Coach Seibold thoughts so far.... so good

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Im of the opinion that regardless of how Seibold goes, DCE will take over as coach as soon as he retires. Seibold pending on how he goes might take a back seat role.

 

[double hoops]

Shown his hand with recruitment. Sure he will go after a big name forward if he has the cap space. Aka Brookes. And with Lodge missing most of the year who knows perhaps we have some space to work with.

But when it comes to replacing a condon or a Tuilugi type forward. He is going to value a grade experience over anything else.

With his motto's of wanting player consistency and competition for positions. It seems it more about being useful and making our long termers pull their finger out. As opposed to finding a gem amongst the rough.

Is he right?

 

[Tragic Eagle]

At the beginning of the season I described his approach as a breath of fresh air and I was hopeful it would yield results. It did not as we finished 12th. He gets a "D-" for season 2022 from me.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Im of the opinion that regardless of how Seibold goes, DCE will take over as coach as soon as he retires. Seibold pending on how he goes might take a back seat role.

Be careful watch you wish for.

Players retiring and then moving straight into coaching first grade, at the same club, often does not work out well.

 

[Dang Eagle]

Good to see a bit of positivity on here for a change. While the top 8 was the goal I did see improvement across the board.

At the back end of the season how often did we lose a player during the game or get the odd dodgy call that cost us? There were a few.

I don‘t get the bagging of Rueben. He’s a pretty good finisher, great goal kicker and gives 100% each game. I think he scored 3 tries at his only game centre? I’d like to see him there long term and Koula as the back up for Tom.

Injury free I feel we will have a good season in 2024 especially if Brooks and Shuster can be consistent.

At least I’ll be stress free this finals series…

 

[The Indian]

At least Seibold doesn't have a son looking for a halfback gig who signed within minutes of the start of his tenure. We may well have dodged a bullet there.

 

[AlxFromNthNarra]

I like when Siebs described us as 'hard to beat' - the scorecards in the 2nd half of the season especially back that up.

We were really only 'flogged' 3 times all year (Panthers 1st game, Eels during origin, Brisbane magic round) - the other games, whilst at times we were comprehensively outplayed and were never going to win, we didn't capitulate - we let in 40+ only once, and didn't have 30+ scored against us once in our last 10-games. Attitude is a big part of that - and Seibold had some work to do when he arrived in mending a few broken parts of this club.

If we can get our handling/completions up, our fitness levels improved and a good run with injuries then we have a really strong platform to improve next season and beyond!

So although we missed the finals, I feel much better than this time last year - and have to give Seibold a solid pass mark.

 

[Seagles68]

Im of the opinion that regardless of how Seibold goes, DCE will take over as coach as soon as he retires. Seibold pending on how he goes might take a back seat role.

I would be shocked if that was to happen. Surely he (and family) would want some time away from the game for a while.

 

[eaglebuzz]

Im of the opinion that regardless of how Seibold goes, DCE will take over as coach as soon as he retires. Seibold pending on how he goes might take a back seat role.

Assistant, maybe. Making a freshly retired player a head coach is a pretty sketchy idea. I think he could be a good coach once he has cut his teeth though.

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Assistant, maybe. Making a freshly retired player a head coach is a pretty sketchy idea. I think he could be a good coach once he has cut his teeth though.

I think DCE has enough clout to make the jump to coaching if he wants to and doesn't need to jump through hoops to be a head coach.

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

I would be shocked if that was to happen. Surely he (and family) would want some time away from the game for a while.

I wouldn't be surprised if that were to happen. Either that or he does a media gig first.
I doubt Seibold is really calling the shots as the coach anyway.
DCE could be the first Player / Coach in the NRL...

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Be careful watch you wish for.

Players retiring and then moving straight into coaching first grade, at the same club, often does not work out well.

I think im speculating more about what would be possible to happen.

 

[Seagles68]

I wouldn't be surprised if that were to happen. Either that or he does a media gig first.
I doubt Seibold is really calling the shots as the coach anyway.
DCE could be the first Player / Coach in the NRL...

I can certainly see him in the media.

 

[double hoops]

I like when Siebs described us as 'hard to beat' - the scorecards in the 2nd half of the season especially back that up.

We were really only 'flogged' 3 times all year (Panthers 1st game, Eels during origin, Brisbane magic round) - the other games, whilst at times we were comprehensively outplayed and were never going to win, we didn't capitulate - we let in 40+ only once, and didn't have 30+ scored against us once in our last 10-games. Attitude is a big part of that - and Seibold had some work to do when he arrived in mending a few broken parts of this club.

If we can get our handling/completions up, our fitness levels improved and a good run with injuries then we have a really strong platform to improve next season and beyond!

So although we missed the finals, I feel much better than this time last year - and have to give Seibold a solid pass mark.

Great post.

 

[XV-1]

Just look at what Walters has done with Brisbane vs what Seibold did.

Our position on the ladder and our number of wins after Tommy got injured is pathetic.

F for Seibold in 2023.

 

[XV-1]

I like when Siebs described us as 'hard to beat' - the scorecards in the 2nd half of the season especially back that up.

We were really only 'flogged' 3 times all year (Panthers 1st game, Eels during origin, Brisbane magic round) - the other games, whilst at times we were comprehensively outplayed and were never going to win, we didn't capitulate - we let in 40+ only once, and didn't have 30+ scored against us once in our last 10-games. Attitude is a big part of that - and Seibold had some work to do when he arrived in mending a few broken parts of this club.

If we can get our handling/completions up, our fitness levels improved and a good run with injuries then we have a really strong platform to improve next season and beyond!

So although we missed the finals, I feel much better than this time last year - and have to give Seibold a solid pass mark.

We should have easily made the finals, even with Turbo injured. Bottom line is we win 4 out of last 12 match's - pathetic and Seibold has to take the blame.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Bottom line is we win 4 out of last 12 match's - pathetic and Seibold has to take the blame.

it was 6 of our last 12

 

[eaglebuzz]

Just look at what Walters has done with Brisbane vs what Seibold did.

Our position on the ladder and our number of wins after Tommy got injured is pathetic.

F for Seibold in 2023.

Come on now. Give us Haas, Carrigan, Flegler, Riki, Walsh... and I'm sure we would have made the 8.

 

[Ryan]

Simple fact for me in hindsight, is I wanted improvement, I got improvement, I can't whinge (figures taken from ladder):

2023 wins 11
2022 wins 9

2023 for: 545
2022 for: 490

2023 against: 539
2022 against: 595

2023 differential: +6
2022 differential: -105

 

[Stewbojevic]

One thing I will say about Seibold is he’s making some moves on the recruitment front. Like the decisions or not, he seems to be retaining who he wants and releasing who he doesn’t.