1. A complete inability when it really mattered to hold players accountable for on and off field discipline.
2. For lying about holding players accountable in numerous press conferences and saying they would not be in his plans moving ahead, but then playing them again and again after poor performances.
3. His complete lack of ability in identifying leaders and Alphas, leaders are born not bred.
4. Players not improving their games under him, barring Brown most players are stagnant under Brad.
5. Hes not tough enough, he has the face of a lion but the heart of a deer, hes too much one of the boys and struggles to make the tough calls.
6. Hes a poor tactician and gets completely out coached without the input of Gentle.
7. The skill levels and discipline of his teams is generally poor year after year.
8. Brads a very poor long term planner squad wise, failing to address glaring problems instead preferring to stick with personal favs who are clearly not cut out for the job.
9. BA hates change and refuses to move with the game, he lives by the motto of 'its worked for us before, theres no reason to change' his words.
10. BA struggles attracting real talent
11. His use of or forwards and the one dimensional style of play is poor.
12. hes a poor attacking coach with us constantly being in lower scoring teams every year
13. He clearly struggles to split family and business and thinks they are one and the same.
14. he is taking this club backwards not forwards
15 he holds onto the dead wood that other clubs cull because they want a hungry environment and hes all about loyalty, hes simply not cut throat enough to create a hungry environment, he doesnt even think filling our top 30 is important.
16. The tail wags the dog in BAs team, thats the simple fact of the matter.
17. EVERY year we have forwards starting rd1 looking clearly overweight and very unfit, im sorry but we are behind the 8 ball every year
18. Brads simply not honest with himself or anybody else, thats very clear by his own words, excuses, his pressers are diabolical, i actually dont think he can see half the problems because hes too pig headed.
19. hes pig headed and arrogant.
20. he has a complete inability to attract the right coaching staff, its very clear not many want to work with him
21. Hes just not that smart, actually i think hes very late catching on in lots of basic areas, hes not the sharpest tool in the shed.
22. he hates talking personal responsibility, anytime hes asked about it he says ''we all need to take responsibility'' taking the question off himself and deflecting it to involve everybody when hes been asked about himself, he does this every time.
23. i believe his training methods are miles off the pack, as are his skills work, we are behind the 8 ball.
24. hes way to passive and his team plays like it, the man speaks with no passion, hes a complete bore.
25. He is a reactionary coach not a coach who is a visionary, and even when he reacts its way to late, the ships already sailed.
26. his teams look uncoached out there, its as simple as that.
27. Hes a very poor halves coach
28 he has an overinflated opinion of his own ability and ability to get the most out of shit players, big part of the reason we are where we are.
29, hes a very poor identifier of talent and has no confidence in the guys he bought to play for our feeder club
30. he recommended Cayless be the coach of wenty when Cayless is a complete imbecile of a coach and was never a smart player.
31, etc etc, i'll put up another 30 points later when i catch a breath.
Has anybody got any more points as to why he is not the man to take us forward?, i'll add them to the long list.
Reality is Brads a great guy but not the man to take this club forward.
He's created a culture where ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY is the accepted norm and we are all suffering the fallout, just like many of us called would happen all along.
RIP BA, its time to go, thanks for your efforts, youve been well paid, now its time to go and i wish you the best.
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You would think the club and Brad would sit down and say this isn’t working and we are just making matters worse, it’s time to go our seperate ways. I understand he wants to and is trying to turn it around but if he is being truely honest with himself he has to see it is not working. Someone Bernie, has to make a business decision, it’s as simple as that this is causing our brand massive damage and has undone all the good that we did last year after the disaster in 2016.
I have been patient with BA but yes, its time to go. Leadership is a complicated thing and while BA has proved himself as a very capable leader in adversity, he is not a leader when there is expectation. The great coaches are able to modify their style to suit the environment, Situational Leadership.
snake matty johns said the other day, the reason parra, the dogs and cowboys , are running last right now , in hes view the teams are playing to structured under the nrl rule changes,
i think he hit it on the head.
it seems now there playing touch footie like the chooks match..
that game for on was way past structured rugby league.
early in the seasom bad arthur had our small forwards running one out for far to much , 3 runs one out , then on run out the back and on the 5th tackle a kick.
thats scructured footie gone bad, no wonder our halfs and french are not seeing enough ball.. i think matty johns is right snake.
This clown has to go, its beyond a joke, we are clearly the worst coached team in the comp.
Says the expert
Brett, we've won the wooden spoon and finished the season by being smashed two weeks in a row.
If the Eels aren't the worst coached team in the NRL, then who is in your opinion?
We've looked like a rabble all season, I could go on but what's the point.
We are without a doubt the worst coached team in not only the NRL but professional RL anywhere in the world.
And he's a homophobe. Not one gay in the team.
I think whether we like it or not, Brad Arthur is the coach until 2021. Unfortunately the NRL isn't like other codes over here in Europe and England where if you don't perform you are terminated.
Just recently, David Furner was sacked as Leeds coach and I think he was on a 3 year deal. Some football teams go through about 4-5 managers a season in the lower football divisions in England.
Unless the club finishes last again, Arthur will be there.
I disagree, with you Steel be with you. He is the coach however he can still be sacked if we end up losing 60% of our games this season. For me a pass mark is 13 wins. If he cant get to that then he needs to be moved on. Just like Des Hasler did. Just pay him out and move forward. I just do not understand why this club always caves into players and coaches. This club needs to make some tough calls and if this upsets many loyal supporters, so be it they will get over it.