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Message: [QUOTE="subsbligh, post: 2647591, member: 1950"] Good luck Hook. He played a caretaker role at the club and nutured some of our best talent. His familiarity with the players was both his best asset and biggest weakness. Some took the piss or got complacent (Hoffman and Glenn). Others played for him (Hunt, McGuire). He did nothing for outsiders to the 2008 Toyota Cup squad (Barba, Hannant) looking for a new beginning or to sharpen their skills. He mimicked his mentor (Bennett's) brand of low percentage football, but his playing group lacked the discipline or professionalism to execute that gameplan effectively, or the flair (save for Hunt in 2014) to capitalise on it. Player discipline and professionalism is something a coach can have a massive impact on. My take on my very limited external view of him as a man is that he is laid back (not lazy, but forgiving) and perhaps this reflected through the playing group and his coaching style. For young men that often will garner you respect. A paternal respect in an unfamiliar arena. For grown men, it can go the other way. Professional sportsmen want to be respected as an equal and to tell them how it is. They want to be tested, and to test you. Que the inevitable comparison and my opnion - Bennett won't put up with that shit, and he's dam good at building a pathos around the club/squad and getting players to buy into it. Hook would have made a brilliant Under 20s coach from now until eternity. But he has NRL aspirations now. I think he'll have to reinvent himself to be successful. Maybe take some of those risks (Nikorima for example) that he refused to take in a misguided attempt to save his ass in 2014. [/QUOTE]

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