Are you submitting that we are successful now?
The truth of the matter is that the matey program we subscribe to is rancid and rotten to the core.
We got rid of Lee and Co yet somehow continue on with their philosophical program of promoting personal relationships over merit.
It’s inexcusable as a policy and my prediction is that it will end very badly. Not that we are travelling well now.
The number of applicants we secured after a world wide advertising- it’s seriously embarrassing.
All you need to do is look at Hodgos results in the ESL. He hasn’t just lost games, he’s been repeatedly smashed senseless. Week after week after week.
It would be hard to find a worse coach.
He makes Benji look like lying Ivan.
Now he’s our assistant coach?
We are kidding ourselves.
What? Do you just read stuff and then twist it to some weird narrative that makes you right ?
Loyalty and stability = results . You can phrase it as trust , you can call it staying the course … whatever floats your boat . The only way we will get sustained success is a genuine buy in from everyone , and everyone knowing thier role , performing thier role to the best of thier ability , and trusting each other .
That’s literally how Madge came undone … which is funny because theirs people on here now reinventing history about what actually went down .
Madge began to lose trust , that those underneath him / around him were undermining him . Because …. You know …. They were ! He gets rid of Benji , and Barton’s down the hatches .
The mandate for the assistant coach was 2 fold predominantly;
1.Someone with experience coaching . -With the amount of different types of organisations Hodgo has coached , I really don’t know how much more someone could tick that box ,
2. Someone with success and tactical sense to compliment / improve Benjis deficiencies - and I dunno about this one . It’s hard to gauge .Huddersfield have been absolutely mediocre for years , and from memory ( I could be wrong ) I remember hodge having them hovering around finals if slightly below .
It’s funny because the same set of criteria that crucifies hodgo ie. he didn’t win anything with a weak squad , is the same excuse being made for Madge .
I have no idea what’s true , but outside of Webster and payten , I can’t think of too many tigers old boys who have more coaching experience … which for good and bad … seems to be part of the selection criteria moving forward . I personally have no idea or opinion either way if it’s going to work . As it’s been really 1 season , with the youngest squad in nrl history . I’m personally sitting on the fence ! But refusing to death ride , because that wouldn’t put me on the fence would it ?
Just finally with the Melbourne assistants who may or may not have been in the running causing all this grief .
The Melbourne way works in Melbourne because they have next to no press , limited exposure in thier day to day lives , and as such means when they go to work they’re usually the only people they have / get to talk to about footy . They’re all from other places , so they all form an extended family and it galvanises . And as all families , a natural heirarchy forms. Which creates social justice , and peer - peer regulation.
It’s literally why the Swans are soo good all the time in the AFL . They’re mirror images of each other .
It’s why soo many players and coaches struggle outside of that system , because there is no family , there is no galvanisation . There’s ok escape as well . You drive home … “why are the tigers sooo shit” . You get groceries ..”hey coach why are the tigers soo shit “ …. You turn on the news “in other news , here’s another reason why the tigers are soo shit “ …. Your mate sends you a text “ hey coach turn on foxtel they’re talking about why youre soo shit and need to be sacked … “ and don’t even mention social media .
I don’t think it’s the same . There’s probably 5 real pressure cooker coaching jobs in the nrl . The bulldogs , broncos, saints , tigers and bunnies . They basically command 90% of all talk show segments . I think this is a variable and it needs to be considered .
