Who are we going to buy

The mistake they made was hiring Meninga as opposed to hiring someone like BA or Holbrook. Here me out, Perth needed a coach that could handle the media and pressure of a new franchise. Be able to find diamonds in the rough and producing a somewhat competitive.

Instead they chose Meninga to appease the anti Rugby League media in Perth, feeling a figure like Meninga will win them over. Issue is i believe majority of the Perth media wouldn't know Meninga from a bar of soap. So they will just see him trying hard to win them over and see him as a flog.

Another issue is many in the game believe Meninga to be this almighty figure that everyone, fans alike, bow to. He was a wonderful player and have no issues with him being an immortal but man as a media person he is dreadful and hanged onto the coat tails of that dreamteam Queensland team with a spine including the best Fullback of all time, the best Hooker of all time, one of the best Halves of all time and one of the best Halfbacks of all time and one of the best athletes at Centre; Slater, Smith, Thurston, Cronk and Inglis. Stevie Wonder could coach them to victory.

"I guarantee you the squad as a whole is going into this preseason at a much higher base than they started 2025 preseason. Its laughable to think theyre not.
What developed over 2025 was movement patterns in defence, defensive structures and our…"

"Jarryd might not be able to string a sentence but neither was the late great coach Jack Gibson and we all know how he went.
Sometimes the better a person communicates the more dangerous they are in terms of ability to cover up their short comings."

"Coryn, understandable frustration mate and enjoy the coffee and jersey. Sounds as if you're with the right crowd and in the know.
Are the RU guys into the NRL as well? At least we're not behind more pay-walls than Alcatraz could manage.
I used to…"

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- - LB > Cumberland Eel November 20, 2025 at 9:33am
    
    The mistake they made was hiring Meninga as opposed to hiring someone like BA or Holbrook. Here me out, Perth needed a coach that could handle the media and pressure of a new franchise. Be able to find diamonds in the rough and producing a somewhat competitive.
    
    Instead they chose Meninga to appease the anti Rugby League media in Perth, feeling a figure like Meninga will win them over. Issue is i believe majority of the Perth media wouldn't know Meninga from a bar of soap. So they will just see him trying hard to win them over and see him as a flog.
    
    Another issue is many in the game believe Meninga to be this almighty figure that everyone, fans alike, bow to. He was a wonderful player and have no issues with him being an immortal but man as a media person he is dreadful and hanged onto the coat tails of that dreamteam Queensland team with a spine including the best Fullback of all time, the best Hooker of all time, one of the best Halves of all time and one of the best Halfbacks of all time and one of the best athletes at Centre; Slater, Smith, Thurston, Cronk and Inglis. Stevie Wonder could coach them to victory.
- LB > Pork Rind November 20, 2025 at 9:23am
  
  Well let's hope that means we are going for Taulagi instead to replace Lomax if we are going to market.

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