Burgler
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With this week being a bye and no footy for us the next weeks team selection has got me thinking that potentially Ciraldo is at a crossroads with our squad and the ramifications of either approach he takes.
At the start of the season we were fed was the bond, culture, vibe or whatever you want to call it was at an all time high. It created some expectation around the season and that the recruits were going to make a difference around the club/results.
Now before I get negative, I will acknowledge that Thompson and Kikau’s injuries have had an affect on the side. We did go through a patch with many players unavailable which obviously affects results.
Now we all watched the kennel docuseries which included filming moments of debuting players getting their jerseys. It felt like we put those players on a pedestal and that they were going to be in the 17 moving forward. Perham while he hasn’t been really bad, he hasn’t been great and I feel he offers nothing more than Averillo at 1 (who we’ve obviously lost in the last week) Sutton (who is playing reserves) Kikau (despite being injured now, looked a shell of himself) to name a few.
CC named RFM club captain and I just think that’s a terrible move because he’s not a lock to be picked in the team and is injury prone. Yes he’s been at the club a long time and we lost Jackson but if we let RFM go or tried to move him due to how his season has played out, it just makes us look amateur to rush in and make that decision and makes the club look unstable.
CC picked Mahoney and Burton as on field captains and it’s clear that neither can handle it. Mahoney needs to concentrate on his game at the moment because that in itself hasn’t been good. Burton seems like a churchmouse on the field, rarely you see him yelling or organising players, despite being the 7. Last thing either player needs is the responsibility of the team if they can’t get their own job right.
Ciraldo seems to talk the talk but the reality is he’s out of his depth on how to handle this team. He’s tried the personal approach and the players have let him down/taken advantage of it. He’s tried the warnings without doing what he said he would. And the reality is the only thing he has really acted on is dropping Flanagan, who is off contract and won’t be at the club next year anyway. Now he’s pretty much at the point where he either keeps the Mr Cool/nice guy approach and end up like Barrett in another 12/18months as an assistant again or he can wield the axe and start making the players take these results seriously.
All the crap we were fed at the start of the year needs to go, it’s made the players and the staff look like it was all for show and not reality.
Its a fine line he must walk and I understand that some decisions can get the squad offside and create a rift between coach and dressing room but if Ciraldo is going to be taken serious he needs to make some serious changes and either the players take it on board or we let them go. We shouldn’t want them at the club anyway.
He needs to go out and find an experienced leader from somewhere because that’s exactly what we need at the moment. Look at Reynolds affect at Brisbane. We need to drop all this club captain on field captain mess and just pick one guy who is the leader of the club. We need some experience and bigger bodies in the middle and stop making excuses for average football.
It honestly feels like nothing has changed much since Hasler left. The squad has been flipped multiple times, coaches have come and gone but here we are still lingering at the bottom.
I know the market is scarce at the moment to bring in any recruits but I’d rather the social media team/coaches/players just start calling it for what it is. Feels like the club has no standards and mediocre is ok. Anyone else had enough?
At the start of the season we were fed was the bond, culture, vibe or whatever you want to call it was at an all time high. It created some expectation around the season and that the recruits were going to make a difference around the club/results.
Now before I get negative, I will acknowledge that Thompson and Kikau’s injuries have had an affect on the side. We did go through a patch with many players unavailable which obviously affects results.
Now we all watched the kennel docuseries which included filming moments of debuting players getting their jerseys. It felt like we put those players on a pedestal and that they were going to be in the 17 moving forward. Perham while he hasn’t been really bad, he hasn’t been great and I feel he offers nothing more than Averillo at 1 (who we’ve obviously lost in the last week) Sutton (who is playing reserves) Kikau (despite being injured now, looked a shell of himself) to name a few.
CC named RFM club captain and I just think that’s a terrible move because he’s not a lock to be picked in the team and is injury prone. Yes he’s been at the club a long time and we lost Jackson but if we let RFM go or tried to move him due to how his season has played out, it just makes us look amateur to rush in and make that decision and makes the club look unstable.
CC picked Mahoney and Burton as on field captains and it’s clear that neither can handle it. Mahoney needs to concentrate on his game at the moment because that in itself hasn’t been good. Burton seems like a churchmouse on the field, rarely you see him yelling or organising players, despite being the 7. Last thing either player needs is the responsibility of the team if they can’t get their own job right.
Ciraldo seems to talk the talk but the reality is he’s out of his depth on how to handle this team. He’s tried the personal approach and the players have let him down/taken advantage of it. He’s tried the warnings without doing what he said he would. And the reality is the only thing he has really acted on is dropping Flanagan, who is off contract and won’t be at the club next year anyway. Now he’s pretty much at the point where he either keeps the Mr Cool/nice guy approach and end up like Barrett in another 12/18months as an assistant again or he can wield the axe and start making the players take these results seriously.
All the crap we were fed at the start of the year needs to go, it’s made the players and the staff look like it was all for show and not reality.
Its a fine line he must walk and I understand that some decisions can get the squad offside and create a rift between coach and dressing room but if Ciraldo is going to be taken serious he needs to make some serious changes and either the players take it on board or we let them go. We shouldn’t want them at the club anyway.
He needs to go out and find an experienced leader from somewhere because that’s exactly what we need at the moment. Look at Reynolds affect at Brisbane. We need to drop all this club captain on field captain mess and just pick one guy who is the leader of the club. We need some experience and bigger bodies in the middle and stop making excuses for average football.
It honestly feels like nothing has changed much since Hasler left. The squad has been flipped multiple times, coaches have come and gone but here we are still lingering at the bottom.
I know the market is scarce at the moment to bring in any recruits but I’d rather the social media team/coaches/players just start calling it for what it is. Feels like the club has no standards and mediocre is ok. Anyone else had enough?
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