The Era of Hook

[1910]

You'll have to speculate forever; no go tomorrow now.

 

[Rally Towel]

Definitely Dunamis Lui. Or Scott Anderson.

 

[Cult]

I think it's about Hook showing up for an interview as a janitor and going into the coaching interview room accidentally and never telling anyone.

 

[Splinter]

Tweet was deleted I see

 

[Morkel]

I think it's about Hook showing up for an interview as a janitor and going into the coaching interview room accidentally and never telling anyone.

Makes sense. Everyone got so excited when he spoke about the "new broom" he wanted to sweep through the place.

 

[Morkel]

Now I'm thinking of all the conversations and press conferences that we totally misinterpreted.

Quote: "The effort's there. They just need to clean a few things up and they'll be where they need to be"
What we thought it meant: The Broncos were in the game for 75 minutes but errors proved costly.
What it actually was about: The crew got held up by a crate of spilled hot dogs and were late to the post-game cleanup.

Quote: "5-8? You can start out the back and once you've cleaned up a few bombs we'll discuss it further".
What we thought it meant: Discussion with Corey Norman on where his best place in the team is.
What it actually was about: Corey Norman only wanted to do a 3 hour shift on lavatory duties and Hook would not hear of it.

 

[abashii]

You're all way off target. It was going to be Barba alleging that Hook was replacing his Jenny Craig diet shakes with Mickey Ds finest thickshakes. Deceit and lies with a side of french fries.

 

[lynx000]

I wonder if the story got pulled based on legal advice??

 

[1910]

I wonder if the story got pulled based on legal advice??

Correct.

 

[heartly87]

This time last year we had only won four games to start the season. We would only go on to win another 8. We won less then 50% and still stumbled into the finals. Looking back I really believe we had a solid outfit that just were not turning up each week, our form was all over the place, we thrashed teams and then got beaten by them, we lost a lot of tight games that we are winning this year. I stand by the thoughts of my original post the era of hook had to be beaten out of this team, and wayne has done this by giving the ultimatum and making no position set in stone. He new he had to set a bench mark and chose Thaiday, very strategic, a player the unit all respects, the symbolic leader benched. Vidot being dropped and now Copely. Complacency and poor form are not being blamed on the bounce of the ball or rub of the green, with wayne it seems there are no excuses. I respect this, we may not all agree on who the axe needs fall but at least the axe will and has fallen.

 

[vertigo]

Shitting on your former coach publicly reflects poorly on you and going off that it's probably players no longer at the club. I guess the Broncos had just as much say in nipping this in the bud.

Like the Seinfeld saying goes - that's not going to be good for business. That's not going to be good for anybody.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Broncos ‘made me a better player’ says Penrith skipper Wallace

Skipper Peter Wallace at Penrith training will miss this weekend’s match against his old club Brisbane. Source: News Corp Australia



Penrith captain Peter Wallace has opened up on his departure from the Broncos, revealing current Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett and former skipper Darren Lockyer played a pivotal role in facilitating his move to the Panthers after an ugly fallout with then coach Anthony Griffin.

Speaking almost 18 months after being told he wasn’t wanted at Red Hill, a philosophical Wallace praised Brisbane for helping make him the player and person he is today.
But he was less complimentary about Griffin who, he said, misled him about his position within the squad.
As was the case with Dane Gagai, Josh Hoffman and Corey Norman, Wallace insisted his greatest frustration was not being told he was no longer wanted but rather the manner in which it occurred, which he felt appeared to be designed to force the hardworking halfback to quit.
“I said it at the time I was given an assurance I was part of the club’s plans going forward,” Wallace recalled this week. “They were the coach’s words and it was on that basis I knocked back two big offers to leave.
“Six weeks later I was sat down and told I wasn’t part of the plans and that if I stayed I would be playing Queensland Cup.
“And the most frustrating part was the fact he (Griffin) continued to come out publicly and say he hadn’t said that.
“If I wasn’t wanted, all I expected was someone to say, ‘Pete it’s been a pleasure but we are going in a different direction’.
“I have seen Wayne and Ivan (Cleary) in similar situations. They own those decisions and never leave their players second-guessing them because they know how destabilising that is.
“It is no secret I felt let down, not so much by the decision but rather the dishonest way it was presented. I wasn’t the only player who copped it and I have said it before it wasn’t the way I knew the Broncos to do business.
“There were too many lies being told publicly and behind closed doors and that just fosters a culture of distrust.
“Seeing how great coaches like Ivan and Wayne can get a group of young men to follow them ... it relies completely on trust. And that just wasn’t there between the players and the coach in my last couple of years at Brisbane.”
Still, Wallace was adamant his time at Brisbane was the making of him as a player and a person and admitted the way things had panned out since his departure was “pretty incredible”.
With recommendations from Bennett and Lockyer, Penrith’s general manager of football, Phil Gould, offered Wallace a deal similar in value to the one he had knocked back six weeks prior to his meeting with Griffin.
The move allowed him to return “home” to be close to his mother, who was, at the time recovering from a serious illness. It also allowed him to rejoin the club he had supported as a child and take on a leadership role, in which he has thrived.
“It is amazing how things have worked out and certainly time has given me better perspective. I loved my time at Brisbane,” he said. “The Broncos are a fantastic club and not only helped me become a better player but, really, that’s where I became a man.
“I have talked about Locky’s influence on my career and I have just tried to take those lessons on board and use them to help me be a better player and captain.”
Wallace said he was disappointed to be missing tonight’s meeting with the Broncos, but said he had little doubt that should his Panthers reach the finals his former club would be there too.
“They are flying but it is such a Wayne situation. How can you be on top of the table and still flying under the radar for the most part?” Wallace said with a laugh.
“And throw in the fact that probably their best attacking weapon is just coming back into the side this week in Darius (Boyd), if they stay healthy I have no doubt they will be there when you have the team playing off for a spot in the grand final.
“They are playing old-school Broncos footy.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...-skipper-wallace/story-fnca0von-1227344102799

 

[Old Mate]

You legend Pete.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Sorry, but if Wallace was serious about being in the clubs future plans, he shouldn't have stagnated as a player

 

[john1420]

All class from Pete W, well done

And confirms some of the thinking about Hook too

 

[Huge]

I applauded his signing and although I didn't believe he was a superstar I always thought he was a determined competitor. He gave his heart and soul to the club and tried his guts out. I think I wrote a big thank you when he left and nothing he is quoted as saying detracts from my opinion of him. We went 6 seasons too long without WB ha ha..