Gary Gutful
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OK then. How is BA too close to the players?
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OK then. How is BA too close to the players?
The problem is though, both Smith and French (as well as Taka) still saw plenty of first grade this year to suggest they could see enough in 2019 to attract interest from other clubs. That’s probably enough hope to keep them interested in staying with us and not pursue opportunities elsewhere.
Is that a euphemism?
I think he’s overly loyal and probably a bit too familiar with the playing group. Having pretty much either re-signed or recruited the entire playing roster now, I also think he feels he owes them to at least see out the contract he signed them for, at least to some degree.
Jennings was dropped too.
What does 'too familiar' mean? I'd want a coach to know everything there is to know about his players.
That's a pretty sweeping statement. Which players has he re-signed that he shouldn't have (and what should he have done differently at the time)?
He never missed a first grade game, and he continued to stink it up for the rest of the season.
Jennings got extra game time because he was out of form and didn’t miss 1 game of nrl he was available for.
By too familiar I mean he may be past his use-by-date with the players because he has been there now for 5 years and they are probably too used to his sprays, training techniques etc. He even admitted the players are sick of hearing his voice.
He gave them a spray after round 1, round 2 we got beaten by over 50. Sprays don’t seem to work anymore.
Maybe. We'll see next year I guess. I think they will go a lot better in 2019 than they did in 2018.
Compelling evidence.
Off the top of my head, he sure as shit shouldn’t have resigned Smith and I think Kaysa has been a poor re-signing the last few times. I don’t think we’ve got value for on hoffman and the Evans signing is questionable at best.
I actually agree. We’ve missed the boat to move the coach on for 2019, I was simply agreeing that IMO we should have moved him on earlier this year. We absolutely need to decide by mid season next year.
Hoffman and Evans don't count as BA being too loyal. They aren't re-signings
It won't be the first time that we hear the 'experts' bang on about how we should have signed someone else at the end of 2018 but I was hoping to wait until at least our first loss in 2019 before hearing it.
But then he's just guilty of being too loyal to Hayne (i.e. another guy in our team!!!!).
Not necessarily. I think the whole loyalty concept comes more into play with the players he has signed/re-signed whilst they are contracted, rather than the act of contracting them in the first place.
6 wins from 24 is a little more compelling.
