If this is in fact true and that he was shown the door for purely political reasons, then it is one of the biggest cases of throwing your toys out of the cot I have ever seen............and I've been a teacher for 28 years so I've seen my fair share of dummy spits.
Tooves inherited a grenade and Hasler pulled the pin out of it before he left. There was no avoiding the transitional period. Every club has them. It's just that Manly's won't go for 5 or 6 years like it does for most clubs. Souths' went for 43 for ***** sake.
Plenty will disagree but I think we are going to improve markedly in 2016. And would have done so with Tooves as the coach. I won't be giving Barrett the credit when it happens.
Tooves to his credit has just gotten on with the job. Like we would've expected anything else from him.
He's a champion. Something the Penn's will know bugger all about.
