Would have got there in time I am sure of it, his problem was not getting rid of the back stabbers and the injury prone players, which to be fair he signed.

Then how the hell did we win 17 out of 18 with him in charge. Plus get too a Grand Final.?icon_rolleyes.gif

exactly, he is well respected in the game, and there was relatively few rumours of player unrest/misbehavior whilst he was here, he seemed very much in control

it was just the tactics, recruitment and the dislike of talking to the media that let him down.

His tactics were far better than Agar's - particularly when we actually had any halfbacks on the pitch. His main fault was an over-emphasis on defence and safety which was more like the way they used to play in the NRL than today's SL.

you really do spout a load of $hit

that my view aswel

agar probably wont once the dead wood is gone.

hope so! really glad were havin a clear out, think it will sort us out

I thought getting rid of Sharpy was a mistake we made a GF and 4th place year after 2 games from another GF and for me it has got a lot worse under Agar.
We had no halves last season due to injury and 2007 we had a half-fit at best Matty Head who did a decent job considering and as we saw having no halves has a massive effect on the team couple that with a lot of other injuries.
Yes he did play a saftey first game a fair amount of the time but we were struggling for numbers in the backs our strength and experience was in the forwards.
We lost at Rovers by 1 Saints by 1 drew with Catalans which we nearly scored on the hooter thats a 5 point swing a bit of luck and we'd have won those games which at the time may have had us in the play-offs IIRC with an injury depelted team.
His signings were ok Berrigan,Cusack,Byrne,Tickle ok there was Hutch the least said the better and Dykes was just unfortunate and depending what you want to believe the board didnt back him with his targets true or not I dont know.
A lot worse under Agar than Sharp for me worse rugby,tatics,the use of interchanges a joke.
The Craig Hall situation is disgusting bringing Broughton in on loan and leaving him out ok if we've got knowone else ok bring him in but we've got Hall.Shapry gave the kid confidence and he was doing well since Agar has come in how far has he gone backwards talk about outsatnding manmanagement

and you have no clue whatsoever !!!

You obviously either don't watch many games OR don't really understand what you're watching.

Think you are being unfair to Sharp....Proved what he could do with a bloody good squad then was let down by players leaving,being released and just leaving to fill a childhood dream(and his pockets)...his signings were poor but he put a lot of emphasis on youth as well....look how that has gone down the pan since he has gone.

Indeed, he had a very basic approach which had a big emphasis on completing sets, it didnt really work out and was the start of the terrible rugby we see today, but he managed to get much better results out of it.

The biggest factor to contribute to Sharps downfall was losing Cooke, he paid the price for the team being so realiant on one one player for three years, which has still be sorted in my opinion becuase I dont expect Long to get the amount of assists that Cooke did.