As a loyal Parramatta supporter for the past 45 years I have seen it all. But one thing painfully obvious to me is that BA has now lost the dressing room. They are playing without direction, spirit and confidence. BA body language is such that he cant offer any more or find any solutions to get them out of this mess. Once the voice of reason and purpose goes, the respect wanes, the believe leaves and there is nothing good going to come from the relationship.
Think back to every recent coach sacked. All lost the dressing room and all were replaced. Unfortunately, the time has come and Parramatta must now replace him and soon. The season is gone. We dont have the cattle, the drive or the depth of quality. We do have some things in our favour for a new coach :
Half of the top 30 off contract . Scope to recruit what you need and want.
A new stadium to play at in 2019 ( massive draw card )
A slowly improving brand and potential for more with the stadium in 2019.
Which Coach ?
Hasler, Toovey, Maguire, Cartwright, Furner.... plenty out there.
But each one has their own player style and I seriously doubt any of them would want 80% of the current crop. Massive rebuild again. Only chance would be a second half rebuild and hit 2019 running.
Sad times to be honest.
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I still believe that the issue is not the coach, its issues in the team itself. There has been several blogs already about there being conflicts between certain players, and its possible that may well be the issue, even though its early in the season if the issue is fixed then we still have a chance for the year.
Lets be real here, Wenty had another big loss today so there is something going on that needs to fixed now, & fixed after the source of the problem is found and dealt with. One thing for sure is that most of the players off contract this year will be looking elsewhere as they are doing nothing to warrant any new deal.
The worst aspect is that the big Wenty loss means few if any of those players are putting in any better than those who have taken the field in the first grade team. We had a few new faces in the team today, I would like to know how they went in comparison to those who were out.
Honestly i couldn't give a rats anymore, the playerS have no pride in themselves, the jersey and especially the fans let alone the bloke they love to play for BA.
They can all and go and get fucked.