Wasted resource

[SeaEagleRock8]

Yes the club runs on the smell of an oily rag these days but all the more reason to be innovative and use up all available resources.
This idea would certainly be unconventional - but ... why not tap into the footy knowledge of fans? Us!
Des is renowned as a workaholic, but I reckon there'd be some here on ST who put him to shame, watch all the games and probably more than once. And have been doing this for years. So why wouldn't their knowledge of the game be just as valid, if not more so, than an ex-player. Especially if the ex-player took a lot of head knocks or for whatever reason is simply not seeing things as clearly as in the past.
Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)
Not talking about myself here (obviously!) we have many passionate and dedicated followers who would never pretend to be students of the game.
However several of our regulars clearly have very astute footy judgment and deep knowledge of the game and players, thinking of the likes of Maxta, James, maybe Technical Coach, even a couple of our newest members show impressive depth of footy smarts.
Thoughts?

 

[Franko]

Why thanks for the compliment in there SER8, I may be new but I like to contribute!

 

[Waz13]

Are you being serious here? Or is this sone kind of prank ahead of April Fools Day?

 

[Franko]

Are you being serious here? Or is this sone kind of prank ahead of April Fools Day?

It sounds very Walker Bros

 

[Brisbane Tragic]

Yes the club runs on the smell of an oily rag these days but all the more reason to be innovative and use up all available resources.
This idea would certainly be unconventional - but ... why not tap into the footy knowledge of fans? Us!
Des is renowned as a workaholic, but I reckon there'd be some here on ST who put him to shame, watch all the games and probably more than once. And have been doing this for years. So why wouldn't their knowledge of the game be just as valid, if not more so, than an ex-player. Especially if the ex-player took a lot of head knocks or for whatever reason is simply not seeing things as clearly as in the past.
Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)
Not talking about myself here (obviously!) we have many passionate and dedicated followers who would never pretend to be students of the game.
However several of our regulars clearly have very astute footy judgment and deep knowledge of the game and players, thinking of the likes of Maxta, James, maybe Technical Coach, even a couple of our newest members show impressive depth of footy smarts.
Thoughts?

bahahahahahahaha - yes lol. I don't have many footy smarts or any in fact but I can be as dumb and/or sound impressive as the next guy... whatever version of supporter you need lol

 

[bob dylan]

A famous old coaching proverb comes to mind @SeaEagleRock8 and i am sure you have heard 100 times before but

"once you start listening to the fans it wont be long until you are stiing with them"

 

[Woodsie]

Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)

Poor Dessie would be needing therapy within minutes ... you think he mumbles now .. he would be incoherent after one session of suggested team selections ..

He is only starting to recover from the "put Adam Cuthbertson on the wing" plan ..

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Are you being serious here? Or is this sone kind of prank ahead of April Fools Day?

Hey desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm not drunk (yet), just tossing it out there. 🙂

 

[frank stokes]

Yes the club runs on the smell of an oily rag these days but all the more reason to be innovative and use up all available resources.
This idea would certainly be unconventional - but ... why not tap into the footy knowledge of fans? Us!
Des is renowned as a workaholic, but I reckon there'd be some here on ST who put him to shame, watch all the games and probably more than once. And have been doing this for years. So why wouldn't their knowledge of the game be just as valid, if not more so, than an ex-player. Especially if the ex-player took a lot of head knocks or for whatever reason is simply not seeing things as clearly as in the past.
Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)
Not talking about myself here (obviously!) we have many passionate and dedicated followers who would never pretend to be students of the game.
However several of our regulars clearly have very astute footy judgment and deep knowledge of the game and players, thinking of the likes of Maxta, James, maybe Technical Coach, even a couple of our newest members show impressive depth of footy smarts.
Thoughts?

It would be a short information session...

SACK
Parker
Jorge
Boyle
Croker
Garrick (unless @Woodsie was on the panel)

BUY
A decent f*cking 9

RENEGOTIATE (or sell-on)
DCE

PICK
Shuster
Koulu
Harper
Guac
Saddler
Walker at f*cking centre

FIX
Tom
Defence

...wouldn't take more than 5 min...

 

[Bomb Voyage]

Haha this is good, mate, there is absolutely zero chance of this happening - unless this is April fools? I don't know...

 

[ManEagle]

A nice dig ... a real nice dig haha

 

[Disco]

Week one of the fans coaching

1.Koula
2.Tuipulotu
3.Turbo
4.Harper
5.Saab
6.Schuster
7.Foran
8.Paseka
9.DCE
10.Jake
11.Parker
12.Olaku'atu
13.Saddler

14.Cust
15.Taufua (Backrow)
16.Keppie
17.Aloiai

Lose by 54

Week 2 of fans coaching

1.Funa
2.Koala
3.Suli
4.Tuipulotu
5.Taufua
6.T Trbojevic
7.DCE
8.Taupau
9.Walker
10.Sironen
11.Schuster
12.J Trbojevic
13.Saddler

14.Foran
15.Aloiai
16.Olaku'atu
17.Paseka

Lose by 62

Week 3 of fans coaching

1.T Trbojevic
2.Saab
3.Walker
4.B Trbojevic
5.Funa
6.Schuster
7.Humphries
8.Paseka
9.Foran
10.Saddler
11.Aloiai
12.Olaku'atu
13.DCE

14.J Trbojevic
15.Taupau
16.Cust
17.S Fainu

Lose by 48

Rise and repeat

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Hey fair go. I haven't read all the posts this season, mainly as there's always heaps when we're losing, funnily enough. But I've read enough to have seen a lot of strong views about this and that, at least some of which seem well thought out.
As for this being a dig or an April fool joke.. ahem! Let's get real, for heaven's sake, I've seen posters calling on protest marches and delegations to confront Des and the CEO, I've seen posts calling on journalists (yes our dear friends, not, rugby league journos!!!) to get involved and help publicly attack the club!
So, the thinking was quite simple - do we really want to be attacking the club, while its down? (personally I've no interest in that)
Or - is it conceivable we could actually help in some way? Probably not, but hey! And if so, wouldn't that be better?
🙂

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

@Technical Coach will be delighted with this great idea

 

[Peter C]

It would be a short information session...

