Sack Adam O’Brien

Grandpa Joe - Prev Lord said:
Expect everyone from Green to the tooth fairy to be named as our coach before one gets named.

Journo's just love plucking something out of thin air and hoping to fluke it.

Even I as a well know Obi supporter accepted he needed to go, sad but I just hope whoever they pick is the right fit for the club.

If Green gets the nod it's clear that we are totally a Moses controlled club.
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We have one player and two coaches (AOB and green) how is that a Moses controlled club?
 
The Justin Holbrook idea isn't a bad shout, before the titans he was quite successful in the SL, bear in mind that no one has really been successful at GC. He is a well established attacking coach and it's proven to score points, Brain McDermott already has our defence on lock, plus he's an ex Newy player so that might help in his favour.
My top 3 picks atm for head coach or at least some involvement are: Justin Holbrook, Willie Peters or John Morris.
 
Telegraph reporting he informed the players today that he's leaving, but will finish the season first. They also say Holbrook is the frontrunner to replace him.
 
EASBay17 said:
Barry toohey gave the impression its green clearly infront 🤷
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Was this his SEN interview (I didn’t get to listen with work)? As on Twitter he’s saying it will come down to whether they want experience or not with Green vs. Holbrook. He says Green has been the long-term succession plan but might be a bit early. Reading that I get the impression the board did want to give AOB more time next year but he might have brought that forward himself.
 
We sort of spoke about this over the weekend, but now in my opinion Geoff Coburn looks really foolish. He 100% didn’t have to make a comment defending AOB. I find it extremely unlikely that Sunday was the catalyst for a massive change that led the board to do a 180 and he had to go. It concerns me that the hierarchy at the Knights gets things so wrong.
 
Chaister said:
Was this his SEN interview (I didn’t get to listen with work)? As on Twitter he’s saying it will come down to whether they want experience or not with Green vs. Holbrook. He says Green has been the long-term succession plan but might be a bit early. Reading that I get the impression the board did want to give AOB more time next year but he might have brought that forward himself.
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It's Benji all over again. Geez we are amateur hour.
 
Good things about O'Brien

He was cheap

He changed the culture to a more professional one

He was very good at debuting young players, waiting till they were ready and preparing them well for the position he wanted them to play - in stark contrast to Brown who threw young guys into firstgrade well before they were ready and very often into positions they had never played and had no idea about.

bad things

He had never coached a team before and had no idea about game plans to win games. Nearly every good coach knew what we were going to do and had a gameplan to beat us.

I think he did his best work in his first 3 years and we should have replaced him after that.
 
waynesworld said:
We sort of spoke about this over the weekend, but now in my opinion Geoff Coburn looks really foolish. He 100% didn’t have to make a comment defending AOB. I find it extremely unlikely that Sunday was the catalyst for a massive change that led the board to do a 180 and he had to go. It concerns me that the hierarchy at the Knights gets things so wrong.
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Saying AOB was a great coach a few days before the Board will meet to formally approve his exit payment, makes him look foolish.
 
Curious why we would sack AOB now, with 2 games left…and not just say we will make an announcement at the end of the season.

Or do we announce he’s stepping down at the end of the season, in 2 weeks, and in the meantime carry on?

We get a caretaker for 2 games?

We get our next coach to get off to a 0-2 start?

Is it the principle?

2 away games left, so not appeasing the loyal fans that turn up to MJ Stadium and sit through the performance.

I guess the Titans had Hannay lined up. Presumably wanted to get him before us or anybody else.

Brandon Smith, Roosters and the Penrith peeps that leaked the team news must be pleased.
 
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