Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:38 pm  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

For the love of Christmas
Grix has to go
The players must regard him as a muppet
They refuse to play for him
They turn up when they want and they’re really really not scared of him or that outcome of a Shoite performance

He has no gravitas or credibility

Anyone can see the players run themselves
They are their own bosses

Grix has to go at the end of the season
How can he coach alongside JC
The players just think “ oh yeah - you were that clown before JC”

Some of that play v Cas was akin to League 2
Utter garbage
Shoite on top of Shoite on top of more steaming shoite

Grix clearly has to go and I can’t hear an argument any other way

Lasty is back, Lasty is back, hello, hello, Lasty is back!

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:41 pm  

I'd say it's a good move getting Last back, he's well respected as a coach and with the benefit of hindsight that mini run we had in 2020 was glory days compared to what has come since.

Also a sign we are spending more money on the backroom team.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:50 pm  

UllFC wrote:

I'd say it's a good move getting Last back, he's well respected as a coach and with the benefit of hindsight that mini run we had in 2020 was glory days compared to what has come since.

Also a sign we are spending more money on the backroom team.

why is he respected? Because he gets in early, puts the kettle on and stays to lock up? I've heard this lots of time sbut no one seems to know why he's respected. cas were a shiitshow under him and he was radford's sidekick during the steep decline

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:52 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

why is he respected? Because he gets in early, puts the kettle on and stays to lock up? I've heard this lots of time sbut no one seems to know why he's respected. cas were a shiitshow under him and he was radford's sidekick during the steep decline

Well Shaun Wane rates and respects him enough to have him as his assistant, McNamara too

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:03 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Well Shaun Wane rates and respects him enough to have him as his assistant, McNamara too

I know, but I'm asking what he brings to the table.

I respect a couple of guys who work for me because they're reliable and do as they're told but I wouldn't trust them to run things

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:10 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

I know, but I'm asking what he brings to the table.

I respect a couple of guys who work for me because they're reliable and do as they're told but I wouldn't trust them to run things

People on here are hardly going to know that are they?

I don't think Last keeps getting jobs if he was a poor assistant coach.

Let's be honest, you would have found the negative no matter who will appointed, just like everything else the club does.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:19 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

People on here are hardly going to know that are they?

I don't think Last keeps getting jobs if he was a poor assistant coach.

Let's be honest, you would have found the negative no matter who will appointed, just like everything else the club does.

I only criticise poor appointments/decision. I didn't criticise us signing asiata or appointing catrwright as coach nor us bringing in an experienced physio. People only see what they want to see.

As for People on here are hardly going to know that are they? I fully agree. It's the same argument as when people criticise signings and are then challenged as to who they would have brought in instead.

My question about last was really asking if anyone had any insider knowledge given he was at the club for about 20 years before he left

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:20 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

why is he respected? Because he gets in early, puts the kettle on and stays to lock up? I've heard this lots of time sbut no one seems to know why he's respected. cas were a shiitshow under him and he was radford's sidekick during the steep decline

Depends what influence he had as Radfords assistant as I can see Radford being it’s my way or no way…how much influence did Purtil have under Radders and he was highly respected.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:53 pm  

The games afoot wrote:

Depends what influence he had as Radfords assistant as I can see Radford being it’s my way or no way…how much influence did Purtil have under Radders and he was highly respected.

Dunno but he doesn't seem to have had much positive effect under macnamara either. If he can't influence the coach he shouldn't be in the position anyway.

I just think it' a lazy, uninspiring appointment when we could have really gone out of our way to find someone who can make a difference. it's the same as signing briscoe, chamberlain, hardaker, cust, sezer and rapana. In isolation they're not bad signings it's just the more of that ilk you sign the further from where you could have been that you get.

Next season we're probably going to be playing a full back in the centre, a winger at full back and a half back at hooker. Why not just sign players to play in their natural position?

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:03 pm  

Rapana has played a majority of games this season at fullback, pretty sure if he is good enough to play FB in the NRL he can do it in SL.

Hardaker has played over 100 games at centre

Don't get the Cust signing. but maybe they will not play in those positions, let's see where Cartwright chooses to play people, before we start to panic.