Cuddles doesn't even make sense to me, which is why I want it to die. What does it even mean - he's too buddy-buddy and blurs professional lines? He's weak and doesn't have the ruthlessness required?
I think he has done a great job with the resources available (not many coaches could lose AFB, SJ, Harris, Walker, and band together a bunch of limited players the way he has). Two criticism levelled at him have been his bench use and a hesitancy to bring youth through too quickly. Neither, which should earn a "Cuddles" nickname, and he probably got the youth thing right.
Cuddles would suggest he has favourites. I don't know if I see that, he favours experience (so does Bennett) and consistency of combinations, and we just don't have the depth to turf aside the unfashionable players. I think we have tried to be quite cut-throat in the choices around retention, we just don't have some of the advantages we need there. Jazz, CNK, TMM, Montoya. Bunty was told to look around.
Cuddles doesn't seem clever, and it seems like an unwarranted, antagonistic label on a good coach who we are lucky to have. Is there something I'm missing?