It was a hearts and minds thing in an attempt to fix our reputation. Problem is that Greenberg already fixed our reputation. She was just pushing it further than it needed to go.
Agreed, more likely Gus is talking to him and suggesting (hopefully) he falls on his sword - too much pressure/personal reasons etc. as opposed to sacking him.
No. Cleary has one in his new contract that he can leave if Ivan gets the flick. It only activates if Ivan is sacked, not retires or leaves of his own accord. Pretty sure he would also have to see out the year and then be free after the final game. It's unlikely to get used, but it's there. He also had one similar as a kid, but chose not to activate it when Gus decided Dad needed a nap.
Yup hope so too.
This is probably the most likely situation, but Barrett will know that ends any thoughts of him ever being a first grade coach again so he will be like the directors of a company on the brink praying a miracle happens...
If Ivan looked tired: Trent looks comotose
It's clear why Gus was brought in.
I hope you aren’t being a prick tease!
My source is a guy who works for channel 7. I hope he’s right too for all of our sakes
He wasn’t wrong in griffin though.
Sideshift him to Assistant coach on same money. Problem solved. We wouldn’t have paid him Des money.
Actually gives it the most legs. Channel 7 have nothing to do with League so it would only be information for their news reporters to do a story about the meeting. Wouldn’t think they would be involved in rumours.
Well saidIt's clear why Gus was brought in.
He's sacked coaches before but is giving Barrett a good go at it now.
At what point he realises its a forlorn hope and irretrievable, we'll all just have to impatiently wait and hope Gus has a successful blueprint from his past experiences.
We have no other options unfortunately.
Plus there's a sense that Gus does not want the sole responsibility of making this momentus decision both for Barrett's sake and gotta say, because of the personal, strident criticism Gus will be subjected to yet again for sacking a coach.
I suspect when he took the job on he didn't imagine in his wildest dreams that the team would have had such terrible results and the fans would need to be so vocal with their disgust at our plight.
He is now confronted with the full realisation that there are drastic inherent failings in many different sections of the football dept and roster.
It's probably fair and reasonable to give him a bit more time to come up with a way forward that's financially and mentally best for all concerned.
There's so much at stake that we are best served by sensible and responsible thinking and planning in this regard.
There will be no quick results for us either on the field or off it
