Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:08 am  

jaybs wrote:

Tony is the best man available at present and from what I hear his man to man management on a personal basis is first class, working with some players individually, no one can fault the way he has turned the team around.

Also one journalist was indicating that Bobbie Goulding was in the running? as bad as the Kent story!

Is this the same Bobby Goulding who thinks that SL should be the preserve of the M62? Priceless!

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:26 am  

I completely agree with Pingwings comments.

I don't recall anyone saying RP was "The New Messiah" and I very much doubt that anyone on here is expecting TR to lead us to silverware anytime soon.

Fact is there a very few coaches that actually win anything.

Just a reminder, we did appoint a massively successful, trophy winning coach once....that went well (not!)

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:59 am  

Without knowing the applicants, it may be that TR was the best qualified.
He's alsoe worked in Super 14 for t three years, and I can't imagine he didn't learn from that.

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:04 am  

Exactly, Kit.

He's work with the Brumbies may have given him another strand to his coaching bow too.

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:14 am  

As a sports fan in any sport you have to be realistic, not everyone can be a winner! but you can be competative! Winning the grand final or Challenge cup for us and several other clubs eg salford, wakey, widnes, KR etc is highley unlikely at this moment in time
Being competative making the play offs or semi finals is realistically what our aims should be
The facts are we have a heavily weighted top end comp, with Saints/Leeds/Wigan dominant however it does change over time loom at Bradford and wire one on the up the other on the down.
We have a playing squad that could and should have made the top eight, why didnt we? well there were obviously massive problems in the camp and yep even i have to say now that was probably down to rifts between the coach and senior players.
What does TR bring to the club and why have we suddenly started winning? skills NO, fitness? no tactics? maybe! or is it an attitude change!


Are there better coaches out there? without a doubt, problem is they have to want the job, with TR he has the skills both in coaching and man management, and despite his initial comments that its only for a short period he actually wants to be here.

Dan has it right! we all said Brian Mac was a rubbish coach! and look where he is gonna be sat on Sat!

Did Powell not get SL coach of the month in his first month in charge? we all thought he walked on water

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:31 am  

Also one journalist was indicating that Bobbie Goulding was in the running? as bad as the Kent story![/quote]


Bobby was at the game on Friday...bet that's where that "story" came from

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:52 am  

dredgie wrote:

Also one journalist was indicating that Bobbie Goulding was in the running? as bad as the Kent story!

Bobby was at the game on Friday...bet that's where that "story" came from

He was indeed, he was there watching his son play in the U20's match

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:56 am  

I also remember Bobby Goulding say that London was an 'Aussie' club, classic.

The best thing about TRII so far has been the style, like nothing we have seen since the days of the golden triangle. I can't wait to see Sargy playing in such a way!

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:07 pm  

The Daddy wrote:

Could you please answer my question, What has Tony Rea achieved as a rugby league coach? It's a simple question.

I was only stating that I feel at present Tony is best person for the job, we do not know all the applicants, such a Noble was highlighted as possible but I'm unsure if we would cut it now, his record with the Crusaders was not the best, look at how successful Monie was with Wigan!

If the players are working well with Tony Rea it makes common sense to give him the chance now to bring some stability to the club to try and build on, there are many coaches who have not achieved anything when they get posts, it is a case of working with the players you have.

Re: Rehiring Tony Rea as coach was a big mistake! : Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:55 pm  

The Daddy wrote:

What the club really needed was to completely change the culture from a losing one, in my opinion Tony helped to create that culture.

Nothing that I saw before tells me that we won't be sitting here in a year or two years talking about chronic underachievement and wanting to get rid of the coach.

Lets not forget that when Brian Mcdermott came in he brought a lot of new initiatives to the club which wasn't there when Tony was coach, including training methods and youth programs, the football side of things wasn't brilliant and people on here are deluding themselves saying that Tony will bring back the good old days......what good old days?

When was this golden age that we had under Rea.......this is just a symptom of David Hughes knee jerk culture which he's created at London Broncos.......Epic Fail!!

When you change the culture of a club you have to do it in a radical way without sentiment, look at how ruthless Ian Lenaghan was with Brian Noble, in the end it was the right decision because look how Michael Mcguire completely changed everything there,that was the type of change we needed.....radical change, now I fear we've missed the boat just because we won a few games after a new coaching appointment which is normal.

Bad, bad decision.......as Marlon Brando said, 'We could've been a contender'

So who would you have appointed then?