a few coaches are over rated and under rated. i think flanno got our team playing some confident entertaining footy for parts last year and the middle of this year but then we seemed to go back to playing ****. carneys form dissappeared. smith bukuya's form dropped off as did robson. i think form of players reflects the coach and hope next year is different. haslers a miracle worker. but an under rated coach is neil henry. he got raiders playing good footy and then the cowboys.
Blame Carneys performance on origin/injury.
Smith had a huge work load in the absence of Gallen
Bakuya had some injury woes also.
I wouldnt blame Flanno completely for it. Think about it, when we were going well we had 1 key guy out in Gards and Toupo if ya call him a key guy. After origin, players were dropping. Graham, Smith, Bakuya, Carney, Gallen, Gibbs, Ross, Pomeroy. Injury is to blame for our poor final 8 games.
People talk about our "depth" in the back row etc. But when we were missing guys like Smith, Graham and Bakuya, our stand ins did ok, but not the best.