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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 11:59 am  
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Wherever Smith is in his development as a head coach to be backed up by Chev Walker and Scott Grix is just not inspiring.

It’s a shambles. Smith has no experience, surround him by others with no standing or achievements at elite coaching level. Why?
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:09 pm  
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It’s a shambles. Smith has no experience, surround him by others with no standing or achievements at elite coaching level. Why?


Like the playing squad, everything is now being done on the cheap
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:13 pm  
The club, on the playing front, is an absolute laughing stock when it comes to the men’s senior side. Years and years of under investment, lack of interest in the juniors, poor recruitment of playing and coaching staff, and all on GH’s watch. He might have saved the club in 1996, but he’s well on the way to ruining it now.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:24 pm  
Seth wrote:
Yeah I'm not sure about the theory of kr letting both their half backs go. Sounds like a made up one.


Seems unlikely. It'd be a pretty stupid club that let both its halves go without any replacements lined up.

Although thinking about it... :THINK:
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:28 pm  
If you look at Merrin (wrong player and not that good), Hurrell (huge impact at the line but errors and poor condition), Lolohea (not good enough), Tetevano (failed to step up from being a bench player and enormous waste of money) we have splashed cash in places but it just hasn’t worked. We have spaffed hundreds of thousands of salary cap on poor decisions over many years.

Now one or two not working out can be bad luck or injury: our problem is systemic and has been there for a very long time.

GH is a huge name in the game but he needs to stop getting involved in the rugby playing operation and stick to commercial/PR. I think we just need a DoR.

The club is still a great one and not everything is FUBAR as some would have it: but we need a change of direction at the top. We started to go wrong at the end of McDermott’s time; the amount of players we have signed who just haven’t made the cut is ridiculous.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:30 pm  
Its about time the club made a statement. They did it in 1997 with Harris (and a decade earlier with Schofield and Crooks). Even if it doesn't bring instant success, some kind of statement signing(s) would at least signal an intent to draw a line in the sand and get fans excited for the future. Right now the future just looks utterly lacking in interest.

I sincerely hope there's more ambition than the likes of Adam Clune or most of the other names bandied about.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:50 pm  
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It’s a shambles. Smith has no experience, surround him by others with no standing or achievements at elite coaching level. Why?


Smith does have experience he was assistant coach at the London Broncos, Roosters and Knights, head coach of Tonga, Bulls and the Devils.

You may not think heyup to it but to say he has No experience is wrong IMO.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:52 pm  
which makes his failures even worse
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:52 pm  
If players have been signed for next year I can see no reason for not announcing the especially in the halves as the current ones have either left or signed elsewhere next year. This suggests that we are still trying to recruit in these positions which is a big concern and it's hard to see how we get 2 quality halves looking at what's available.
The only other option is contracted players and splashing the cash which Gary seems loathe to do.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:57 pm  
tad rhino wrote:
which makes his failures even worse


What’s his % win rate with us?

The playing Squad isn’t good enough it hasn’t been for years, that’s the main issue.
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