way Johnny Peard would still be the coach and we would of never signed Gibson.
Much better. Thanks.
The fact that Parra fans are continually at war with each other and I hate conflict amongst friends .
I reckon we’d all get along over some beers. Especially if @hineyrulz was paying.
You seem hell bent on not reading the detail of my original answer to your question, and providing your own inaccurate summation in order to refute... Could be a nasty contagious habit you picked up from our friend who started this thread?
Yep, it's "the resources" instead. Or being just plain unlucky... apparently.
Apparently that is somehow included in the vague definition of "resources" too... or "luck", I can't keep track!
Exactly
So let's dumb it down and take the detail out of all those problems we could focus on, and instead vanish it away by calling it something vague like "resources" or "luck", lol...
I actually think calling it a problem mischaracterises our lack of premierships as caused by something 'bad' that exists (and must therefore be purged), rather than a simple lack of whatever advantages a couple of bigger clubs possess. We are actually bigger than about half the clubs and no worse than a few others. We don't need to be blown up and rebuilt. We could end up a lot worse.
I think it’s a problem and I don’t think it’s acceptable to have gone without a premiership for 38 years.
If we had the right resources we would have already solved many of the problems.So let's dumb it down and take the detail out of all those problems we could focus on, and instead vanish it away by calling it something vague like "resources" or "luck", lol...
Hmm. Seems vaguely stated enough to be believed by some... kind of like daily horoscopes.
You don't understand strategy do you? Resourcing is the key enabler for all of those things.
I think bad luck is a big part of it. With better luck we'd have one or two in that time, maybe more. I'd say we were a genuinely shitpot little club by about 1990, and remained there until the Super League war injected some much needed funding and favouritism toward the Eels. The decade after that ('96 to ~'05) should have yielded a premiership. The period after that was one of obvious decline, and included poor results overseen by a number of coaches, including two premiership winners. This was followed by Brad Arthur and more mediocrity until the salary cap debacle and appointment of an administrator by ILGA. Since then we've been run very professionally, perhaps too professionally for many desperate fans, but 2019-2024 is a very small sample. So far we have missed the finals once in five years, and we made a grand final. That is the only data we have, so any decision made based on that data should prioritise caution. This isn't 2018, 2015, 2013 or any of the multitude of years we've missed the finals since 1986. It's a new thing and it's too soon to say it's not working. Nine teams will miss the finals every year. Many of them will (and should) be back-to-back 'failures'. It's normal and doesn't mean nine clubs are TOTAL f**kING SHIT AND EVERY MERKIN SHOULD BE f**kEN SACKED!!! each year.
I think the fanbase has become fairly toxic, possibly due to the pricktease of 1981-86 and getting so close so many times since then. This led to very toxic politics among those influential fans who used to sling shit at each other every time there was an election. But while the one commonality of the past 37 years is a premiership drought, it's obvious the club has evolved through varying levels of competitiveness over that time. It's easy for observers to point to the most high profile decision maker (the coach) at each point and say that's the cause, but I think choice of head coaches is at least as much a symptom of a weak club as they are the cause of a poor performing team.
