Drone

all you do is re-publish my posts....the ones that apparently bore you. Keep up the good work

Bring back Joey.....park footie, park footie coach park footie venue

That would be the Joey Grima, assistance coach at Parramatta, Cronulla and St George? Park footie coach?

. Keep up the good work





SL. Played 16, Lost 15 won 1
Friendly P 3 Lost 3
Championship P 3 Lost 2 Won 1

Total 22 games and 2 wins.

And I'm sure that if you pop down and let the Warriors under-20's coach know he's a park footie coach he'll be OK with that - which is what Joey was primarily doing as I understand it. I also believe he was recommended by Jamie Soward. I know he inherited a scratch squad with no pre-season in SL, which I doubt Wayne Bennett could have done a lot with. As a note, we beat Skolars in the friendly, so 1 from 3.

Joey did seem to be out of his depth. To be fair he inherited a squad in SL that was full of talent but thrown together at the last minute so had missed pre season fitness and skills training.

On the flip side some people are good at being assistants (coaches) and struggle with the step up to head coach where you pick up additional duties including managing a number of coaches, press conferences, contract issues, interacting with the club board, creating a club culture and tone...........

He was a nice guy with a high moral standing and probably a very good choice to work with youngsters.

Of course you put it down to Steve Devonshire, but that says nothing about who at the club interacts with the fans, and everything about how you interact with the club. Your relationship is an entirely virtual one, so you will only see the interaction via electronic media. You will claim to be able to comment on the match day experience because you read match reports and watch highlights. But they won't tell you who was out on the pitch after the game encouraging players to walk over and acknowledge the fans after many years of that not happening. They won't tell you was encouraging the players to come into the bar to talk and engage with the fans after several years of that not happening. And let me give you a clue, it wasn't Steve Devonshire and it wasn't a cabbage, it was Joey.
So of course when you realise you're out of your depth you resort to deflection tactics. Because "let's agree to disagree" actually means "of damn it, I can't really argue about how people behave on matchday because I'm not there"

I reserved judgement on his coaching abilities because he wasn't there long enough. And I still reserve judgement.

And so we get to your latest obsession, that we are all a cosy little clique with David Hughes. I'll repeat what I said before, which you deliberately ignored because it was inconvenient. David Hughes doesn't come in the bar. He has no idea who I am. He has no idea who most of the membership holders are. If we didn't have Broncos shirts on he'd probably assume we were involved with Barnet FC.

So I talk about who helped re-engage with the fans, and you go back to talking about who stopped it in the first place. Let me spell this out for you. We know who stopped the engagement with the fans. WE WERE THERE. WE SAW IT WITH OUR OWN EYES. Repeating it ad infinitum informs no-one and will change nothing that has already gone. Powell and Mackay are long gone, why are you still indulging in Gustalgia?

Prosecution for what???? I praised Joey Grima for helping re-engage the fans and you come up with an utter irrelevance. It's not relevant to what I wrote, it's not relavant to the thread.

So.....to clarify. You are adamant that grima wasn't at the club long enough to be judged as a coach, but you 100% put down the reconnection with fans as his doing? You are not one ofva comparative handful of remaining fans but consider your opinion stronger than nine because you are there.
All I'll say is that if this reconnection is so good and you're not a clique, then how come the other 3,000 missing fans haven't flocked back? Grimas job was to coach, then select and coach a squad of professional rugby league players and in that he 100% failed.....everything else is just window dressing

That's not what I said, you have twisted my words to suit your own agenda. As usual.

Yes it is. here we go AGAIN!
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I've underlined the relevant bits that you accuse me of twisting....the last sentence is an observation made from the facts available, as in we're down shed loads of fans and he won 2 competitive games in 19 meaning he wasn't a very good coach.......not a case of me mis-representing anything.

I can dance this dance all day and night with you. What gets your back up was that regardless of the repetitiveness and negativity of my posts, I was spot on in my predictions. Long term fans of the club, with 3+ times the years I have are declaring that this is it for them, but you'd rather scream loud and accuse me of lying rather than accept that I was and am right in this instance. Go on.....complain to a moderator. It's all your good for.

Go on, cause me of something I've never done and then talk down to me with an emoji as usual. Oh look. you already have.

1. You incessantly continue along the lines of "gutterfax = personal abuse" when in fact, other than maybe a dozen times in 20,000 = posts he did no such thing....but you do so hoping toattract the attention of a passing moderator. So you do whine to the authorities!
2. You resort to "patronising comments" about me not being there so not knowing, ignoring the facts that I have called pretty much everything spot on since 2009 in regards to the club and it's failings, so yes, I will talk down to you.
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I really do not know why people are rattling on about Joey Grima. He was probably a decent man, but I think he was not the right man to coach our club.
I am glad he has gone, much prefer Hendo.
Joey Grima to me, is just another name to add to the list of poor appointments made by David Hughes.

I only praised him for helping re-engage with the fans. I didn't say I'd prefer him to Hendo.

It's a long line of assistant coaches taking over since our slow and torturous decline beginning 2006. Tony Rea leaves to be replaced by his assistant coach Brian McDermott. Brian McDermott leaves to be replaced by his assistant coach Rob Powell. Rob Powell sacked and Tony Rea re-appointed (assistant coach with the Brumbies union team at that point) then leaves unexpectedly mid season. His assistant coach Joey Grima appointed then leaves unexpectedly mid season. His assistant coach Andrew Henderson appointed.... so you get the picture... there are a lot of assistant coach's taking the role of head coach in those painful 9 years.

Of course it could be argued that the role of assistant coach is an apprenticeship for the head coach role, and that these promotions were all part of the normal way of things. But then again this is London Broncos, and the normal order of things is ill thought out, panic appointments.
I suspect part of the problem is that head coaches with bona fide credentials simply aren't interested in taking the job.

I would rather have an assistant coach promoted to head coach, than take on some has been coach who has failed at other clubs.
However we have not been in a position to take on a coach who is at the top of his game. We have to give someone early in his managerial career a chance.
That is the market we are in.

True, but in Hendo we seem to have a bit of a gem. Hoping that none of the bigger clubs are keeping tabs on him.

We all know they are, and when he takes a look at our new 'home' it may help make up his mind when he gets a tempting offer.

I love the way 'Jim Pooley's entire pitch is that he isn't gutterfax, and isn't abusive.
Then he posts his stats as gutterfax, and posts something abusive.
You couldn't make it up.

Flattered, I'm sure