Gus to coach the Roosters in 2013

[Cockadoodledoo]

I am with Chook and Cogburn on this.
Gould is the past and out of date and to see the extremes the team can swing between, I reckon a fair bit of the responsibility for it comes back to the players

One of the problems could be that we bought a lot of players with 'issues' and just hoped that they would magically go away at the Roosters... Maybe they could for a shortish period of time but old habits die hard and perhaps they are finding it hard to resist temptations.

[ism22]

All footy players bar a few are piss heads with anger management issues who did poorly at school.
That's the game! You get a bunch of big blokes who like drinking/goofing around (and getting in trouble because they are all bulls in china stores.)

CHALLENGE...
Make sure they don't fart around or turn up to training drunk (or do dumb things while drunk if cops are watching.)

Think of other sports, with many:
a) You can guarantee athletes won't drink/smoke because their bodies and performance mean too much. You are more likely to have to keep them away from steroids/EPO.
b) Large percentages of players choose between doing challenging degrees at uni and sport (often juggling both and still pulling off world records + awesome grades.)
c) Simply don't have public lives that involve running amok and being silly (you're more likely to see them sipping a glass of red with their wife at a private beach house rather than being drunk with their mates at the Coogee Bay Hotel or Kings Cross, then shagging/fighing with b grade celebrity chicks who report every minor incident to the press/police in order to promote themselves.)

Not bagging footy players (many are smart and stay out of trouble) and well... I kinda like them being boys rather than merchant bankers (w@nkers)
BUT...
All footy players surely know this and have to tackle it before they can start winning games. Replace footy with a failure to make the NRL, resulting in some $hit menial job. Where would dropkicks like Soward, Walker, Boyd, Inglis, Mason, Inu, Carney...etc be?

The majority would be drunken failures if they didn't have footy. Many would probably have criminal records by now (or more serious records... think Carney.) You've gotta look after the boys, create discipline and get them to respect their work or the majority will have "old habits" to fall back on (including drugs, crime and alcohol.) I can vouch that the only NRL players I met during my school years all smoked and drank heavily as teenagers... all of them were menaces at school and would have been expelled if they couldn't play footy.

It's a farce to think that only a few NRL players have troubles... the good ones just hide them and move on from them IMO. Usually with a lot of help from those around them.

[Kingbilly]

I'll add a couple of points ISM,
1 -the media is pre occupied with reporting the stupid antics of footballers. While not an excuse its pointless crass journalism
2- I sometimes believe footballers would not be as stupid if they hadn't spent a great deal of their childhood and adolesence being told how great they are

[Guest]

Chook just throwing it out there, no doubt Gus has got the desire to coach again and we all know how tight he is with Uncle Nick, didn't say it was the best idea but I wouldn't rule it out completely.

No offence intended man, just can't see it happening. If Nick's as smart as we are lead to believe he'd be looking to get Bellemy to replace Smith rather than Gus.

Chook.

[Guest]

One of the problems could be that we bought a lot of players with 'issues' and just hoped that they would magically go away at the Roosters... Maybe they could for a shortish period of time but old habits die hard and perhaps they are finding it hard to resist temptations.

Never a truer word spoken.

What magic wand did Car dealer Nick and schoolteacher Brain think was suddenly going to turn Carnage into Saint Todd?

[Guest]

Well considering that embarrasing network (9) will hopefully relenquish their TV rights in accordance with Gus' contract expiring....it seems highly likely a return to coaching is on the cards.

Would I want him at our club...no. Modern day footy doesn't compliment a domineering head coach.

[trewhella]

I would have Gus in a heartbeat.

Primarily, to shut him up

[Guest]

I would have Gus in a heartbeat.

Primarily, to shut him up

Have another drink

[Red.]

I would have Gus in a heartbeat.

Primarily, to shut him up

Now that sounds like a plan.

[Vasco]

It all depends on the type of coach we want.

Do we want to see second man plays every time or do we want free flowing football?

Gus certainly knows how to get the best out of his players.

I would love to see him coaching the Roosters again.