Player favoritism has always been his specialty. He persists with some of the most bogg standard and useless players the game has and will see. Stu Kelly is an example of the old man losing his marbles.
And if it is just one guy, yeah you can live with it but currently it is:
Boyd
Sims
Thaiday
Milf
KNik
Gillett
Now Gillett you can understand, he will come good no doubt and you could argue the same for Milf but as much of a fan as I am of Kodi, he needs to step up in the next month or the experiment is over. 8 - 10 rounds is a fair chance.
But Boyd has been rubbish and a HORRIBLE captain since halfway through 2016, that's really bad. Thaiday is three seasons past it and should have been made to retire last year, he needs to be dropped which is so sad given he has been a wonderful player for this club. Sims has just turned out to be as average as he was at Newcastle. Had so many high hopes for this guy, his ceiling (as people like to use these days) is high but his floor is so low and he spends way too much time down there.
A lot of the retention decisions really need to be explained by the old bloke.
Bring in Bird? Really? What benefit is he to this side? Even Pearce would have had more value to this side than Bird (and yes, I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to have egg on my face). Either of Pearce or Taylor could have been bought for his money and this side would be immensely better already I'm sure. But even if not, Benji was already here and reportedly only wanted an extra 100k, sheesh.
And just think - we could easily have moved on Thaiday / Sims / even Glenn and had retained Wallace and Arrow, EASILY. This decision is one of the worst the club has made, right up there with sticking with Glenn over Te'o those years ago.
And let's not even get into the absolutely mind-boggling decision to re-sign Boyd on such a ridiculously high and long-term deal.
This side was realistic and it is hard to see how it would have been worse by any means:
1. KNik
2. Kahu
3. Roberts
4. Oppa
5. Isaako
6. Milf
7. Benji / Pearce / Taylor
8. McGuire
9. Macca
10. Wallace
11. TPJ
12. Gillett
13. Arrow (c)
14. Oates
15. Joffa
16. Su'a
17. Lodge
Extras: Haas, Taga, Carrigan, Flegler, Fifita
That said, something like this could still happen this year if Wayne is willing to bite the bullet in the next few rounds.