So those who are on the fence, this is directed to you. With this discussion it went two different ways, Crawley said BA is at fault in some way due to not getting up and ready week in week out, while Kent says it is not the coach instead the players need to fix their attitude themselves. I see it as both, the players need to fix their attitude but the coach needs to oversee the teams morale also. I remember Tallis saying once Brisbane lost 2-3 in a row, they won one game and cheered and that, Bennett walked in and said "You have won shit, nobody sees you as a great team, they see you as a team that lost 3 in a row and got lucky, get up and go again next week".
I am on the side of wait til the end of the year to decide overall. Did we improve, regress or stay where we were last year, and judge according to the evidence. However, coming from Kent's side i will not get into my thoughts as i wrote a blog last year about that exactly. Why should coaches be exempt from blame where in this case BA deserves some.
On a side not, i will say team selections can come into how attitude is put on the players. In a good way, allowing the players to make up for a poor performance like last week, attitude of motivation to be better. But on the other side it can also lead to the attitude that "We will be in semis, win some games, we wont be dropped oh well". That can come onto BA as he picks the team.
Finally, is a coach at fault, well if you can praise a coach for a team doing well, you can blame them when doing bad also. Can't have one without the other. Does that mean when a team performs badly it is on the coach? Of course not, but there are times i feel they have been in their right to be sacked. Seilbold at Brisbane, Brown at the Warriors and Newcastle, Barrett at Canterbury. While Pay at Bulldogs, Morris at Cronulla are on the other side of being scapegoats.
I know once a blog is up it belongs to the people, but this is a very predictable outcome for some here. Sack BA goes towards Crawley, save BA towards Kent. Those on the fence i want to know who you agree with, or if you agree with both.
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My apologies as i saw someone put up an article saying the same things in this video.
Kent is a coach arselicker. He wants the interviews.
He defended Madge all the way until the end and his constant love of Dick Stuart is next level.
Advice is ignore Kent on this topic.
This is why I love Dan Ginnane, sometimes he says things on Get Em Onside and I think "shit he said that" like nothing overly bad but like saying this coach got it wrong or like saying Barrett is not up to it.
On other shows they do it to not piss people off so they come on the show in the future. Look at Matty Johns, you say a players name and he acts like he is the 2nd coming
"Reece Walsh" great player
"Kalyn Ponga" wonderful player
"Luke Kelly" oh what a talent
"Ethan Parry" wonderful footballer
Hell he would say I'm a great player if it meant an interview.
Though isn't Crawley also seen as a bit of a dickhead too?
You know whos just as bad, Andrew Webster, what a fekking muppet with NFI, he's never been on a footy field and wants to argue with the greats of the game about shit he's got no idea about.
The type of kent who clearly never had the ticka to even step on a feild and make a tackle in any code but wants to make it his life to be a judge of it, and think he's always right, when the reality is he's a dribbling lisping pussy who never even had the ticka to a go.
The lisping kent really gets on my nerve, an absolute muppet.
The echoes are now coming from the media, as the media talks the fans voices get higher, as fans voices get higher the pressure on the board hits.
The old saying "do things the same way, expect same result" BA is doing most of the job the same way and the team plays the same way, as other teams get better our best goes from 3rd, to 5th, to 7th and go knows where after. The players could be up to premiership level, but mentally are they?
Its a risk but when is a coach hire sure thing?
Kents matey with BA, always defends him, blames the players so he can keep his nice little relationship and mail coming on the side from BA, its as clear as day whats doing.
BA has formed these little relationships with many in the media and he gets a very easy run, no coach has ever got it easier after nearly a decade of nothing than BA, Kents given it to many coaches whove been at clubs for 3 or 4 years for not delivering, let alone 9.
^Isso ^
I remember when Kent said BA would not have known of Keiran Foran's mental health issues before he signed with Parra despite BA saying he had a father son type relationship with Foran .
A week later Geoff Toovey tells fox how BA knew of Foran's mental issues all along .
Just because someone has a mental health issue doesn't mean they can't be fully functional. BA might have known about it, but for all we know it was being handled OK at the time. Things can change rapidly, especially with the added stress of being a high profile player at a new club.
Longfin perhaps you should know the the facts before commenting.
1. Foran had these issues from the time he came into first grade as told by Toovey .
2. Manly would always use this hamstring as the reason why he missed games for years as told by Toovey .
3. Foran had missed a number of pre seasons being he was having treatment for his issues and the club always used his hamstring end the excuse as told by Toovey .
4. Foran had missed the bulk of the 2015 pre season because of his issues as told by Toovey .
5. The senior players and caching staff were the only ones who knew of his issues and BA was one of them as he was part of the coaching staff .
So it would of been pretty obvious that Foran would be a huge risk for the eels and BA sat back watched the club pay $1.4 million a year for him plus giving him a clause that the club had to pay him $1m if he decided to leave the club at anytime . It took only 8 weeks for his mental issues to show up and fuck the club over . Daniel Anderson advised the board against signing Foran purely based on the outlandish amount of money it was going to cost , he told the club he had James Maloney all but signed for 700k but BA wanted his boy and this was why he and BA had their rift and hardly spoke.
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