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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 3213048, member: 9424"] I get all that and can’t really argue with you. But I do think people are using the benefit of hindsight to pass judgement when at the time the cuts were made, very few had any problems with them. Quite the contrary really, most people supported them, despite how they may have been carried out. But if we allow ourselves to use hindsight to look a little further back and consider the what-if’s, an example that springs to mind is the way Bennett unceremoniously slashed Barba from the club just so he could have Boyd. He made no secret about it and it was carried out pretty much exactly how you described above (he even made some pretty brutal comments to the press about it). Were the same criticisms levelled at Bennett then. Sliding doors aside, the facts are that neither Bennett nor Boyd went on to win the Broncos any premierships. And in Boyd’s case, he went on to become one of the most polarising figures ever at the club, with people ready to burn Red Hill down because he was signed to a ridiculous contract that allowed him to play on at least 2 seasons too long, all the while contributing bugger-all. However, despite his wayward antics afterwards (which I bet no one at Cronulla really cares about when they look at their 2016 trophy), Barba at least went on to be a pivotal contributor to Cronulla’s success (I don’t think there is any doubt they wouldn’t have won it without him). Could he have done that for us if he wasn’t cut? Who knows. I guess I just think that absolutely, Seibold did a lot of things wrong, and as I said, a lot of the things he did (and / or how he did them) eroded the players confidence in him and themselves. I am just not sure he did anything vastly different to most other coaches when it came to overhauling the roster. Could he have handled it (and a whole lot of other things) better, well history shows that’s an unequivocal yes. But I think there’s probably a lot that happened that we don’t know and that there were, and still are, a lot of underlying cultural problems at the club. If so, he MAY have been trying (and failing) to wrangle a bit of power back from the players (look at the mess the Tigers got themselves in by allowing the players to have all the power). Who knows, it’s just a thought. But none of what I’ve said really matters. As a coach, you live and die by the decisions you make, and Seibold died in a spectacular blaze of infamy, so it’s all a moot point really. [/QUOTE]

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