twentyforty
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Good post Swordy. Something that is repeated constantly is that Maguire has the team he wants, because it was he who signed or re-signed them.Correct. Every single player has been signed or re signed under this coach. And he did that with no more than 75% of a salary cap because of a $639k club fine coming out in his first year, and spending the next few paying for players that he did not sign.
He did the best with what he had.
I think from memory, for the first 6 months of his tenure he didn't even have a CEO? And up until 6 months ago he was trying to play the role of football manager as well because we were one of the few clubs that didn't have one. Our finances were in complete ruins because of the 10 years prior.
As for Brooks, I'm not sure he is worse, because he hasn't been that good anyway. And on top of that, he has never had a decent game managing half to work with because the Tigers couldn't afford him.
Context around the coach before you sh** on him. I'd be very interested to know from anyone, who they should have appointed instead? Everyone jumped for joy when he got here and then a select few have been stabbing him in the back ever since.
I doubt very much, judging by his constant disappointment during games, that this is the case.
The last review identified some deficiencies in recruitment and 6 months later we get an improved performance in that area by signing Api and Papi.
I would love to see what Maguire can do operating on a full cap.