jezzer wrote:What's in our control is to have a top coaching setup to try to bring our player pool up to the level we need to be at to compete in Europe. Right now, we could hardly have done any worse a job since Joe left.
Of course we could. We could have kept MOC, honored his contract and kept on declining. We didn't. We replaced him, hired an inexperienced Irish coach, and have since improved. But let’s not let reality spoil the "were doomed and its all Leo's fault" narrative.
jezzer wrote:That's why people are pissed off. That's why we want coaching change, even if it hurts the feelings of the guy who should never have gotten the job.
Nahhhh "people" (whoever they are) want the brand. Preferably a foreign brand cause foreign coaches make the sun shine, the ball stick and the players run faster. If we get Dave Rennie we'll play like the Chief's. If he's not available get Tony Brown and we'll be the new Highlanders. Sure it has to be Leo's fault that were not playing like the Southern Hemisphere team's.
People need to relax a little, park their agenda's for a few months at least, and give the ex-club captain, the player that led us to 3 HEC triumphs and raised the cups on some of our greatest days, the next (and possibly final) year on his contract to see if he could possibly, maybe just maybe, do a decent job. If this year is a disaster, then we can all go after him (god knows we've had loads of practice), but lets at least give him the chance to f**k it up first?