Come on mate you're not that stupid Holbrook has only just walked into a team thats been picked for him thats been sitting on the bottom of the ladder.
How the fark do you expect him to teach them his structures and game plays in 8 games?!?
Pay has had 3 years with the same group of players.
Seriously how can you compare??
He has had a whole off season and eight rounds.... not long enough to work miracles, by any stretch of the imagination .... but long enough to at least coach some defensive steel into his team.... his team is averaging almost 30 points conceded a game... if the dogs were averaging 30 points conceded after 8 rounds of Pay’s first year, the kennel would be baying for his blood. People were calling for his head 5 rounds into his coaching career.
Bad luck or not, Holbrook has had a very poor start to his NRL coaching career and I’ve seen no evidence he is the guy to take us forward. I’m not convinced by him winning a super league title, that’s for sure. Nathan frigging Brown won a super League title.... as for him being a well regarded assistant, so was Kearney.
I’m not completely writing him off, he may still prove himself.... but I think lamenting him as the one the club let get away at this stage of his career is absurd, imho.