Big Del
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2026 NRL General Discussion Thread
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Big Del
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Manly wanted him as head coach next season .
Seibs was willing to be head of football but the Grub knocked it back .
According to Kenty .
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the Raiders had the easiest draw in the comp, only having to play a top 8 team once in the second half of the season. they got to play the Dragons, Tigers and Knights twice each in the second half of the season and the Titans twice in the first half of the season.
and well the Wahs tumbled out of the top 4 and then straight out the back door in the finals, winning 2 from their last 8 games
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I think its more a combo of going deep into the finals AND then travelling to Vegas. With a mandatory time off, it would make pre season preps more hard.
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Manly wanted him as head coach next season .
Seibs was willing to be head of football but the Grub knocked it back .
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He's a good choice, I think he is way better than the Titans allowed him to show. Problem is, he's likely going to have similar restraints at Newcastle where the issues run way deeper than the coach.
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I actually think he is a great choice as well.
I also hope he does well because Newcastle deserves a strong team.
my concern is that i think their recruitment team have set him to fail with some god-awful contracts
Financeguy
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He is a good choice…Titans were mad to let him go when they did.
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The man is a glutton for punishment it would seem.
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So for the non Broncos portion of 360, we were stuck talking about Sexton/Galvin again and how they were coming first.
Now, without doing a whole lot of investigation, them falling off a cliff has EASILY as much to do with how easy their draw to start the season through to about the halfway mark was. This bad run they've had to end the season, contained majority of their games against better opponents. They play storm once, late season, Panthers first time after mid season then should have had them again but Panthers rested.
I won't argue that they'd probably be better with Sexton, but people need to stop pretending they were world beaters dominating the best teams in the comp week after week. They were neck and neck with Raiders for 'softest' draw of the year, Raiders turned that it into a minor premiership, dogs made a tough run against actually competitive teams even tougher by gutting their spine.
I dunno if its that people in media are afraid to call out the draw, but it needs to be mentioned more in discussions like this dogs/Galvin one. It's not JUST on him... quality of opponent has been much higher too.
Now, without doing a whole lot of investigation, them falling off a cliff has EASILY as much to do with how easy their draw to start the season through to about the halfway mark was. This bad run they've had to end the season, contained majority of their games against better opponents. They play storm once, late season, Panthers first time after mid season then should have had them again but Panthers rested.
I won't argue that they'd probably be better with Sexton, but people need to stop pretending they were world beaters dominating the best teams in the comp week after week. They were neck and neck with Raiders for 'softest' draw of the year, Raiders turned that it into a minor premiership, dogs made a tough run against actually competitive teams even tougher by gutting their spine.
I dunno if its that people in media are afraid to call out the draw, but it needs to be mentioned more in discussions like this dogs/Galvin one. It's not JUST on him... quality of opponent has been much higher too.
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A number of talking heads have defended Ciraldo's calls but it really seems because they are mates with him more than because he has made the right choices.
Whether they were world beaters or not, subbing out Sexton for a really raw Galvin was an abject failure, no matter how it is sliced. Galvin may end up better long term but right now, its a massive stuff up.
Mahoney on the other hand is a turnstile in defense but what he does offer is niggle and in modern league, this gets rewarded. Making unforced changes to your spine midseason and then completely falling apart should be called out for what it is - a terrible decision.
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I think the Mahoney call has been more derailing than Galvin.
To me it is more about losing Hayward from the ball playing lock role, but he's also nowhere near as effective at hooker as what Mahoney is... so they've downgraded at both positions.
The move appears to have happened so Ciraldo can fit Salmon into the team, which seems like craziness to me.
Mann and Hayward are their best ball playing middles... Mann cant play huge minutes (typically sub 40), but Hayward was fine getting through that when both were missing.
I can only think that Ciraldo wants Salmon, because he's probably the guy that subs into centre or backrow if injuries occur.
I'd say Burton could be the centre cover with Hayward into the halves.
Backrow I'm not sure, but Im sure a guy like Hayes can play edge... or Mann could play edge, because he used to be a centre / five eight... so he knows edge defence.
Feels like he's trying to out think the room, but it has massively downgraded the team
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I guess my point isn't that I disagree that the change to Galvin hasn't been a failure, its that they easily could have still been losing these games with Sexton as well, because they are finally playing tougher opposition.
I think the people blaming Galvin alone (theres even Dogs fans on board this thought), are just oblivious to how easy their early draw was.
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But Galvin has been terrible, Sexton on the other hand was more than serviceable and the fact they played pretty well against Melbourne once Sexton took over at 7 only highlights this fact.
On a sort of not really related note, the thing that really surprises me though is that no one swooped on Sexton. It seem like everyone for some reason thinks this still green head coach has all the right answers and so if he doesn't want Sexton, no one should. I don't get it, he's a solid 7 in an era where a solid 7 is better than 95% of other halfbacks in the comp.
If we didn't have Reynolds and Bunt, I would have hoped we jumped at signing him.
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Yeah, I get this perspective and agree somewhat, Sexton shit the bed a few times last year against the better sides. Even in some games this year, I remember thinking he was having a bit of a shocker. The disruption to a winning squad by the addition of Galvin though, has played a monster part for mine. We'll never know now I guess.
I remember wanting to throw him a lifeline, I definitely rate Sexton. IMO the money being offered by other clubs was too low...I'm basing that on absolutely nothing. I don't even know if anyone had a sniff. He's also still quite young and has the opportunity to move to Europe, play, travel etc. Weekend trip Italy on the bye etc. Sign me up.
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Sexton did kick the ball out on the full at a crucial time against Melbourne. He was ok on the weekend. Galvin has been average especially lately but you would swear Sexton is a world beater the way he is talked about. They were going down hill before galvin even got there.
Think it has more to do with how they have all played the 2nd half of the year than any change. They dont have the juice anymore. Galvin would have been alot better if he got to play with those forwards when they were actually having a proper go and getting on top.
Not excusing Galvin because he has lost all his confidence and they can yap all they want to about how bailey hayward talks more and organises better lol that is a bald faced lie. Mahoney is a better defender and passer of the ball. That was the more egregious selection. They have lost alot of their mongrel once they treated mahoney how they did. They have taken the spark out of him emotionally and they have suffered for it.
Still give them a shot this weekend. Penrith 9.5 point favourites is a laugh in a pro dogs crowd.
Think it has more to do with how they have all played the 2nd half of the year than any change. They dont have the juice anymore. Galvin would have been alot better if he got to play with those forwards when they were actually having a proper go and getting on top.
Not excusing Galvin because he has lost all his confidence and they can yap all they want to about how bailey hayward talks more and organises better lol that is a bald faced lie. Mahoney is a better defender and passer of the ball. That was the more egregious selection. They have lost alot of their mongrel once they treated mahoney how they did. They have taken the spark out of him emotionally and they have suffered for it.
Still give them a shot this weekend. Penrith 9.5 point favourites is a laugh in a pro dogs crowd.
