Player Tanah Boyd

[ShaunJohnson7]

Not the quickest are you ?

He's actually pretty quick over 100m on grass with sprigs on.

 

[John Nick]

I get the feeling that Boyd and Martin formed a pretty good connection in cup.

Huge step up to NRL from cup. Everything happens a lot faster and more intensity

 

[Beastmode]

He's actually pretty quick over 100m on grass with sprigs on.

@FormerlyJamesW with or without your bat suit?

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

@FormerlyJamesW with or without your bat suit?

With. My ACL is knackered.

Whoops.

 

[ShaunJohnson7]

With. My ACL is knackered.

Whoops.

Would you back yourself over 56 year old Adam Pompey?

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

Would you back yourself over 56 year old Adam Pompey?

In an eating competition, yeah.

 

[kos]

Well done Warriors also for circling the Wagons and doing this thing properly.

By being patient they ensured that Tanah's moment was his own and not being dragged into a Metcalf scenario.

Also, I find it very interesting when Cappy speaks. He is of course once removed from the player coach marriage, yet he is a Coach in all but title.

The Warriors use him sparingly as a public face (probably McFadden's own preference) and in part due to the media not understanding the extent to which McFadden is the power behind the throne.

I have read McFadden reveals long enough to see the framework and where he sits, he is an expert that gets the bigger say in how we build teams in the same fashion of other Pro sports mega franchises around the world. He is Brad Pit and Jonah Hill in our team, Webster is Phillip S Hoffman in our Moneyball operation.

This of course is just a function of a well run organization that trusts and listens to its experts, more importantly lets them act independently of the coaching arm which has enough to be going on with and will be driving the asking "We need more of X....find it Cappy....I am liking player A) or that type of athlete.
And indeed this doesn't work if Webster is doing Cappy's role by asking for people that don't fit the cap nor the pathways plan under the FG side.

So....when planning an approach to Boyd, McFadden is the one that would say 'you can have him at this price - otherwise I'm putting forward or getting another player externally".

Cappy was the one that went out and Sourced Ford of course, after all the home runs Cappy has been hitting, Webster won't even think about other players unless Cappy say's lets go - and for that alone....Webster will sleep better at night, and last longer as a head coach.

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