I just wanted to add to "the recent peoples poet blog", but I want everyone to see what I have been trying to get across to you guys for a while now. The peoples poet is correct. It is pretty common knowledge that players transfer to Parra and tend to under perform.This is not about names.
As a club we have a massive junior pool and we don't seem to be able to mature the juniors into better than average players.
And the players that do transfer tend to become average players themselves.
We all know that players playing alongside good players can be made to look good themselves.
SO WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING AT PARRA?
Are our players on average so bad that the players that transfer to us go backwards with their own career because the players around them make them look bad?
My opinion.
Parra have in the recent past had no idea how to train these men to be better football players. Do you guys really think that Brisbane mysteriously became a top 2 team just because Bennet started coaching them. Seriously, Bennet and his coaching staff turned them into the top 2 team.
So back to Parra. Who is teaching these boys the tactics and strategy of playing league. There is improvement in Parra in 2015 and I believe it is based around the team learning to fight for 80 min. I give that one to the old heads. Watti , Wicks and Peats.
Next year we have bought reasonably well. Better than average players mostly. Because we have not been able to develop junior's to fill the spots. Maybe these boys were born too late to develop for this years team?. The 2015 team ,we had no developed junior's that were above average to play first grade.
So someone ,please tell me, when do the coach and trainers think they can develop some of our junior's to play above average first grade football.
The results of the football team is a direct reflection of the coach and the trainers. It has been very poor for the last few years. We have hired below average trainers and the results have reflected this.
This year we have bought players for the first grade team to compensate for the very below average trainers that Parra have hired.
Honestly, I am so pissed. The management at Parra cant see the obvious. We don't have the trainers with the skill to develop the juniors into first grade players. Something has to change. Are we really going to buy the players we need to win our next premiership?
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This has NEVER been discussed around here and I've been here since 2007.
The originality of this blog astounds me to such a degree I simply don't know what to write.
Then perhaps you should have added a comment in his blog.
Maybe you meant to say
"I have no real thoughts of my own, but I need some attention"?
2. We keep wanting to blame the trainers, coaches and anyone but the players. Do you realise it's possible to have a bad crop? Just like Hayne's crop was awesome, the recent ones have been disappointing. No amount of coaching will give Cheyse Blair, Brayden Williame, Matt Ryan, Mitch Allgood, Jake Mullaney etc etc the TALENT to become a good NRL player. Sure, a big pool means we should at least get a few good players. But maybe not? However, if you look at our NYC team in 2014 (1min from a Grand Final) this WAS a good team of juniors. BUT many haven't been able to keep developing as well as hoped (Matterson, ZDC, Goodall). Some have (Junior, Moeroa, Folau). A lot of NYC guys never make the NRL. Few do. Coaching isn't a magic fix for ordinary players with limited potential. The last 5 years have produced some decent players, but few good ones. Thats life. A large pool won't always guarantee good players. Jarryd Hayne probably would have become a star no matter what. Coaching is not the be all and end all, nor is it the defining factor. If a bad crop of players comes through, which is possible, then that's reality and we need to move on. We can try to blame "club management" for everything, but it doesn't wash in every case. This is a prime example.
wow, its pretty much like sitting near the bulldogs supporters during a game.
A few under Hages I think Wiz, but not at Parra.
Clutching at straws now...