Coach Benji 👑

[Droppy05]

Whose fault is that? He could have done an apprenticeship if he wanted to.

No one's fault. Just a desperate club for a quick solution.

 

[balmain boy]

Can’t recruit ? At what point prior to his appointment , were we getting early 20s talent well respected with massive upside from other clubs ; who didn’t have a stain against thier name ?
I’m looking at turuva , averillo ,the Fainus , KPP , I succinctly remember a time where we recruited Brandon Wakeham , Jackson Hastings and the ghost of BJ Leilua past (not all same year) and thinking if you squint maybe we win some games) .
Or peak Cleary when we chucked millions at McQueen , matulino , packer, Reynolds and Mbye .
I think you’re on drugs with that comment mate . Same for the can’t negotiate . Which talent have we gone after and not got ?
You could say he’s loyal to players who he shouldn’t be ; exhibit A this AD bullshit . I’d agree with you .
But guys like you have been waiting in the wings for ver since Madge got axed death riding Benji . Let’s be serious …
And sorry but Madge is a blister of a coach . He turns up when all the hard work is done .
And that’s pretty offensive , but it’s true . You work with it really well for a while , feels good even … you even get the work done even better . But at some point that blister is bursting and you’re left with intense pain and big infection you need to get rid of .
I genuinely think Benji has done the leg work . The team is there . He’s definitely the right “Manager” for our club .
We now need much better day to day coaches implementing better strategies.
Ben Teo as 2ic is a good choice . A guys with probably as big of a career as Benji , definitely as big of an ego , and a new voice in the locker room .
I’d also look at Shane sultana moving up , if they can’t find someone more credentialed . With the amount of disruption to his team lists every week , he generally has that team humming , especially in attack.
You could say that’s more of the same , but I don’t think so . He would have zero input to anything going on in the nrl system .

WTF do it actually think Benji has done? Assembled the worst roster in the NRL. With the least depth. With no quality players coming through the grades whatsoever.

Recruitment doesn't just cover NRL, it covers all grades, and that's a concept we haven't understood for a long time. And even then how many signed for Luai moreso than Benji?

The players Benji has signed are signed for either way too long, way too much money, or both. Benji has recruited a squad with zero X factor. No speed. No power. No skill. Just a bunch of average Joe's who (supposedly) work hard. You don't win matches without game breakers.

We're now going to end the season on an 11 match losing streak. It's pathetic, abysmal. Embarrassing.

The best thing Benji has done is get rid of Luai the fraud. I haven't been off Benji until just recently. Tactically, as a player and a coach Benji has always been useless. It's not part of his makeup. Everything's pure, off the cuff instinct. I thought he could at least motivate the boys but the last few months have shown that the boys don't actually play for him, they don't give a stuff about the club or Benji. Benji's complete failure to at least establish a culture where the players bust their asses every game is unacceptable. Now that he's succumbed and given in to player power absolutely no one respects him. That's a massive issue.

Then you look at the horrendous way he's mismanaged the development of Latu and Makasini and all the work the club will need to do to try fix their bodies and confidence.

So what leg work has he established exactly?

No plan, no talent, no staff worth keeping.

Our future has never looked bleaker...