The NRL Season of 2016
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<p>I tried to get in but my horse couldn't make headway pasts the knights protecting the coach who has Bluey like results who's somehow avoided the broadsword chopping off his head. </p>
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<p>Ps: I've never rated Hurrell anyway, but there's much love from fans for Kata who's a younger, slightly trimmer, as stupid version of him, this I find bemusing.</p> -
<p>maybe because Kata has been our best player all year? </p>
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<p>People aren't protecting the coach, people are sick of the coach being replaced and there being no apparent improvement in quality. </p> -
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<p>I tried to get in but my horse couldn't make headway pasts the knights protecting the coach who has Bluey like results who's somehow avoided the broadsword chopping off his head. </p>
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<p>Instead of (for a change at the Warriors) sticking it to the regular bunch of coach killing losers - a handful of whom even thought mixing red bull with sleeping pills was a bright idea mid season...</p>
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<p>Because until that happens, I don't see too many "proper" NRL coaches going near the place :(</p> -
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<p>maybe because Kata has been our best player all year? </p>
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<p>People aren't protecting the coach, people are sick of the coach being replaced and there being no apparent improvement in quality. </p>
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<p>It's the same thing. People are having a go at the players for being unprofessional yet the club is unprofessional by selecting a coach who clearly isn't up to the job.</p>
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<p>Furthermore there are people who were calling for Bluey's head who are now in the don't replace the coach club. It's like I've swapped bodies with some out there. </p>
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<p>I'd prefer the Warriors don't go through a cycle of replacing the coach but it's as clear as mud that the coach is a donkey, "he's lost the dressing room" same as Bluey, and this after a Bluey-like season last year. What positives are there in keeping the coach on? </p>
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<p>As for Kata, his flaws are being overlooked and excused due to his hard running style. For some reason a club in turmoil turns Kata and Ayshford into it's best players (until the recent match for Blake).</p> -
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<p><strong>Instead of (for a change at the Warriors) sticking it to the regular bunch of coach killing losers</strong> - a handful of whom even thought mixing red bull with sleeping pills was a bright idea mid season...</p>
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<p>Because until that happens, I don't see too many "proper" NRL coaches going near the place :(</p>
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<p>The players get beaten with the stick all the time at the Warrior (aside from in the Auckland media). I was sticking the boot into the players for a long time last year (especially at the live games I went to) but after a while you realise it's systemic and the guy at the top drives those systems. </p> -
<p>Get over it Nepia, Bluey was a shit club coach.</p>
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<p>Look, i think the coach is shit. I think the coach needs to go. But before he gets the arse, i want to know who is taking over. It can't be internal, because they are tainted already. Who is the upgrade? </p>
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<p>"losing the dressing room" is bullshit speak for players not trying. </p>
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<p>Kata is very limited. But he puts in, and he's being effective. Those are not words you can use to describe a large portion of the squad. And certainly not words you could use for Hurrell for the vast majority of his "career" </p> -
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<p>The players get beaten with the stick all the time at the Warrior (aside from in the Auckland media). I was sticking the boot into the players for a long time last year (especially at the live games I went to) but after a while you realise it's systemic and the guy at the top drives those systems. </p>
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<p>so we have had 4 or 5 dud coaches in a row?</p> -
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<div><br><p>"losing the dressing room" is bullshit speak for players not trying. </p>
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<p>Amen.</p>
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<p>The coach might be Basil Fawlty, but if that's their excuse for phoning it in and barely defending week after week, then that's soft.</p> -
The two are not mutually exclusive. Incompetent coach + unprofessional players = recipe for disaster.
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<p>Get over it Nepia, Bluey was a shit club coach.</p>
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<p>Look, i think the coach is shit. I think the coach needs to go. But before he gets the arse, i want to know who is taking over. It can't be internal, because they are tainted already. Who is the upgrade? </p>
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<p>"losing the dressing room" is bullshit speak for players not trying. </p>
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<p>Kata is very limited. But he puts in, and he's being effective. Those are not words you can use to describe a large portion of the squad. And certainly not words you could use for Hurrell for the vast majority of his "career" </p>
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<p>FFS, I didn't invent the term - it was used by the anti Bluey brigade to knock him down a peg.</p>
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<p>Cappy is a shit club coach. Why do you want me to get over one but not the other?</p> -
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<p>The two are not mutually exclusive. Incompetent coach + unprofessional players = recipe for disaster.</p>
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<p>They're not, but thankfully Jim Doyle is at least diverting from the "shit results only means a shit coach" mantra of some fans and previous Warriors administrators...</p>
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<p>In recent years I've wondered if even Wayne Bennett/Craig Bellamy could sort some of this lot out.</p> -
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I read this a few days ago about Bellamy's pre season. I reckon he'd "lose the dressing room" pretty quickly at the Warriors if he made them train like that -
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<p>The two are not mutually exclusive. Incompetent coach + unprofessional players = recipe for disaster.</p>
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<p>common denominator being?</p> -
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Both - when was the last time we had a good coach?<br><br>
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<p>how do you know they havent had a good coach but the deep seated issues at the club havent ruined his career and made him look bad?</p>
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<p>Artent they doing an independant review at present, hopefully this will highlight the issues.</p> -
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<p>FFS, I didn't invent the term - it was used by the anti Bluey brigade to knock him down a peg.</p>
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<p>Cappy is a shit club coach. Why do you want me to get over one but not the other?</p>
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<p>I don't, but you keep bringing Bluey up like he's relevant in some way, or was hard done by. He wasn't, and he's not relevant, except as another example of a failed appointment. Did we get better when he left?</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">In recent years I've wondered if even Wayne Bennett/Craig Bellamy could sort some of this lot out.
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<p>oi that's my line!</p> -
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I read this a few days ago about Bellamy's pre season. I reckon he'd "lose the dressing room" pretty quickly at the Warriors if he made them train like that</p>
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<p>But but but, it's been the Warriors best preseason ever, they're fitter this year than they've ever been!</p>
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<p>Exactly and every year it becomes plainly obvious that we are one of the least fit teams in the comp</p>
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<p>If it was actually true that each year's Warriors squad had been fitter than the last... the '95 Warriors must have needed the changing room doors to be removed before they could gently waddle out onto Mount Smart.</p> -
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<p>I don't, but you keep bringing Bluey up like he's relevant in some way, or was hard done by. He wasn't, and he's not relevant, except as another example of a failed appointment. Did we get better when he left?</p>
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<p>oi that's my line!</p>
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<p>I bring up Bluey because he's a comparison, and a bloody similar one at that, and if Cappy gets the boot he wont be hard done by either. Cappy's a failed appointment yet people want him kept on just because other coaches have been fired. That's not a good enough reason for me.</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);">In recent years I've wondered if even Wayne Bennett/Craig Bellamy could sort some of this lot out.</span></p>
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<p>We might all need to chip in a few bucks to make this happen so that we can know definitively one way or another. </p>
