Whilst I don't think I'm entirely with you in saying this isn't Seibold's squad yet, I do to an extent agree that he's been very unlucky with injuries. He's also definitely been hamstrung by some pretty awful contracts handed out to our highest paid players that were in place long before he got here and unfortunately won't be going away until probably after 2021 at the earliest.
Brodie Croft at the 11th hour in a plea deal with Melbourne was hardly a marquee signing, so it remains to really be seen what he could do with some funds freed up and the ability to properly go to market - and there is a LOT of money freed up for whoever is Coachign us after 2021. I'd say the Broncos job will be a pretty good place to be for whoever is the Coach at that point.
The point about Bennett is spot on though. The club was thrashed by the Dragons in the finals in 2018 and thrashed by Melbourne in the finals in 2017, Seibold was just the third instalment in that sorry act in 2019. The club was treading water with Bennett and by and large it hard stopped going forward.
That doesn't mean I think Seibold is the answer and I accept that we're churning up worse results more often now than we did under Bennett, but I still maintain we made the right call to move on at the time, we just missed the point of it all in not replacing him with the best in the business in Bellamy.
But it's seems like this blood letting of the roster was on the cards regardless of who came into coaching.
Would Bennett have been able to oversee releasing of a number of players?
Likely Roberts and Sua stay and Maguire probably goes still anyway, but would he have been able to make the call on Kodi, Macca, Kahu and co... our cap is in a mess even with all the players that have been let go so anyone that would've stayed would have cost us one of the juniors
Would Bellamy want to come in and oversee a changeover like we have seen and potentially tarnish his legacy??
Would Kevvie have been able to make the hard call on letting players go??
Would Madge have been happy to let all these players go and start with a baby roster??
He was looking to rebuild his brand after being sacked by Souths, but it sounds like the admin are having a pretty heavy say in the turnover of the roster that we are seeing... I'd imagine Madge would've wanted to retain some of the senior talent to have experience available, but may not have had the choice.
I think the only coach that would be capable of overseeing the kind of roster turnover that occurred and bring through the juniors as a force in the NRL would have been Robertson, but he's just not available
I think Seibold may have been a little naive in regards to the job ahead, but he was provided with an opportunity to set this team up for long term gains provided he was happy to do it with a young squad.
