HM SGBall and Flegg all are scheduled to play Sat afternoon at Chester Hill - anyone who wants to see the pathways in action id encourage you to go - if the focus is on individual player efforts/performance rather than game result might help to lessen any disappointment around fg.
And Stuart, with Gould as Coaching Director, won the Premiership in his first year and played in the next 2 Grand Finals. Seems to me like a good decision.
I agree about the control of the game and sensing the shifts in momentum. We don’t have a game manager and haven’t for a while.
Tend to agree to some extent BUT the biggest issue is still middle forwards - dominant middles. or those that can at least finish even will make it a lot easier for rookie halves to transition into fg- without the middles they will be set up for failure.
It’s so frustrating, we do all this tackling and I think, just hold for a set give to Burton on tackle 4 and just launch it, he has the biggest boot I’ve seen. Yet we drop it, throw forward pass etc etc. I hope ur right mate about the next crop coming through.
What did you expect after the offseason that was on TK!
Will do
I think it is pretty well documented the success that has followed him in one form or another at the Dogs, Penrith and the Roosters as a player, coach or administrator. That success and credability is why we employed him 2 and a bit years ago and he is now in his 3rd with a roster and coach that he is responsible for. However, the honeymoon is over and results/improvement need to happen very quickly or he needs to make the needed adjustments
He says Gould was a cancer but before Gould they had trouble winning. They literally finished 2nd last before Gould came.
They had the rub of the green as well. I think just once in that game the ball bounced in our favour otherwise it fell into their lap. We are still a bit short on quality obviously everyone knows that, but the effort that the players we do have put in was to be applauded. It tells me at least that the coach is well supported by the team and if he is supported by the team that's good enough for me. If a quality 7 and some alpha props materialise but we don't fly up the ladder then all eyes will be on the coach.
Funny how Gus takes over at these clubs that have been perennial losers for years, spends years there being paid big coin to supposedly twiddle his thumbs contributing nothing, yet after he leaves they all of a sudden become powerhouse clubs & win multiple premierships ..
All those people & not one of them can see that Burton isn't a half?
Definitely. Although I don’t think we lost solely because of our middles on the weekend. We looked like we didn’t know what to do with the ball at times and we made too many errors and had to defend for too long. We lacked direction in the halves.
We really lack a dominant voice in the halves.
Wasn't it Graham Murray? Mark Murray was the useless Storm and QLD coach.
None of that counts until the combinations are pressure tested and you can't do that at training
100% mate. The late Graham Murray
