Yep , this is code for “ I know they’ll sack me so I’ll announce my retirement first “.Agreeing to retire instead of being sacked.
He will be available to coach PNG
Robinson?Dessie for all his faults can hold his head high. Only coach aside from Bennett, Bellamy, and Cleary to win two comps since 1995.
He'll go down as a Manly legend. Scott Penn can hang his head in shame, he should've been retiring here.
Dessie for all his faults can hold his head high. Only coach aside from Bennett, Bellamy, and Cleary to win two comps since 1995.
He'll go down as a Manly legend. Scott Penn can hang his head in shame, he should've been retiring here.
Bit rough mate, when u have a Shi***ttt team u can't do much. Also how many coaches have won Sh###Ttt for us???? He's won 2 Premiership out of 8 + Penn bull**** didn't help. To some of us he's a Legend but not to some oh well can't win them all. Also 99% go for da $$$cash U cannot blame him. 40-0 against the best team in da history said it all, GOOD LUCK DESSIE HASLEROne other thing I’ll add, and the same goes for Bennett .
The game has moved on and these two haven’t.
I respect him for everything he was involved in , up to the day or two after our 2011 Victory.
From that moment on, completely dead to me.
I hated it when he came back and it was inevitable how that would end , just as it was inevitable how his tenure at the Titans would end.
Yep, Robinson won those comps for the Roosters. Not the refs, Politis' money, or the roster where prime TKO was apparently earning $200k under the cap... Lol!!!You forgot Robinson who has won 3 premierships since 2013.
But yes, Des will always fondly be looked upon with his 2 premierships and the famous 40 nil !!
De$ will have been manoeuvring for that tax-free contract since day 1…Agreeing to retire instead of being sacked.
He will be available to coach PNG
Fair enough but are we pretending Bellamy never had a team that breached the salary cap now?Yep, Robinson won those comps for the Roosters. Not the refs, Politis' money, or the roster where prime TKO was apparently earning $200k under the cap... Lol!!!
Robinson is also the same man, who looked hopeless at coaching their attack in recent years, until a bottom-four coach in Holbrook arrived.
Compare it to Des. We had some great, skilful players, but only a few of them were naturally world-class. He won those premierships on coaching those players into who they became. There's no 2008 and 2011 without Des. We were beating world-class systems that had institutional cheating, by 40-0 in Grand Finals, whilst our players were getting changed out of the boots of their cars in Narrabeen.
That's a much greater feat than Robinson will ever achieve. Yet no one in the media will drum on about us, and what we did, often because they were the ones on the other side of those scorelines.
Forgive me for forgetting his precious premierships, they genuinely mean nothing to me.
Spot on. For that achievement and his stellar playing career, Des will always be a Manly legend.I think there is a great story to tell in some depth from when manly split from the bears, and dessie slowly but surely built that team through the years with astute acquisition of a few top line players, those that he nurtured into top line players, and those bought in that were never going to be more than they were, yet played their role as importantly as anyone else, up to the day 40-0 occurred. It was a rags to riches story never to be forgotten.
Team | P | W | D | L | PD | Pts | |
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1 | Raiders | 17 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 108 | 30 |
2 | Storm | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 202 | 28 |
3 | Bulldogs | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 92 | 28 |
4 | Warriors | 15 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 26 |
5 | Broncos | 16 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 68 | 22 |
6 | Panthers | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 21 |
7 | Dolphins | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 162 | 20 |
8 | Sea Eagles | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 58 | 20 |
9 | Roosters | 15 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 20 |
10 | Sharks | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | -4 | 20 |
11 | Dragons | 15 | 6 | 0 | 9 | -49 | 18 |
12 | Cowboys | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | -140 | 17 |
13 | Knights | 16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | -67 | 16 |
14 | Tigers | 16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | -82 | 16 |
15 | Eels | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | -103 | 16 |
16 | Rabbitohs | 17 | 6 | 0 | 11 | -129 | 14 |
17 | Titans | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | -144 | 14 |