Quote The Chief="The Chief"There are 3 points Id like to make here:
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And I'd like to retort:
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1) Saints simply cant afford to sack brown mid contract, unless he leaves by mutual consent, they will have to pay him the remainder of what they owe him and from all accounts, he is on a tidy sum and is (or close to being) the highest paid coach in Super League. If hes on say £200k a year, thats £300k that Big Mac will have to find in order to show him the door if he left now. If we had that kind of money floating around, we would have paid a transfer fee and signed a proper stand off at the begining of the season.
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Firstly your grossly underestimating what brown is supposed to be on. Second, according to mike rush were well on the way to breaking even - as a club we seem very liquid in there ability to find cash - it's more of a case of a need to basis - finding 300k to sack brown is different to find 300k to pay a transfer fee.
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2) If Big Mac does get shut, the cold hard fact is that we will have had 3 coaches in the last 5-6 years that the players "dont respect" and as such, dont play with any effort. WHO DO THE PLAYERS WANT????? What type of coach is it they are actually looking for? It smacks of the old boys brigade and looking from the outside, it seems that unless your face fits with the senior players, you quickly lose the dressing room and you are on a hiding to nothing. What coach anywhere in the world would want to come into that kind of environment? Unless there is a wholesale clearout of these players and staff, we will be in the same never ending spiral.
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Ahh the old guard? So whose that then? There has to be a time when the players not playing for the coach, and the coach simply failing to motivate the team.
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3) If Brown left next week, who would we replace him with? There is hardly a barrel full of unemployed world class respected coaches waiting in the wings to coach Saints that fulfil our needs, and the needs of the players (see 2 above). We will almost certainly end up with Rushy again and then it will be a case of the team coaching the team. Is that what the players want? To be totally unaccountable to anyone other than themselves? Im sorry, but thats not professional sport. If you worked in a shop and hated your boss, would that mean that you would P1$$ all over the customer when they walked in the door? You would still be your best smiley smiley helpful self while you are on the clock. The same should apply to the players. It is the fans that pay their wages and they should want to provide the best customer experience possible. By simply not putting any effort into their performance just because they have no respect for their boss smacks of amateurism.'"
Several jumps of faith made there - maybe the solution is to make the coaching team more than one person, then the job gets easier for all. As for "player power" it's the same thing that happened at Huddersfield, I'd suggest it's more familiar to brown then our group of players,
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