CAMBO said:
Why do people feel the need to compare tooves to des.
Because there is no fun in it if we compare him to Peter Sharp.
Des has more runs on the board than Tooves, but he has also had more innings. Let's see what Tooves' record looks like after a couple more seasons.
You also have to realise that Tooves more or less was left with Des's dirty laundry. A bitter end to the 2011 season, support staff gutted out of the place, backended contracts, a squad tailored to Des's style of play. All these things Tooves had to deal with while ALSO learning the ropes as a head coach. He got thrown in at the deep end and IMO he has swum pretty well, definitely not drowning. waving.
I'm sure every single person in the joint was gutted at the way we went out last year, but that wasn't Tooves' fault, unless you think part of his game plan was to lull the Storm into a false sense of security with multiple basic errors and incomplete sets. We played poorly, that wasn't bad coaching, that was horrible execution.
This season ain't over yet, OK so we haven't beaten Roosters or Souths yet this year. Big deal, neither of those two sides have beat the Storm the reigning premiers, yet we are undefeated against the scum. Going by some of the logic here, Melbourne will beat the Knights and the Roosters, where they will play the Bunnies in the GF and go back to back. I'm hoping we can throw a spanner in that little plan.