Coach from 2027

Who should be coach from 2027?

  • Brad Arthur

    Votes: 21 42.9%

  • Ben Hornby

    Votes: 10 20.4%

  • Dean Young

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Jason Demetriou

    Votes: 3 6.1%

  • Michael Cheika

    Votes: 26 53.1%

  • Billy Slater

    Votes: 7 14.3%

  • Willie Talau

    Votes: 16 32.7%

  • Peter Wallace

    Votes: 10 20.4%

  • Michael Ennis

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ryan Carr

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Total voters
    49
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Murfy

SGI Jersey Flegg
Surely there would be aspiring coaches lining up for this job. The team has the potential to be so much better next year. Would love something outside of the box, like when the warriors got Webster. Maybe someone like Teo. Don’t understand how someone in the locker room for the last 3 years while we have sucked can be the front runner. Surely you need a fresh start. Love Hornby but are we seriously still going to try for a Wayne assistant again. When in recent years has that worked. Cheika looks so fkn obvious can’t believe it’s not being entertained.
 
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Dragon David

SGI NSW Cup
Murfy said:
Surely there would be aspiring coaches lining up for this job. The team has the potential to be so much better next year. Would love something outside of the box, like when the warriors got Webster. Maybe someone like Teo. Don’t understand how someone in the locker room for the last 3 years while we have sucked can be the front runner. Surely you need a fresh start. Love Hornby but are we seriously still going to try for a Wayne assistant again. When in recent years has that worked. Cheika looks so fkn obvious can’t believe it’s not being entertained.
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Bennett left the Dolphins in Kristian Woolf's hands and they are flying this year. Hornby won't be taking over Souths but the Dragons, if appointed, so he isn't following the same way after Bennett like Demetriou, Henjak, Griffin, Price etc did. The only one that is bucking that trend is Woolf so this "voodoo" of coaching following Bennett might be over. So if it's Hornby, there could be some great things. He is a good attacking coach. Defence coach will need to be someone that has good credentials - not DeanoY.
 
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Murfy

SGI Jersey Flegg
Dragon David said:
Bennett left the Dolphins in Kristian Woolf's hands and they are flying this year. Hornby won't be taking over Souths but the Dragons, if appointed, so he isn't following the same way after Bennett like Demetriou, Henjak, Griffin, Price etc did. The only one that is bucking that trend is Woolf so this "voodoo" of coaching following Bennett might be over. So if it's Hornby, there could be some great things. He is a good attacking coach. Defence coach will need to be someone that has good credentials - not DeanoY.
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That’s true, I forgot about Woolf. He did have a lot of success in the super league prior to being Bennetts assistant though. Just wish there a bit of ambition from our leaders to go after a great coach and really make a splash. Don’t just go for the easy or familiar option. Time will tell
 
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Justadragon

SGI NSW Cup
whoever the coach is next year he will have the best team the Dragons have had in years, so there will be no blaming the cattle we have. With our forward pack and another couple of signings we should be bucking for a top 8 spot anything less I would see as a failure, AND ITS ON THE COACH !!!
 
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Inverted63

SGI Junior League
Justadragon said:
whoever the coach is next year he will have the best team the Dragons have had in years, so there will be no blaming the cattle we have. With our forward pack and another couple of signings we should be bucking for a top 8 spot anything less I would see as a failure, AND ITS ON THE COACH !!!
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I have to say, I don’t quite get all the enthusiasm for next years signings.

When you then look at who we have recruited:
KK - potentially a great middle forward, but some question marks over his knees. He is 28 years old and in his peak performance window now, but we have signed him for 5 years.

Connor Watson - We are just a transit lounge for him. If he is a stop gap measure for Cook to bide time for someone like Pattie, Mozer or Healey then that could be a good outcome. But I suspect Watson will be focussed on 2028 and he will just bide his time and avoid injury. Then we are back in the market again.

Drinkwater - Turns 30 next year in his first season with us and has never played rep footy of any kind. Creative in attack, but tackle efficiency just over 70%. How will he go without weapons like Purdue and Chester running off him? Could very easily be Gutho V 2.0 for us.

Sami - Experienced and reliable, but hardly what you’d describe as a game breaking attacking weapon. 8 tries from 14 appearances so far this year. I don’t think signing the 28 year old winger from the team coming second last is going to give us the attacking capability that we will need next year.

Metcalf - If he can recreate his form from 2025 he will be great for us, but can he? Recovering from ACL and hamstring injuries, on his return could not unseat Tannah Boyd in the Wahs lineup, and then when Boyd got injured the Wahs have preferred Martin at 7.

There is a lot of media spin about the Dragons rebuild at the moment, but I’m not convinced. These signings don’t address the capability gap we currently have in our outside backs. Some of them are not investments for the future as their best footy is probably behind them.

I know you can only sign the players that are available, and of those only the ones that are willing to come. I also know that the players we have signed are potentially better than those they replace in our current roster. But I don’t think it will be enough to move the needle.

I’m hoping there are more signings to come and I’m hoping that they are all young fast outside backs.
 
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