Allez wrote:
You have spoken more sense in that post than I have seen from anyone else. People need to wake up to the point you make. Getting rid of your coach, repeatedly (by means of firing or non renewal of contract) is not the answer. Sacking players that consistently under perform IS!
Sacking players is the most ridiculous statement on here:
a) players count on the cap, and that includes any payoff a player gets from a dismissal (oddly firing due to poor form isn't seen as a legit reason to change your team) - so even supposing a player only has a year left on the contract, you can't bring any one in to replace them, because you don't have the cap space to replace them.
b) even of you could, players don't join teams who sack for things as frivolous as form. Certainly not good ones.
c) more to the point - who would you sack? And when? Lms was in great form at the end of last season, and the majority had no qualms with his contract extension at the start of the year. Even with perry/ hohaia who arguably never hit the heights they were supposed to, when is the final solution the only solution? Until recently, there were those on here (myself included) who would consider wheeler re-signing (for a paltry figure) to remove the threat of the decision to let him go haunting us for years (fortunately wheeler is doing a good job of that himself) - people like soliola had a shocker of a first season and would probably have been let go - he's been one of our most consistent performers in recent years.
d) even supposing, we pick the perfect time to remove a player from our services, were able to in a way which had no impact on our salary cap, and without affecting our future ability to recruit players - who would be available to replace them? The players available are going to be the ones who aren't wanted at their own clubs or not good enough to make it abroad - why would we want other clubs rejects when we have our own?
No, we may be carrying some average players at the moment, but so is every team. What makes jordan James look like a world beater compared to lms is the quality and quantity of coaching staff around one and not the other - not just the head coach -until we recruit a first class TEAM, not just the head - players and coaches will come and go with the same issues occurring.