Ryan
Journey Man
Yeah, we are screwed then. Looks like Taufua, AFB, Lane, Paseka, Thompson are also leaving with Tom Trbojevic and DCE.
HAHAHA. This board ATM. FMD.
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HAHAHA. This board ATM. FMD.
Ryan
Journey Man
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Happy to hear good news out of the club, care to share?
yokahontas
Bencher
Geez, I don’t know...!
KNUCKLES
weights before dates
Vegas baby
HoldenV8
Journey Man
Finally.....someone in the media (Will Swanton of The Australian) pointing out the bleeding obvious.
NRL: Why Trent Barrett is behaving like a bit of a sook
Trent Barrett is sounding like a bit of a sook. He’ll pack up his desk and go in the not too distant future.
He’ll be entitled to drag the entire desk out the door — Tommy Turbo, mate, can you help me with this bloody thing? — because apparently he’s had to supply it himself.
And yet for all the frustrations of being understaffed and not having enough furniture at the Sea Eagles, Barrett is failing to mention a few crucial things he’s had in his favour during his doomed tenure. Three absolutely elite players … and a roster that should have made the NRL finals.
We’re not suggesting the Sea Eagles are at the cutting edge of sports technology. They’re not. If you’ve been to their training base at the NSW Academy of Sport, you know it ain’t the headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys.
Weekly schedules are delivered by carrier pigeon. Updates via smoke signals and a beating drum. The demountable offices look borrowed from Newport Public School. Maybe there’s electricity and Wi-Fi in there, maybe the modem’s buggered.
Look, there’s some glaring off-field deficiencies at the Sea Eagles but in a sense, who cares? Barrett has had the most important asset of all. The ears of capable players. It’s been his job to make it work. He’s failed. Instead of a premiership force, we’ve got the Liberal Party.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38
NRL: Why Trent Barrett is behaving like a bit of a sook
Trent Barrett is sounding like a bit of a sook. He’ll pack up his desk and go in the not too distant future.
He’ll be entitled to drag the entire desk out the door — Tommy Turbo, mate, can you help me with this bloody thing? — because apparently he’s had to supply it himself.
And yet for all the frustrations of being understaffed and not having enough furniture at the Sea Eagles, Barrett is failing to mention a few crucial things he’s had in his favour during his doomed tenure. Three absolutely elite players … and a roster that should have made the NRL finals.
We’re not suggesting the Sea Eagles are at the cutting edge of sports technology. They’re not. If you’ve been to their training base at the NSW Academy of Sport, you know it ain’t the headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys.
Weekly schedules are delivered by carrier pigeon. Updates via smoke signals and a beating drum. The demountable offices look borrowed from Newport Public School. Maybe there’s electricity and Wi-Fi in there, maybe the modem’s buggered.
Look, there’s some glaring off-field deficiencies at the Sea Eagles but in a sense, who cares? Barrett has had the most important asset of all. The ears of capable players. It’s been his job to make it work. He’s failed. Instead of a premiership force, we’ve got the Liberal Party.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38
double hoops
First Grader
He will be at Penrith
Class of 96
Bencher
So I’ve fallen behind the times. Did we give him the arse today or still in limbo? Did he actually turn up at training contrary to earlier reports (and Cart, DCE and Turbo)?
Surely it's Penrith.
I hope we keep him under contract until he has to break the contract to start at his new club, and then hire his replacement as an "assistant" in the meantime.
HoldenV8
Journey Man
Still in limbo. Reports are now saying that he'll be coaching on Sunday and then he's gone.
Class of 96
Bencher
Ok fess up, who started the gofundme page and how do we get on?
Billy Buttons.
The parramatta half of the screaming eagles podcasts.
If they did podcasts.
Regularly...
Brooke
Bencher
Was that the same match against The Roosters when he broke down in tears?A few weeks ago Buzz blasted Baz for walking out of a half time talk
The Royal Soup
First Grader
Run Panic Fear
40 years an eagle
Bencher
Only fear for me.
Sharks, snakes, spiders no problem...but the prospect of Cartwrong being our coach scares the sh!t out of me.
Any chance of summarising the rest? I really like Will Swanton, but won't help Rupe with his fortune.
Gee, the rest is the best bit as well!
Dunno why people just don't add an anti paywall extension to their browsers, tis free and it works!
Ah well.
edit: lol
Barrett is right to gripe about having only nine full-time staff compared to the 20-plus at most other clubs and yet his predecessors in Des Hasler and Geoff Toovey were extremely successful in the same (or worse) environment. Even if the Sea Eagles have been sitting on milk crates trying to find Daly Cherry-Evans’ laptop charger so they can view the video of last week’s match without using up all the data on his phone, Barrett has still had enough quality at his fingertips to make the top eight. It’s only a 16-team competition. You have to be pretty ordinary to miss out.
He’s complained about having to supply the desk for his office. So what? It’s odd, but it doesn’t impact his coaching. His wife and kids had to clean the gym before his first day. Immaterial. He’s had to bring his own backyard furniture for the team’s common room. Hire chairs for the locker room. Again, rather bizarre, but irrelevant to his role of man management. He’s lamented a revolving door of chief executives and general managers of football. Ask most NRL players if a change of CEO is affecting their performances and they will laugh you back to the car park.
The Sea Eagles have gone 12 months without a recruitment officer and that’s a long-term problem … but Barrett’s job has been to get the best out of the players already recruited. For his troubles, he’s been paid $600,000. He has not succeeded in the slightest and in the manner of his departure, he’s doing himself few favours.
