Needs a very big hair cut on his current salary. I love Oatesy though and it’s almost a situation where I want him to stay because of who he is but want a better winger to be playing sort of situation. We all have a soft spot for Oatesy but sadly he currently has the mobility of a 40 year old and is starting to look very awkward and poor in a lot of areas of his game.
Nope... end of 2022
The Dolphins can have him, the grub.
I agree that Wayne won't care but the Dolphins management/board will be bothered about public perception. They are trying to build a competitive fan base from scratch and every article about them missing out on this target or that target (even if they weren't really targets) influences perception of those that read it and the potential fan base they are trying to develop.
Wayne may not, but the club will be, they have to satisfy potential sponsors & members. It hasn't been an ideal start.
They really won't. They have all been around the game long enough not to get carried away. I don't even know any Dolphins supporters who are overly concerned either.
As I just said, they just aren't. They are a club I'm really famiar with, know a lot of people there personally and I know heaps of Dolphins fans and they aren't concerned at the moment. They are disappointed they missed out on a couple of players, but that's about it. I think we will see a bit of concern if by about March they don't have a good core.
How will that work? They will have the basis of a decent side next year and a better one the year after. Wayne will be there unless something huge happens with him.
I’m sorry but they entered the wrong market if they thought it was going to be easy for there public image with a pack of greedy wolves for media up here. Every other club looks at all the monetary positives of being a one team town and envy what we have but are acting like we don’t give back a lot to the game in development, don’t have our fair share of difficulties and don’t earn most of our money through the Leagues club. To be fair we would be making a significant amount more than a lot of clubs due to memberships, scheduling on peak viewership times which would draw larger crowds but at the same time for 33-34 odd years we have been relied upon to produce and invest in 65% (used to be more) of Qld talent. Specifically, recently we haven’t reaped the rewards of it either. The issue with this market is nothing you do will ever keep the media at bay. Apart from maybe good recruitment and retention for a period but they just use that to manipulate there future stories when the team doesn’t live up to the media’s own hype “same old problems in new looking outfit”. You get the picture. Whilst I don’t like the dolphins trying to steal from us I at least like the club and I think if they want to succeed they have to put that hate and public perception to one side to deal with once the club has been around long enough to judge and compare properly and fairly in comparison to others.
Oates, Tupin and Farnworth are a chance and I hope not but they may offer Cobbo a big deal
Oates and Turpin maybe, but I can’t see the club letting Farnworth or Cobbo go.
Even Alex Ferguson and Jack Gibson knew it was time. He's kidding himself if he can last three years. He'll scrape a squad together for 2023, be competitive in 2024 and fall short and only have one year to fix it. It's a disaster of a decision.
Thats just rubbish. For a start, Wayne is in much better health than either of those two at the same age. Not even comparable really. You are just picking out a couple of blokes who coached for a long time. Every individual is different. Some people have had enough at certain stages, others haven't. Wayne's clearly still a quality coach and feels he has more to give. How long that lasts we will see.
He will be 73 i think before he coaches a game for them and 76 before his last i dont think it is unreasonable to wonder if he will be up for it in the immediate future.
