Fordy20
Juniors
- Messages
- 2,258
Interesting comments.
Not surprising. The best the club performed was in 2010 and 2011 when we had Steve Folkes and Gareth Ellis around to drive standards.
Interesting comments.
Wasnt Blore here while Madge was coaching ? From memory there was sooking amongst the group he was flogging them to hard, they seem to cry regardless how they are coached.
Interesting comments.
I think your right. He's now an ex Tiger and who cares about the crybaby. Like Matterson he now is being let go by the eels.....boohoo.Wasnt Blore here while Madge was coaching ? From memory there was sooking amongst the group he was flogging them to hard, they seem to cry regardless how they are coached.
Gareth, probably the best WT ever as far as a complete footballer goes.Not surprising. The best the club performed was in 2010 and 2011 when we had Steve Folkes and Gareth Ellis around to drive standards.
Wasnt Blore here while Madge was coaching ? From memory there was sooking amongst the group he was flogging them to hard, they seem to cry regardless how they are coached.
Came here for the same post TM....he can coach, we were a rabble from the head down, players just not putting in it seems and sadly, we a still no better and have a coach that could have learn't quite a bit from Madge....not Sheens.So, Madge can coach after all?
Morris is currently defence coach and Farah is attack coach.Looking at an assistant coach for Benji.
Whoever it is, I'm thinking we should get him right now to help organise the squad for the preseason.
Any thoughts?
I'm thinking Brian Smith who threw his hat into the ring for the Eels job, but missed out to Ryles.
He's the third most experienced NRL coach - 601 games.
The only prob is an assistant coach practically runs the training sessions these days so is he up to it. He is 70.
If Benji needs experience in the coaches box then surely Smith could do it.
He's mentoring the Casino Cougars atm.
Thoughts? Anyone else?
Where's that article Forty, I'd like to have a read, a lot of info, well done.f**k Smith. Ryles can have him.
Back in 2014, the board along with CEO Grant Meyer brought Smith in to do a review of the club. Instead of doing the right thing and backing Mick Potter in his second season as coach, Smith threw him under the bus. Smith wanted to get himself a more permanent role, either as head coach himself or as head of football with his former assistant and grand final halfback Jason Taylor filling the role of head coach. He submitted a report that recommended sacking Potter.
At the end of the season, the new five-member board chaired by Marina Go adopted the recommendations of the report. They stated Potter would not be extended as coach, sending him packing and shortly afterwards hired Taylor as head coach. They also appointed a head of football, but Smith's plan to parlay his consulting gig into a fulltime position backfired, with the board appointing another Eels alumni Phil Moss to GM of Football Operations.
Smith's advice lead to the utter obliteration of everything Potter was building. Potter's pack was gutted. Gavet, Taupau, Blair & Galloway were all moved on in space of 12 months with no one to replace them except for falling star Tim Grant. Despite having a bunch of money, the only outside backs Taylor was capable of recruiting were such luminaries of the game as Jordan Rankin, Justin Hunt and Kevin Naiqama. Naiqama was terrible defensively and Taylor stubbornly refused to drop him. It got so bad that Tim Simona started placed bets on the wingers and centres Naiqama was marking.
The board ended up sacking Taylor, but I don't why they thought it would help keep Tedesco. Not only did they sack the very coach after Farah had convinced Tedesco to stay and play under, but they did mere months after that conversation took place. They then hired a bloke that forced Farah out, dismantled the promising forward pack and was incapable of improving the backline despite having blokes like Josh Addo-Carr right under his nose.
It's not all Smith's fault, but he's got a lot of blood on his hands and there's no f**king way I want him anywhere near this club.
On top of that, I think we have only recently learnt that hiring a coach who hasn't been active in the NRL for 10 plus years is a very, very, very bad idea.f**k Smith. Ryles can have him.
Back in 2014, the board along with CEO Grant Meyer brought Smith in to do a review of the club. Instead of doing the right thing and backing Mick Potter in his second season as coach, Smith threw him under the bus. Smith wanted to get himself a more permanent role, either as head coach himself or as head of football with his former assistant and grand final halfback Jason Taylor filling the role of head coach. He submitted a report that recommended sacking Potter.
At the end of the season, the new five-member board chaired by Marina Go adopted the recommendations of the report. They stated Potter would not be extended as coach, sending him packing and shortly afterwards hired Taylor as head coach. They also appointed a head of football, but Smith's plan to parlay his consulting gig into a fulltime position backfired, with the board appointing another Eels alumni Phil Moss to GM of Football Operations.
Smith's advice lead to the utter obliteration of everything Potter was building. Potter's pack was gutted. Gavet, Taupau, Blair & Galloway were all moved on in space of 12 months with no one to replace them except for falling star Tim Grant. Despite having a bunch of money, the only outside backs Taylor was capable of recruiting were such luminaries of the game as Jordan Rankin, Justin Hunt and Kevin Naiqama. Naiqama was terrible defensively and Taylor stubbornly refused to drop him. It got so bad that Tim Simona started placed bets on the wingers and centres Naiqama was marking.
The board ended up sacking Taylor, but I don't why they thought it would help keep Tedesco. Not only did they sack the very coach after Farah had convinced Tedesco to stay and play under, but they did mere months after that conversation took place. They then hired a bloke that forced Farah out, dismantled the promising forward pack and was incapable of improving the backline despite having blokes like Josh Addo-Carr right under his nose.
It's not all Smith's fault, but he's got a lot of blood on his hands and there's no f**king way I want him anywhere near this club.
Good point.On top of that, I think we have only recently learnt that hiring a coach who hasn't been active in the NRL for 10 plus years is a very, very, very bad idea.
I notice a regular pattern over the years. We see other teams (different ones each year) as the ones we might finish higher on the ladder the following year. They all improve with most of them pushing for or making the finals. We look for other teams who might take our spot as wooden spooners. We don't improve. The process gets repeated.I just don't think a raw coach like Benji will get it done, even with all the additions of Jarome and co.
We need someone who knows how to get up once you've fallen over. You can't buy experience.
I refuse to believe that if we got Bennett years ago we wouldn't be in this predicament.
Although not the fault of the current management, it was the club who offered him 3 years, and then extended that to 4 years when the Sheenius pulled the pin early.