Its real. You'll be shocked by who said 'Fuck that stupid plan. Lets do...'. Someone just a few posts back has hit the nail on the head in terms of the respect factor. Some of you here have a man crush on Elliott. It cant be him. You also seem to think thats its only a few bad apples that are against Elliott and his all over the place coaching style. What if I told you it was the whole team? Shall we clear the playing roster and keep the coach. Do the players have no right to do what they feel is right/best for the club and their futures? Do you not think the players are the best placed people to see the direction the coach is taking them? Elliott has a bad history of doing this crap at several different clubs in 2 different countries. You'll all wake up sooner or later. But in the mean time keep up your Elliott the messiah brainwash stance. Im sure every boss you worked for was right and you followed them to the edge of cliff and jumped. Cant wait for the ideological rants to come. Guess what? The worlds not perfect!!!
i've heard the same thing - kind of been waiting to hear it from someone else before posting myself. what i've heard is that matt elliott came to the club with this certain game plan - some kind of style that would allow him to be seen as this coaching great - the players themselves didnt really feel it was best suited to the team and their players however, they decided to give it a go - as that is what you do, follow the coaches orders.
they stuck with the game plan through the pre-season and at the start of the year until they got smashed by Penrith in season. You will then remember the team had that 'crisis' meeting and things started to turn around for them. well as part of that 'crisis' meeting the team decided to go away from ME's game plan. when the team went away from the game plan they had much more success.
sure the team still had some crap games after that penrith one. but consider how tough it would be for the players to be training one way for the whole week and then have to change that within a few meetings - i know the team continued to have secret meetings away from coach but i couldnt see them being able to have secret training sessions. i know there were players who went to ME to tell him things werent working but he wouldnt have none of it - he wanted them to stick with his plan.
there is a lot of dislike for ME - they say he has brought a few good things into the team - but the bad outweighs the good.
what amazed me most about all of this was the decision of the senior players to go away from the game plan - they could have easily stuck with ME's game plan throughout the season and probably lost more games - finished closer to the bottom and then ME's head would have been closer to the chopping block - but they decided for their own good that they wanted a successful season - they were still top 8 contenders right up until that last game.
i think we seen our senior players stand up through the season - the likes of Mannering, Friend and Leuluai and I bet these are the one's who were at the forefront of those meetings. they looked like they wanted it more, they had a point to prove - they were demanding better from their team mates - showing them that they need to stop sulking about our coach being crap and play hard to win anyway.
the players' who didnt perform well - the likes of matulino, mateo and packer who we expect more from seem to me like the sooky types - the my coach is crap so im not going to play hard. i'd much rather prefer people who go out and play with their all each week.
what did i want you to gain from this post? probably that mtwellington is spot on - i always enjoy reading your comments bro. Matt Elliott is a very strange coach, and not someone we want at our club - he is known as "The Riddler" amongst the team - because he is very well spoken - he can twist and turn things so they look positive for him - we've seen how he is on camera, now imagine what yarns he is spinning to the team and management.
ideally i'd like to see him cut before the start of the season but cant see that happening. i suppose if we keep bringing it up then some journo will troll through and help to spread the facts - imagine if we could get that done.