I've always felt it would be good to give a coach an opportunity to work through issues. Either a bad year or a bad run of form. It also needs to be the right coach. Some of our previous coaches I wouldn't have had much faith in doing that.
We did this with Cleary and he got to turn around some bad years and learnt from them.
Webster after last year has built up some faith/leeway.
This to me ties into some of the comments posted earlier about the teams with long term coaches and stability.
The Raiders had some pretty rough years under Stuart to begin with. They are having more consistent years now. Some of the long term coaches it might be time to move on or it will be interesting to see how they rebuild. Thinking of Arthur and Robinson here. I would rather be in the Eels position of being in the finals reasonably consistently and be debating how you go from a top 4 finish to Grand Finalist or Premiers.
Our success last year has pushed expectations up and to be honest that is great after the previous 10 years. If this form slump lasts long enough to derail our season (can mount a case now or after the next two tough weeks) and we fail to make the 8. I don't want to hear talk of premiership windows being pushed out to 2025 or 2026. We had it years ago where it was supposed to be 2021 than 2023. If this year is falls apart due to form, injury or whatever they need to learn from it and turn it around next year.
We did this with Cleary and he got to turn around some bad years and learnt from them.
Webster after last year has built up some faith/leeway.
This to me ties into some of the comments posted earlier about the teams with long term coaches and stability.
The Raiders had some pretty rough years under Stuart to begin with. They are having more consistent years now. Some of the long term coaches it might be time to move on or it will be interesting to see how they rebuild. Thinking of Arthur and Robinson here. I would rather be in the Eels position of being in the finals reasonably consistently and be debating how you go from a top 4 finish to Grand Finalist or Premiers.
Our success last year has pushed expectations up and to be honest that is great after the previous 10 years. If this form slump lasts long enough to derail our season (can mount a case now or after the next two tough weeks) and we fail to make the 8. I don't want to hear talk of premiership windows being pushed out to 2025 or 2026. We had it years ago where it was supposed to be 2021 than 2023. If this year is falls apart due to form, injury or whatever they need to learn from it and turn it around next year.