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Message: [QUOTE="Jason Simmons, post: 3137071, member: 8275"] I gave Seibold the benefit of the doubt for a long time, I was happy the club was moving on from Wayne. His time was up. Now the club needs to reach the same realisation with Seibold. He simply isn’t the coach for us. Whatever his strengths as a coach supposedly are, they don’t translate into premiership winning teams. They never have for him at any level as a head coach and without a squad at the top of their game and filled to the brim with superstars (and assembled by others...) and has shown to be manifestly inadequate in a head coaching role. By his own admission he has no answers. If that isn’t enough to sack him, what possibly could be? We need a period of stability to get us back into our usual Bronco mindset of all pulling in the same direction. For that reason alone, I would give Kevvie Walters his chance. In my scenario he would get the remainder of this season and next season only, to turn things around and get us competing again. With the players, there are clearly some rotten attitudes amongst our playing group. Seemingly it comes from Boyd but even if not, his performances don’t justify his inclusion. We have gone all in on youth, so it’s time to double down on that. Get him out and have Farnsworth and Staggs as our centres, full time, with Niu for depth. A centre recruitment should be a priority. Coates and Oates (for now) should remain our wingers, with the club looking to recruit a solid winger to bolster our depth and put pressure on Oates to perform. Leave Isaako at fullback, he is no superstar but he has been trying hard and is nowhere near our worst player. He has the rest of this year to develop his game and show he deserves to keep that spot. The club meanwhile can look for a genuine fullback on the market. Croft and Milford hasn’t been working, but then their opportunities have been limited. I say Milford has more upside in him, so he stays for now, works hard with Kevvie and Alfie on his halves game and see what he can deliver. Dearden gets the halfback role fulltime, to get used to the role. Luke stays our hooker and Turpin can learn from him. I think we need more mobile forwards. Haas is a beast obviously and starts always when available, I think Flegler should be our other starting prop. Peter Ryan and Corey Parker can work overtime on him, reduce his mistakes and upping their defensive techniques and we will be well served for starting front rowers. Fifita and TPJ should be our starting edge back rowers, with Carrigan at lock. Bench: Lodge Teo Glenn Turpin / Croft Moving forward, I think we need to bolster our centres and wingers and try and find a good / great fullback. RTS would be fantastic, but I’m not sure he would leave NZ or that we could afford him. Other recruitment choices depends on how we progress from here. If Kevvie / Alfie can turn things around with Milford, he is worth keeping, if not, we should look to market for a genuine 5/8. Similarly with hooker. Luke will only have a couple of seasons at best and it remains to be seen whether Turpin is the answer, or we just think he is because he is a marginal improvement on Macca. Our basic style of play has to change substantially. We need to adapt to a modern defensive style and find a way to get some line speed into our team. We also need some go to plays we can run consistently. The team seem content with a bomb on the 5th. How the hell do we have Allan Langer in our coaching team and that seems to be our only attacking option? Why don’t we use our famous sweeping play out to the left? Sure everyone knows it, but you run it fast enough, it still works. The defence can’t slide fast enough to stop it. They should be able to run that play in their sleep... I’ve said it before but our club isn’t ruthless enough. Our contracts need to be far more strict and if that costs us players, so be it. It used to be a privilege to play for us, look at Isaac Luke’s current attitude? He would rather be on base wage playing for us, than more money to play for St George because he has always wanted to play for us, yet we never even looked at him years ago. This attitude needs to be kindled and supported. One way, would be to be far more selective in who we pick even if it comes at the cost of a player or two. I’d rather a team of Qld Cup players who try, than what we have now. Linked to this, I think we need to be far more ruthless with the standards we will accept from players. Player options should be ruled out completely in my opinion. Negotiate in good faith, we want a 3 year contract etc. If every goes well we would like to re-sign for more years, we don’t do 3+1 in your favour etc. We decide who plays for us. Not the playing group, in the absence of any better offers... This leads into accountability, as pointed out already, we have recruited and sacked multiple coaches since our last premiership and none of them, including Wayne have brought us a premiership or even consistently challenged for it. So who is it making these calls? Who are they answerable to? The owners of the club ultimately, but I think the club needs a CEO willing to make tough calls, which Paul White doesn’t, in my opinion... We don’t need to be everyone’s mate and be the supportive club if that is working to our detriment. Our focus has to be winning football games first, without cheating and everything else secondary and the boss has to reinforce that from the top down, constantly... [/QUOTE]

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