Madmya wrote:I'd personally much rather Hook than Tooves. Hook with Gould will be good, Tooves is too matey with the players I reckon. Plus, I think this is one of those times where you just have to think Gus knows what he's doing.
But I don't buy the story Gus put out. Something happened.
Paul Kent thinks Gus has handled the situation well and that it's his reaction to Ivan Cleary heading back to the Warriors in 2017, if not earlier. There were rumours circulating a few months ago that we would be releasing him for him to coach at the Warriors in 2016. But both clubs and Ivan denied them back then.
Not really upset at losing Ivan. He's a good coach, but he's still a bit stubborn and really the only thing he has done well is get the team to perform well even with injuries. He hasn't made the call to drop players, injury has hit shit players and he had no other choice but to debut players when it happened.
ie. 2013, Dean Whare was our first choice fullback. Wes Naiqama was one of our centres. Both players sucked in their positions and so he just swapped them around. Dean Whare was an absolute gun at centre. But Wes Naiqama was still shit. He was then injured and Matt Moylan was called up into first grade. Prior to that he was told he wasn't likely to feature in the team. He kills it and suddenly we realise we need to keep him, but he wasn't even in our top 25 and couldn't be picked when Naiqama was fit.
Cleary also let Blake Austin go after sticking by Burns and Walsh in the halves. If Hook comes in and moves Moylan to the halves, drops Wallace from the team altogether and maybe uses Te Maire Martin on the bench like he did Hunt at first I will be stoked.