Before the season began, we were predicted to finish towards the bottom of the ladder.
A lot of people thought we'd challenge for the 8, including myself. Our roster isn't as bad as our results suggest.
Our roster IS that bad.
For the last 10 years the same people (mostly) are in denial of this and predicted we would be top 8, often top 4!
It's as unrealistic as Bulldogs fans who thought they would make the 8.
Heart over head, or something like that...
I'm pretty realistic about us as a team and haven't been confident of making the 8 for years. In saying that, I think our roster is a lot better than our results suggest. It's the best roster we've had in quite a few years imo.
Agree, just hard to explain why they are not having a go at least?
My opinion is there is a huge disconnect between the playing group and the coach.
Our current squad unfortunately would react more positively to a softly-softly, bum-patting coach. The soft as butter style fairy coach like Ivan.
Maguire is too hard for these blokes......hell he would be odds-on to bash nearly all of them to a man if it came to a stink. That sums the current situation up.
Ivan's approach seems to be working for the Panthers.
Chair throwing and other displays of anger do not necessarily assist in getting the message across to players.
I haven't seen any "chair throwing" from Maguire lately. Have you?
Lately?
Well, I mean in season 2021. I may have missed it. Have I? You can tell us when it's happened?
Didn’t he just have a tanti and senior players had to tell him his mouthing off isn’t working?
I don't "know". Did he? How do you know?
It was brought up on the forum. I grew up with a family member of the player and I asked him about what was going on and he just confirmed what was said on here.
I guess you can take what people on here say with a grain of salt but I have nothing to gain from making up stories.
I'm not suggesting you're making it up. I am worried though that your media literacy is so poor as to believe comments of a forum such as this, and to restate it as fact.
Family member of the player was my confirmation, not the forum mate.
OK, and I assume you expect me to believe that? Fair enough. I suggest you research problematic knowledge. You are offering nothing more than that.