Kev’s End Of Season Mark 2022

[Inside pass]

Granted he reached early expectations, but that's only because we set them too low. Then we grew confidence and realized we had enough decent cattle to make the eight. Then somehow the wheels fell off. None of us can figure out why but the most obvious answer is the coach lost the dressing room.

 

[Inside pass]

Problem is ..we have churned so many coaches and Admin Staff AND players…but still the issue persists.
“Keep doing the same things but expect a different outcome” was that not a definition of madnesses.?
Really don’t know the answer and cannot offer an informed opinion until we identify the root causes.
Maybe just keep administering different medications hoping eventually one works..in the meantime your supporter base drifts away.

 

[Rookie Alan]

I gave him 0 and it’s not for his performance but the urgency we need move on.

Based on the poor ending performance, the sooner we start preparing for next season the better, and it always starts with a clear direction - who our coach will be

So sacking Kevin immediately is the most important thing to do but impossible ( we are a club caring progress, friendship, loyalty, anything more than success and winning )

 

[Kaz]

2.

He got that because I am trying to have some positives about his coaching.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

My initial assessment after the latest Parra game was a 5, but now I'm feeling more a 4. Ended the season on a piss poor note with plenty to play for and Kev's body language in the sheds left a lot to be desired.

It was destined to be a turnaround season for the team and the club.....Until it wasn't, and Kev has no choice but to shoulder the blame for disrupting a winning side with mindless selection choices outside of injuries, very poor bench use and generally speaking very little if any tactical input as a coach. If anything he fell into the same trap that the players have regularly fallen into in recent years: he got too comfortable with himself during the streak and didn't realize it until it was too late.

He already has a legacy at the club and he always will, but you can only judge what's in front of you, and as a coach he has left a lot to be desired. 6 more wins than last year is great......but we finished 14th last year. It really isn't that hard to improve on dogshit......Unless you're the Titans.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

if I were to sum up our season in a sentence, the bolded in my post above is perfect. "Plenty to play for". On two occasions in the past month this team has had a tonne that should have proven motivation enough to simply win, never mind slaughter the opposition, and they failed on both counts; the first was the Tigers game, when we went in with a chance to lock up a top 4 spot against the wooden spooners and blew it, bigtime. The second was last night, when our chances at making finals were still a thin hope, the only end of the bargain we needed to keep up was just to win. We failed at that too. How are we gonna feel this afternoon if the Tigers DO upset the Raiders?

It simply isn't good enough, and any team that is serious about winning premierships should never be in any doubt about the result in either case.

 

[Locky888]

3. Quite disappointing considering the amount of talent and depth this team is stacked with Vs the final position on the ladder. I think Kevvie fluked the winning streak with timely injuries to Turpin and Niu and lucky to have TMM as a fullback replacement. Sticking with Turpin til the end was his ultimate downfall.

 

[Swordfish]

I for one, I am profusely lost with his Team lists & use of bench.
Added to them, I do not see any gameplan & attacking structures.
The list will pile up but I want to stop here. I gave him a 4 & that’s it.

 

[Harry Sack]

Went with a 5 because I like sitting on the fence.

"Something" had this team firing there for a good chunk of the season, so clearly they were doing something right. Then "something" destroyed all of that good work. Problem is the coach and his staff seemingly couldn't work out what either of those things were, therefore getting the team back on track, which is extremely concerning. I think, as a lot of people have said, we red lined and just couldn't maintain that intensity. It's a long season and all of the best coaches talk about "timing" their run to the finals...the coaching staff have clearly got that timing wrong.

However, none of that explains the baffling selections and the frankly horrendous bench usage during games. Inexperience maybe? Not sure. Kev sits at a 5 for me as it stands, mainly for letting me enjoy watching the team there for a good chunk of the season and daring to believe. Something I haven't been able to do for years. Whether he stays at that will depend on what happens over the off season. As in, does he recognise the deficiencies within the squad and coaching ranks, where he went wrong personally and perhaps most importantly does he choose to make those changes himself, or do Ikin and DD have to overrule him?

 

[Kezza]

2.

