Someone please call a Waaaaambulance, people are picking on the messiah!
I say wrong. WB is dodging the obvious. He absolutely did nothing to improve our spine while he was here. One could argue the Spine he inherited from hook was far superior to the one he left Seibs and in fact the team he inherited from Hook was also far superior and still we lost a GF and then steadily declined from there. We had Thaiday and Glenn covering hooker when macca got injured, we had one aging fullback with no succession planning. Our 5/8 had 3 halfs partners who all copped the blame for the pairs poor performances. Our young half back was just gifted to the Titans and we were left with Knick/milf combo, that was diabolical.
Everyone and their dog knows it was our spine that needed fixing when Seibs came in. He attempted to have Knick move to the hooking role but he spat the dummy and was allowed to go to the Warriors (nobody in the media is being honest about this now, it was his choice). There was also three horrendous contracts in the spine being Boyd, Milf and Macca's. All to long and overpriced. This is our biggest issue still, we have poor fullback stock, poor hooker stock and our halfs can't direct a game or call shot. This is nothing new, go back and look at old threads pertaining to our halfs. It has been an issue since 2017 late 16. The Broncos were relying on individuals to win games for a long time, apart from 2015-16 our spine has been bog average with creating and finishing.
The whole this club has 12 internationals and Origin players is total crap, claiming people who have had one game at Origin level or play at 18-19 for tier 2 international teams is a straw man and Wayne knows it. It is key positions that matter and when you have 30-40% of your cap tied up in injured, under performing and over the hill players you have major issues.
Stop talking sense mate... it is obvious old fox WB isn't to blame for anything.
He didn't bring Boyd to the club when we had zero need of a Fullback. We only had Barba, Kahu, Jayden Nikorima, Kodi Nikorima and Anthony Milford on the books.
He didn't move on the only decent Halfback we had (Taylor) in favour of a combination of two running halves incapable of organising a root in a brothel.
He didn't fail to create a game plan able to take advantage of the players on the roster once Walters left, except for the famous overlap play where Boyd excelled until the rot started setting in in 2017.
He didn't further let Ben Barba, Ben Hunt, Jayden Nikorima, Jake Granville and Matt Parcell go, to ensure we remained with a dreadful spine spine of Darius Boyd, Anthony Milford, Kodi Nikorima, Andrew McCullough and virtually no capable backup besides "glass" Kahu.
He didn't fail to get Ashley Taylor back to the club, despite the implied promise at the time the youngster left to the Tits.
He didn't then get an injured Jack Bird (arguably not his fault, although questionable whether he was aware of his medical history) when it was clear to everyone we needed an organising half.
He had zero responsibility in the lengthy contracts offered to an ageing Boyd, said "glass" Kahu, and a mediocre hooker in Andrew McCullough.
He didn't fail to make a dent in any finals after 2015, which relative success was probably nothing more than a combination of Hook's roster, Walters halves coaching and the retirement of a highly charismatic player in Justin Hodges.
He didn't preside over a progressive decline at the Broncos in terms of culture, results that mattered, and football on the field.
None of this happened of course. Seibold did not inherit a squad of unproven (yet talented) young players led by a dud spine and surrounded by dead wood on huge contracts. Everyone knew it was a Top 4 guaranteed roster... ROFL!
That said, the whole sacking and recruitment of a new coach was a failure from all sides. Perhaps the board didn't expect such resistance to the football management offer they gave Bennett. Perhaps everyone should've tried a bit harder, but I suspect WB being intransigent in wanting to coach the rest of his contract forced the board's hand into giving the decorated man a shameful sack.
As I said before, I am really happy we excised the huge tumour from the club, although the chemotherapy seems to be making us deathly sick.
While all the above, the rule changes and the never ending injury/suspension list are obviously pretty big reasons for the current state of affairs, Seibold is currently demonstrating that he doesn't look like he is up to the mammoth task of getting us on track.
I never expected great results, but I did and do want to see progress and improvement, and that's not happening. He is definitely on very thin ice and something needs to change if he wants to save his career... or we'll have to swallow a very bitter bill paying out his contract to get someone else who might hopefully be better. SOS Hook?