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Feel like 'did you know he was a ball boy at the sharks' is going to become the coaching version of the national beach sprint champion meme

Could be a lot of advertising for Gymea this season too

Might even make it hard to mentioned Bubba Kennedy more than once or twice a game.
 

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had been in the esl and was pretty ****e last year

recruited well this year though

Whaaaat?

He turned a bottom feeding team into a fringe finals team by adding only a halfback who nobody else wanted and a prop who had never played an NRL game. Should just have won coach of the year.

This year it is the new signings getting all of the wraps but it is the spine and Peachey who are driving the bus.
 

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Whaaaat?

He turned a bottom feeding team into a fringe finals team by adding only a halfback who nobody else wanted and a prop who had never played an NRL game. Should just have won coach of the year.

This year it is the new signings getting all of the wraps but it is the spine and Peachey who are driving the bus.

should have won coach of the year over a guy who had 1 loss and a draw after his team sold james maloney and finished 11th? behave yourself

they were bog average until aj brimson returned from injury and lit a fire under everyone
 

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should have won coach of the year over a guy who had 1 loss and a draw after his team sold james maloney and finished 11th? behave yourself

they were bog average until aj brimson returned from injury and lit a fire under everyone

Yeah fair call. Should have been a solid second though. If pre-Covid games didn’t count they would have finished one win behind Souths.

Going from 16th to right in the mix after a calendar year without winning a game and adding ZERO established players to your roster. That’s coaching. They certainly were bog average, and then they weren’t. They improved.
 

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So Ciraldo apparently reckons he doesn’t want to dog Panthers by skipping out on his contract a year early. I guess it’s not like he has a head coach offer so it’s a bit different to that but cmon Fitz you need to get in his ear and make it happen.
Morris sacked because he can’t get the big names, Fitz first test looking like a fail at this stage?
 

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Always thought Ciraldo was a pretty soft player. I want coaches that are hard as nails, players run through walls for, and fear. Or at least durable RE: JM
 

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So Ciraldo apparently reckons he doesn’t want to dog Panthers by skipping out on his contract a year early. I guess it’s not like he has a head coach offer so it’s a bit different to that but cmon Fitz you need to get in his ear and make it happen.
Morris sacked because he can’t get the big names, Fitz first test looking like a fail at this stage?

This should have been worked out before Fitz signed... Very sloppy
 
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There is a guy by the name of John that is available apparently.
Has some HC experience and is a great developer of juniors.
 
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I'm a big fan of keeping Hannay on next year, it'll mean he'll start the transition process this year as its in everyone's best interests, especially his if he's sticking around helping out.

Might mean changing some systems, giving some players more game time than others, giving some players no game time.

We were never winning the comp this year, but starting things in motion for next year is only going to be our long term advantage.

We could see players not part of next years plans given game time over contracted players yet to get game time - Pele, Jensen etc.
 
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