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"I don't know what you just said.....question is it devastating or not, the discussion echoes around this. Plenty of conspiracy talk, there always will be when you don't know whats behind this process. Personally I am starting to think that Lomax…"
"Incomplete winger who exactly are you replacing this with.
If Lomax is incomplete whats Simonsson or whoever else you replace him with ?
I'm dealing with what I see we are losing too many good players to think roses are red nothing to see here.I see…"
If Lomax is incomplete whats Simonsson or whoever else you replace him with ?
I'm dealing with what I see we are losing too many good players to think roses are red nothing to see here.I see…"
"It's just connections here the guy I know used to play rugby at the same club as I did and his father was the coach of the hurricanes 15 odd years ago when we were playing club rugby and now he's followed in his old man's footsteps.
Mills is the S &…"
Mills is the S &…"
"Mate if you think im talking upside youre the complete opposite.
Of course a halves combination takes time to gel. Every team in the comp takes time to gel.. its obiously quicker for established sides but the game is built on your ability to compete…"
Of course a halves combination takes time to gel. Every team in the comp takes time to gel.. its obiously quicker for established sides but the game is built on your ability to compete…"
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Yes! 100% If anyone could motivate this place! It would have to be Eels great Ray Price!
Seems we are stuck with Arthur as head coach , but geez a natural hell bent motivator is something else..
Yes, get him into the sheds and get the players to look him in the eye before and after a game.
After 6 yrs one can become a so call " dead in the water " when it comes to lifting and motivation within a form of an occupation, hence the "motivation speakers"
Not a chance many of these mongs will listen to him.
If we're fair dinkum during the infamous 'bring in the 3 most important things to you' bonding shit BA identified as needed to turn things around.. at least half these dudes would bought in a PS4 controller. Most of our team are absolute semi professional embarassing half assed athletes lying to themselves and convincing BA theyre having a 100% dig..
I would start with TWO new assistants then work our way down from there.
Forget coaching, I'd give him the no. 13 jumper.
What about that goal kick hitting the post... praying mantis would have caught it.
I would bring Price in at 9:00 am tomorrow morning plus this bloke:
John Muggleton makes case for Rebels defence
A former rugby league international, Muggleton's innovative defensive strategies helped the Rod Macqueen-coached Wallabies win the 1999 World Cup, conceding just one try in the whole tournament.
The Rebels were the worst defensive team in the competition in their foundation year of Super Rugby under Macqueen last season, conceding 74 tries in 16 games.
So it came as no surprise that Macqueen, now the Rebels' director of coaching, turned to Muggleton to shore up the team's porous defence. Muggleton was on the market after finishing his coaching stint with Georgia at the World Cup in New Zealand and a brief consultancy with NSW Waratahs.
"Rod has known me for a long time and he knows all the right buttons to push," Muggleton said. "He took me out to lunch at a Japanese restaurant with Damien Hill (Rebels head coach) and a game of golf. Two things I enjoy.
"They asked me if I wanted to be involved and I said I did.
"It would have been a little bit easier for me last season because now I've got to rub a little bit out and start again. Not that there was a great deal wrong with it. There were some tiny little things.
"Rugby changed last season. The way people play. It meant defence had to change. It did change with the Waratahs. We were much more aggressive. I'm trying to bring that in here and take it to the next level."
A team can be given the best defensive pattern in the world, but if individuals miss one-on-one tackles, it will fall apart.
The Rebels had three players who led the competition in missed tackles -- Danny Cipriani, Cooper Vuna and Julian Huxley -- and this is the area Muggleton will tackle first. "Make sure we can be individually good defenders before we can be collectively good defenders," Muggleton said.
"I always say you've got to catch 'em before you can kill 'em. It's all about alignment and confidence. A lot of those missed tackles were simply because they put themselves in a position where the bloke wasn't in their range of movement to effect a tackle."
The Rebels only scored 30 tries last season, which was the second-lowest in the competition, but their attack will be enhanced by the recruitment of star Wallabies backs Kurtley Beale and James O'Connor.
If the Rebels can improve their defence, they will put themselves in a good position to lift themselves off the bottom of the table.
"There is unlimited potential here," Muggleton said. "They proved last season they would stick in there. They never gave up. They proved they could score points. We've got two very good players coming in who will help that. If our defence is good, other teams will make mistakes and provide us with turnovers, which means we can use blokes like O'Connor, Cipriani, Beale, even Cooper Vuna and (Stirling) Mortlock and we can get stuck into them and put them out of their comfort zone."
While Muggleton, 51, continues to teach defence, he has also learnt some lessons, particularly during his stint with Welsh club Llanelli Scarlets.
"I had two great years in Wales, but the footy wasn't as good as it should have been," he said. "It taught me something. I used to think I can coach everybody. I can coach anybody, but I need the co-operation of that person. How much gets through and how much he improves depends more on him than me. That's one of the big lessons. It's a little bit humbling."
Muggleton has had aspirations to be a head coach, but seems resigned to being a career assistant coach. "I always said I'd like to be a head coach one day, but maybe that ship has sailed," he said.
"I'm happy working with Damien, who is doing a great job. I'm contracted for two years and we'll see what happens. I hope we are successful enough that they want to keep me on."
He may never be a head coach, but not many assistants have changed how the game is played the way John Muggleton has.
Why wouldn't they bring in Muggleton. On a side note I hope John o Neil is looking at some better defensive middle forwards.