Out of interest what do you think would have happened to our salary cap mess had Des still been here?
I don't doubt he can coach but the guy has no idea about recruitment or salary cap management. To be offered lattrel Mitchell and Connor Watson and take their time offering Cameron Munster a contract says it all. Our juniors went from being competitive to cellar dwellars under his management. I don't want the grub anywhere near the dogs again.
If Des had stayed as coach I suspect we would never have heard of the "salary cap crisis" which was made up bullshit anyway.
Those players you mentioned never signed with the bulldogs and were only ever at preliminary discussion stage is my understanding.
Des history is he is not a recruiting coach both at Manly & Canterbury he worked with the squad he had or with who came through the ranks. His problem at Canterbury was when the obstruction rule changed we didn't have halves that were good enough, in fact Mybe & Reynold got worse, never clicked and it resulted in the disastrous 2017.
So you think as head coach Des was running the NRL squad, also looking after pathways and working the calculator structuring player contacts do you? So Des was doing everything was he?
Do you know Mick Malthouse the former AFL coach? Malthouse never knew what any of his players were on, he left the contract negotiations to the GM of football at each club.
Yeah but it's all Des' fault right. He had 57% winning record, 5 finals series in a row, wanted to stay at the club and rebuild the roster but got sack. Once he got sacked the club owns all the outcomes which is the team has gone backwards.