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Message: [QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3667246, member: 1769"] I thought I'd give my post mortem before tonight's game as the result won't change my thoughts, so without further ado, here it is: [B]Injuries[/B] Definitely one of the biggest factors in our fall from grace. long term injuries to our most important players (Walsh, Reyno and Haas) and many injuries to our depth players. most teams would struggle under those conditions. Hell, you could count the number of games our full first choice spine played together on one hand. I also think those dog shots to Walsh's head affected him more than we knew as well. [B]Attitude / complacency[/B] I think there may have been something to the talk that making the grand final gave our boys (especially the younger ones) a bit of an attitude problem. maybe they thought they could get back there without starting again and putting in the same level of hard work they did in 2023. I'm sure 2024 will serve as a wake-up call. [B]Shortened Pre-season / Vegas trip[/B] This sucked and IMO caused us to go into the season under done. I have no doubt Kevvie learned some lessons from this. it was his first shortened pre-season after all, given our late finish and high number of rep players [B]Roster[/B] Losing Flegler was by far our biggest loss in the off-season. he was a point of difference in our pack. I would have also loved to keep Capewell for this season as well, I don't think Piakura was ready to consistently play 80 minutes this season. I think people have been a bit harsh on Gosiewski. he didn't have a pre-season with us and came in mid-season playing only a few games before his season was over with a broken arm. IMO he is a handy fringe player or 17. a player who can play backrow or fill in a centre is handy to have on the bench in the HIA world. Baker is an interesting one. clearly brought in to fill Palasia's spot (a player who people only seemed to have started to like after he left us). If you grade him on the generally accepted metric for a prop he wasn't as bad as people make out. I do realise he is unpopular, so we need to change the grading metric to suit the popular agenda 😉 FTR Baker's 2024 stats (before the final round match) played 11 games for an average of 36 minutes per game 85 runs for 692m - that's an average of 7 runs for 63m per game - or an average of 8.14m per run. 229 tackles with 12 misses - or an average of 20 tackles and 1 miss per game. given the generally accepted marking metric for a good prop performance is 10m per run. Baker's wasn't too bad. he is a fringe player after all. [B]Positives[/B] There were a couple of positives this season. Namely, Xavier Willison and Blake Mozer. Xavier Willison is now an important part of this team after cementing his place this season. Blake Mozer is coming along nicely, jumping up to number 2 in the hooker pecking order. it's become clear that Kevvie had a plan for Mozer. Bringing young players along is one of his strongest attributes as a coach IMO. [B]Post Reynolds[/B] No idea here. Maybe Black will be ready Maybe we'll land Walker Maybe we'll go for a stop gap like Sexton I'm no longer sold on Madden as the replacement. I think he has the skills, just not sure he'll be able to put them all together consistently [B]EDIT: probably should quickly touch on Kevvie's future. [/B] As I've consistently said, sacking Kevvie at this point is stupid. afterall, he took over the worst performing wooden spoon side in modern history, rebuilt them from the ground up and took them to within 5 minutes of taking down the greatest team of modern history in the GF that being said (and I can't believe I'm going to agree with Slothfield 🤮 ) We should give Kevvie a chance to turn it around, he's done that on a couple of occasions since he arrived here. I think the 12 rounds proposed Slothfield is a fair number. by then we'll have a definitive answer on whether he as what it takes to continue to be our coach. the one trap we shouldn't fall into is giving coaches lenghty tenures even well after it become clear they we're the future, just because they are club legends ... I.e. the Canberra Raiders playbook [/QUOTE]

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