https://qld.rugby/news/2021/07/02/queensland-premier-rugby-covid-update
Moving to Sunday but only four grades.
Moving to Sunday but only four grades.
What’s the go with Joe Powell playing for Brothers?
Is he still with the Rebels for next year ? Or a chance he could be in the equation for the Reds?
Agree. Give them a few more training sessions together and they will work it out. All field are looking scrappy, even before the rain. Too much going out and not enough for a greens keeper.Was at Brothers yesterday they played well not as well as the resume of the players but did enough.
The ground is a complete potato patch hopefully no one gets hurt playing on it.
I have to admit, I wasn't sure whether GPS would make a fair crack at the Premiership this year, but they've proved me wrong.
I thought Shane Arnold might need another year or so to get the team how the wanted it, maybe have a few newbies come into the side. But for what is largely a similar team to the last two years, GPS are really looking good as we approach the back end of the comp.
Patty Nicholson has stepped up big time at fullback which is making a massive difference
Shane Arnold is the goods
Is he really?
After he coached a very impressive GPS side circa 2012-13 that were run away minor premiers in 2013 they didn’t get the job done in the 2013 finals, he then got a rails run into jobs at Reds & Aust U20 where there weren’t too many wraps coming his way. He’s then been out of sight as far as Qld rugby scene is concerned was he overseas? Now come back to a side which you say has been together for a few years now - so in the first year of a new coach I usually think that a side is still melding old coach & new coach philosophies.
Shane may well be a good coach but let’s see how GPS go in the finals before we make a judgement. One swallow doesn’t make a summer mind you the bloke who was going to be involved at GPS this season - Adrian Thompson has made a career out of one premiership for Easts in 1999 when he essentially took Grant Barry’s 1995-98 Easts side to the 1999 premiership playing Batty ball.
It is really amazing study the idea of what makes a good coach - how much the coach and how much the players?
Is he really?
After he coached a very impressive GPS side circa 2012-13 that were run away minor premiers in 2013 they didn’t get the job done in the 2013 finals, he then got a rails run into jobs at Reds & Aust U20 where there weren’t too many wraps coming his way. He’s then been out of sight as far as Qld rugby scene is concerned was he overseas? Now come back to a side which you say has been together for a few years now - so in the first year of a new coach I usually think that a side is still melding old coach & new coach philosophies.
Your point about players v coach making a good team is a brilliant talking point. You look at arguably the greatest sporting team in recent Australian history, the 8 in a row QLD Maroons, and Mal Meninga was widely known as a figurehead and not so much a coach, but the cattle he had were generational.
Amazes me that Rebels have signed 8 x their U18 Academy players on Super Rugby contracts (love that they're local, ? on the age they're being signed) and the likes of Gicquel and Morrey couldn't get a look in down there when they trialed.