Webster has doubled down on his game plan that everyone tore shreds off in 2024.
Crazy when you think how in Websters first year everyone was praising his game plan.
Crazier still that in Websters second year that the fans turned on his game plan and demanded his scalp or change.
Yet despite all the noise, Webster decided to double down on his game plan as his strategy for 2025.
We are still focusing on kick chase, low risk plays, ergo completions, and territory. In fact we are even more focused this season on ruck play, off the ball work, and playing vanilla safe.
I believe Webster is the best coach we have had, before him I would have ranked Anderson as first and Cleary as second.
Anderson will always be in conversation for the goat, he has firsts than can never be taken off him, minor prems for mine says it all about Anderson.
Anderson was unique in that he embraced the NZ flair game, against his Aussie instincts, kinda like Todd Paytens Cows, and Stickies Raiders, or the Broncos, a legit way to run a team in this comp.
Cleary on the other hand was Mr reserved, Mr Safety, Mr boring, Mr consistent.
The difference between Anderson, Cleary and Webster is this:
Webster is the first coach of this club to get consistency out of his B side injury depleted line ups without the Simon Mannering or Michael Luck or Kevin Campion figure.
Webster is missing JFH and RTS and his nobodies are playing like top four players without their talisman leaders.
Coach Andrew Webster they say.
Fook off Coach no excuses is who Webster is. No complaints about Travel, Reffs, Injuries, no complaints about his own players (no CLeary he knows what he has done Inu rubbish or Anderson getting security to escort Ali off the premises like that was gonna play out any other way than a total dressing room revolt).
Unlike Anderson and Cleary, Webster is not attached to any dressing room dramas.
The way he kept the AFB walk out quiet with a quick nip and tuck one week suspension when the truth of that story was much bigger says it all. AFB sank Websters second season. Webster could have taken the pulpit on that one and banked buckets of excuses like someone like Sticky would have.
Crazy when you think how in Websters first year everyone was praising his game plan.
Crazier still that in Websters second year that the fans turned on his game plan and demanded his scalp or change.
Yet despite all the noise, Webster decided to double down on his game plan as his strategy for 2025.
We are still focusing on kick chase, low risk plays, ergo completions, and territory. In fact we are even more focused this season on ruck play, off the ball work, and playing vanilla safe.
I believe Webster is the best coach we have had, before him I would have ranked Anderson as first and Cleary as second.
Anderson will always be in conversation for the goat, he has firsts than can never be taken off him, minor prems for mine says it all about Anderson.
Anderson was unique in that he embraced the NZ flair game, against his Aussie instincts, kinda like Todd Paytens Cows, and Stickies Raiders, or the Broncos, a legit way to run a team in this comp.
Cleary on the other hand was Mr reserved, Mr Safety, Mr boring, Mr consistent.
The difference between Anderson, Cleary and Webster is this:
Webster is the first coach of this club to get consistency out of his B side injury depleted line ups without the Simon Mannering or Michael Luck or Kevin Campion figure.
Webster is missing JFH and RTS and his nobodies are playing like top four players without their talisman leaders.
Coach Andrew Webster they say.
Fook off Coach no excuses is who Webster is. No complaints about Travel, Reffs, Injuries, no complaints about his own players (no CLeary he knows what he has done Inu rubbish or Anderson getting security to escort Ali off the premises like that was gonna play out any other way than a total dressing room revolt).
Unlike Anderson and Cleary, Webster is not attached to any dressing room dramas.
The way he kept the AFB walk out quiet with a quick nip and tuck one week suspension when the truth of that story was much bigger says it all. AFB sank Websters second season. Webster could have taken the pulpit on that one and banked buckets of excuses like someone like Sticky would have.
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