You honestly think Croft has that much influence? Considering Smith, Munster, Hughes and even k Bromwich had more TA's than Croft, Hughes pretty much had everything except kick meters on him.
How dare he lose to the best team money can buy, who are so good they went on to become back-to-back premiers.
Welcome aboard and good first post. Don’t worry about waiting until you have something sensible to say in future as no one else does. The fact is people are upset about our lack of success and so they are looking for a sure thing to lift us out of the shit but with the salary cap it just doesn’t exist. Croft is a good signing because his price makes him a good compromise. Ultimately it is up to Seibold and the players to work together to come up with a style of play that gets the best out of our squad. My personal opinion is that if our squad plays to it’s potential then we’ll be a premiership contender.
Maybe you should read more of my posts and then you would understand a little more, never said boyd was better just had more TA's and LBA 's. Also didn't say we should sign anyone else , just don't tell me he is our savior because he's far from it imo
So it took super coach till round 23 to figure out that Croft wasn't his guy. This smacks of a big FU to Croft probably because he told him he wanted out.
You could be right, but to say Croft was solely responsible for their 90% win rate and then their drop in form is bullshit.
You really trying to say Croft choked more then Ben Hunt?
It's pretty hard to keep a 90% win rate over that many games if the 7 isn't at least doing the basics well, even with Cam Smith in the side..
Croft will be our saviour.
I agree it's been mismanagement that's made his past few years challenging, and I'm not saying he hasn't been "good" but for the money he is on he definitely hasn't been great which is what you want when you spend big money on a marquee player.. and again his defence is horrible on a consistent basis so being just good in attack is not enough imo
Everyone says he's been "good" for us. The problem is he hasn't been $1 million fantastic for us; our highest paid player of all time good for us. For that kind of money we should expect him to direct the play, boss the opposition and basically be a leader. When he walks out on the field the crowd should erupt. His name isn't even coming up as a captaincy contender. That's how underwhelming he's been.
I'm not writing him off just yet but with a more clearly defined role this year expectations are going to be a lot higher, providing the forwards go forward and Croft/Dearden cover the basic 7 duties with some logical direction
Exactly, that top bracket of players need to preform at high level most of the time to justify the cap space taken up, the argument our spine has been chopped and changed, him having no other support in terms of playmaking, switching roles/coaches arguably holds some merit, now is the time though or I would l let him explore his options next contract.
