GNR4LIFE
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I feel like we could have done worse than getting in Des. I can’t remember the timeline and if he was available when we were looking for a coach, but if he was and we decided on Marshall instead, then someone is taking the piss.CMON!
Look Hasler went into a Manly side that was struggling under Trent Barrett and totally got them firing. Sure it's Manly a club where he is kinda like their favourite black sheep. Sure he cheated heavily at the Bulldogs but hey he got the club to the finals! (from memory it was his Dog team that kicked our butts).
100% Hasler with the 2023 squad would get us 12th, minimum. More then that if Hasler coached the Tigers for 4 years we would get a finals appearance, min top 4 at least once.
Flanno, Yea... IMHO our biggest mistake was picking Gartiner as the assistant to Madge instead of Flanno + Cayless. Flanno wouldn't have gotten us 17th with the 2023 squad and at Cronulla he focused on the forwards so I think he would have done the same here. Could see Bula playing a very similar role to Barba at Cronulla.
2022 totally different ballgame. Ofcourse Hasler wasn't on the market then but if he was with us no wooden spoon. Flanno and almost all coaches would have struggled. I reckon we wouldn't be spooners in either case.