If our club is delaying or having second thoughts about replacing Pay just because we won two close games in a row, then they really will have proved that they're out of their depth. These two wins change nothing and they should still be doing everything they can to get Holbrook.
We had a better finish to the season last year and look how that worked out... Its clear to everyone that Pay needs to be moved on but the club just refuse to pull the trigger... If they bungle this situation and keep Pay on into next season, it would have well and truly sealed their fate.
Feel free to speak for yourself, but the "everyone" is a tad overstated. I for one don't believe in moving anyone on unless we have a better replacement. Right now I'm not sure that we are in a position to be attractive to anyone worthwhile for a head coaching position. We can chase whoever we like, ultimately it's their decision whether they come or not. I don't see that much has changed in our attractiveness since the last time we canvased for coaches, they weren't comfortable in applying last time and I see no reason why they would be any happier to apply now. The undeniable fact is next year is still going to be an uphill battle with severe Cap constraints still in place and it doesn't take a genius to realise that.
FWIW I don't think last week's game was "close" we smashed them and they only got within 6 points (still more than a "small margin") due to a dropped ball. Which can be attributed to playing with much reduced bench rotation that resulted in exhausted players having to play huge minutes. If we had had a full bench, who knows what the score would have been. Plus we bombed a couple of certain tries, in addition to a held up over the line call that if it was the Chooks or Melbourne would have been called a try on the spot.
Winning games changes everything.
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