The great passion that once embodied the Blue and Golds has disappeared. The only men trying to keep it are Burt, Hindmarsh, Hayne and Mannah. I've never seen us play so bad, so consistently. Passion is what Parramatta use to be about. Evidently, not anymore. There use to be a never say die attitude but is has been lost on the current crop of players. There was a time when Parramatta revelled in having their backs to the wall and being able to fight their way out. These days they drop their heads and surrender. The warhorse in Hindmarsh and the veteran in Burt were the only 2 who have been trying to inspire the team when they are trailing. Hayne does his best but he's so closely marked these days it's hard for him to tear a game open the way he used to. There's no one else stepping up and showing the way forward. When our backs are to the wall we attempt a Hail Mary play, instead of fighting our way out.
Where does the blame lie? I believe it lies with the coaching staff. It's their job to pump the players up and get them ready. It's clearly not happening at the moment. There's no variation in our play, no playing what's in front of them. That's what Parra's always been good at. Evidently Kearney doesn't understand that. He's a rookie coach who's out of his depth. With Sandow, Roberts and Hayne forming 3/4 of the spine, the game plan should be based around them playing what they see. They're at their most dangerous when they have space and play ad-lib football. Kearney's game plan wouldn't be out of place in park footballe. Hit the ball up one-out for 5 tackles and then kick. (Don't worry about a chase.) It's almost as if our players are scared to do anything out of the ordinary and they're more concerned to stay mistake free. Realistically, Who Dares Wins. When Sandow played what was in front of him against Souths he looked dangerous. His chip kick got the team moving but no-one backed him. When he went for the intercept, he again was playing what's in front of him and he almost scored from it. Kearney take note.
Now, on to who will be our new coach. Let's face it Kearney's gone at the end of Round 26. I would really like Jason Taylor to come back. He was sacked under Fitzgerald management and may see a new opportunity under 3P. (Even though they're a joke for a Board.) Taylor's coached Sandow before and knows how to coach him. Taylor knows what it is to play for the Blue and Gold. He was a key member of our 2001 Grand Final charge. He's got the knowledge to harness the strengths of our players and make us a force. He got Souths to the finals in 2008 with a relatively unknown team, a young Sandow and an inconsistent John Sutton. With our team he should be able to do something similar. I really hope that the Board approaches him to coach at Parra. Taylor's also got form with Hayne as he brought him into First Grade and it might help to keep Hayne at Parra. The passion as to return if we are to feature in another Finals Series in the near future.
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If we have a half who is compsed, confident and a communicator we can hold our ground and move forward with a leader.
That is something we have lacked for many years.
Our problem's the game plan. It's too structured for our roster. But we tend to have a poor attitude when a try is scored against it. It's like the fight leaves us. The Parra teams of old would start playing harder and faster but now they meekly submit. It's not the size of the man in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the man, and at the moment we're not fighting much.
We got to the 09 grand final with Robson and Mortimer remember ?
How the hell cant this team and this coach just replicate the way they played in the 2nd half versus the Sharks ?
It really is that simple and shouldn`t be too hard for the players and coaching staff to sit down and go over everything that worked for them against the sharks.
40 mins of action, we defended for each other just like the NSW Blues did with their "Blue Wall" and kept them scoreless. We were disciplined. We had good ball control and piled on what was it, 28 points or something ?
How the bloody hell couldn`t they replicate JUST 40 MINUTES OF PLAY ???
The Parra players were too busy helping Souths to score every single point from the penalties which we gave them. EVERY SINGLE POINT THE RABBITS SCORED WERE ON THE BACK OF PENALTIES WE GAVE THEM, EVERY SINGLE POINT.
E-V-E-R-Y S-I-N-G-L-E P-O-I-N-T T-H-E R-A-B-B-I-T-S S-C-O-R-E-D C-A-M-E D-I-R-E-C-T-L-Y F-R-O-M T-H-E P-E-N-A-L-T-I-E-S W-E G-A-V-E T-O T-H-E-M.
They had passion in 2nd half versus Sharks. It`s all A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E.
Well boys, we beat the Sharks and took the pressure off Kearney, now he wont cop crap from the media about his success rate and stories of him facing the axe will go away atleast for a little while, so we can relax against the Rabbitohs now. We don`t have to play like proffessional NRL players are supposed to play against Souths .
That was their attitude. Where as after the Sharks game Hayne said when recieving his Man Of The Match Award, "We finally did what we have always planned to do".
And Hindmarsh said on 1 of the footy shows, "That`s what we are capable of doing if we just stick to the game plan Kearney gives us".
Well he wasn't approached for another contract after helping us to the Finals.
no we had already signed hagan... taylor was just an interim coach
Super Eel 22, you mean like when we kept the Sharks scoreless in the 2nd half while we piled on 28 unanswered points ? And minutes after that game Hayne said "We finally did what we have always planned to do". Is that the structure you don`t like, or believe cannot or does not work ?
I have said a million times but l will say it once more. It is and always has been the LAZY MINDED PLAYERS ATTITUDES. Only for 40 minutes they are capable of putting it all together both defensively and offensively as they did versus Sharks. And when we won that game against the Sharks in just the final 40 minutes, WE TOTALLY STOPPED GIVING AWAY PENALTIES AND WE CONTROLLED THE BALL MAGNIFICENTLY. And at one stage we had recieved 4 drop outs = repeat sets for us to attack them with, rather than us giving the opposition repeat sets to smash us with from our penalties just like we helped south sydney to beat us.
The great coaches,Gibson even going back to Terry Fearnley and I include Ryan here, usually had an array of set plays that were drilled into the players from day one of training and executed well on the field. Some did not come off some did. Some skirted the rules, but hey these coaches had that little extra up their sleeve to try and capture that winning edge. And of course were tremendous defensive coaches as well.
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