Seibold inherited a shit squad, lets be honest. Judge him in 12-18 months time, when he can get his own squad together. If Wayne couldnt win a title with Boyd at 1 and Macca at 9 then how can Seibold?
Though I do agree that Seibold needs to make some harsh calls and drop a few players.
I had no real idea where this season would go at the outset and never hung a premiership as the benchmark. The team getting better as the year went on though was something I was hopeful for.
If this year has taught us anything though, it has not improved at all, if anything, we are worse than R1 - possibly though a lot of injury, but there is no general improvement in skill or dicipline of the team. Their defence is still rubbish, they look like they have for years, getting by on ability, not finding that extra 1-2% in hunger/heart/grit.
If Siebold is confident of his 5 year contract, he should have sacked Darius outright. Instead all we have seen this year are forced changes or sheepish reactions when people don't play well.
I was honestly pissed off when we didnt get Bellyache because if anything, at least he would give them a fking bollocking when they were underperforming and this group appear to need to have the riot act read to them.
I respect the moving on of Kodi and Roberts, in fact I even agree with them. I think he went weak at the knees with Darius though.
He also has not reigned in our forwards with the silly penalties, that just basic discipline (flops, late hits, high shots etc.) Aggression is one thing, but it needs to be aggression with a bit of intelligence. Silly penalties lose you close games.
Kick-offs going dead - it should NEVER happen at NRL level yet its something the broncs are good for at least for 5 a season - not sure if someone has the stats on who do it the most? It certainly feels like we do.
1 out's against teams like the storm DO NOT WORK and play directly into their game plan. Bennett I get - he is a traditionalist, but Siebold, CMON MAN.
