This is almost impossible to give a score for the season. Let's be honest, at the Parramatta game, he was looking a 7 or 8 on the scale. If we had of just faded out the year but were still competitive, he would have still ended at around a 6.
Now, let's be honest (and I know this is difficult), not all finals are created equal and literally any other NRL season, we are comfortably playing finals with our win/loss record, so that is probably still a 6 as he had a positive win/loss record.
Now here is where it gets murky because we didn't do lose out some tight ones to finish the season, we were absolutely BELTED, to the point we ended the season as bad as any time we played during the Seibold years. So this takes us down to a 1/2 on the scale.
Some of the issues earlier in the season reared their ugly heads again with the weird team selections, weird love for certain past it players, ignoring of certain talented, future written all over them players and insistence on sticking with guys who are completely busted in Reynolds, Capewell, Haas and Mam. Then we continue to omit guys we need in the side like Paix, Gamble and Piakura. However, while there are musical chairs in some scapegoat positions, the likes of Turpin, Walters, James, Staggs and Riki cannot do anything at all to get dropped. Let's not forget the awful bench usage which seemed much better mid-season coming back as just dumb in the back end. We are around 1 now.
However, there are issues with Haas and Staggs that I don't think any coach is going to be able to address and then this is coupled with our first and second choice in a number of positions all getting injured at the same time. Herbie going down was a nail in that concoction of everything that can go wrong going wrong, so we are back up at 3/4 now as there are mitigating factors.
Regardless, given the absolute train wreck the end of the season became, Kevvie cannot get a pass mark, it is just a matter of how far under par you want to score him. The main issue for me is that the problems with his coaching at the start of the season that seemed to be fixed midway through said season were back and even worse at the end. How the heck does that happen?
What a rollercoaster of a season!