Coach from 2027

Who should be coach from 2027?

  • Brad Arthur

    Votes: 22 46.8%
  • Ben Hornby

    Votes: 11 23.4%
  • Dean Young

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Jason Demetriou

    Votes: 3 6.4%
  • Michael Cheika

    Votes: 25 53.2%
  • Billy Slater

    Votes: 6 12.8%
  • Willie Talau

    Votes: 15 31.9%
  • Peter Wallace

    Votes: 10 21.3%
  • Michael Ennis

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ryan Carr

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Total voters
    47
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Dragon David

SGI NSW Cup
The one good thing that hopefully will bring some needed wins for us next year is the recruitment of several players that have some ticker and speed to add to the great crop of young forwards to play alongside KK and several up and coming juniors to add to our Top 30 squad as well as a couple more external signings in the backs who have speed to burn (this is so much in need).

The big question is though, who will be their coach?

This year, with the exception of several forwards, the squad has not got the class to attack and defend to win games as we have seen so far. I don't think that Bellamy, Bennett, Cleary, Robinson, Webster, etc. would be able to get us that many wins this year with the overall cattle we have. Our player strength is terrible. So it is no wonder that both Flanno and Young have struggled to get us any wins, except that sole win against the Broncos (the Broncos to me are struggling as well for some reason and they were off their game moreso than us last week).

So with the new players coming into the squad for next year, our playing strength on paper looks much better. It will be then up to the "right" head coach to get them to gel with who we have promoted from within on top of the better guys we currently have. Will it be Young or Hornby? I cannot see Cheika coming, Arthur is staying in England, Talau only as an assistant for a few years or remaining the Cup coach, Peter Wallace would be great but I think that he will be the Panthers head coach one day, the rest forget about. So really not that many to really choose from who can be the one to bring us much needed success.

This is why Ben Creagh and Tim Watsford are giving Young the remaining games of this year to see what improvements he can achieve and in the meantime study really hard as to alternatives to head hunt to get someone better if Deano fails to make any real improvement with the results.

My views only at this stage of the year.
 
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