Originally Posted by
Gray77
I’m not suggesting sacking him at all. Big clubs don’t sack coaches after 6 games, it would be ridiculous and no top coach would ever take a job here again if they thought they’d be booted out after 2 months.
I’ve already said that Woolf will be given time, and that is only right. I also have no problem whatseover with him sticking to his beliefs and trying to get the team to play the way he wants us to. No coach should bend their beliefs to suit an individual job, I’ve stated that earlier in the thread.
No, my issue is with the club giving him the job. He’s obviously looking at this job as a great shop window for the NRL. So was Justin it can be argued. But when coaches come here and do that it is right that we pick ones that believe in playing a certain way. In reality, only Holbrook of our last six appointments has actually believed in playing the game the way the majority like to see it played.
I worry when we keep appointing coaches that so clearly have a philosophy that we don’t agree with. The wrestling, the playing down the middle, the lack of off loads and the predictability of play is not something I want from Saints, and Woolf seems keen on that style of play. It’s even worse when we have seen how successful we can be by playing the game creatively.
So yes, he will be given time, and yes it’s only right that we allow him that. My problem isn’t with him, it’s with the club. When he leaves at the end of 2021 or 22 for an NRL job we will hopefully not have wasted more years by appointing a coach that didn’t really get what we want to see. We will be a 2 year memory for Woolf in 20 years, when he’s had an NRL career. This is our club, and I worry that we have left lots of trophies slip by over the last decade by appointing the wrong men.