I reckon he's let it go. He's spoken highly of the club the past few years when we've been in this ditch.
The club yes, the Anderson/Moore clan no. But again, depends on who you believe. Agree he should’ve let it go given other successes he had after leaving the Dogs.
Thats what I meant, the club. He has shown a deep hidden love for the club still
Gould got the arse as coach & Anderson got his job.
Chris Anderson and Gus were teammates at the Dogs during the 80's. Chris was a Origin and Test player and Gus was a ball playing forward borderline starter/bench/sometimes reserve grader. Chris married Peter Moore's daughter Lynn. After retiring he went to UK rugby league and became a successful captain-coach winning some titles. Gus became coach of the Dogs after Warren Ryan left to Balmain and won a premiership in his first year in 88. However he was only keeping the chair warm for Anderson as Bullfrog wanted his son in law to soon take over. Gus left in 90 to coach Penrith and Anderson became head coach so there's been rumours ever since that Gus was upset that he wasn't shown enough respect etc. They are both one of the few coaches to have won premierships with 2 different ARL/NRL clubs (5 in the last 50 years) and in the case of Anderson I think the only person to also win a premiership in UK as well.
Pretty fair side he had. Dogs had already won 3 comps in the 80s.
Yes indeed. Gus was lucky that the Dogs two greatest players Mortimer and Lamb were in his side. The dogs had a bad year in 87 when the rules changed from 5 to 10 metres to counter the dogs dominant defence. Took them a year to adjust so no surprise when they won again in 88.
I've heard that he didn't need to do much with a well drilled skilful roster at the time. So in complete agreement there.
I honestly don't care if he's still harbouring the grudge. He seems like the master of hindsight to me. People think highly of his supposed revival of the Panthers. But they had a lot of resources to work with off the field and massive junior nursery to tap into for on field results.
