Go_You_Good_Things
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C. Until it gets too hard again.
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Michael Maguire leaves club
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BAGNF05
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If we change coach it must be someone who can bring in two or three elite players with the cap money we have available. Not sure any coach out there has that sort of appeal ?
davey_farrell
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kristian wolfe is well respected i would like to see him given a go
And he got them to premiership winners... something Hook couldn't do. The only people who don't think ivan is a good coach is bitter Tigers fans.
Now you’re reaching….
Hook wasn’t there long enough to see, so history will never know.
- Ivan also took them to finishing 10th…
A team full of all those players - finished 10th. He’s got a great squad to work with - he’s had plenty of help with it as well…
Gus and Hook had their hands all over it before he came in and got the chocolates
Not to mention he had 2 cracks at it
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He couldn’t do what you want Madge sacked for not being able to do - but is somehow a better coach all of a sudden?
Ivan has coached in the NRL for the best part of 20 years and won 1 comp - Madge did it in his 10… In his first few in fact.
By my count - they’re about even.
Your entitled to your opinion,Robbie great footballer and great team leader...
Unfortunately he thought he was greater than the club at one stage and tried to run it,you know,Potter cant coach,JT cant coach....wake up,your looking through your emotional glasses,I consider a coach who respects the players,respects the club,is passionate about the game and developing youth has core principles and morals that are great attributes...thats what I see in Madge,Robbie being a club legend doesnt make him a better person,or Madge a flog...
Squad is Key.
Parachute Bellemy into Tigers in 2022 and the results will be similar.
This is a culture problem at the Tigers that turns recruits to garbage and sees any player with promise jump at the chance to move on.
Yet another mid season coaching change would be a disaster.
Parachute Bellemy into Tigers in 2022 and the results will be similar.
This is a culture problem at the Tigers that turns recruits to garbage and sees any player with promise jump at the chance to move on.
Yet another mid season coaching change would be a disaster.
haberfield_tiger
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Good points about the squad. Agree with your argument. Squad starts with a match winning game controlling half back which we desperately need .
Mighty_Tiger
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What junior development?
We haven’t had a junior come through for a very long time.
Look i have to disagree, I think Ivan did some good things with our squad. We grinded some good wins out against Storm, Roosters etc and we’re competing in most of our games.
He was doing all the right things and had us competing, I have no doubts we would have made the top 8 under him.
The issue we have is he signed some crap players, Reynolds, Mutalino and Packer etc.
They were crap but I have no doubts they would have performed under Ivan.
Tedesco was always two feet out the door, I can’t blame him for that. He made the wrong decision between Moses and Brooks though..
The coaches do the best they can but if you havnt got the players at the club you are not going to be successful. Ivan couldnt even get his own son to come to the club and he got out at first opportunity.
Until we somehow convince the players we want and need to come to the club all coaches will be set up to fail - and soon we will have two respected ones that have made little impact on our position. Our lack of success is our inability to attract and keep players - and now we don't develop them either. Until we break that cycle, made even more difficult with an additional club in the mix - more of the same.
Api K and Papali two good signings but a long way to go. Gould is buying Barrett a team while strengthening junior systems other wise he knows the outcome. With all they invested they still are key players short. To expect that Maguire staying or going will make some significant difference - and I expect him to go - is not accepting where the real problems lie - with the squad. The players know it even if they don't admit it.
You can think that, He could only keep one - And he pulled the contract for the one most likely to leave.
People also forget it was Ivan that put deadlines on the Contracts for Tedesco & Woods - Would they have stayed, Probably not... But he put deadlines on the contracts which only further agitated the players.
Some of the Players he signed played more football for him than they did after he left - Packer was injured most of his time after Ivan, Ben Matulino Retired Injured and Reynolds was always injured...
You say you have no doubts they would have performed, How? They were injured...
I couldn't see us going any better... Maybe he couldn't either - And hit the eject button when he had the chance.
Bus 2 Terrigal
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Not sure what all the drama is about.
We seem to be well on track as a club.
Three rounds in ... dead last in the NRL, second last in NSW Cup, and third last in Flegg.
Follow that pattern through and you get to Wests Matthews Cup side which is undefeated and leaders of the comp two weeks out from the finals.
#InversionPolicy #GoTheYoungMagpies
We seem to be well on track as a club.
Three rounds in ... dead last in the NRL, second last in NSW Cup, and third last in Flegg.
Follow that pattern through and you get to Wests Matthews Cup side which is undefeated and leaders of the comp two weeks out from the finals.
#InversionPolicy #GoTheYoungMagpies
It's funny - All tips and supercoach decisions are made on paper - with the calibre of the players.
Bookmakers have favourites determined by the calibre of players that are playing in each team, When 2 good teams go at it, If one is full strength and the other is missing all it's good players - The full strength side starts as favourites (Even though it may be further down the ladder)
So on paper, Our team is very rarely rated against the opposition - And hasn't been this year...
How then, Is it the coaches fault when we lose?
Players get teams into position to win games, Players get teams into position to win comps - Not coaches.... Coaches prepare the players that are capable of winning.
No one in the game rates our squad - But they talk about us because we sell media spots...
Our coach may well not be the answer, Our squad certainly isn't.
bigsiro
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I agree.
We could have Jack Gibson, the squad would still not be good enough to make finals.
We just need an exciting, tenacious coach who would be a big attraction for players.
Don’t know who that is, but I don’t think it’s Madge.
When the Roosters were decimated with injury last year they still had players in their squad that we could only dream about and they performed well against the mid stream teams, and got beaten convincingly by the top teams. And there was sympathy and accolades for Robinson for getting them to where they were yah da yah da.
How can people not see the vast inequity between what he had to work with even with injury compared to what is available at our club- on good week - was laughable. Good coach he is be, but I bet we could break him.
Don't disagree - But there's only one of them....
I don't think anyone here wouldn't trade Madge for Robbo...
That said, He still had players like Teddy, Tupouiniua, Morris, Liu, Tupou, Butcher Boys, Taukaiaho, Radley was there or there abouts, Chrichton, Walker....
We just don't have ANY players really of that calibre....
I think most of u on here are missing the point , yes we have a poor squad but a coaches job is to mould what ever group he has into a team , well Madge has had 4 years to try and do that and has failed , WHAT I don’t see is any improvement in defence at all its getting worse each year , I don’t see any set plays or playing out the back when in the twenty two , these are things a coach is employed to drill into the players , yet in four years we are seeing nothing .
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