If you can't see the improvement in the club and the roster, I'm not sure what you're looking at. We lacked depth and experience last year,that's why we bought versatile older players. As for the forwards,there aren't a lot available and you can't force them to sign
Seems pretty obvious to me Ciraldo is building culture and defensive patterns without going into a panic about results.
Improvements are already obvious in defense and culture. So it is working. Despite results.
Tetevano, Suluka-Fifita will come into calculations next few weeks to slot into improved defensive patterns and a more positive, resilient culture, even of results are still not going our way.
Winning games is nice but sustained changes to the way we play are more important at this point in time.
When the side is playing consistently to the structures etc Ciraldo wants, he can then look at options to bring in a bit more speed or creativity.
Ciraldo did a similar thing with Flanagan last year when the draw was pretty tough until round 10.
He just stuck with Flanagan despite the obvious and waited for the draw to give him the opportunity to make changes.
Flanagan was dropped around Rd 9 I think. It was a very long wait for that to happen.
But it seemed to me that was what Ciraldo was doing from Rd1 - looking at the draw.
This year he has improved defense and culture and wants to get the bigger guys in before taking chances with team selections.
Team selections that may be hard to reverse if they backfire.
After all the hard work these guys must have put in over past 6 months, I can understand why Ciraldo thinks it would be a mistake to look like he has panicked.
Looking forward to the Knights game in Newcastle.
If Hutchison and Taaffe are not delivering by then there is a good chance there will be changes made.
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