Des out coached by Robinson tonight

[SeaEagleRock8]

Des out coached by Robinson tonight

Does Manly have specialist coaches?
I recall Barrett used to be lauded as the Panthers attack coach, and apparently Fitzgibbon made his name as Chooks defence coach.
Does Manly have a specialist defence coach?

 

[47MVEagle]

Interesting take on it.
The way the game is these days, you only have to be off marginally to get points put on you.

The chooks were good last night but we weren’t that bad imo. l think at 16-0 the completions were something like 14/15 Roosters to 9/10 for us. So another 30 tackles against a fresh side who got repeat sets through their good play without us doing too much wrong.
It did look like we were back 10m but they were on us so quick. Defensively our right got picked on and that needs work, Keppie is still suspect laterally on our line.
Tom couldn’t ground DCE’s grubber that would have made it 16-6 which would’ve been a nice confidence boost.

Refs/video refs still have too much influence imo as the coaches are smarter than them.
A big non-call from Klein last night early in the second half when he should’ve binned a Chook. They dropped it coming out of their end, Parker picks it up, makes a few metres and gets tackled (zero), Roosters tackler knocks it with his foot so it’s a penalty everyday of the week but surely It’s a sinbin. It was a professional foul to reset their line which they did, how can a ref not see that?
Tedesco got spoken to at some stage regarding repeated penalties but they were all for something different, yet their desired result was the same.

Yep, that was Keary who toed the ball away when Parker went to play it & they got penalised at least another 2 times inside their 10 after that while we were camped down there so a send off should have eventuated.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Let’s just accept that the Polisters are loathsome scum and move on.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

Last year we struggled until Des stopped being stubborn and selected the Big O and Schuster. Looks like we have to lose 4 again before he wakes up this year.

Ah how time can cloud a memory. The shoe came in for round 2 on the bench.he was a starter from round 3 in the second row. Big O was injured in regies and didn't become available till something like round 6. So neither was about des waking up really.

 

[alafua8]

Des is working on his best team and combinations before we get to round 6 .We are not playing bad but we need those combinations firing when we hit the finals .I know Schuster and Aloiai will be a big difference when they are back in the team .

 

[Ryan]

I heard rumour the Panthers and Storm were accidentally faxed a copy of Des Hasler's defensive system / structures, which is how they took advantage. Here's a copy:

(P.S. Also acts as safety regulations for Swiss Cheese):

 

[Brookie Bob]

We can come up with all the on-field strategies to beat the Roosters we like.

It's difficult for other teams to match the Roosters when this is how they play off the field:

Sydney Roosters mull JobSaver repayments​

Is it any wonder Easts is such a glutton for government cheques with no return address?

"In the year 2020, Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Club (AKA the Sydney Roosters) gratefully accepted pandemic support from the Australian government in the form of its much-maligned JobKeeper wage subsidy. The Chooks’ consolidated revenue fell 20 per cent, they banked $5.5 million of JobKeeper in the first seven months of the scheme and club earnings increased to $11.8 million, up 66 per cent on 2019.

Come Sydney’s interminable lockdown of 2021, JobKeeper had been discontinued – its entrails being pored over by insolent newspaper columns like this one. For that almost Narnian winter, there was JobSaver, co-funded by the Commonwealth and NSW governments – though don’t ask Senator Andrew Bragg to explain it.

The Roosters’ 2021 annual report is, as yet, unpublished, but according to the minutes of a recent meeting of the club’s board of directors – leaked to us – “JobSaver payments to the value of $1.35 million have been received, albeit the club has only confirmed and met the eligibility criteria for $0.75 million”.

“Guidance in respect of the return of ‘overpayments’ is vague, albeit Service NSW has now opened up a phone number to call to arrange the return of overpayments.”

Implicit here is the narrating club official’s deep reticence to dial said phone number.
“We await more detail on how these ‘overpayments’ will be treated and what requirements to repay will be introduced. No return of ‘overpayments’ will be actioned until this is clearly required.”

Pursuing corporate welfare recipients as grudging as these, what chance does Service NSW stand?
Among the Roosters’ stated values, of course, is “responsibility”, whereby “we are accountable for our actions and results, built upon making courageous and considered decisions”, and “honesty”, purporting that “we are open, authentic and transparent, and we inspire trust by saying what we mean.”

Between themselves, the club’s leadership is certainly saying what they mean about eluding the clawback of JobSaver over-payments. But there’s nothing like an unauthorised leak to bring about a courageous and considered decision – and we’re not even talking about Dylan Napa‘s sex tapes.
Is it any wonder Easts is such a glutton for government cheques with no return address? The club’s chairman (of 29 years) is Rich Lister Nick Politis, who is also the largest shareholder of Eagers Automotive.

The ASX-listed car yard operator mainlined $129 million of JobKeeper in calendar 2020 and so doubled its pre-tax profit to $209 million from $100 million in 2019. The company declined to repay a cent of the wage subsidy.

It sounds far-fetched, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg gave $1.2 billion of JobKeeper just to 720 Australian car yards, while they enjoyed the greatest trading conditions since the invention of the petrol combustion engine.

Yes, $1.2 billion; no, that is not a typo.

The top 50 car yards got $551 million of JobKeeper between them, with Eagers Automotive the runaway Dally M medallist. This was heedless waste on a grotesque scale.

By stark comparison, the Morrison government has (so far) given $860 million in disaster payments to 770,000 flood victims in New South Wales and Queensland. That’s the same amount of JobKeeper trousered by 188 car yards.

And just imagine how many new cars they’ll now sell in the flood zones.

It was highly amusing to see Finance Minister Simon Birmingham’s doleful warning this week, ahead of the federal budget, that “it’s not like there’s lots of extra cash that can be splashed around”. And why would that be?"

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Shameful. Disgusting.
Not the only ones, but definitely make the noble stated values look hollow.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

See my recent post in the Manase Fainu thread re: the ‘big end of town’ clubs.

Manly’s best chance to regain ‘rugby league superpower’ status will come with a consistently competitive team (of course); a gradually improving home ground, that can cater more for corporate business; and a club that aggressively chases more grassroots supporters across northern Sydney, in particular.* Grassroots supporters could also be moneyed supporters - to quote a famous line, ‘follow the money’.

*Not just the old ‘she’ll be right mate’ attitude of a few club dinosaurs of the recent past.