But the one nagging issue about pay does not go away and hence he cannot be trusted to build our team.
Last season we started with a whole bunch of wrong players in wrong positions (e.g Montoya in centres, chn on the bench) and he persisted and persisted with the wrong lineup until injuries set him right.
If he can't even pick the right players in the right positions with our current squad to give us the best chance of being competitive, i sure as hell don't want him to have an open cheque book to fuck our salary cap on shit players again. E.g clay fucking priest
Exactly. Let’s not forget. We have been in effect out of finals contention by round 10 every year under pay. Don’t think we have won more then 3 games in the first 3 months of footy (don’t quote me on this).
So fair enough. Pay took over a train wreck. But he was here for the Britt, crichton, Napa, katoa, Stimson, dwz as a fullback signings.
We have seen no progress at all. We don’t have a young gun with 25-30 games under their belt (I will not consider Lewis a young gun) he hasn’t aided in the development of cogger, Meaney, wakeman, averillo, Harper. He has detracted from smiths development by putting him in a position he is not natural in.
So it is unfair to blame the world on pay. But to be honest. We haven’t gone forward under him which I can blame. We were never going to be a finals team. But we have given ample game time to players that shouldn’t have gotten it. Fair enough we got stop gap fillers on bottom dollar. But not sure why Napa was brought in. Biggest pretender in the nrl. And I can’t remember the last game he showed up. Must have been half way through 2019.
So yeh. Short sighted to hang all the shit on pay. But he had done absolutely nothing to get us out of this situation. We haven’t developed anyone to see if they are worth persisting with. And the board who “inherited” pay. I don’t buy that either. His 2 year contract was up and we extended him another year. If they were that against it why not let him go last season?
Their hands aren’t clean from this mess. And in my books they said don’t expect finals until 2021. So unless a miracle happens their necks are on the chopping block. The patience fans showed while they kept on saying we can’t be competitive until 2021 will not last through another mediocre year of tolman on the 4th, Napa being invisible, and Lewis playing arrogant hero ball for himself in 2021.
As a coach pay should hang his head in shame, not for the losses or the lack of playing talent. But for the fact our game plan is Tolman taking hitups 5 out.
this great club is now the easy beats of the comp. and I don’t see pay or Anderson leading us out of this.