It’s been spoken about many times that Ciraldo is trying to get the team to attack and defend under the structures he wants them to play under, the ones who haven’t bought in or don’t get it, are more than likely the ones being moved on, it’s tough to defend as a committed team & go the extra mile to win games when quite a big portion of the squad are leaving in a few months or weeks and have checked out already .. if they weren’t getting it when under contract they’re certainly not going to care when they know they’re leaving … we’ve been over this !!
Can you please post the link where it’s confirmed that Waddell is being let go … or is that unconfirmed drama Queen stuff again ? … just because he hasn’t been re-signed yet doesn’t mean he won’t, so why bother with that until you know for sure !
Again, you spend to much time looking at the smaller picture and the club from the outside in.
Many of us try to understand the club from the inside out, the bigger picture !!
I couldn’t see you being much of a long term logistics person, more a only what’s happening now and today person.
Can you elaborate on these so called complex structures Ciraldo is supposedly trying to put in place, or are you just belching gas out of your hope hole?
Rugby league is a simple game, lafam....it doesn't need to be overly complicated with needlessly complex structures...especially when it comes to teams who are still learning to crawl. It all starts with the basics, none of which we are doing well. Stopping a team from scoring tries is not rocket science...things like line speed, knowing when to slide, not leaving gaping holes in the middle of the field and not letting teams repeatedly score soft barge over tries are basic building blocks of any good defence.
Blaming the players is a cop out....especially when a lot of the biggest offenders are not off contract to begin with.
I bet you'd have made exactly the same arguments about Barrett a few years ago...saying our attack may look clunky now, but it's because he is working on structures that are much more complex and just wait until it clicks.... only it didn't click with TBaz....things just got worse as our players got more confused. The same thing we have seen happen with Ciraldo as the season has progressed.
If a team of professional athletes is struggling to understand a system after a full off season and most of a regular season, chances are that system is too complex.... and making so many needless team and positional changes is only going to make their job harder.
You keep repeating this line that I am not a long term thinker, but that's not true. I am a big picture type guy and I don't expect instant gratification. I am just not willing to blame everything on departing players, don't buy into the rhetoric that the team needs to get worse before it gets better and think the first step in planning for the future should be identifying and removing road blocks, not adding more of them. Ciraldope is a road block. I also don't believe in repeating mistakes and see so many similarities between Barrett and Ciraldo it is uncanny.
And don't assume you are speaking for the majority of the forum. Judging from the comments, I'd say the majority of fans are very underwhelmed by what Ciraldope and the team have achieved tis year, and far from excited over the direction this team seems to be headed in.
When Gus first arrived here he said it wouldn't take as long for us to achieve success as it took Penrith, and now he has completely changed the narrative. Another huge red flag. Either he didn't properly assess the situation when he signed on to do the job, or he is buying time for a coach he appointed who is badly underperforming in a bid to save face. Whatever the case may be, the change in messaging is alarming.
I'm all for reestablishing our pathways, I'm in 100 percent agreement with Gus on that point. But we still need to make the right moves in the short term to ensure the current roster is playing to its potential and that talented kids who do come up through the ranks here will be developed properly in order to make them the best players they can be. I am yet to see any evidence that Ciraldo is the right guy to oversee such an immense project.
