Griffin has come through the Storm coaching ranks then Broncos when they were feared so that's pretty impressive grounding. He then went to Penrith and was hailed for recognising and shaping the juniors elevating them to 1st grade when right to do so. They made finals football in both years before his spat with Gould. This type of planning usually takes 3 to 5 yrs and don't forget the mess we were in when he arrived
The mess when he arrived. Amen to that. It may be a cliche but it seems the lunatics really were in change of the asylum.
What's going to happen in round 10?
Sure but planning for the future doesn't mean abject failure in the present. I support your opinion (keeping him around for the remainder of this year at least) but just don't think he has that long unless things turn around pretty quickly.
I didn't know he was at the Storm. Assistant for Bellamy? I know a lot of Penrith supporters give Griffin a lot of credit for the success they are now having.
No before Bellamy 2001 - 2002 under Chris Anderson then Mark Murray after that Qld Cup teams where he won 3 premierships with 2 different clubs. Then Broncos U20 team won the comp with them then Broncos job and Panthers so he's nobody's fool . I would consider him an old school coach.
Development players allowed to be selected in the NRL.
That's an impressive resume but so far he's been an abject failure at the Dragons.
Dont forget he inherited a forwards pack that would have been hard up beating the women's team so money had to be spent frugally to get some experience and talent into the squad as I said in another post you can have the Australian backline in your team but if your forwards are doing the M.J. moonwalk it won't really matter
Yep. How were Lawrie's numbers last week? I know he passed the ball at least twice.
Actually not bad he was one of the forwards that ran for my 100m + it was his best stats since round 1. Actually believe this or not our stats were better or equal that of Souths the thing that killed us off was our mistake rate (errors) and our completion rate 67% you cant win games with a 67% completion rate, compare that to 78% when we won our only game
I agree, I have said all along he was hired to stop leaking points through the pack, making 50 tackles a game last season was a positive for us. However so far this year in the 3 games he has managed to play he has made 8 runs for less that 24m. As an attacking option the defensive line of the opposition don't have to worry about him hence the extra defence on our playmaker and edge forwards. If you watch the games when he is at dummy half their second marker peels off straight away to assist the A and B defenders whereas if he was a threat of darting out of dummy half the 2nd marker would have to stay within the ruck area in case the dummy half broke the line.
Wonders never cease. He's definitely better starting games on the bench but still hardly puts fear in the opposition in attack or defence.
Gee your a hard marker.
I think I'm the opposite. They are trying to do too much in my opinion.
Both of them have been guilty of that at times this season. I think the coach has already addressed it. Can't remember a single flick pass from Lomax last game. The no-look pass wasn't great but it was just one mistake.
There was also the issue of Hunt taking, and botching the short kick off and him taking and making by a few cms the short drop out just after that.
