He wasn't happy, and his last comment as he was getting up, no questions on the officiating?....
Interesting lol
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"Priorities LB, we have plenty before this one.....This year is finished, Coinakis be the 3rd String with a pre season under him, we need speed and athleticism, not Hookers.
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"I think not only was Ryles having a shot at the officiating but also at the media also"
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Everyone wants the quick fix. Gotta question for you LB. When Tanah Boyd was let go, moved on, told he wasn't wanted at the Titans (I'm not sure on the circumstances of his departure and can't be bothered googling it). Would you have wanted him to come to the eels there and then as he was?
No because we don't have the halves coaching the Warriors have apparently Andrew Webster is top shelf.
So your issue is with our coaching and is based on things that are apparent?
From what I'm seeing it's a whole issue recruitment retention and coaching at this point in time is all in big trouble.
Even when I had conversations with Blair Mills he pretty much echoed the same the club just isn't in a position across the board to challenge for a premiership.He told me if everything went right in the mentioned spaces he believed the club was 4-5 years away from actually making a push.We are in year 2 taking our lumps.
IMO from what I'm seeing we've got big issues in all of the first mentioned areas and not easily fixable areas with the roster we have.If we don't start getting our recruitment right and our development doesn't hit this is just a rearranging of the deck chairs and calling it something different.
Me I think the biggest issue we have is we have no chanmpionship dna in our building.It doesn't seem like we are looking to add that either..
Well no, but at the time we had Brown and Moses as starters. As a back-up? Sure why not. But it's always the way. Players play one good game "why didn't we get him?" Sometimes they go on with it or some have one great year or even month of footy and nothing else.
Nobody can predict Boyd becoming what he was but Andrew Webster has coached him well as he always does with halves.
But in terms of quick fixes, does getting Keaon help our middles? Yes, it does instantly. Still need a few others but the difference would be night and day.
It was a hypothetical LB to illustrate a point, I wasn't suggesting we should have got him. Webster saw enough in him to take the punt so when you say nobody could predict, well someone was willing to take that chance. It is simply not possible to fill our roster out with players right at their peak, the salary cap doesn't allow it.
Professional sports people have careers that last in the single digit years. When assembling a roster all you have are quick fixes. It's a dynamic arena.
What you need are solid systems around you so you can react and respond to those situations with speed. Players changing form, opportunities presenting themselves, junior talent working out, or not working out. You have to respond to all of these situations at speed because there are 16 (soon more) other clubs trying to outpace you to that decision.
Good systems make good decisions look like good luck in hindsight. We do not have good systems, therefore we keep feeling like we are always on the receiving end of "bad luck" and that everyone else is just lucky.
Ryles is starting to see that he doesn't have the support systems he saw at his previous clubs. And that leaves him in a pretty bad situation as a coach because nothing he does right now will make this team good enough to compete with the best. The roster isn't good enough, injuries aside.
He can't come out and say that, because that is having a go at his bosses. So he is wedged. What did BA do? He built a siege mentality with himself and the players - they didn't play for the Eels or the fans, they played for BA. And it worked...until the systems let him down to the point where even that strategy failed.
Right now our roster is at the whim of true good luck (JAC getting fired) and true bad luck (Lomax leaving for a fake pipedream). Unless we put better systems in place that won't change, and winning a premiership on luck alone turns it from 1 in 500 odds, to 1 in a billion.
This Cap, unfortunately, I think inevitable cracks are starting to show with JR.
Ryles proved his potential as a coach at the end of last season.
I like your opinion. Just the plain truth. I'm starting to get worried about the cracks within the coaching dept. For Ryles to offer up a quip about referee's when he hasn't gone there previously, is the begining of finding excuses, passing the buck. I hope it stops right there and he and the R&R acknowledge the real problem and fix the talent signing issue.
We can't get out of the 70 % percentile band for completions in the main. That and the stupid give away penalties is on the players that have been signed. Some are just not up to first grade. I just hope they acknowledge that and fix it.
Yep, me too Bluey. The referee comment along with 'we have to be realistic' and 'recruitment is very hard' are not good signs.
I hope JR can find a way to solve those issues you mention, just don't see it being immediate.
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