Leeds: Former Parramatta coach Brad Arthur says he’s a better coach now than the one who was sacked by the Eels last year, admitting it was time for both him and the club to go their separate ways.
“A lot of people said I looked relieved and happy, and I felt like I was at the time,” he said about his mid-season sacking
“I was grateful for the opportunity they gave me. Eleven years, it was a great life and my family got to live a great life. There were negatives with it, but there were plenty of positives with it. I wouldn’t change any of it at all. Probably there’s some lessons there that I maybe knew or some things that I knew I needed to change or got wrong. But sometimes you don’t make those until you get sacked or terminated.
“I’ve looked at it from a perspective of ‘it is what it is, I’ve had a good life and enjoyed it, but what can I learn from it’? So if I got any opportunities again moving forward, is there anything that I could do differently? But I feel a lot of that just comes with time and experience. You don’t learn from anything unless you make mistakes. It’s just making sure you don’t make them over and over.”
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Sticking the boot in still and he's been gone for almost 2 years 😂
Yep we got some gems here.
We sat through 11 seasons of him . Probably all entitled to an opinion. Especially when he's offseason back page news today saying how he was stale in the role and got a tonne of things wrong he's now worked out in the mighty Super League.
Lol. I knew you'd give it a like button
I guess 8 out of the 11 were not bad. 18, 23 and 24 were low points.
Did get us to a GF totally under prepared and shit scared of Penrith ....hes gone now so not really relevant
Couldn't get us defending well consistently. Only year we had premiership level defence was 2020
It was time. About 12-24 months too late but sure.
Headline on Ch9 news..."why Arthur said he needed to be sacked from Parramatta" greedy prick, why didn't you just walk away with pay?
Oh he cracks me up. Comedy of the day 'he was glad the Eels sacked him'. What a stupid statement!
He milked the place for all he could and for as long as it was on offer.
He gave overs to a number of players and so they 'respected him'. They knew full well when BA goes they will too so they just did enough week in week out until he got unceremoniously dumped.
He should be marked at all NRL clubs 'never to be allowed anywhere near the joint'.
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