Recruitment & Retention 2027

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Justadragon

SGI NSW Cup
Dragon David said:
What we have seen from Foran is his great knowledge of how league is best played. The results that he has achieved is just uncanny seeing that he has not done any coaching let alone Head Coaching.

He is an inspirational person and looks to me to have the credentials to have a long and successful future as a Head Coach. If Manly don't sign him up long term, they would be stupid.

I don't like Hornby coming to us via assisting Bennett and Demetriou. Not one assistant of Bennett has done great things as the Head Coach taking over from Bennett- I might be wrong in saying that though as there is one person going great guns at the moment and that is Kristian Woolf of the Dolphins so maybe the "hoodoo" is changing?

Hornby I think does have a very good aptitude and potential to be a good head coach - putting aside that "after Bennett hoodoo". Now that I think about it, that hoodoo relates to assistant coaching at the club Bennett leaves rather than a club coached by another person like we have had in Flanagan and Young, so it won't be a succession, it will be a new Club. So forget that hoodoo and sign up Hornby quick smart. :ROFLMAO:
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If those players at Manly weren't tanking Dave just to get rid of Siebold i'll eat my hat.
 
TheRev

TheRev

SGI NSW Cup
Xuiz said:
Agree but it’s not changing our results if we had JDB instead of Kerr
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This is true, but I think it would have made a difference if the footy was more like 2024 or 2025.. this 2026 stuff seems to have exposed and broken our backline.. that plus maybe Gutho is 12mths past being the x-factor in creating points (which doesnt come from our halves).. I think thats whats sunk us.. JDB was good at turning a game also with a run or defence.

I dunno whats going on with Kerr though, he is 100% a better player than whats going on out there.. 30yrs old.. something is up for sure.. I normally associate him with an attacking weapon when we are on the front-foot.. quick play the balls.. catch an attacking kick.. I dunno whats going on there.. I guess we are missing the 'skittler' prop for him to come in after.. but it just feels like making a half break doesnt seem to get us anything anymore.. teams just clean it up.. or perhaps its more just that scoring 2, 3 or 4 tries a game which we can do.. is not enough anymore.

I do feel without injuries and with a little bit of luck this roster should be able to win 3-4 games or some such in a season, probably more.. but every week it seems like were up against another heavy-weight.. even sides like Manly, Newcastle and Cows r considered heavy weights.. they would have been the games I gave us the most chance of winning.. we have some tigers games coming, we might be a chance there.. depends which players come back.. Api is the one.. and we have another Titans and Parra game also.. its why I was a bit bummed Flanno was allowed to coach thru the soft part of the draw earlier in the season, they were the games we needed to win.. then again whos to say we were more chance to win them under Deano anyway... doesnt seem to have helped.. but it is depressing facing big teams each week.
 
J

Justadragon

SGI NSW Cup
RedVHeartbeat said:
His heart isnt in it mate. He is RedV in heart and soul and like him I reckon he'd have had a successful swan song yr with us.. I seem to be on my own on this point tho..
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No I agree RVH but he had a year and wanted 2, we have heaps of youngsters wanting a chance and the rest is history. Hindsight now is would have been a much better option than Kerr. It's hard to say what the club was thinking, maybe they were also keen to move him on, maybe he will never escape the stories that followed him, who knows. Would still like to see him come back as a tackling coach but maybe the club doesn't want that either.
 
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