Opinion Is Burton disinterested?

[Geoff Chambers]

I don't what the club was thinking when they gave Burton the responsibility of being captain.

They should strip all responsibilities from him and just let him concentrate on his job.

Strip the captaincy and give the goal kicking to Critta.

100% he's a diabolical captain and about as far from being a leader of man as one can be at an NRL club. Watching him on the post match media last season was laughable. Without putting too much flack on the coach but it's pretty poor judgment to make a personality like Burton captain at a club that's already struggling for a voice on the pitch.

 

[Geoff Chambers]

Nothing veiled, CC has to prove himself after the disaster that he orchestrated last year

No he doesn't, Phull said CC had an outstanding first season in the top job and results rested solely on the shoulders of the players for not putting more effort in and so on.

 

[1967]

No he doesn't, Phull said CC had an outstanding first season in the top job and results rested solely on the shoulders of the players for not putting more effort in and so on.

So let’s say you are a touted up and coming race car driver, you finally get offered an opportunity by a pretty good team to drive in a big race, but you’ve been told, and your aware, that you’ll be driving a pretty average car, one that’s been losing badly, one everyone pretty much knows is not capable of winning the race … but you see this as a good challenge and you get behind the wheel anyway ..

You and the team prepare the car best you can & you get out on the track and you start the race pretty well for the first few laps, then you lose a piston, you adjust and continue driving well, but then your carb starts choking and losing you more power, but you push the car to its capabilities and then the worsts happens, two of your wheels go flat and your whole first race just goes to shit ..

After the race, you say the engines crap, break it down and rebuild it .. and let’s continue to improve ..

Could you still be judged as a very good driver but one that needs to continue building a better engine and better car ?

 

[Berries]

So let’s say you are a touted up and coming race car driver, you finally get offered an opportunity by a pretty good team to drive in a big race, but you’ve been told, and your aware, that you’ll be driving a pretty average car, one that’s been losing badly, one everyone pretty much knows is not capable of winning the race … but you see this as a good challenge and you get behind the wheel anyway ..

You and the team prepare the car best you can & you get out on the track and you start the race pretty well for the first few laps, then you lose a piston, you adjust and continue driving well, but then your carb starts choking and losing you more power, but you push the car to its capabilities and then the worsts happens, two of your wheels go flat and your whole first race just goes to shit ..

After the race, you say the engines crap, break it down and rebuild it .. and let’s continue to improve ..

Could you still be judged as a very good driver but one that needs to continue building a better engine and better car ?

Ciraldo had the worst car on the grid but also drove the car on the wrong race lines and lost time on the corners due to errors. More time behind the wheel could improve these mistakes alongside a better car or he will always be an average driver. Hopefully he learns to trust his garage and change broken down rusty equipment and has the killer instinct to use the wet tyres just before it starts to pour instead of sticking to the same dry tyres for too long thus losing the race

 

[Geoff Chambers]

So let’s say you are a touted up and coming race car driver, you finally get offered an opportunity by a pretty good team to drive in a big race, but you’ve been told, and your aware, that you’ll be driving a pretty average car, one that’s been losing badly, one everyone pretty much knows is not capable of winning the race … but you see this as a good challenge and you get behind the wheel anyway ..

You and the team prepare the car best you can & you get out on the track and you start the race pretty well for the first few laps, then you lose a piston, you adjust and continue driving well, but then your carb starts choking and losing you more power, but you push the car to its capabilities and then the worsts happens, two of your wheels go flat and your whole first race just goes to shit ..

After the race, you say the engines crap, break it down and rebuild it .. and let’s continue to improve ..

Could you still be judged as a very good driver but one that needs to continue building a better engine and better car ?

Interesting hypothetical and I guess there's some merit to your comment. What's ever so important in motor sport though is race strategy particularly if you don't have the pace of the big money front runners.

For arguments sake if Cc was a racer out of his first season in struggling car I don't think there would be too many experts saying I think we've got the next Senna, Schumacher, Prost or Lewis Hamilton on our hands guys.
Great drivers excel in shit cars when they start their careers and that's what elevates them.

