Can’t believe fans are turning BA like this
BA has Blue and Gold blood in his veins, which you won’t get from any other coach available and that is priceless e.g he won’t leave unexpectedly and take our best players with him
BA gets player buy in better than any other coach. Also invaluable
BA has us defending better than any other coach would - except Bellamy.
BA has had some great strategy successes - he nearly got us to the grand final last year and that would not have happened if he was a dope.
He has also made some strategic blunders or missed seeing things he should have. All coaches do and he still is learning - this is his first head coach position.
Dont forget that he came in when our recruitment was stuffed by Ricky’s betrayal and the Salary cap scandal. But he has still managed to attract highly sought after players without paying overs.
Losing our only big forward was not BA’s fault. Not being able to recruit what we need is likely also not his fault. We seem to have a policy of not paying overs and not paying under the table. This would make it very difficult for BA. If we did have a properly balance forward pack things would be very different. And don’t blame Mannah either - Mannah is also excellent at what he does but he is a workhorse prop that would balance out a Junior Paulo well if we had one. Mannah is also not a captain of a competitive NRL team. But we don’t have a better alternative at the moment.
Right now we need stability and trying to shoot ourselves by sacking BA would not be in our best interests. Constructive criticism sure but seriously BA is the man to lead us to a premiership. Lose him and we spend another decade at least in the wilderness. All we need to be premiership contenders is a more balanced forward pack. A few Big props with big motors and we are there.
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BA needs to be herld accountable for the recruitment of players like Hayne and Evans. Plus the high profile flops whatmough and foran.
I'm happy to see out the year with BA but if we dont make the 8 he has to be moved on.
Nah mate.
I love BA but I love Parra more. If we gone 0-5 BA needs to go.
He was involved with the scandal cap you think he did not know what was going on bullshit so don’t defend him there ba is shit Brian smith cleans up every club that’s why nz is going good this year told the club you are not fkn Melb pass the ball offload u score u win it’s such a simple game brian smith made the finals from day 1
Get your facts right
How the hell do you come up with blue & gold blood??? In 4 years he has continuously let go Eels juniors while signing pathetic no-hopper Manly reserve graders!!!!