So if you are going on previous seasons with a wooden spoon and then a 14th, really a 2? There's some dribble on these chats.

 

[Kaz]

There's some dribble on these chats.

Don't call your posts dribble.

 

[Midean]

I gave him a 5. He is a true Bronco.

He improved the side a lot after Seibold and obviously still has some improving to do.

 

[nopatience101]

I gave him 0 and it’s not for his performance but the urgency we need move on.

Based on the poor ending performance, the sooner we start preparing for next season the better, and it always starts with a clear direction - who our coach will be

So sacking Kevin immediately is the most important thing to do but impossible ( we are a club caring progress, friendship, loyalty, anything more than success and winning )

Kevvie was a stop gap to shut the old boys up, he was never a longer term solution.

 

[Super Freak]

2.

From 4th to 9th in 6 games. Conceding nearly 200 points during that period. It's unacceptable.

2022 was meant to be our redemption year and it was going that way, but that last 6 weeks has completely ruined the season. 2022 will forever be known as the season the Broncos produced the worst collapse in NRL history. And when you look at Kevvie in the press conferences, he doesn't have a clue on what caused it.

 

[heartly87]

I gave him a 2 this year because of the way we finished. I gave him a higher mark last year because we finished in a better state than when he took over. I feel a lot of the good selections ended up being forced this year, but his bad ones were on him. He didn't return players to the top squad, persisted with stinkers and dropped a guy like Mam in our last game of the year. You don't do that with spines this far into the season. I don't think Reynolds was happy with certain picks (Turpin, Nui) and our timing and combinations suffered. It came down to the spine not functioning again and that is the bottom line, Kev should have setteled on Paix, Walters, Reynolds, Mam and TMM. They should have returned to their spots as soon as they were ready. He also messed with the forward rotation and in a lot of instances left guys on the bench until the last 10 minutes, stunting their confidence. The big one for me was how Hetherington was completely ill used this year and even when he was showing promise in attack he was left riding pine the following week while James ran around doing nothing. To me guys looked pissed, they could have been pissed with the coach with Hass, at Walsh returning ect who knows what but they didn't look happy and Kev couldn't get them back because he hasn't looked happy either in the last month. The contrast to how the players looked from start of the year to mid year to end of year is staggering.

The biggest problem I have is I can't be excited about next year now.

 

[Skyblues87]

Kevvie was a stop gap to shut the old boys up, he was never a longer term solution.

100pct correct, also to steady the ship and undo Seibold damage. Don't think Ikin or DD believed for one minute that KW would take us to the promised land, you only have to look at the way his contract is structured. KW has succeded with what he was tasked to do. It will be up to the next coach to move us fwd.

 

[Kimlo]

So if you are going on previous seasons with a wooden spoon and then a 14th, really a 2? There's some dribble on these chats.

His 14th and his 9th. He's the Turpin of coaches, really shouldn't be in first grade but there's not much else available and he's a good clubman.

 

[tommy]

I gave him a 2 this year because of the way we finished. I gave him a higher mark last year because we finished in a better state than when he took over. I feel a lot of the good selections ended up being forced this year, but his bad ones were on him. He didn't return players to the top squad, persisted with stinkers and dropped a guy like Mam in our last game of the year. You don't do that with spines this far into the season. I don't think Reynolds was happy with certain picks (Turpin, Nui) and our timing and combinations suffered. It came down to the spine not functioning again and that is the bottom line, Kev should have setteled on Paix, Walters, Reynolds, Mam and TMM. They should have returned to their spots as soon as they were ready. He also messed with the forward rotation and in a lot of instances left guys on the bench until the last 10 minutes, stunting their confidence. The big one for me was how Hetherington was completely ill used this year and even when he was showing promise in attack he was left riding pine the following week while James ran around doing nothing. To me guys looked pissed, they could have been pissed with the coach with Hass, at Walsh returning ect who knows what but they didn't look happy and Kev couldn't get them back because he hasn't looked happy either in the last month. The contrast to how the players looked from start of the year to mid year to end of year is staggering.

The biggest problem I have is I can't be excited about next year now.

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