Opinion Why do our players need to miss 2 days of training ?

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Does anyone truly understand why our players couldn't train today or apparently tomorrow ?

Like we have what 4 assistant coaches who usually do most of the work anyway but none of them could take on some added responsibility for a couple of training sessions. Furner is an ex NRL coach also ? Gould can't help out ?

I just don't get it. Did the players need time to have a cry when they helped cause some of this shit ?

Players are already unfit and playing shit. Last thing they need is a free holiday. Back to work on Wednesday with a game on Friday LOL

Barrett's extremely unlikely to ever be a head coach again and the associated pay packet. Yes he got a 500K payout apparently but do you think he (or his family) will ever regret taking the full 3 year pay out ? Yes he's proven again he's a nice guy but that was part of his problem. Nice guys finish last. A more competitive natured coach would fight for every last dollar.
agree, there is no reason why they cant do fitness sessions. The coaching staff is meeting Gus, but there others not involved in those discussions that could run the session. Get the players together, have a BBQ after training for bonding purposes
 

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They also ran out of doughnuts .
 

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I doubt the flu is the real reason and just a good excuse, its to much of a coincidence.

Too much a distraction with Trent going to get a decent training session in, give everyone a couple of days to soak up what's going on and regroup Wednesday.
Gus has been around a few sudden coach changes so should have a good idea how to handle the situation.
 

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Does anyone truly understand why our players couldn't train today or apparently tomorrow ?

Like we have what 4 assistant coaches who usually do most of the work anyway but none of them could take on some added responsibility for a couple of training sessions. Furner is an ex NRL coach also ? Gould can't help out ?

I just don't get it. Did the players need time to have a cry when they helped cause some of this shit ?

Players are already unfit and playing shit. Last thing they need is a free holiday. Back to work on Wednesday with a game on Friday LOL

Barrett's extremely unlikely to ever be a head coach again and the associated pay packet. Yes he got a 500K payout apparently but do you think he (or his family) will ever regret taking the full 3 year pay out ? Yes he's proven again he's a nice guy but that was part of his problem. Nice guys finish last. A more competitive natured coach would fight for every last dollar.
Yep they needed a time out to have a cry..wtf knows man, why are you asking us we have nfi either :laughing:
 

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Smoke screen for the players that will be dropped.
I thought of this also.

By gaining permission from the league to name a really big extended squad or to select players outside the team named tomorrow because of the flu, it allows Gus to drop the players who deserve it and need it without the media scrutiny.
 

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Does anyone truly understand why our players couldn't train today or apparently tomorrow ?

Like we have what 4 assistant coaches who usually do most of the work anyway but none of them could take on some added responsibility for a couple of training sessions. Furner is an ex NRL coach also ? Gould can't help out ?

I just don't get it. Did the players need time to have a cry when they helped cause some of this shit ?

Players are already unfit and playing shit. Last thing they need is a free holiday. Back to work on Wednesday with a game on Friday LOL

Barrett's extremely unlikely to ever be a head coach again and the associated pay packet. Yes he got a 500K payout apparently but do you think he (or his family) will ever regret taking the full 3 year pay out ? Yes he's proven again he's a nice guy but that was part of his problem. Nice guys finish last. A more competitive natured coach would fight for every last dollar.
Barrett will be a head coach somewhere eventually. It will take time. He will easily get an assistant role tomorrow.
 

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Something tells me Gus won’t last 5 years no friggin way.
How the hell can you let one man have his fingerprints over everything pass from me thanks.
The fact that he is covering up this is all his doing ,no transparency more mind games .
 

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It was clever to call it the ‘flu’ by the club. If it was Covid the government would have proof of whether that was true or not. Then they couldn’t play around with team lists. They also can send all the team home and say have a couple of days off. It doesn’t sound so (dramatic officially) to call it the Flu would make them go home for the next 48 hours.
 

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Does anyone truly understand why our players couldn't train today or apparently tomorrow ?

Like we have what 4 assistant coaches who usually do most of the work anyway but none of them could take on some added responsibility for a couple of training sessions. Furner is an ex NRL coach also ? Gould can't help out ?

I just don't get it. Did the players need time to have a cry when they helped cause some of this shit ?

Players are already unfit and playing shit. Last thing they need is a free holiday. Back to work on Wednesday with a game on Friday LOL

Barrett's extremely unlikely to ever be a head coach again and the associated pay packet. Yes he got a 500K payout apparently but do you think he (or his family) will ever regret taking the full 3 year pay out ? Yes he's proven again he's a nice guy but that was part of his problem. Nice guys finish last. A more competitive natured coach would fight for every last dollar.
I think they need 2 days to take longhard fucking look at themselves.
 

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I doubt the flu is the real reason and just a good excuse, its to much of a coincidence.

Too much a distraction with Trent going to get a decent training session in, give everyone a couple of days to soak up what's going on and regroup Wednesday.
Gus has been around a few sudden coach changes so should have a good idea how to handle the situation.
Agree. Lets them sit around and fully absorb the pathetic efforts they themselves, or their bumbling team mate, put in towards getting their coach sacked.

Whether he was an ineffective coach or not, these guys performances were third rate efforts in the very basics of the game and must bare a lot of the responsibility for the pathetic individual discipline, dropped ball and general numbskull footy nous shown.

Combination of everything just not being the cohesive playing and coaching operation required for success with poor results for all coaches, players and Admin at the Bulldogs.

But the players need to own their part in the terrible results and effort this year that have got us to this bad situation.

Two days of being out of the limelight, with their usual schedule disrupted, thinking about their crushed coach, won"t hurt any possible preparation for the next game which they were probably going to bumble and stumble their way to a loss anyway.

As Gus said ...after this Fridays game, the focus starts on the weekend towards appointments and deciding what the future looks like.

That better mean never, ever again accepting these inept, ill disciplined, bumbling, mistake riddled performances, without consequences, ever again for CB Bulldog players and it won't be an acceptable standard at this club ever again, for anyone, at all, within our Football Department.
 
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I think it makes sense. Gives them 1 session this week. Gus will walk around the in goal giving one hell of a speech to fire them up for Friday. They will go home fired up. Then Friday they will put 38-0 on the tigers. Gus will be a genius yet again. Flanno will start Saturday morning with a winning culture here already. We win the premiership.
 

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Wont make a difference.. maybe an extra day off clear their heads, play xbox will help them in Friday..
 
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