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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
32 is way too many, there's a stack of squads already who are decimated with injuries.Why is the bye needed, or considered desirable? 17 teams in the NRL, why can't everyone play everyone else, home and away, that's 32 games. Why this complication?
Bit surprising - was certainly a down year but was in a grand final 12 months ago. I'd have given him another year.Poor Kevin.
Another coach to be sacked by the ponies.
If a coach lifted my tigers from bottom to a GF they’d be put into the hall of fame not in the unemployment queueThis was odd.
There are 5 genuinely recognised ‘elite’ coaches in the NRL world (even one of them has his critics) and they’re all engaged aside from Tim Sheens and you would have to think the game has gone beyond him now. So it’s not like they could have a ready made replacement. You’ve made a grand final 12 months ago. Your 3 best players have all had significant time off injured and certainly one of them in particular hasn’t recaptured his best form when he has been on the field.
You did everything but win the comp and really there was nothing as a coach you could do to prevent what Nathan Cleary unleashed to turn that result on its head.
Surely that buys you the chance to right the wrongs of this year?
Yeh agreed. Surely given next year. If they don't make finals then yeah Kev probably goes.This was odd.
There are 5 genuinely recognised ‘elite’ coaches in the NRL world (even one of them has his critics) and they’re all engaged aside from Tim Sheens and you would have to think the game has gone beyond him now. So it’s not like they could have a ready made replacement. You’ve made a grand final 12 months ago. Your 3 best players have all had significant time off injured and certainly one of them in particular hasn’t recaptured his best form when he has been on the field.
You did everything but win the comp and really there was nothing as a coach you could do to prevent what Nathan Cleary unleashed to turn that result on its head.
Surely that buys you the chance to right the wrongs of this year?
Yeh agreed. Surely given next year. If they don't make finals then yeah Kev probably goes.
Had a laugh at Webcke being pissed off and not liking Maguire as a replacement because he coaches NSW.
Why is the bye needed, or considered desirable? 17 teams in the NRL, why can't everyone play everyone else, home and away, that's 32 games. Why this complication?
Perhaps like other posters, I'd be interested to hear who these 'five elite coaches' are! Obviously Cleary and Bellamy, and...?
Personally, I think Matty Peet deserves inclusion: six trophies in 1080 days, five in less than a year. holder of the League Leader's Shield (Minor Premiership), Challenge Cup, GF winners last season (and still in it), and World Club champions. And I've just watched our Academy side defeat Saints 15-12 in their GF. English coaches in the NRL are rare, but I wouldn't be surprised if they came knocking a few years down the line. Whether MP would be interested, I don't know. But I think he has built a club ethos, on firm foundations, in much the same way as Cleary has done at Penrith.