Sack Griffin/New Coach Discussion

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The Walker brothers should be our coaches!
 
I bleed Maroon said:
Is Walters deal with Newcastle only for one year?

Either way, it's a much better setup then what we've got currently. Keep the fitness coach from the Storm, offload all the rest including Hook and let Benny bring in his own people.
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Yeah its just a one year deal for Kev, hoping its just the start of a long term partnership at the broncos.
 
Foordy said:
why do people think that just because we are the richest league club we can sign any player we want ... we still have to abide by a salary cap. we can't pay more for our players than the poorest club can...

In the case of Thurston and Cronk, they both reportedly turned down massive offers to stay at their clubs. Thurston reportedly turned down around 1.3 million and Cronk around 800k (before the cap raised significantly). What makes anyone think we were a chance unless we offered more than that and that would have stuffed us anyway.
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pretty sure if there was no salary cap in the NRL you'd have 75% of the current Australian team playing for the Broncos ...
 
Bull Shark said:
pretty sure if there was no salary cap in the NRL you'd have 75% of the current Australian team playing for the Broncos ...
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75% might be a bit generous but it would certainly be impressive how many rep player we would be sporting, but its not like our club isn't used to that :rofl:
 
Definitely taxi and i think hala did actually play q cup as well. I don't actually think the problem was their fitness i think it was that none of them bar hala were actually nrl standard and left us extremely vulnerable defensively. Dodds got decent minutes. I think their short minutes were due to depth rather than mismanagement of bench. I don't think we could afford to have them on for longer than ten minutes. You might have noticed when dodds hit form he moved thaiday to the second row and he was using the bench more sensibly.
 
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...-anthony-griffin/story-fniabm4i-1226800071497

THEY say when you point the finger at someone else there are three fingers pointing back at you.

Unless, of course, you are Anthony Griffin.

In the wake of Brisbane's worst season in club history the Broncos head coach was given more resources and more power, the board effectively handing him just enough rope to either climb the NRL ladder or hang himself.

As such Griffin has implemented radical change.

He's fired bullets through every department that could possible fall under his jurisdiction - except, that is, to his own coaching team.

Look at all the people who have been fired or personnel changes, and the coaching team is the one area that remains completely untouched with Stephen Kearney and Kristian Woolf back for 2014.

The clean-out has been so widespread that it has been joked that the only people still left at the Broncos are the ones who have keys to the closet hiding all the skeletons.

After 2013 the team needed a full and thorough review, as they did in 2010.

Did the board do their own independent due diligence or was it just the coach who investigated what went wrong?

If so, it's intriguing to everyone external of the club to see that the coaching structure is no different.

Are fans to assume the coaches were faultless last year? That the issue was talent level in the team, the leadership of skipper Sam Thaiday, who was told he should step down, and the fact recruitment was non-existent.

Because when you look at the player changes, it's unlike any in club history.

A new fullback in Ben Barba, a new halves pairing, a new front rower, plus more depth in the back row and outside backs.

The only position not replaced is hooker, although Andrew McCullough would realise he is next once Cameron Smith agrees to join the club for 2015.

So in terms of playing personnel Griffin has hit every perceived weakness, which on paper appears to be every position.

But that is the duty of the coach, to make his team stronger at all costs.

Cuts to his staff were just as brutal.

Media manager James Hinchey, Griffin's third in three seasons, was shown the door and an internal candidate refused the offer late last year to step into the most delicate role at the club.

Head trainer Tony Guilfoyle has also gone.

But has Griffin admitted his errors?

Like how the recruitment of Scott Prince backfired, unsettling team morale particularly in the halves.

Or using players out of position, like Thaiday in the front row.

How must Thaiday feel now that his 2013 form, playing in the middle instead of on the edges where he stars for Australia, was why the coach wanted him to give up the captaincy.

While it is often said the coach is the first to go when things turn bad, it's clear Griffin was closer to the back of that queue than the front.

Putting greater faith in the coach has defied common practice, a luxury usually only afforded to the greats, but you can only wallpaper over so many cracks.

But what if the problem at the Broncos wasn't just fitness or personnel?

What if the issue was game plan and strategy?

Talk among rivals last year was Brisbane had become predictable. A leading Souths player once boasted to a gathering backstage that his team could defend the Broncos with their eyes shut.

The Bunnies knew what was coming every time because they had their reserve grade team run the plays at them during the week in training.

Has someone taken responsibility for the tactical deficiency at the Broncos?

Last year the attack was one of the most impotent in club history and the defence deteriorated to levels not seen in decades.

Was that all the players' fault or were they merely following instruction from the coaches?

The big fear for every Broncos fan after an off-season of upheaval is that bigger, fitter, faster and better players may not be enough.

That a player like Barba will be forced to grind and feel constricted by Brisbane's structure.

New captains, new conditioners and new conduits won't mean anything if there are not new ideas coming from the top.

The cattle can only go as far as the shepherds are capable of leading them.
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A source close to Souths quoted "it is not hard to see Broncos and Maguire are a perfect fit" from IPad edition of CM
They are definitely thinking they could lose him to Broncos
 
Splinter said:
A source close to Souths quoted "it is not hard to see Broncos and Maguire are a perfect fit" from IPad edition of CM
They are definitely thinking they could lose him to Broncos
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Didn't Maguire just sign on for 3 more years?
 
There was talk there was a deal coming, but nothing signed.
 
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