Here’s what Barrett has had. He’s had Tom Trbojevic, arguably the most valuable fullback in the NRL behind Billy Slater. He’s had Jake Trbojevic, arguably the most valuable forward in the NRL. He’s had the Queensland State of Origin halfback Cherry-Evans as his chief playmaker. Those three mighty players are enough around which to build a serious premiership campaign. They’re supremely motivated. They’re spectacularly skilful. The brothers, in particular, are a coach’s dream.
He’s had Dylan Walker. Joel Thompson. Martin Taupau. Apisai Koroisau. Akuila Uate. Jorge Taufua. Trent Hodkinson. He’s had the ears of some very fine athletes at his beck and call. Full-time professionals.
He’s had a training field with grass on it. He’s had Steedens. He’s had an elite assistant coach in John Cartwright. And it’s come to nothing.
The Trbojevic brothers and Cherry-Evans have nailed it in Origin this year. Which means the Sea Eagles could have nailed it in the NRL. They have failed to a spectacular degree.
It’s unclear whether Barrett’s office has been furnished with a mirror. It should be. Any club’s culture reflects directly on the coach. Craig Bellamy at the Storm. Anthony Seibold at Souths. Trent Robinson at the Roosters. Ricky Stuart at the Raiders. Barrett at the Sea Eagles. Their season under Barrett has been an unmitigated disaster. Off-field disobedience and dramas. Second-last on the ladder. Barrett has to wear the blame. As Gorden Tallis has said on 2 MMM radio of NRL coaches: “Is it that important, the stuff you ask for? You’ve still got 25 players …”
Barrett will coach the Sea Eagles’ final match of the season against the Brisbane Broncos on Sunday. Then a settlement will be worked out for the last year of his $600,000-a-season deal. A new mentor will start with a blank canvas and by the sound of it, an empty office. It’s been claimed that Barrett’s dossier of issues with club chairman/owner Scott Penn is so big that his lawyers need a forklift to move it. They can use it to grab his furniture, too.
Cartwright is the most likely successor. But Michael Maguire, ex-Rabbitohs premiership-winning coach, is interested. Asked to nominate the most important factor for him as a coach, Maguire has replied: “People.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38
He’s complained about having to supply the desk for his office. So what? It’s odd, but it doesn’t impact his coaching. His wife and kids had to clean the gym before his first day. Immaterial. He’s had to bring his own backyard furniture for the team’s common room. Hire chairs for the locker room. Again, rather bizarre, but irrelevant to his role of man management. He’s lamented a revolving door of chief executives and general managers of football. Ask most NRL players if a change of CEO is affecting their performances and they will laugh you back to the car park.
The Sea Eagles have gone 12 months without a recruitment officer and that’s a long-term problem … but Barrett’s job has been to get the best out of the players already recruited. For his troubles, he’s been paid $600,000. He has not succeeded in the slightest and in the manner of his departure, he’s doing himself few favours.
Here’s what Barrett has had. He’s had Tom Trbojevic, arguably the most valuable fullback in the NRL behind Billy Slater. He’s had Jake Trbojevic, arguably the most valuable forward in the NRL. He’s had the Queensland State of Origin halfback Cherry-Evans as his chief playmaker. Those three mighty players are enough around which to build a serious premiership campaign. They’re supremely motivated. They’re spectacularly skilful. The brothers, in particular, are a coach’s dream.
He’s had Dylan Walker. Joel Thompson. Martin Taupau. Apisai Koroisau. Akuila Uate. Jorge Taufua. Trent Hodkinson. He’s had the ears of some very fine athletes at his beck and call. Full-time professionals.
He’s had a training field with grass on it. He’s had Steedens. He’s had an elite assistant coach in John Cartwright. And it’s come to nothing.
The Trbojevic brothers and Cherry-Evans have nailed it in Origin this year. Which means the Sea Eagles could have nailed it in the NRL. They have failed to a spectacular degree.
It’s unclear whether Barrett’s office has been furnished with a mirror. It should be. Any club’s culture reflects directly on the coach. Craig Bellamy at the Storm. Anthony Seibold at Souths. Trent Robinson at the Roosters. Ricky Stuart at the Raiders. Barrett at the Sea Eagles. Their season under Barrett has been an unmitigated disaster. Off-field disobedience and dramas. Second-last on the ladder. Barrett has to wear the blame. As Gorden Tallis has said on 2 MMM radio of NRL coaches: “Is it that important, the stuff you ask for? You’ve still got 25 players …”
Barrett will coach the Sea Eagles’ final match of the season against the Brisbane Broncos on Sunday. Then a settlement will be worked out for the last year of his $600,000-a-season deal. A new mentor will start with a blank canvas and by the sound of it, an empty office. It’s been claimed that Barrett’s dossier of issues with club chairman/owner Scott Penn is so big that his lawyers need a forklift to move it. They can use it to grab his furniture, too.
Cartwright is the most likely successor. But Michael Maguire, ex-Rabbitohs premiership-winning coach, is interested. Asked to nominate the most important factor for him as a coach, Maguire has replied: “People.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38
Thanks GE. I seem to have reached my easy technology limit.Gee, the rest is the best bit as well!
Dunno why people just don't add an anti paywall extension to their browsers, tis free and it works!
Ah well.
edit: lol
Painfully stupid question: do I just google anti paywall extension for safari?
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8 | 4 | 4 | -60 | 8 |
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8 | 3 | 5 | -25 | 6 |
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