Official Craig Fitzgibbon

HaroldBishop said:

Yeah good luck with competing with the likes of Collingwood and the other big AFL clubs, Matildas, cricket.

In saying that, already ahead of the Wallabies.

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Gumby said:

I’d swap Fitz for Flanno in a heartbeat. Dragons are lucky to have him. And it kills me knowing he’s going to turn that **** fight club around and get them being top 8 for years to come.

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Gumby said:

I’d swap Fitz for Flanno in a heartbeat. Dragons are lucky to have him. And it kills me knowing he’s going to turn that **** fight club around and get them being top 8 for years to come.

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Blue_Eyes84 said:

It pains me to say this. I think we need to all move on from Flanno. He's not coming back.

Fitz is the coach now. We have to hope he delivers.

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Blue_Eyes84 said:

It pains me to say this. I think we need to all move on from Flanno. He's not coming back.

Fitz is the coach now. We have to hope he delivers.

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Blue_Eyes84 said:

People keep bringing Flanno's name up for coaching. I know most of it's hypothetical. It does us no good dwelling on the past.

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Capital_Shark said:

He's been gone 5yrs bro.

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MrDravid said:

If we are talking hypotheticals, lets aim for Bellamy

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Blue_Eyes84 said:

Wasn't he coming here once?

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Ronnie said:

Fitz is our man. Still got the hope and vibe he’ll be a 10 year coach for us

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Sir Chadley said:

The obvious answer is yes, you would definitely swap them.

But it’s not a level playing field. You’re talking about a rookie coach with two year’s experience up against a Premiership winner with 8 years of coaching experience up until 2018.

To me, the swap question would be much harder to answer if you only went on Flanno’s first two years. He had crap players, probably worse than what we have now but he then used the next 5 years to gather his team together and put together a premiership winning side.

Fitz hasn’t had that opportunity as yet. Answer this honestly, did anyone think Flanno was a good coach in his first two years? Plenty on here didn’t think so. (Hi Teflon!)

I will admit I thought Fitz would have more success at this stage and I am disappointed in how we’ve fared over the last two seasons. But I’m still happy to give him time, can’t say for certain that he won’t win a premiership just yet.

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Shortfin Mako said:

I do not think I care about more success at this stage - as in I would have been happy with the result from last year and this year.

However, I was expecting to see an obvious improvement. grit, hunger, whatever you call it - something this year. Unfortunately it did not happen. The same brain farts, same stupid handling mistakes all continued if not became more. We still do not seem to have a plan B.

Maybe it is growing pains but it feels like this year was a waste of time and we did not move an inch forward.

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Born&bred said:

I reckon there was a fair bit of wasted time, but there were some learnings that came out of that. Injuries didn't help either.

When our players can old the ****ing ball and keep their heads up under pressure we'll be world beaters...

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Gumby said:

I’d swap Fitz for Flanno in a heartbeat. Dragons are lucky to have him. And it kills me knowing he’s going to turn that **** fight club around and get them being top 8 for years to come.

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CHOGM said:

He's not going to do that. I love Flanno but that 2016 team was lightning in a bottle, and yes he put them together and coached us to a gf win, but the idea that that makes him a great coach doesn't fly with me. I liken him to Phar Laps trainer. Never trained another good horse.

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