Quote PAUL M="PAUL M"The players seem to be the biggest problem right now, god knows why the attitude of them is so wrong but regardless of tactics we could still show desire and work ethic.'"
No, the coach is the problem. If players are playing badly, its up to the coach to drop them and give someone else a go. After Cas he dropped Thackray (and now it sounds like that wasn't even performance based) and replaced him with King (who hasn't been as good imo). After Quins he drops Houghton and uses Lee as the second hooker. Why? Houghton may not be playing out of his skin but he has been useful. Lee looked poor at hooker yesterday, he shouldn't have been moved away from the back row. This is a rubbish attempt at trying to get our form back on track.
Quote PAUL M="PAUL M"Folkes would be silly tbh as he would cost more money for possibly the same gameplan but at least he would be a fresh man.
Hasler
Not likely to want to leave Manly is he.
Kearney I would love but he has already said he does not want to coach in SL for a few years.
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Folkes sounds like he would be good. It doesn't matter if he uses a forwards game too. In fact its probably better that way. The problem is we aren't doing it well at all at the moment, not the fact we are playing that way.
I actually think that we could get Kearney as our coach if we tried hard enough. McLennan and Anderson both came here from the same role as Kearney has with NZ at the moment, and we have already convinced Kearney to come to our club once before. I think he may relish the chance of been a head coach instead of assistant like he is atm for Melbourne.
While I do think that we should go to the NRL for our new coach, I feel there are a couple of realistic options here too.
I think Matterson is proving that he would be a good fit for us. He is getting a lot from what is a workman like pack (like ours is) yet is still allowing his backs creativity and they are getting tons of points. I feel if a back 5 of Tony, Calderwood, Hall, Yeaman and Raynor would get tons of points under his system. Richard Horne would love it too. I think we could easily get Matterson.
Less realistically would be Morgan. He has moulded a team that wants to play for each other and alwaus seem to show 100% effort. He also seems to be getting the best out of the players he has. I think he could be a realistic approach as he seems ambitious. But obviously the fact that he coaches Rovers would obviously be a massive problem in getting him to.
Agar needs to go, and needs to go asap. I have said all season that I've not been impressed with the tactics etc, and he tooks us backwards last season. As usual though, we will do what 95% of sporting clubs do and wait until it is too late. The likes of Alex Ferguson (who start off crap but eventually turn out good for a club) are the exception, not the rule and I hope we realise this soon. I predict a total of 80 points conceeded this weekend, I'm really not looking forward to the two games.
ps I got my tickets for the Saints game this morning 
