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Ken Catchpole (46)
McGahan as a coaching mentor? Seriously? help rookie coaches with poor records by having them listen to an experienced coach with a poor record...that'll solve our poor record problem!
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John Thornett (49)
If my practice group/firm doesn't hit budget/KPI's we still get paid, but we don't get bonuses and that's outta the juniors control. So, without a bonus, the hours we put in means I'd get more cash per hour being an Uber driver or folding clothes at DJ's.
So if RUPA has an opinion on that, perhaps we need an 'Eagle Street' Union, one who goes into bat for us 'below minimum wage slaves'!
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
Yeah well Torp I'm on record as saying that things only perform adequately or indeed well at our QRU when
(a) total crisis hits and, related,
(b) the QRU is consequently forced to drop its disastrous implementation of its 'Queenslanders' Good Rugby Men First and Foremost' perpetual and pervasive recruitment doctrine and thus
(c) bring in competent outsiders as change agents to fix their latest mismanaged mess.
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
Is there such a thing as 'minus expectations' whereby quite a lot positive has to happen before your zero expectations base line is even reached?
I think I am a 'minus expectations Reds fan' as we head blindly into 2018 and, no doubt, another late 2017 barrage of QRU hype re how 'boy, things will be different next year'.
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Peter Fenwicke (45)
If high expectations is winning the title, low expectations is winning a few games, no expectations is not giving AF about the result or how they play, negative expectations would probably hoping they get the shit smashed out of them every week
The torpedo
Peter Fenwicke (45)
This leads to the conclusion that we should always be in crisis
In all seriousness, I wonder if there should be a full-on clean out of the entire board and exces (and getting all outsiders to fill the positions).
Constistent shitness definitely implies that they are major cultural problems inside the QRU.
Scrubber2050
Mark Ella (57)
RH
I'm always happy to look within (the Ballymore car park) first to see if there is a Queenslander to fill the spot (on merit) and then if the cupboard is bare cast the net wider within Australia. If still bare, go AGAIN to the worldwide search.
I'm always happy to look within (the Ballymore car park) first to see if there is a Queenslander to fill the spot (on merit) and then if the cupboard is bare cast the net wider within Australia. If still bare, go AGAIN to the worldwide search.
Scrubber2050
Mark Ella (57)
Torp
Cleaning out the Board and Exec doesn't necessarily equate to wins on the paddock.
Players and Coaches need to take responsibility for the losses and wins, particularly when we have, on paper, a great forward pack and a half reasonable backline.
Cleaning out the Board and Exec doesn't necessarily equate to wins on the paddock.
Players and Coaches need to take responsibility for the losses and wins, particularly when we have, on paper, a great forward pack and a half reasonable backline.
dru
Tim Horan (67)
How long though, have we been confused by the coaching staff selection at the Reds? From the Link change-over going forward.
Reds do some good stuff. Coverage to QPR, regional, schools and women's rugby. All good. Their electronic footprint is fabulous. Love the work in streaming.
Hell the "name" list is great. The development list, on the whole is good.
But coaching? Holding on to poor records?
It's been too long now. Short interregnum with Link and otherwise, what?
The torpedo
Peter Fenwicke (45)
Throwing up an option here re: coaches - Wayne Smith for attack coach?
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
Agree Dru. And the vast majority of the funding and marketing for many of the amateur layers you rightly note comes from Super-related income. And that income - over time - correlates closely with onfield performance.
See the massive +ve impact the Reds' 2010-12 seasons had on the QRU's finances, and now it's all in reverse mode big time.
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
Torp he's categorically said he doesn't want to coach against NZ teams. And I think as well he's said he wants a break from coaching.
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
You were half in jest I know, but not a bad point at all. There are a number of top sporting teams who change coaches quite quickly when it's assessed they can't deliver top results.
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
We've been singing the praises of this 'on paper' team for a year or more.
It's delivered the cube root of fuck all for fans.
It means zero zip nothing if the coaching resources cannot extract net winning points from it. No, not more tries, more wins.
The Brumbies with a far less good 'on paper' team than us and hinged around a totally 'ring in' makeshift 10 have done far better than us in 2017.
MarkJ
Bob Loudon (25)
Toulon can afford to sack their coaches. Australian teams can't even afford to pay one decent coach, let alone three.
dru
Tim Horan (67)
This is not an issue if you have the basic ability to find but one.
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Greg Davis (50)
are the first two available?
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