2020 NRL Season

Surely he'll never get another job coaching league again. Surely.

 

Can't wait to see their next coach. I bet they pick David Kidwell haha. Isaac Luke will probably be after that.

 

Dire.

 

We are 2-2 since covid

Our CEO is mentally retarded and believes we can win the comp with our current guys if we "try harder"
He says that the key reason we finished 13th last year instead of the top 4 is that the guys didn't commit at training or try hard enough on the field.

He made a fuckwit speech around christmas time telling the players we could win the comp and show the whole world if we pulled finger. And my favourite quote of the speech was how he ended it.
"So I am asking you all to try harder. Now I don't think that is too much to ask now is it?"

Complete tool.

So I would say Kearney got fired because we aren't on track to make the 8 at this stage and Cameron George believes we can still win the grand final if we act now.

The past month have been Kearney's finest work. He has made inspired team selection decisions including very brave decisions to sit incumbent players like Isaiah Papali'i out even though they weren't making any errors.

Todd Payten his current assistant is the replacement Interim coach. It raised eyebrows when he came to the Warriors or at least it raised mine as he was overqualified to be an assistant coach to Kearney. So maybe there was a back room lobbying and ambition from Payten.

"Hey Cameron, I can get the Warriors into the top eight, why not give me a go" but said in much more sleek fashion.

Payten performance since coming to the Warriors has been horse shit. He was a prop in his playing days but unfathomably agreed to be offensive coach. The first two games of this season we scored zero points followed by 6 points in the next.

Kearney was a great coach at coaching great players and hence he was doing better recently as the warriors through the recruiting efforts of Peter O'Sullivan have suddenly a decent squad. IMHO they have the second most exciting group of forward prospects/upside potential, behind Broncos, in the NRL, this meant he suddenly was able to more clearly discern the best starting line up to play.
On the other side of the coin, Kearney's major weakness is his inability to pick the better player out of two mediocre choices and will usually go with the guy who trains hard and has a can do attitude. Even though this paradigm leads him to picking a midget and prank player like Jazz Tevanga consistently in his starting line up and resigning him for 3 years.

There is no sense to firing him now, however there was no sense to keeping him on this season either. In the end justice has been done on someone who has no place coaching in the NRL since each squad does have mediocre players. He does have a future at international level and would be happy to have him back for the Kiwis.

Thanks for your service Stephen.

 

AFL player has tested positive to covid so we'll get to see how that plays out. Might want to get the Storm out of Melbourne asap.