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    Des Hasler Sacked ( AGAIN)

    Possible, but I am not sure it is in Des' DNA to be a passive advisor while watching someone else run the show. I really think he'd be better as the coach where he only needs to get a representative quality team to fire for 3 games... better than Daley anyway.
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    The Finals thread:

    I think the best thing the Broncos did was recognise that they had a problem with an underperforming team, and backed Maguire to make all changes he deemed necessary. Including making all of their players earn their spots, regardless of their credentials. Selwyn Cobbo was playing Origin last...
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    The Finals thread:

    The Broncos away kit should have much more gold on it. It looks too similar to our away kit, and I don't like it.
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    The Finals thread:

    Why? He missed the finals 3 out of 4 years he was head coach, despite the Broncos being the richest club and having half a dozen Origin players in that squad every year. They have underperformed for a LONG time.
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    The Finals thread:

    If we succeed as a team then individual honours will follow, the individual honours don't necessarily have to come first. We've had an established representative player (sometimes two) in the halves for the last 12 seasons and haven't made it to a Grand Final in that time. Also when we won in...
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    Does anyone see any improvement in Manly for next season

    We can improve. I've seen evidence to suggest the club knows where the squad weaknesses are and we are signing players as such. We have a few juniors coming through. But to me our problem seems to be consistency and mentality rather than the individual merits of the squad members. If our...
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    2026 recruitment & retention

    He makes a few too many errors but is still 24 and is otherwise coming along nicely.
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    [Resurrected] Penrith offloading a lot of players. Why?

    To be fair. Anthony Griffin got them to 5th in 2018 but was sacked before the end of season. They replaced him with Cleary for 2019 who promptly finished 10th. At the end of 2019 (the time of the quoted post) Cleary's coaching win percentage was down to 47% across 319 NRL games and 3 clubs...
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    Jamal Fogarty

    When was the last time that any team coached by Sticky was renowned for their ability to methodically close out games? For the most part this year it felt like the Raiders either blew their opponents off the park, or managed a miracle long-range play to win late in the game... but not enough...
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    The Finals thread:

    The Raiders were minor premiers, got the timeslot that their coach wanted, were playing at home, with most of their squad fresh because they were rested last week, won the penalty count on Sunday, led by 16 points with 14 minutes remaining in regular time (having scored 2 tries in the sin bin...
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    The Finals thread:

    All of those points came via Brisbane picking apart the right edge defense of Timoko and Stuart, they were all at sea. Fogarty was on their inside, but in the line break that Walsh makes for his try, Timoko doesn't come up with him so the defensive line is staggered, making the gap for him to...
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    The Finals thread:

    The buck stops with the coach... Under Ricky they've made the finals in 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025... and missed the finals the other 6 seasons he's been there as coach. They've got plenty of players who've been there for multiple finals campaigns.
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    Sack Seibold Immediately

    Players can and/or do say comfortable lies or half truths in public though. Jake T once said on the record that he wanted to be coached by Trent Barrett for the rest of his career... I'm not sure that was necessarily true. I think you would need to speak to a player off the record with their...
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    Mad Monday

    Our squad already has a good rapport with their future coach then. :)
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    All NRL Games [Round 27, 2025)

    A lot of AFL fans don't really like the week break before the finals... partly because the Top 4 already get the week off after the regular season, then if they win in the first week they play the preliminary final having played 2 games in the previous month. It seems a lot more common for those...
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    The Kieran Forum

    I think he'd be a great NRL coach if that's the path he chooses to take.
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    All NRL Games [Round 27, 2025)

    Swapping out players like they are expendable pieces for young players with potential might work flawlessly on internet forums, but in a team dynamic it's not that straight forward...
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    Jake Simpkin signed until 2026

    He's a bit more engaging for the markers than Croker in that he can often have a few steps or a run out of dummy half. But his passing itself is often pretty ordinary... Quite a few of passes (not just yesterday) are high and looping... One last night went straight at Lodge's head from 3-4...
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    Let's trial a NRL match WITHOUT the Bunker

    My take... 35 years ago was before the video ref, but it was also pre-professionalism in rugby league. Players often worked as cellarmen and garbage truck drivers. Coaches used to threaten to run referees over with a cement truck or hire people in the crowd to abuse the ref when they came off...
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    Michael Ennis

    SMH reporting that Ennis will leave the Sea Eagles after the match on Friday.
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