 

[1967]

Interesting hypothetical and I guess there's some merit to your comment. What's ever so important in motor sport though is race strategy particularly if you don't have the pace of the big money front runners.

For arguments sake if Cc was a racer out of his first season in struggling car I don't think there would be too many experts saying I think we've got the next Senna, Schumacher, Prost or Lewis Hamilton on our hands guys.
Great drivers excel in shit cars when they start their careers and that's what elevates them.

Glad you picked up on the analogy .. but it’s very rare just to automatically step in and be what you call “a great driver” … or automatically be great at anything, that’s a very rare talent, sometimes it’s the grind and the heartaches that steals you and pushes you to become great .. coming out of a winning team into a losing team it’s not unusual to be talked up … how’d Bennet go coaching the Knights, Bellamy at SOO ..

You could have the makings of being a really good carpenter, but if given 1/2 a tool box and what’s in there is blunt, it wouldn’t be fair to judge your skills … how about we give Ciraldo time to get the right tools and then judge him ..

 

[dogwhisperer]

Glad you picked up on the analogy .. but it’s very rare just to automatically step in and be what you call “a great driver” … or automatically be great at anything, that’s a very rare talent, sometimes it’s the grind and the heartaches that steals you and pushes you to become great .. coming out of a winning team into a losing team it’s not unusual to be talked up … how’d Bennet go coaching the Knights, Bellamy at SOO ..

You could have the makings of being a really good carpenter, but if given 1/2 a tool box and what’s in there is blunt, it wouldn’t be fair to judge your skills … how about we give Ciraldo time to get the right tools and then judge him ..

Hahaha, I think they took your analogy a bit too far just to prove their point.

Your original analogy was pretty much spot on regarding CC. Don’t listen to them mate.

 

[Moedogg]

Fuck him off. He will never be the player the club hopes he will become.

 

[Northern Beaches dog]

Fuck him off. He will never be the player the club hopes he will become.

I agree
He is a huge waste of time and money

 

[Moedogg]

I agree
He is a huge waste of time and money

Burton is an imposter. Everything he does is so nonchalant or effortless, with no sense of urgency. You have one more game before the season proper starts and you can't even fire up. His ball playing is so shit and has zero fucking vision.

 

[Berries]

I despise how he such a passenger, can’t be the main manager of a team and when he gets an organising halfback next to him you barely see him touch the ball. Has an Australian level attack outside him and he can’t do shit with it

 

[J_Cooper]

There’s no thought process behind 90% of his kicks. Barely makes a line break,
Barely creates one. You can’t defend him anymore and you can’t compare him to others because he is literally meant to be our main attacking guy. He is going to define Ciraldo as a coach as to whether he persists with him there or not

 

[Freakzilla]

Burton only had 14 run metres for the game, 14!

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Burton only had 14 run metres for the game, 14!

Yes but that one run he looked dangerous!!!!!!!

 

[King Gus]

Burton only had 14 run metres for the game, 14!

New record for him.

 

[Novocastrian]

He got put on report didn’t he?

 

[Berries]

Burton only had 14 run metres for the game, 14!

Majority was from that late run too

 

[ILiveForDib]

A specimen of human nature they refer to as a “5/8”who doesn’t even run the ball, despite his biggest asset is his running game and physical presence. Like his done nothing wrong it’s what he doesn’t do does he realise it’s his job to make it happen.

 

[Geoff Chambers]

There’s no thought process behind 90% of his kicks. Barely makes a line break,
Barely creates one. You can’t defend him anymore and you can’t compare him to others because he is literally meant to be our main attacking guy. He is going to define Ciraldo as a coach as to whether he persists with him there or not

Of course he's going to persist with him.
He's Ciraldo's main man there is no 2 ways about it.

 

[Freakzilla]

There’s no thought process behind 90% of his kicks. Barely makes a line break,
Barely creates one. You can’t defend him anymore and you can’t compare him to others because he is literally meant to be our main attacking guy. He is going to define Ciraldo as a coach as to whether he persists with him there or not

Well said.