Lot of 'facts' on here...
Here's a couple more
- The Craig Bellamys of the game turn Brenko Lees into Origin and Premiership Winning Players.
- Our Coach for the last couple years sends players to the Craig Bellamys of the world so they
can play in Grand Finals.
- The Craig Bellamys of the game have it's superstars continue to play under him, for less money than they can get elsewhere.
While our coach loses one of the better up and coming players in the game to Craig Bellamys
- for less money.
there isn't a Tigers fan, That wouldn't swap Benji for Bellamy in a heartbeat - Why?
Because he gets better results!!
And he's done that - Continuously, For a very, Very long time.
To say no coach would make our team better is the biggest cop out I've ever heard.
Hard to disagree with most of that.
What I would add though is that Bellamy didn't walk into a club at the bottom of the table. Very rarely does any coach turn a club around from the worst in the league to being considered one of the elite within at least a few seasons of rebuild.
I mean, even Cleary walked into a Penrith squad a few years already in to a significant rebuild- so while he succeeded right off the bat, the ground work & tough times had already been trudged through. You could argue that the Bulldogs are coming out of the dark times now- but they are certainly not one of the elite teams as yet.
What the Tigers have set up through these juniors coming through & the recruitment of players like Luai & May, is make significant strides to getting toward being this consistant 'elite' group.
It's easier to turn a Brenko Lee into an Origin level player, when he's surrounded by elite level talent, than getting an emerging talent like Utoikamanu to hit his ability surrounded by guys like Reuben Porter.
The absolute best ever turn around, in the quickest time, that I can remember, is what we witnessed between 2003 & 2005. The team that Sheens built was remarkable.
And while it's easy to put the shank into him now- a lot of these promising emerging talents, that seem likely to turn the club around....well.....there's a certain amount of recruitment from Tim's time here...
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