Tiger_Yoshi
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So we start the year and we win 2 of our first 3 games and we all start to dream, for the team to go on and win only 2 of our next 20 games…pathetic season…so glad I didn’t waste my hard earned on membership…
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WesternSuburbsBoy
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It’s not about loving Benji it’s about wanting us to actually back a coach for once. Since you keep mentioning Bennett in a lot of your posts here’s a Bennett quote for you
“If there is anyone that can handle that situation, it’s Benji,” Bennett told this masthead. “Only in the sense he has a lot of contacts there. It gives you a lot of goodwill, and he’s going to need that. He will need them to be patient, as simple as that. You can’t go from zero to hero overnight.
“Everyone wants results, that’s what makes it such a cut-throat business and so difficult at times. They just can’t keep turning coaches over like they’re confetti. It’s just ridiculous
king_sirro
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I understand the thought that we have to back a coach and ride it out with him. The problem in this instance is the doubt about Benji actually being a coach. Its a lot easier to ride out a year or 2 backing a coach to turn it around if that coach has been there done that. The massive fear here is we simply waste another season backing a rookie.
IMO we are delaying the inevitable and simply putting the club back further and further. I agree with the statement made earlier "rip the bandaid off". Put up with the negative press (what's the difference). Do it just before the Semi's. It will be a small talking point, and we move on.
magpies forever
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Thats what should be looked at- what was it? What happened? Were is our coaching director
WesternSuburbsBoy
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Do you think Benji has been given every tool to succeed as a head coach?
Tucker
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Yeah, except knowledge, talent and experience
lol.
I love you dug up a Bennet quote in benji
Every coach before they were sacked at one point was told, mentioned, discussed as being a good candidate bc otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten the job
Bennet is close to benji - what did you want him to say?
I have a Richo quote for you “the most informant person in a football club is the coach”.
I don’t want to turn over coaches either but if you pick rookies or people out of the game for ten years or coaches that don’t suit where our team is at - then it doesn’t work.
Better to cut off the arm then die by a thousand cuts
Listen to Gus on joel caines pod - ciraldo started off in player welfare, then went on to as an assistant in the junior leagues, then coaches the u20s and they won a premiership then did a solid apprenticeship at Penrith under two coaches.
I’m sorry but benji is out of his depth.
He should mever have gotten the gig - and there is no way Richo would’ve picked up if Richo was here last year.
We will lose galvin and other players next year if we don’t start well and I reckon we would start better with Brad Arthur and some discipline and toughness rather than “play what you see” benji
Just my opinion
Every team from wooden spoon to 7th is stacked pretty evenly.
Flanno took wooden spoon faves dragons who sucked last year under griffin to top 8. Same squad.
Coach is the coach dude
My point about sacking Benji comes down to this
Galvin is a once in a generation talent - like teddy was for us
We have about 8-10 games next year to convince him to stay with us
If we don’t start well next year he will start to look elsewhere and even if we sack benji in round 10 his mind will already be out the door and his manger would be silently fielding offers (even tho not allowed to November 1)
My argument is I reckon Brad Arthur would do a better job for the first 12 games of next year than Benji …
If you disagree fine. But that’s my rationale to getting rid of Benj
it’s basically looking at the probability of which coach would give us more wins and what that would do to retain galvin and other players
Galvin is going to be a freaking star !!! Maybe better than teddy and Munster
Galvin is a once in a generation talent - like teddy was for us
We have about 8-10 games next year to convince him to stay with us
If we don’t start well next year he will start to look elsewhere and even if we sack benji in round 10 his mind will already be out the door and his manger would be silently fielding offers (even tho not allowed to November 1)
My argument is I reckon Brad Arthur would do a better job for the first 12 games of next year than Benji …
If you disagree fine. But that’s my rationale to getting rid of Benj
it’s basically looking at the probability of which coach would give us more wins and what that would do to retain galvin and other players
Galvin is going to be a freaking star !!! Maybe better than teddy and Munster
rugbygoated
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This thread is so funny
magpies forever
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plus any replacement if decided on that path, has to have the full preseason to have a go a sorting out the squad and getting things moving.
king_sirro
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No I don't. However my gut tells me we should be seeing more from the playing group.
It really is hard to fathom that a rookie could walk into an NRL team with no coaching experience and pull thos off. Sheens realky has screwed us hard. There is simply so much to the role that it's impossible to do. It's not a slight on Benji. I actually think he says all the right things and knows his stuff. However that isn't enough for this job. You need extensive experience in not just coaching, but management as well. Management of people and personalities, experience in how you deliver messages to both the group as a whole and to individuals. You need respect and faith from players in what your doing and where your headed.
A coach with no experience can't do these things IMO.
Did farah choose to leave or was he asked to leave? Genuine question.
magpies forever
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Also got to recall Benji apparently did not want Holbrook as an assistant. Felt threatened??????
TSP
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Benji was supposed to take all the good coaching he’s had personally ( because he was never trained) and apply it to real time coaching.
All these chefs teaching him how to prepare and cook
True that he hasn’t had the finest ingredients to work with and many of the items have gone off and some have had to be thrown out.
Unripened fruit has had to be brought in.
But at the end of the day, while he’s done his best, but he’s served up something so rancid and disgusting even the dog wants to throw up looking at it.
We said this would happen, he simply doesn’t know what he’s doing. Not a clue.
All these chefs teaching him how to prepare and cook
True that he hasn’t had the finest ingredients to work with and many of the items have gone off and some have had to be thrown out.
Unripened fruit has had to be brought in.
But at the end of the day, while he’s done his best, but he’s served up something so rancid and disgusting even the dog wants to throw up looking at it.
We said this would happen, he simply doesn’t know what he’s doing. Not a clue.
TSP
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Asked to leave.
It wasn’t pretty but it’s secret club business.
He’ll be back sometime later in another role I expect.
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I'm starting tome come round to transitioning benji out of the head coach role. I have been guilty of having blind faith because the bloke has business sense, that doesn't necessarily translate to coaching footy.
He has no coaching experience.
How am I only seeing this now 😅😅
He deserves a seat at the table, where specifically, I do not know... but he probably shouldn't be running the show.
He has no coaching experience.
How am I only seeing this now 😅😅
He deserves a seat at the table, where specifically, I do not know... but he probably shouldn't be running the show.
Tucker
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Lol 2022 called and said better late than never.
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