Our recruitment of senior players to supplement the club until the juniors who look strong are ready has been horrible. The GM of Football has been sacked and the coach is on thin ice with new assistants being hired.
I think one thing is clear that they are taking action. Sheens major strength is getting out pathways in order however, his connections around the league will pay dividends with player signings. Paying overs for shorter term deals for experience is probably a necessity at the moment.
I just hopw Sheens remembers what he did signing Adam Blair, he ripped the heart and soul out of the team for zero return.
Yep terrible decision. Blair at the time was a beast. Proved to be a major blunder. I don’t think it was the only reason.
Fifita was a lot of drama behind the scenes from memory . And from memory Gibbs lead the boys club , and many were calling for his head because he had had a few lean years . Lote was 35 , and benji and Beau had major issues because of the footy show .
All in all , the first team was a hot bed of personalities , media darlings and egotistical juniors coming through .
Sheens made some bad choices in Blair and that front rower who played a couple of games got smashed, because he wasn’t ready , and never got over it .
It happens , we just never had the infrastructure to absorb those misses . Mainly because our management lacked vision , and ability , and were more concerned with wearing blazers, and fighting over who gets first billing out of Balmain and Wests , than actually doing thier job .
Sheens knows how to navigate the politics here . Ad has always had elite juniors in his clubs wherever he has gone .
That’s not an accident .
He has also been terrible at managing the salary cap
Yea true . I’m not saying he’s some messiah , just he has always focused on juniors and developing them . Hopefully with all the back room improvement , we can put someone with an analytical brain to better do that .
I’m always bewildered at the hate for Sheens. He won us a comp and nearly 3 and all you hear is” he ruined our cap”. Take a look at every premiership team since and all their ungrateful fans are saying the same. It kills me that St George fans still hate Bennett for the state he left the club in. He won the comp when thousands couldn’t! Sheens is famous for finding Noah Nadruka in Fiji, 25 yo Ken Nagas in Moree….he know’s what to do. We’re in good hands.
The first 3 or so years of our decade without success is on Sheens.
You’re kidding, right?
Sheens stuffed our cap on multiple occasions, he backloaded Robbie to the point we had to boot him out of the club.
At about the time he needed to be booted.
He was on $950k because of a very poor deal someone but him on, same happened with Lawrance and who can forget us having to send Fulton to the UK for a year because we couldn't afford him. That is not mentioning Blair etc.
Like I said, the bloke won us our only premiership, came close another couple of times, probably robbed once, and you’re cranking on about a couple of contracts that didn’t work out. What about the contracts that did work out? Anything to say about those? Scott Prince? Paul Whatuira? Shane Elford?
I have a lot of respect for Tim Sheens and what he achieved, but he was sacked for a reason and it was the correct decision. I am very happy to have him back but I am not as happy he has full control. As I have said I will but my faith in him as he is our only opportunity now for success in the short term. Hopefully it works out as I really want a winning footy team.
Glad Sheens is back but he should not have the keys to the kingdom. He certainly needs someone to counterbalance and oversee the spending.