Barrett speaks out

[HappilyManly]

Gorman needs to immediately:

1. Sack Barrett immediately (but agree on a payout). Barrett will ride into the sunset happily.

2. Appoint a new coach and assistant immediately.

3. Make some of those damned appointments he's been talking about. Immediately. He's had enough damned time.

Then, at seasons finale, announce the new signing / dates for Centre of Excellence.

This fiasco is forgotten within 7 days.

It's not that hard.

No need to rush into anything

Win 1 more game, then everyone have 1 month off and regroup.

#Chillax

 

[Spartan Eagle]

Can anyone access and post the Australian article

NRL: Why Trent Barrett is behaving like a bit of a sook

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

Can anyone access and post the Australian article

NRL: Why Trent Barrett is behaving like a bit of a sook

Written by Will Swanton ............

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38

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.

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.

Continues at: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38

 

[HoldenV8]

And these are the days of our lives.... FML

 

[globaleagle]

Written by Will Swanton ............

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38

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.

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.

Continues at: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38

Not a bad article at all. I'm conflicted with my disdain for 'sports journos'.

 

[The Royal Soup]

FU(K TRENT BARRET

 

[mave]

Let's get something straight here, because I'm sick of all of this " profit from the Leagues Club" talk.
First of all the Penns did NOT inherit the Leagues Club when they took over the Sea Eagles, they purchased it with their own money, the Leagues Club was desperate for a buyer, in desperate times, no one forced them to sell, if they didn't sell to the Penns, there would have been a strong possibility that the Bank would have sold it under them, and for probably less than what the Penns paid.
Because they made a substantial profit from the sale, people are saying that the Penns shouldn't complain about losing two million a year over the past ten years, as they made a substantial profit from the Leagues Club sale, perhaps so, but what if they didn't make a profit, and what happens to those annual losses over the next 5-10 years?, there won't be another Leagues Club sale to cover those losses.

So did the Penns make a substantial profit from the LC sale , or not ?

 

[Wombat64]

FU(K TRENT BARRET

Total Wanker

 

[Briza]

Written by Will Swanton ............

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38

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.

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.

Continues at: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k/news-story/34985af0e62e0ecd14f9eff63ebe5b38

That's Gold! Deserves it's own thread.

 

[Class of 96]

Peter Sharp must be relieved he has finally been usurped as our worse ever coach.

 

[Wombat64]

Peter Sharp must be relieved he has finally been usurped as our worse ever coach.

Worst Manly coaches ever

1.Trent Barrett
2. Daylight
3. Peter Sharp

 

[Shoe1]

Worst Manly coaches ever

1.Trent Barrett
2. Daylight
3. Peter Sharp

Agreed. Sharp had a below par team to work with, and a couple of years of the hybrid team.

 

[Peter C]

So did the Penns make a substantial profit from the LC sale , or not ?

I give up, I really do, and hope the Penns do sell, just to shut all the haters up, but what will happen is that they'll probably sell to someone who doesn't really care about Manly and then we'll be in deep $hit when our crowds level off at 8,000, as we only seem to get crowds during periods of success.
And heaven help us if this fictitious Arab consortium suddenly materialises, as you'll have Florimo etc, salivating at the prospects of a takeover.

 

[HappilyManly]

I give up, I really do, and hope the Penns do sell, just to shut all the haters up, but what will happen is that they'll probably sell to someone who doesn't really care about Manly and then we'll be in deep $hit when our crowds level off at 8,000, as we only seem to get crowds during periods of success.
And heaven help us if this fictitious Arab consortium suddenly materialises, as you'll have Florimo etc, salivating at the prospects of a takeover.

https://www.realestate.com.au/property/563-pittwater-rd-brookvale-nsw-2100

22,500,000 - 7,125,00 = 15 375,00 profit just for 563 Pittwater

https://www.realestate.com.au/prope...rookvale-nsw-2100?source=property-search-p4ep

The carpark land at 2 Federal Parade was also bought and sold for 7,500,000

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No issues about their business acumen, it's just irritating to constantly read about what they put in since 2015.
Up till then, the deficit was shared with the other owners.

Also the LC and Premier Sports pay 600k pa in rent to supply a healthy ROI on the purchase price

Expect to see another ugly Meriton Tower in the next few years as our Council has sold out to Developers 😡

 

[mave]

I give up, I really do, and hope the Penns do sell, just to shut all the haters up, but what will happen is that they'll probably sell to someone who doesn't really care about Manly and then we'll be in deep $hit when our crowds level off at 8,000, as we only seem to get crowds during periods of success.
And heaven help us if this fictitious Arab consortium suddenly materialises, as you'll have Florimo etc, salivating at the prospects of a takeover.

Nice rant.
Did the Penns make a substantial profit from the LC sale or not ?

 

[BOZO]

Nice rant.
Did the Penns make a substantial profit from the LC sale or not ?

Just an honest question . How much did they sell it for and how much profit did they make ?

 

[HappilyManly]

Just an honest question . How much did they sell it for and how much profit did they make ?

I just posted all the freely available sales data above !!

 

[mave]

Just an honest question . How much did they sell it for and how much profit did they make ?

HMs post should clear that up for you.

 

[BOZO]

HMs post should clear that up for you.

Loud and clear for all to see

 

[HappilyManly]

Loud and clear for all to see

Again, no problems with our capitalist system.

The LC Board is 100% to blame for not selling to a Developer (with the vote of their Members)