Considering the coach will have some input in the planning of the following year, like recruitment etc, should they wait till end of season to decide whether to offer pay an extension or not?
Take your blue & white specs off- I never suggested Hopoate was the worst FB in the NRL but he’s certainly not in the top6!
"A fit and firing Foran"....ummm....I hope for our sake this is what we see in 2019. I'm not holding my breath.
I don't even include Foran in my calculations. Bloke won't stay on the field and if he some how does manage to then he will just be a passenger like he was at the warriors. We will get a few good moments to start the season from him but that's about it imo.
If you had said underwhelming then you might just be able to defend it, but you said
My view is that there are far more underwhelming backlines in the NRL. I listed the fullbacks that I consider Hopoate to be less underwhelming than. In regards to Holland, I believe that Copley, Suli, Chee-Kam, Gray, Wardle, Fuimaono, Whare, Lee and Aitken are far worse defenders than him. Centre is commonly regarded as the most difficult position in defence, and it's easy to be sucked in to blaming the centre for defensive lapses that happen inside and outside of them. In attack, would you really argue that Wright, Denniss, Doueihi, Oldfield, Auva'a, Linnet, Beale and Parker are more effective at centre than Holland?
I honestly don't think a coach needs that much input when it comes to our squad imo, a good player will pretty much work in most squads in today's game. Hopefully we have a committee in place that will oversee our squad management while also being in touch with our junior sides and recruitment so we're in a position where we always have quality in the roster or about to break through the into it.
1. Morris brothers cost us a few games by themselves.
Your problem is you fail to see the forest for the trees, like it or not sides like the Rabbitohs, Roosters, Broncos,Cowboys & Panthers & even the Storm & Dragons just to name a few will have a field day with running at our edges with Foran, Holland Smith & Lewis,Crichton Okunbur/Montoya. Doesn’t exactly instil confidence. Again, it’s a team sport as individual players they are not impressive let alone defending as an edge requires combinations-right now is a big unknown. I’m hoping the coaching staff can perform miracles but I’m a realist
I agree with a lot of what you have written .. hence why I I'm quietly confident ..
All depends if this new style of ours is going to be a flash in the pan like the beginning of 2008(Folkes was talking up playing expansive and exciting footy) where in round 1 we put 20-0 on parra in the first half, then in the second half we got run down.
That's very true....it could go either way. In fact I won't be surprised one way or another.
Dean Pay is part of the football club's retention and recruitment committee along with C Anderson, Andrew Hill, Warran Mcdonnell, Mark Hughes and one more I forgot his name.
I disagree with you in part of item 2, I believe the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs were a distraction to Woodsy's future, how did one expect him to perform in his first season with the Dogs knowing that your future was up in the air because of the bullshit spending and back ended deals that had happened + knowing you were being shopped around.
Well obviously the coach is part of it lol. My point is more that he doesn't have complete control and that others with longer futures at the club are having a major influence.
Ive always been a pay fan and backed him unlike u marley. But im happy with what your saying. I think deano can get 8th with this squad any less i think we have to keep an eye on a better option. I think they can do it with your men steve there too. Pending injuries. Skinny in backs pending the talent of this 30th man
I'm not really much of a My Kitchen Rules fan TBH, but I will say that i passed Manu in the street the other day. He was thinner than I thought.