I've defended and lauded Doyle before but if we don't win before the bye - and that is a distinct possibility with our biggest bogey side and two much better sides than us (albeit both in NZ) to come - and he doesn't fire McFadden on the spot, he'll lose me a bit. We're not making the eight from 3-8, so why f**k about?
It's all well and good to say the players are at fault, because they are to a point. The pathetic lapses in effort, concentration, the ability to only show any ticker this year in 'winnable matches' (ie v the bottom two sides and the other off a five-day turnaround and trip across the Tasman for a 'home game') etc is shameful.
But it is only human to react some way in this point when you are led by someone who is so completely out of their depth as McFadden. I would argue he is the worst since Kemp. At least Bluey had the Kiwis, at least Elliott made a finals series. This guy has no history of success as a coach or player.
This guy has tried more combinations than me as a teenager on the Spice Channel pin code. He has picked guys across different positions at will. His use personnel-wise on the bench is absolutely mind-boggling. His use of it in terms of in-match is questionable. I cannot point to a time where I've seen anything that resembled coaching or structure. He has now coached 50 NRL games for a 44% winning record. He has lost 12 of the last 15, including an all-time Warriors losing streak record. For all the talk of top 4 last year, we won ONE match in 2015 v a side who were in the eight at the time, and two overall if you consider the Sharks eventually made it (but were 16th when we beat them in the last seconds).
It would be unprecedented in certainly our sport but any other if someone with a dire record and level of displayed ability (or lack thereof) was to suddenly roar back and become the coach he needs to be any time soon. So even if it's Morgan as a caretaker coach or whatever, he needs to go now. It's not all his fault but a massive, MASSIVE part of it is.
