THE COACH Poll: Should Kevin Walters be sacked?

[rnabokov]

To be fair we are good in small patches. We do have a team of committed guys but I just don't think we've balanced the team as well as we can. We should be looking at playing to what strength we have, namely the forwards.

We can start with a simple forward based strategy. I'd have Lodge Turpin Flegler start with TPJ and Wiki and Carrigan at lock. After twenty I'd relieve Lodge and Flegler with Haas and Kennedy. We'd have a choice of Glenn, Te'o, Bullemor, Asiata, Palasia to rotate the second row.

I'd even give some thought to starting with maximum thrust and have Haas partner TPJ in the second row and use the four gorillas as battering rams. One of those four would get a quick ptb in for sure. I think we lose punch when Haas isn't relieved up front.

In reality, any combination of those four will work as long as Haas doesn't stay out there. We need to use up the go forward of a basic prop like Kennedy and the slightly overpaid Flegler. Instead of late cameos or lightweight benches we should be using our big guys better.

I like it. Haas running wide running off our halves at theirs would mean tries galore. Anyway, he is largely wasted the way Kevvie uses him. Instead of a genuine strike player, Haas is used too much like a work horse. His quality demands support runners, and yet he gets none. What a waste.

 

[Galah]

I’ve said it before on here, I wish they would just put haas on the edge. He’s got mad footwork he’s the same size as kikau, he’s fast, big motor and he’s also not really a big momentum stopper in defence. Honestly edge seems like a good spot for him.

 

[rnabokov]

I’ve said it before on here, I wish they would just put haas on the edge. He’s got mad footwork he’s the same size as kikau, he’s fast, big motor and he’s also not really a big momentum stopper in defence. Honestly edge seems like a good spot for him.

Amen

 

[Mustafur]

I’ve said it before on here, I wish they would just put haas on the edge. He’s got mad footwork he’s the same size as kikau, he’s fast, big motor and he’s also not really a big momentum stopper in defence. Honestly edge seems like a good spot for him.

I agree completely been saying this for awhile, Haas is a special unit and special units play 2nd row or lock as far as I'm concerned, have Lodge and Carrigan as props, Haas has the footwork and speed of a 2nd rower that blows away the outside line.

Way too naturally skilled to be a Prop.

 

[Huge]

I agree completely been saying this for awhile, Haas is a special unit and special units play 2nd row or lock as far as I'm concerned, have Lodge and Carrigan as props, Haas has the footwork and speed of a 2nd rower that blows away the outside line.

Way too naturally skilled to be a Prop.

I don't think Carrigan should be playing prop for at least a few years. If I had my way I'd have Haas and TPJ in the second row and Cariigan at lock. I'd start Lodge and Kennedy or Flegler. We have 7 props and two of them, Haas and TPJ shouldn't be used to start and are so much more useful when they aren't tucking the ball under the wing.

 

[Cult]

Walters was the perfect coach to bring in as the man manager, if he surrounded himself with the right assistants. Unfortunately he hasn’t done that. Michael Hagan and Matthew Elliott were the obvious choices to deal with the technical stuff, along with Justin Hodges as the disciplinarian. But the club was never going to improve until we fix the back office.

The newspaper that apparently runs us should be hyping us as “Queensland’s Team” every week and pushing to “Bring Our Boys Home” in regards to Kurt Capewell, DCE, Kalyn Ponga, Sam Walker etc.. We should also look at replacing the board so we can bring Bennett back as a coaching director/recruitment officer, anything as long as he’s involved with the club.

 

[Cult]

I’d also be trying to get Ben Walker involved in the club somehow. He’s an old boy, tell him to come in for a few days a week to help with the creative side or halves coach or something. If it seems to be working offer him an assistant job, for obvious reasons.

 

[rnabokov]

I agree completely been saying this for awhile, Haas is a special unit and special units play 2nd row or lock as far as I'm concerned, have Lodge and Carrigan as props, Haas has the footwork and speed of a 2nd rower that blows away the outside line.

Way too naturally skilled to be a Prop.

... and overused as a simple battering ram without any support runners. Haas would create absolute havoc on the edge.

 

[Foordy]

in the first 7 weeks, we will have played 5 games against the likely top 4 ... fucking hard to rebuild with that sort of confidence sapping draw.

by round 14, we will have played the Storm, Eels and Titans twice each ... WTF

 

[rnabokov]

in the first 7 weeks, we will have played 5 games against the likely top 4 ... fucking hard to rebuild with that sort of confidence sapping draw.

by round 14, we will have played the Storm, Eels and Titans twice each ... WTF

Meh. It's good practice for the finals

 

[BruiserMk1]

... and overused as a simple battering ram without any support runners. Haas would create absolute havoc on the edge.

Plus our FB should be up there supporting those runs mate.

 

[Huge]

Plus our FB should be up there supporting those runs mate.

Think he would be...if they were happening!

 

[Sproj]

in the first 7 weeks, we will have played 5 games against the likely top 4 ... fucking hard to rebuild with that sort of confidence sapping draw.

by round 14, we will have played the Storm, Eels and Titans twice each ... WTF

This is one of the things that ticks me off about Vlandys. He talks like clubs like the Broncos should just fix up their own errors, which is true, but then look at the draw, how can it be so lopsided? How can a draw like that be totally 'random'? If you are going to act like an arrogant clueless idiot, at least don't try to hide it I guess and in fairness to him, he isn't trying to hide it.

 

[theshed]

Praise where it is due. If the alleged team changes are true then I may not like how he’s got to this point but it is some good decisions. Kev’s next month will be very telling. I hope he sticks to his guns.

 

[Jason Simmons]

According to Kevvie in the presser, Teo had a bit of a knock but all good, he'll be right to go next week.

Two days later on NRL.com, Ben Teo out for 12 weeks.

So...our medicos at it again?

I think Kevvie hasn’t learned yet that he needs to speak in broader generalities than he has been in his pressers, so he doesn’t get nailed on this stuff.

Te’o had to go for scans at QScan the following day, before they determined it was a partial tendon rupture, not a bicep muscle tear. There is no medico who is going to state specifically what an injury is to Kev, in the minutes between the game and the presser with any degree of certainty until scans have been conducted and interpreted...

Te’o requires surgery on that injured biceps tendon, which is why he is out for 12 weeks. But that was confirmed only after a specialist had reviewed the scans.

Kev accordingly should learn the art of saying things which mean absolutely nothing, until he knows for sure. ‘Te’o copped a bit of a knock and we’re sending him for scans tomorrow and we’ll know then’ would be perfectly acceptable and truthful.

His comment about Milford playing his best game of the season in his view and then dropping him (*reportedly) was similarly poorly thought through. How did you view Milford’s game tonight? ‘I thought he defended better, but there are still areas in which he and the rest of the team need to improve...’

Again perfectly acceptable and obviously truthful...

 

[Waynesaurus]

I'm certainly not ready to sack Kev yet, at this point I'm trying not to read too much into what we are hearing or not hearing from the friggin media. I'm just hanging on for the ride each week and seeing where we end up at the end of the season.

 

[theshed]

Great moves by Kev this week. Finally drawn a line in the sand.

Interested to see what he does next when the replacements are just as bad as the guys that were dropped but it had to be done.

 

[Big Pete]

I hope it works out for Walters, but dropping players is the easy part. Whether it actually fixes the issue remains to be seen and so far you'd have to say his management of the halves has been diabolical.