Yet another Fuck Pay thread,
When will people realise that NO COACH could do more given the situation Pay walked into.
Lol at the arm chair coaches of the kennel.
@Fear.The.Roo Pretty sure a bloke called the Skippy God, could easily get things working again. he taught us valuable lessons in life, like we can all strive to be coaches, if we just work hard.
I have zero doubt Des would have done better with the squad this season than what Pay will.
@Trafford10 I think the problems run deeper than face value.
I'm no Des fan (despite many on here thinking as such). I just approach things in a logical manner.
Would you go out and buy a brand new car if your existing car does the same thing, and does it potentially better? Or would you consider it change for changes sake?
I think towards the end the old board knew they were fucked and went into somewhat of a panic whreeby rational decisions were made on the spur of the moment, rather than being carefull thought out.
But does that really make them the right decision?
It's honestly hard to imagine we'd be worse on the ladder, and on the field under the old reigme, and I would LOVE to know what there plans for cap management were.
In addition to this I'd love to hear from the "new crew" in why that same approach couldn't have been applied now.
I know that people argue "well they'd just keep backdating and backdating contracts", but what's the end result there? That contracts expire and aren't renewed!
That said, Pay will have to be judged on next season which to me looks very bleak.
and the season after that. Effectively he's being sold a dump. But none of that matters, because it's all excuses.
Like in anything, people are judged by what they do, not what they don't do.
Is there stuff inside Pays control which he could be doing to lift our season - YES.
Is that stuff being done - NO.
Therefore Pay isn't performing at 100%.
and people may or my not agree here, but I honestly believe having multiple coaches is causing more problems than its solving.
And for the life of me why the headlong rush to push Woods out when we have no quality replacement and leaves the club with Klemmer as the only quality prop in the club.
Surely there is a lot we are not being told??
Agree here.. I think there is a lot that is not being told.
I believe that there is heat on the newly elected board to "stop talking and start acting", and that ironically those actions are almost a mirror image of the panicked "spur of the moment" things the previous board did towards the end of their tennure.
The current scenario calls for cool heads and a clever strategy, not a (non paid) director appointing himself into a (well) paid position within the coaching ranks, in order to try and move things along. A director who has been out of the action for a while and who has a son coming up through to coaching ranks.
It doesn't take a genius to see what is going on, and it's history repeating itself from last time "the family club" turned into "the family charity", which employed not the best people for positions, but rather the best immediate family member for positions.
I expect I'll cop some heat for the above comments from "they who clearly can do no wrong".
At $800k or $850k Woods is getting paid a market rate, not way overs.
This is what people who criticise what we paid for Woods fail to understand. If we tried to register Woods at $400k, the NRL would step in and state he is not being paid fair market value. Much like Roosters can't sign Cooper Cronk on a $100,000 a year contract. NRL dictate how much a player is worth on the market and will not register contracts that undercut that players estimated value.