Opinion Why Holbrook Is The Man For The Job

[GoTheDoggies]

Lets look at the Titans before he took over in season 2020.

2017: 15th place finish
2018: 14th place finish
2019: 16th place finish wooden spoon

2020 enter Justin Holbrook.

2020: 9th place finish
2021: 8th place finish finals appearance (Titans first finals appearance since 2016 coached by Neil Henry)
2022: 13th place finish
2023: sacked in 9th position

Taking a team such as the Titans who were a complete rabble, (Hayne million dollar deals), they had one of those losing streaks similar to Tigers and he turned them into a competitive outfit.

Lets also not forget Holbrook has done an extensive coaching apprenticeship. He coached at St Helens in a high pressure job where success is demanded.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

Needs to be our attack coach / assistant.

 

[Papa Joe]

Needs to be our attack coach / assistant.

And he needs to bring Tino with him as Tino has a Holbrook get out clause in his contract.

 

[GoTheDoggies]

The bottom line is Cirdildo sucks and there is a perfectly good coach available with runs on the board. Actual real experience instead of riding the coat tails of Ivan Cleary.

 

[Baseball Furies]

Tino, Fifita, AJ, Fotuaika - all Qld representatives - how many of our team would make the Qld team > none! They should’ve been doing better!

We don’t need another nice guy…

 

[Pottz]

A perfectly good coach who was just sacked by the Titans in favour of Des, so perhaps not so perfectly good after all.

And they have Tino, Brimson and Fifita playing out of their skins this year yet they’re sitting outside the 8.

Happy to bring him in as an assistant if he wants it but the idea that we’d sack Ciraldo less than one year into a five year deal and bring in Holbrook is laughable.

 

[EL Hefe]

Missed opportunity to get Flanagan Snr. Gus wanted a junior coach to have influence.... Reap what you sow

 

[ibby]

We fucked up on Shane Flanagan big time.Gus is a fraud ciraldo is a cockroach if my captain spoke like that in front of me after a 66-0 thrashing I will surely teach him a lesson by dropping him

 

[Chris Harding]

We need fresh, committed troops, not a new coach. With forwards like Tino, an uninjured Kickau and Thompson, we'd be singing Ciraldo's praises for turning the team around.

 

[maroondog72]

I couldn't give a fuck TBH. CC has a five year contract and the board isn't sacking him 6 months out from an election, he's going nowhere but its going to be a rough ride for him if we keep turning out performances like we did yesterday.

 

[Stevo316]

I'm hurting too, but changing the coach is not the answer, everyone wants a quick fix but that's not working either.
When the coach says we have a losing culture problem he is spot on and we are just going to go through this until it turns around.
Rome wasn't built in a day

 

[B-Train]

I was a fan of Holbrook before he came back to the NRL but I don't know how anyone can watch the Titans play under him as coach and think that he's worth hiring.. Their defence has been shocking, they always lost multiple big leads and imploded and he would make bizarre selections and interchanges at times.

 

[CeeEss]

Ciraldo's on a 5 year deal, he ain't going anywhere.

 

[Nate DAWG]

Holbrook is nowhere the answer. Titans have under performed for years with a strong list

 

[CBDoggies]

If we sack ciraldo this early on then the club will be get dragged through the mud. Gus has made his choice by signing a 5 year deal so he has no choice but to stick with it. Now it’s on gus to make things work… it’ll help by starting to sign decent players who play in their respectful positions

 

[Mr Beast]

Lol

Mate we just signed a coach for 5 years you’ve got rocks in your head if you think we going to entertain another head coach

 

[Shanked]

he's not getting sacked after a year you god damn muppet. do you think ciraldo would have taken this shit show without some sort of job security?

 

[Kempsey Dog]

I was a fan of Holbrook before he came back to the NRL but I don't know how anyone can watch the Titans play under him as coach and think that he's worth hiring.. Their defence has been shocking, they always lost multiple big leads and imploded and he would make bizarre selections and interchanges at times.

Were are in the beautiful painful position of having trash attack and defence... I think any additions will help at this point.

Ironic that a loss to the Knights was what made Gus step in and take more control with Barrett. I know Ciro won't be sacked, but will be interesting to see if Gus is more present on game day v Souths

 

[Dogs Of War]

We fucked up on Shane Flanagan big time.Gus is a fraud ciraldo is a cockroach if my captain spoke like that in front of me after a 66-0 thrashing I will surely teach him a lesson by dropping him

Lets see how he goes first. Bulldogs really are 2-3 seasons off having the right depth. A couple sets of junior crops required. At this point I'd take a half back. Hoping Bailey Hayward keeps on developing so he can do that role cause it's painful to watch Burton at halfback.

 

[B-Train]

Were are in the beautiful painful position of having trash attack and defence... I think any additions will help at this point.

Ironic that a loss to the Knights was what made Gus step in and take more control with Barrett. I know Ciro won't be sacked, but will be interesting to see if Gus is more present on game day v Souths

I don't think he will as Ciraldo was his appointment whereas Baz wasn't. If he does that too often it undermines the coaches, starts a bigger media circus and makes future coaches not want to come here because they have no job security and they'd be having to look over their shoulders every two seconds.

Gus is better off letting Ciraldo either dig his way out of this mess or dig himself a bigger hole.