Botman wrote: ↑August 23, 2021, 10:59 am
GreenMachine wrote: ↑August 23, 2021, 10:31 am
Canberra Milk wrote: ↑August 23, 2021, 10:13 am
GreenMachine wrote: ↑August 23, 2021, 9:10 am
Matt Orford written all over this…
How the feeble minds seem to forget so quickly is astounding…
How **** hard is it for people who are paid to recruit and retain to actually do their job?
So who do you want? Easy to sit on the sideline and point fingers without having to ride any decision of your own
There is no such thing as "short term pain for long term gain". That is a complete myth. There are good and bad players, giving time to a young player means nothing, absolutely nothing if they are not good enough
I'm not paid to recruit. That's my point.
Thank Christ for that. You appear to have even less answers and imagination on recruiting than the guys in charge!
Which is quite a feat!
That's funny...really is.
You jump from rumour to rumour drivelling about how you think this move is " the best of the bad bunch" .......like we should be grateful to be served **** on a plate for dinner.
How about this for a change?....ask yourself why we are in this **** predicament?
Ask yourself how you actually see us ever getting out of this ****?
Do you really think we can "out recruit" other teams with the Pelicans running our club? There's a reason why the Roosters get Pearce during his best years and were salivating at the prospect of him joining us as a geriatric Knight's reject no less...
It took us a year to finally play Timoko as a starter at centre when anyone with a set of eyes could se he was an improvement over a year ago.
We resigned Croker on a deal that could only be described as negligent, and proceeded to repeat the offense again with Whitehead because of ...well ...sentiment.
Why not give Trey Mooney and Schneider a run in the team? Nothing to lose now and if we are not winning football games we should be learning something about our roster. At the moment we are doing neither.
Adding Pearce to that is simply shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic. Quite simply, your resigned to be playing Williams again in 2022.
Instead of wasting time trying to sign a halfback in a dead market, go look for a 13 or a 6 who can actually ball play (and/or swap Jack into the second row).
It's mind blowing how poor Jack is as a central playmaker. The new rules have shown him to be a fraud in the central playmaking role. Don't get me wrong, he was great when there was less emphasis on attack as he could generate "attack" from his physicality and he can defend.
But please tell me why those traits won't work in the second row? So why persist with him in a central role where he is clearly lost? Ideally, he's a centre, but we all know what happened there...
And how about our 13 situation? Are we going to wait another year before we cotton onto the fact that the 13 has become an important link in the attacking structure? Instead we rotate from one ploddering battering ram to another at 13. Choosing the weekly scapegoat from a handful of usual suspects...while our headless chicken 6 and speed bump 7, splatter through a "game plan" that no genius could possibly draft on paper...
We put more pressure on our halves (who are hopeless for different reasons) because of a lack of spark in our 13, 9 and 1 and our stupid as hell "game plan".
But yes...we the fans should come up with solutions for this garbage because that's what were paid for AND the club are desperate for feedback on how to better perform. Well if that were really the case, we'd have a new coach and CEO and maybe a hope in the future.