The NRL Tackle: Parramatta Eels coach Brad Arthur under fire after South Sydney defeat
After yet another mystifyingly poor performance from his Eels, it’s coming to a point where Brad Arthur needs to justify he’s the man to end Parramatta’s epic premiership drought.
Lost in the celebration of Latrell Mitchell’s stunning return for South Sydney was the fact this was another serious setback for Parramatta’s premiership campaign.
And Brad Arthur just can’t continue to escape scrutiny for these ridiculously inconsistent performances that are tearing apart the Eels’ best chance to win a title in more than a decade.
We’ve seen over the weekend how Justin Holbrook is the latest NRL coach fighting to save his job with Gold Coast on the bottom of the ladder and going backwards fast.
But for different reasons Arthur’s position is also coming to that point where he needs to justify that he can be the man who can lead this club to that long awaited premiership.
And it’s no good having a team capable of beating heavyweights Penrith and Melbourne when they can’t back it up against the Bulldogs and Wests Tigers, or a Souths team that was admittedly pumped by Latrell’s return but nevertheless humiliated in their most recent game against St George Illawarra.
You also can’t ignore this is Arthur’s ninth season and Parra are yet to make it past week two of the finals on his watch.
Arthur said after the game that effort wasn’t the issue against Souths.
But how does he say that when in the next breath he pretty much blamed the performance on a lack of effort from certain individuals, saying “on different weeks we’ve got different blokes owning their jobs”.
-Paul Crawley
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Nightmare, brissy will be following Wayne and the dolphins in 23. Just to update you. After 40 years Brissy has dumped the eels for redcliff go figure
Hahaa im not getting involved on that one, Chief. Curious on what Brissy's thoughts are around a possible shift from the Eels in regards to the great coach, BA.
Fair enough, so you'd stick with BA over Ciraldo or Woolf for '23?
Surely Ciraldo isnt demanding 5 years, know it was reported but find it hard to believe thats true.
We should unconditionally praise BA. And give him another 10 years. Heil BA!
Ha ha ha in "more then a decade" ... 37 years bloke ffs
Well we did make the GF in 2009. You don't agree that was a good chance to win a GF?
The majority of successful teams have assistant coaches who have perhaps complemented/identified areas for improvement the head coach has missed-eg Fitzgibbon, Ciraldo -even Hagan for Qld.
Thats not to say they'll make it as a head coach as we've seen with Kearney and OBrien.
Personally I think BAs best role is as an assistant. He certainly had succes at Melbourne and Manly in that role. He's clearly passionate about Parra and from what we've heard the players love him but should he be the person making the hard calls-probably not.
Payton's success at N Qld has been built on making the hard calls
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