sheridanstand78
First Grader
I write this article knowing that emotions are high after witnessing last nights game.
It seems to me that all is not well within the club for a few reasons.
We have a new coaching team that is assessing the entire playing squad and trying to build a team moving forward that will be competitive.
For way too long our club has taken too many short cuts with our recruitment and retention decisions and this is something that really needs to be addressed.
You see right now that the best players for Cronulla and Parra are Hynes and Gutherson. Both of these players were our juniors and we allowed them to leave instead of nurturing them and seeing them fulfil their talent at our club.
I am so glad that Tooves will now be overseeing the development of our junior system and hopefully this yields good results moving forward. Our Matts and SG Ball teams struggled this year and our Jersey Flegg and Blacktown team are not doing that well either.
I am concerned that the divisions from last year are not healed. It appears that there are many things going on behind the scenes that continue the problems.
The rumours going around that Schuster is on 800K a season astound me is there is now way yet he is worthy of that high salary and I can understand the resentment that some of the players might feel in that Schuster has played a paltry 3 out of 8 games so far and looks unfit. You see how Keiran Foran played last night and he was the steady hand that we so badly miss right now.
If it is true that Schuster is getting that wage, you have to question this decision as we are not seeing any return on investment and If I do remember a year ago his management were threatening to find him a new club if he did not get his way and play 5/8th this season.
We cannot allow player managers to dictate our retention and recruitment policy.
I sincerely hope that the coaching staff are ruthless in what they do moving forward. We have too many passengers in our team right now, we do not have the quality or depth outside our top 6 players and we need to make sure that this improves moving forward.
I have repeatedly said that we need to get our reserve grade back at Manly to make sure that the pathway from Matts, to SG Ball, to Jersey Flegg is continuous.
Ask yourselves, how many players from the winning Holden Cup team are in our current first grade side? That is damming!
I hope the club give both Tommy and Josh time to get fit. They are crucial players for us and all season have been in 2nd gear fitness wise and without them we are very ordinary with the ball.
I was at the early game yesterday and I saw young Latu Fainu score a try near the death of that match in a badly beaten team, take the line on and get a try. Gosh we need something like that in our first team.
I hope that Seibold and Flannagan invest in young players and move the dead wood on, especially if it becomes obvious that we are not finals bound.
Some tough decisions ahead. We need to get our salary cap more balanced rather than 4 players getting the lions share.
Lets hope that we see some smart decisions being made and that the team can become a force once again!
It seems to me that all is not well within the club for a few reasons.
We have a new coaching team that is assessing the entire playing squad and trying to build a team moving forward that will be competitive.
For way too long our club has taken too many short cuts with our recruitment and retention decisions and this is something that really needs to be addressed.
You see right now that the best players for Cronulla and Parra are Hynes and Gutherson. Both of these players were our juniors and we allowed them to leave instead of nurturing them and seeing them fulfil their talent at our club.
I am so glad that Tooves will now be overseeing the development of our junior system and hopefully this yields good results moving forward. Our Matts and SG Ball teams struggled this year and our Jersey Flegg and Blacktown team are not doing that well either.
I am concerned that the divisions from last year are not healed. It appears that there are many things going on behind the scenes that continue the problems.
The rumours going around that Schuster is on 800K a season astound me is there is now way yet he is worthy of that high salary and I can understand the resentment that some of the players might feel in that Schuster has played a paltry 3 out of 8 games so far and looks unfit. You see how Keiran Foran played last night and he was the steady hand that we so badly miss right now.
If it is true that Schuster is getting that wage, you have to question this decision as we are not seeing any return on investment and If I do remember a year ago his management were threatening to find him a new club if he did not get his way and play 5/8th this season.
We cannot allow player managers to dictate our retention and recruitment policy.
I sincerely hope that the coaching staff are ruthless in what they do moving forward. We have too many passengers in our team right now, we do not have the quality or depth outside our top 6 players and we need to make sure that this improves moving forward.
I have repeatedly said that we need to get our reserve grade back at Manly to make sure that the pathway from Matts, to SG Ball, to Jersey Flegg is continuous.
Ask yourselves, how many players from the winning Holden Cup team are in our current first grade side? That is damming!
I hope the club give both Tommy and Josh time to get fit. They are crucial players for us and all season have been in 2nd gear fitness wise and without them we are very ordinary with the ball.
I was at the early game yesterday and I saw young Latu Fainu score a try near the death of that match in a badly beaten team, take the line on and get a try. Gosh we need something like that in our first team.
I hope that Seibold and Flannagan invest in young players and move the dead wood on, especially if it becomes obvious that we are not finals bound.
Some tough decisions ahead. We need to get our salary cap more balanced rather than 4 players getting the lions share.
Lets hope that we see some smart decisions being made and that the team can become a force once again!
