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Message: [QUOTE="KingWebcke, post: 2530674, member: 8372"] well ... the good: 1. He isn't David Furner and is clean of all the in-fighting that has apparently been going on in Canberra 2. he is a Canberra club legend and players, fans, management and sponsors are sentimental. I imagine bringing Sticky back to Canberra has the same kind of appeal as bringing Locky back to coach us in a few years time 3. he is actually a decent coach. He did well at the Roosters and coached the Sharks to a very good record in 2008. I also thought his most recent work with NSW was impressive, the NSW team was a mess and he took a pretty weak group and seemed to instil them with some passion and fight. they were far more competitive under his reign than they had been in quite a while. A lot of his really bad years as coach came with horrible teams like Cronulla and Parra - you could be Jack Gibson and you'd still miss the finals with those teams 4. Sticky doesn't seem like the kind of guy who will put up with shit from players, like happened with Furner. He might be a player's coach but his personality and reputation probably means you wont see players white-anting and acting out. He'll take control of the playing group in my opinion, even if it means telling a few of the senior players to **** off the bad: 1. fucking weird recruitment and some weird selections. such as stacking the Cronulla team full of backrowers even though they didn't have any first grade quality backs or halves. But even then, I suspect that isn't as much of an issue at Canberra. Canberra have a great young team already and plenty of young talent in the wings, so Sticky doesn't need to go out and recruit like has at previous clubs. Plus, the chances of him pulling off retarded moves like signing Anthony Tupou to a 10 year $8m contract are slim because nobody wants to come to Canberra anyway. 2. he is only a decent coach. He'll do well for a couple years but he isn't anything special. But having said that, it isn't as if there are a tonne of other supercoaches out on the market. [/QUOTE]

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