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Message: [QUOTE="Renegade, post: 2626793, member: 1928"] Perhaps, but when you write in your own words that a part of you secretly hopes we bomb so you can feel smug about your predictions, it's pretty easy to draw this conclusion. Are you more interested in the team being successful, or being proven right on an internet forum? Pretty sad if it's the latter (as if it would mean that much??). I disagree, although I think Bennett will aide us because I believe him to be a better coach that extracts more out of players and manages them better than Griffin, there is no guarantee he will win us a premiership. In any case, if he does manage to coach us to a premiership, of course he deserves credit for that. By doing so, it would indicate he has gotten more out of the underperforming players we have currently endured for the past two seasons. Milford is a good talent but he is no world class player, so I think it is folly to suggest that by simply signing him we're going to be guaranteed premiership contenders. As far as Boyd is concerned, if he did sign (likely but not definite as yet), and was instrumental in helping us get to that point, wouldn't that leave you with more than one moral crisis? :) It would also indicate we're better defensively and are capable of closing out matches, both of which were shown seldom at best under Griffin. Finally, any coach that gets a team over the line deserves credit - there's a reason why Brian Smith is hired to clean out a club and booted after a few seasons, because even in the event he has taken a team to the final, he is unable to give them one final push over the line. That's what good coaches do, they mentally prepare a winning team regardless of their physical preparation. Why does that matter more than the potential success of the club you support? Is being right worth more than being successful? You live in a strange world if that is the case. Finally, as aforementioned, any coach plays a role in their success. They train them for 10 months of the year to a particular standard, have them execute certain plays, educate their players in decision making at certain times, pick them up when they are down and keep them level when they are on the up - if you discount all of this then surely most coaches are useless, Bellamy, Hasler, Maguire and so on? [/QUOTE]

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