ddtftf wrote:South Sydney have lost their last 9 matches and are near the bottom of the league, so maybe Maguire would be available to come back soon
On that basis, they are in a much worse predicament than we are, coach wise!
They supposedly have much better players than we have including, the once, two best players in the world!!
So what makes you think he would be any good for us now??
Is he not a one or two hit wonder?? Has he gone as far as he can?
He came to us & it was all shiny, new & exciting.
A young Aussie coach, bringing all that new confidence, different ways plus some NRL coaching methods. All that rubbed off on the entire squad, the rest of the coaching staff even us fans. We were on a massive trip. We felt we could beat anyone & we could, we did. We were on a wave of euphoria.
He coached us to our first SL title for many years & CC final win since 2002!
He left us after two seasons to coach the Rabbitohs. A team that were & had been defeated for many years, a team very much like Wigan, without direction, without confidence.
Again, he was all shiny & new. But now he came to them with a reputation.
He'd taken Wigan Warriors, the greatest & most famous club to many in the NRL, to their first GF win for umpteen years! He'd won the coveted Challenge Cup too.
He swept those players, club & supporters of the Rabbitohs, up in the same new found confidence that he did at Wigan.
What has suddenly happened? Has his coaching methods plateaued? That sounds very similar to Shaun Wane according to some. Has he taken Rabbitohs as far as he can??
So again I ask, what makes you think he can take us to those dizzy heights again when he has failed to take Rabbitohs to a GF since that first season with them?
At least we have been in several SL GF's, since he left. And we have won the double in a season!