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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3167945, member: 9326"] For what it's worth, the call to move Wayne on if it gave us Bellamy was absolutely spot on at the time and I think even Bennett would acknowledge that was probably impartially speaking the best possible outcome for the club long term. Where it all fell away to shit was White, Lockyer and Co completely screwing the pooch on securing Bellamy, then seemingly out of ego or God know's what, still expecting to shove Wayne out the door anyway. The man could quite likely have accepted being moved on for the best Coach in the game, but to insist he had to go so he could be replaced by Seibold, or even Walters for that matter, well that's another prospect entirely and Wayne was absolutely right to take that personally and as an insult to him. The next critical error was not vetting the new Coaching options available at the time. White obviously missed Demetriou's interview and Lockyer was set to miss Walters until the last minute. For whatever reason they were not attending the interviews, entirely reasonable or otherwise, he candidates should never have been given an option to be interviewed by anything less than the full panel, however long that took to accommodate. If the club entrusted those three guys to make the most critical staffing appointment in the entire club, they should not have proceeded until all panel members had interviewed all the top candidates. The final nail in the coffin of abjectly poor management was the contract itself. 5-6 years is an absurdly generous contract in head Coaching terms. Only an incredibly small percentage of Head Coach appointments last that long or longer, and the Broncos were so badly up against the odds to think they could beat that law of averages that it was bordering on downright arrogance. If your surname is Bellamy, or Robinson, or maybe Ricky Stuart, I could accept a 5 year term as fair enough, but for overwhelming majority of Coaches, anything over three years is just so likely to end in tears for one party or both that it's basically just reckless to be handing them out. We'd be laughing if a poorly run club made that sort of mistake, but for a club with the supposed prudent and sound corporate governance that made us the best club in the game for many years, such a reckless failure of our own making is simply inexcusable. So two and a half years on from making the call on Bennett, it's fair to ask if we'd have been better off just leaving Bennett where he was. In most areas, I think the answer is probably yes, but I'm still not sure the difference would be all that great. Bennett oversaw monumental finals collapses in 2017 and 2018 long before Seibold gave us the Parramatta debacle. In that sense I think Bennett would currently have us arguably no closer to a Premiership than Seibold has, unless you consider running 6-8 for the year and copping a first round finals drubbing as being closer to a Premiership than we are right now, which I supposed technically it is, but in practicality it arguably hurts just as bad for the fans as the mess we have right now. I also think in Bennett we'd have seen less player turnover and probably less of our young players breaking into the regular 17 each week. We'd probably still have journeymen like Te'o and Luke, as Bennett has always loved a few old journeymen in his sides. So it could be argued that Seibold may have worn some pain so that long term our young guys will be more experienced footballers sooner overall. For me, this is the crux of the problem and why I'm so displeased with the club management. They made what I feel was a bold call to go for the best Coach in the game in Bellamy, especially as they had to gamble on calling time on Wayne Bennett. It's ironically the same kind of boldness Bennett often showed himself when moving on ageing stars so the next ones could take their place. The difference here though is that Bennett usually always had his incoming man first before he moved to push the outgoing man out. Our board and management monumentally failed in this regard and to be honest I think for all the strong financial success we achieved under the current management, their legacy overall is their failure to ensure a smooth transition of a crucial figure like Bennett to the best possible replacement in Bellamy, and then allowing their ego to dictate their actions from that point on, which ripped out a big chunk of the soul of the club that will take a very, very long time to recover, if it ever recovers at all. [/QUOTE]

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