I love ya Des, but!

[Kevinward777]

Garrick needs to go.
Harper needs to play fullback.
Dylan is a centre.
Parker is third choice back up.
Schuster needs to come onto the bench.

 

[KaZa]

Give youth a chance. These players had the chance and ended the season so poorly. Yet are rewarded again

 

[frank stokes]

Mods please merge with the SDH thread

 

[cava2323]

We are so shiiiiit

 

[Eagles4Life]

Mods please merge with the SDH thread

Yeh nah. Not everyone posting here agrees that sacking the coach this early in the season, will result in anything different to what we are seeing now. We have massive problems, but sacking Des isn't going to magically solve them.

 

[The Who]

Yeh nah. Not everyone posting here agrees that sacking the coach this early in the season, will result in anything different to what we are seeing now. We have massive problems, but sacking Des isn't going to magically solve them.

Well, sack whoever is selecting the team!!

 

[pjayz]

Yeh nah. Not everyone posting here agrees that sacking the coach this early in the season, will result in anything different to what we are seeing now. We have massive problems, but sacking Des isn't going to magically solve them.

Mate he is the problem. He selects the team, he decides who to recruit, and he sets out defensive structures.

We all see the stubborn and old time thinking which just isn’t working. Des is blinded by his past success.

 

[frank stokes]

Yeh nah. Not everyone posting here agrees that sacking the coach this early in the season, will result in anything different to what we are seeing now. We have massive problems, but sacking Des isn't going to magically solve them.

You're right... no use sacking him now... we should not have renewed his contract last year when it was OBVIOUS that he couldn't motivate a wh*re to put out...

 

[MANLY4LIFE]

Spot on with it all unfortunately the old senile bastard de$ will pick the same squad over and over and expect a different result ,then before you know it its round 9 and our season will already be over lol

 

[eagleron]

Garrick needs to go.
Harper needs to play fullback.
Dylan is a centre.
Parker is third choice back up.
Schuster needs to come onto the bench.

And Hasler has to go

 

[Peter7]

I'm usually a fan of giving coaches time. I was even late on jumping on the Sack Barrett group but this problem isn't new. We saw the rubbish last season and it seems nothing has changed.
If Des didn't fix the problem last season why would he change anything this year?

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Yeh nah. Not everyone posting here agrees that sacking the coach this early in the season, will result in anything different to what we are seeing now. We have massive problems, but sacking Des isn't going to magically solve them.

You're probably right, Simmo66. I'd settle for Des acknowledging that we have massive problems and then trying to do something about them. On the evidence so far, he seems to think all we need is a few minor adjustments and "the rub of the green". Truth is, we went so far backwards last year that even champions like Jake now look decidedly average. How do you even start to fix that?

 

[ManlyTragic]

Hasler didn’t miss the tackles

 

[Eagles4Life]

Mate he is the problem. He selects the team, he decides who to recruit, and he sets out defensive structures.

We all see the stubborn and old time thinking which just isn’t working. Des is blinded by his past success.

Not disagreeing with your analysis. Clearly as head coach he does all of the above and more. I am not a massive fan of Des as a coach, and I wasn't too happy that he was brought back to the club. He moved on, and I thought we had as well. Personally, I don't subscribe to the theory that sacking a coach early creates anything positive for any club that does that, this early in the season. I am bitterly disappointed in his team selection so far, and clearly this needs to change immediately.

 

[Kevinward777]

You're right... no use sacking him now... we should not have renewed his contract last year when it was OBVIOUS that he couldn't motivate a wh*re to put out...

I wouldn’t go that far Frankie boy. At least not yet. BUT

 

[Eddie Rapido]

Almost impossible to believe that Schuster and Olakau'atu can't get a start in this rabble of a 17!

 

[Wombat64]

Hasler didn’t miss the tackles

The buck stops with him. He had a whole pre-season to improve our abysmal defence and in our trial and this game we were dreadful.....

 

[pjayz]

Not disagreeing with your analysis. Clearly as head coach he does all of the above and more. I am not a massive fan of Des as a coach, and I wasn't too happy that he was brought back to the club. He moved on, and I thought we had as well. Personally, I don't subscribe to the theory that sacking a coach early creates anything positive for any club that does that, this early in the season. I am bitterly disappointed in his team selection so far, and clearly this needs to change immediately.

Yeah, look sacking him early won’t happen, but he needs a swift kick and we should be planing actively for a new coach.

 

[frank stokes]

I wouldn’t go that far Frankie boy. At least not yet. BUT

Was just geeing u up KW...

 

[Deleted member 26876]

Mate he is the problem. He selects the team, he decides who to recruit, and he sets out defensive structures.

We all see the stubborn and old time thinking which just isn’t working. Des is blinded by his past success.

Our recruits all performed well, Foran, Saab and Davey I am all very proud of and impressed.

Croker wasn’t too bad, but we’ll still have to hope Fainu is released mid way through the season because depth is limited and we need spark.

But Des is way too stubborn/conservative with that left edge, Jake and Siro

The following players are stale: Jake, Sironen, Parker, Garrick and after tonight you could argue dce who seems to get worse year after year

Today was terrible, but we were good for about 25 minutes of it, and that, if we combine it with a lot ot key team changes (especially regarding that left edge which conceded a stupid amount of points) could see us improve week upon week. Won’t get easier next week and there needs to be some dropped and Schuster selected as Funa wasn’t used really today.

Our response to today’s performance will either make or break our season