SACK
Parker
Jorge
Boyle
Croker
Garrick (unless @Woodsie was on the panel)

BUY
A decent f*cking 9

RENEGOTIATE (or sell-on)
DCE

PICK
Shuster
Koulu
Harper
Guac
Saddler
Walker at f*cking centre

FIX
Tom
Defence

...wouldn't take more than 5 min...

Problem solved

 

[frank stokes]

Week one of the fans coaching

1.Koula
2.Tuipulotu
3.Turbo
4.Harper
5.Saab
6.Schuster
7.Foran
8.Paseka
9.DCE
10.Jake
11.Parker
12.Olaku'atu
13.Saddler

14.Cust
15.Taufua (Backrow)
16.Keppie
17.Aloiai

Lose by 54

Week 2 of fans coaching

1.Funa
2.Koala
3.Suli
4.Tuipulotu
5.Taufua
6.T Trbojevic
7.DCE
8.Taupau
9.Walker
10.Sironen
11.Schuster
12.J Trbojevic
13.Saddler

14.Foran
15.Aloiai
16.Olaku'atu
17.Paseka

Lose by 62

Week 3 of fans coaching

1.T Trbojevic
2.Saab
3.Walker
4.B Trbojevic
5.Funa
6.Schuster
7.Humphries
8.Paseka
9.Foran
10.Saddler
11.Aloiai
12.Olaku'atu
13.DCE

14.J Trbojevic
15.Taupau
16.Cust
17.S Fainu

Lose by 48

Rise and repeat

So you reckon we would go almost as good as Des the wonder coach? ST crew would do it unpaid too...

SER8 may be onto something here.... lol

 

[mosto]

Yes the club runs on the smell of an oily rag these days but all the more reason to be innovative and use up all available resources.
This idea would certainly be unconventional - but ... why not tap into the footy knowledge of fans? Us!
Des is renowned as a workaholic, but I reckon there'd be some here on ST who put him to shame, watch all the games and probably more than once. And have been doing this for years. So why wouldn't their knowledge of the game be just as valid, if not more so, than an ex-player. Especially if the ex-player took a lot of head knocks or for whatever reason is simply not seeing things as clearly as in the past.
Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)
Not talking about myself here (obviously!) we have many passionate and dedicated followers who would never pretend to be students of the game.
However several of our regulars clearly have very astute footy judgment and deep knowledge of the game and players, thinking of the likes of Maxta, James, maybe Technical Coach, even a couple of our newest members show impressive depth of footy smarts.
Thoughts?

I like the outside the box thinking @SeaEagleRock8, and while it won't happen, it would be interesting to get a Silvertails consensus on what the team should be every week via poll and see how it matches up against the team selected.

 

[robbiea]

Yes the club runs on the smell of an oily rag these days but all the more reason to be innovative and use up all available resources.
This idea would certainly be unconventional - but ... why not tap into the footy knowledge of fans? Us!
Des is renowned as a workaholic, but I reckon there'd be some here on ST who put him to shame, watch all the games and probably more than once. And have been doing this for years. So why wouldn't their knowledge of the game be just as valid, if not more so, than an ex-player. Especially if the ex-player took a lot of head knocks or for whatever reason is simply not seeing things as clearly as in the past.
Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)
Not talking about myself here (obviously!) we have many passionate and dedicated followers who would never pretend to be students of the game.
However several of our regulars clearly have very astute footy judgment and deep knowledge of the game and players, thinking of the likes of Maxta, James, maybe Technical Coach, even a couple of our newest members show impressive depth of footy smarts.
Thoughts?

Why ask when we can March ,protest and demand it .
All our decisions are easy ,too bad poor Des doesn't have the power of hindsight like us.

 

[The Who]

We are continually told that DESpicable is a deep thinker.
Why then doesn't he give any thought to selections?

 

[Peter C]

Yes the club runs on the smell of an oily rag these days but all the more reason to be innovative and use up all available resources.
This idea would certainly be unconventional - but ... why not tap into the footy knowledge of fans? Us!
Des is renowned as a workaholic, but I reckon there'd be some here on ST who put him to shame, watch all the games and probably more than once. And have been doing this for years. So why wouldn't their knowledge of the game be just as valid, if not more so, than an ex-player. Especially if the ex-player took a lot of head knocks or for whatever reason is simply not seeing things as clearly as in the past.
Maybe Dan can approach the club and offer, say, our top 5 (and we could elect them) to attend each week as an advisory panel, not with decision-making power but simply to give Des the benefit of our point of view. We could give advice about team selections, strategies, and recruitment. (And probably much more.)
Not talking about myself here (obviously!) we have many passionate and dedicated followers who would never pretend to be students of the game.
However several of our regulars clearly have very astute footy judgment and deep knowledge of the game and players, thinking of the likes of Maxta, James, maybe Technical Coach, even a couple of our newest members show impressive depth of footy smarts.
Thoughts?

Input of any fans would be about as welcome as nuns to an orgy