madmax
Bencher
Trent Barrett?............lolololololMatt Elliot ?
Lolololol
Trent Barrett?............lolololololMatt Elliot ?
Lolololol
Why stop there, Get Greenberg for CEO lol
Shouldn't be too difficult. After all, we have a gambling agency as our sponsor.Gotta think out the square people . We have to hire a ref and it has to be sutton as coach. Never before has one man influenced so many results. We need these types of go getters in our organisation
Sutton for coach,
One club Canterbury. Not this club
No mate. Not at all. We kept that great group of players together because of Des.Really , you don’t think some of the disasters we have aren’t attributable to that?
Yet manly (Scott penn mostly) umed are rrred and throughout bull**** talk of KPIs.
He should never have had it.Has Barrett lost the dressing room?
Has Barrett lost the dressing room?
And the dunnies behind the hill.From where i was it looked 100% that he has lost all three grandstands, let alone the dressing room.
Breathtaking incompetence. Where we are now has been building since we beat the Warriors in the 2011 GF. Back then I'd never heard of a club winning the comp and then ditching the coach. We had the makings of a dynasty and a great system that didn't rely on big name signings. We took rejects from other clubs, educated them in the Manly way and turned them into title contenders. Now we take good players and turn them into also-rans.No mate. Not at all. We kept that great group of players together because of Des.
They way Des left as in trying to take everyone with him was appalling however look at the crap and the disrespect he copped. He should have been locked away long before the dogs came knocking in 2011. Yet manly (Scott penn mostly) umed are rrred and throughout bull**** talk of KPIs. To a bloke who rebuilt the joint it must have been a slap in the face.
No one on silvertails was as scathing or brutal towards Des than I was, I actually think one of my posts made ch 10
News in the lead up to the manly dogs game in 2012. But with hindsight and reflection I totally understand why he went. There was a good reason manly fans were flithy we had a great coach a two time premiership winning coach and piss poor administration let him slip between their fingers to a competitor.
Welcome back mate . You have made some very good points .Haven't posted in a while. We're obvoiusly in a very poor state as a club & as fans we'd just like some hope that things will get better. I honestly can't see a light at the end of this long dark tunnel.
Our current administration & senior management have a lot to answer for. If it wasn't a documented fact that the Penns are successful businessmen, one could be forgiven for thinking they are simply incompetent. Witnessing the complete mess they'd made of the club over the past 8 years, something had to give. Either they came up with a solution or they cashed in & walked away. Unfortunately it seems like actual results on the field aren't that important & there may be a bigger agenda for them.
Contrary to what some people think, football clubs can't be run like a business. A business is all about the bottom line. To survive you need to be as efficient as posible & make a profit. Clubs are about people & tradition. They're about fairness & working together to not just achieve short term success but also keep the club strong for the future. In 2003-5 we developed a culture that sustained us for the next 10 years. Since then though, that culture has been eroded & we find ourselves at another low point in our 71 year history.
So how do we get out of it? Leadership. Although, I'm not sure if the Penns have the will or even stomach for it anymore. They seem to keep making the wrong call too often. They brought Bozo in to run the club for them but his nepotism caused too many dramas & he had to go. I think that probably stems from the early days when they let Des run the club. Des obviously had success but his ego got out of control & that's what ultimately led to the events of late 2011. If they'd been able to manage Des better, I'm sure things would have been very different.
As for the change of coach, I can't see Barrett turning it around. He's passionate about football but IMO not emotionally ready to be a head coach yet. He'd be better as an assistant coach, where he can be close to the players without needing to make those hard decisions. I think our best option for next year would be Maguire. He'll get back the discipline & fitness we're lacking.
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11 | Roosters | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | -42 | 8 |
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