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There has been plenty of talk lately about who is to blame for our predicament, who should we have to coach us and our players are not good enough.
I want to address these things. Who to blame comes from the top as it filters down. Politis should never have hired Smiffy and SSS (Super Smart Son) in the first place, as it is Smiffy and SSS that is the problem!!
It is VITAL that we get rid of Smiffy and SSS, along with Elliot asap to stop the rot!!
We are developing a losing culture under Smiffy's regime. Losing is a habit, and we have now perfected it to a fine art. Our players are not coming along, their development is being stifled. Put simply I and I'm sure that there are thousand of others are sick to death of us being flogged!! How is that good enough?? F**k the have patience we are a young side excuse, that is just a load of BS!! Certain people involved with our club and on here need to stop sugar coating the shit results! No matter how much sugar you pour on top of the shit it will still not change the fact that it is still shit!
The win last week against the Tigers was just an aberration, the Tigers were not in their right frame of mind after being told of the death of Farah's mother something like 1 hour before kick off.
I saw Smiffy get interviewed on the Sunday footy show and he said that we had the very best preparation that we have ever had during the week leading up to playing Manly. WTF??????? The guy has completely lost the plot!!!! Obviously he has no idea of what is going on with the players!!
There are many reports now of how Smiffy has lost the dressing room. All the evidence goes to show that he has in fact lost the dressing room, just look at our results and where we are positioned. Our results are pure rubbish, it is NOT good enough and Smiffy has to be held accountable and shown the door. Alarm bells have to be ringing when a guy like Perrett can't wait to jump ship, along with Mitchell and I am hearing Takairangi wants to go to Manly and Tom Symonds to the Storm. Symonds is no loss but Taka is. Imo we do have the players to at the very least make the top 8 this year and if we had a decent coach we most certainly would make the 8. We can not just keep Smiffy next year and expect SBW and Maloney to do everything to turn us around. We can become a premiership threat again with our current roster with just the addition of 3 or 4 more good players (SBW and Maloney are 2 so we need just 1 or 2 more), but the key is getting a new bloody good coaching set up!!
We need to get rid of Smiffy ASAP to try and salvage something from the wreckage of this year to try and start building something for next year. We are not going to make the finals and we sure as hell can NOT get any worse!!
The solution;
We have to do whatever it takes to get Craig Bellamy to coach us, throw the cheque book at him!! I just shake my head at some of the names that get bandied around on here as possible coaches for us. We don't want to be going from the frying pan into the fire. Bellamy needs to be plan A, B, C, and D. Bellamy and Hasler are the stand out top 2 coaches in the NRL, and naturally their respective sides sit in first and second place. The beauty of Bellamy is that he is totally capable of taking full control of the team, therefore Nick does not have to worry about a thing and can stay right out of the way. Have Taylor take over for the rest of this season. If we can't get Bellamy for 2013 but we can get him for 2014 then have Taylor coach us for the rest of this year and next year.
IF Bellamy refuses to come to us after doing everything we possibly can to try and get him then Sticky, Trent Robinson or Taylor would be the way to go for 2013, and in the case of Taylor he can take over straight away and Stuart can straight after origin. When it comes to Sticky I still have nightmares about 2006, but I believe he is a better coach these days. When it comes to these 3 candidates I think they are going to need plenty of very good support to help them, having a coaching set up like we did in 2002-2004 does strongly appeal to me!
I want to address these things. Who to blame comes from the top as it filters down. Politis should never have hired Smiffy and SSS (Super Smart Son) in the first place, as it is Smiffy and SSS that is the problem!!
It is VITAL that we get rid of Smiffy and SSS, along with Elliot asap to stop the rot!!
We are developing a losing culture under Smiffy's regime. Losing is a habit, and we have now perfected it to a fine art. Our players are not coming along, their development is being stifled. Put simply I and I'm sure that there are thousand of others are sick to death of us being flogged!! How is that good enough?? F**k the have patience we are a young side excuse, that is just a load of BS!! Certain people involved with our club and on here need to stop sugar coating the shit results! No matter how much sugar you pour on top of the shit it will still not change the fact that it is still shit!
The win last week against the Tigers was just an aberration, the Tigers were not in their right frame of mind after being told of the death of Farah's mother something like 1 hour before kick off.
I saw Smiffy get interviewed on the Sunday footy show and he said that we had the very best preparation that we have ever had during the week leading up to playing Manly. WTF??????? The guy has completely lost the plot!!!! Obviously he has no idea of what is going on with the players!!
There are many reports now of how Smiffy has lost the dressing room. All the evidence goes to show that he has in fact lost the dressing room, just look at our results and where we are positioned. Our results are pure rubbish, it is NOT good enough and Smiffy has to be held accountable and shown the door. Alarm bells have to be ringing when a guy like Perrett can't wait to jump ship, along with Mitchell and I am hearing Takairangi wants to go to Manly and Tom Symonds to the Storm. Symonds is no loss but Taka is. Imo we do have the players to at the very least make the top 8 this year and if we had a decent coach we most certainly would make the 8. We can not just keep Smiffy next year and expect SBW and Maloney to do everything to turn us around. We can become a premiership threat again with our current roster with just the addition of 3 or 4 more good players (SBW and Maloney are 2 so we need just 1 or 2 more), but the key is getting a new bloody good coaching set up!!
We need to get rid of Smiffy ASAP to try and salvage something from the wreckage of this year to try and start building something for next year. We are not going to make the finals and we sure as hell can NOT get any worse!!
The solution;
We have to do whatever it takes to get Craig Bellamy to coach us, throw the cheque book at him!! I just shake my head at some of the names that get bandied around on here as possible coaches for us. We don't want to be going from the frying pan into the fire. Bellamy needs to be plan A, B, C, and D. Bellamy and Hasler are the stand out top 2 coaches in the NRL, and naturally their respective sides sit in first and second place. The beauty of Bellamy is that he is totally capable of taking full control of the team, therefore Nick does not have to worry about a thing and can stay right out of the way. Have Taylor take over for the rest of this season. If we can't get Bellamy for 2013 but we can get him for 2014 then have Taylor coach us for the rest of this year and next year.
IF Bellamy refuses to come to us after doing everything we possibly can to try and get him then Sticky, Trent Robinson or Taylor would be the way to go for 2013, and in the case of Taylor he can take over straight away and Stuart can straight after origin. When it comes to Sticky I still have nightmares about 2006, but I believe he is a better coach these days. When it comes to these 3 candidates I think they are going to need plenty of very good support to help them, having a coaching set up like we did in 2002-2004 does strongly appeal to me!
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