Brad Fittler as a coach

[trewhella]

From his causal muffin eating days at the roosters to trying to build a coaching career off the back of origin, Brads future as a coach looks as healthy as a battered sav.

Origin is a series based on hate.
Nothing more, nothing less.

Earthing, calmness, insight…….are meaningless in rugby league and this level of competitive sport.
Particularly concerning is the lack of contingency around the Turbo injury last night. Cook in the centres for the whole match was not a solution.

When Lindsay Collins’s( who played like a different person) made an effective tackle close to the line Slater pounds the glass in the coaching box and declares” he is fuc.ing QLD boy!”

The disparity in intensity between the two coaches is quite remarkable. Polar opposites in fact.

Clubs would be bending over backwards to sign Slater, and why not?
Fittler on the other hand won’t be coaching in the NRL ever and will get the axe at the end of this series.

[Inflictor]

Fittler's coaching style and team selection would fit right in with all the coaches in this place.

[Carlos Parra]

Yep, I agree.

His time as coach is up. He brings no insight, no passion and no tactics.

There are a number of players who should never again be selected. Why do they persist with injury prone players like Tom T and plodders like Moses?

[theGman]

Freddy the ex-player was naturally gifted and top class.
Freddy the coach is found lacking in many areas and sadly doesn't cut the mustard.

I'm still dumbfounded why so early in the game he decided that Cook was the right fit to replace injured Tommy Turbo.
FFS, it's a no brainer.........shift rangy Yeo into the centres (where he played mostly in the lower grades) and then bring Martin into the pack OR slot Cam Murray straight into the centres.

Watching the Maroons exploiting Cook out wide was as painful as watching our very own draught horse Hutchinson playing centre.

[Waylander]

Freddy is more like a mini-bus ... about half a coach.

[HunchoRooster]

He's not a good coach. I don't care too much about Origin but he should've walked when he lost the series to Bennett and that bog standard QLD team. I think even our mate Corey Allan was in that side from memory.

NSW lack the mentality that QLD have, its not the personnel.

[BraveTheWorld]

It's funny, when Freddy first became NSW coach he enforced a "no d*ckheads" policy. That worked well for a while, but it seems it has fallen by the wayside - or perhaps he has created his own d*ckheads.

I think Freddy may make a really good assistant, and I don't think he is without any coaching ability at all. He made some utterly bizarre decisions last night though, and has been baited terribly into this "club combinations" rhetoric when it comes to Origin.

Slater, Smith and Cronk did not dominate Origin for the better part of a decade because they played at the same club. They dominated because they're all immortals. You pick your best players available, and if they happen to have combinations at club, then that's a little bonus. You also don't necessarily reactively choose whatever player happens to be in good form at the time - you need to have a read on personalities and know who is going to perform to a high level whenever they're picked, even when they're out of form, and who it means the most to.

Cherry-Evans has been out of form in club-land a few times, but QLD have never dropped him. Because he's a known-quantity and you know what you'll get from him. He'll play at least a 7/10 basically every origin he plays.

Anyway, that was just a few of my thoughts. I've never seen a team dominate every aspect of the game so much in terms of yardage and possession, and then lose on the scoreboard so heavily.

I don't know how you all feel, but I'd be putting the red felt pen through Luai, Frizell (just because he's too old) and Yeo. Would be watching Fox, Stephen Crichton and Young very closely as well. Not sold on any of their places.

[Kentucky_Fried_Rooster]

I don't rate Freddy as a coach, he may have been a fantastic player but that doesn't mean you can coach.

There is no way he can coach the Blues after this season.
I don't know why but there have been people on this forum saying sack Trent and that Freddy should coach the Roosters, I remember when he was coach here many years ago and he failed then too.

Not sure who should coach the Blues, Toovey would bring passion in a similar way as Slater does.
As long as Freddy or Andrew Johns aren't involved the Blues might be a chance of winning a series again.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Hate to say it caz Freddy is my al time favourite but he just doesn't cut it as a coach. He should be an immortal based on his playing career, but needs to stick to the media gigs. Maybe a halves consultant but not head coach material imo

[BraveTheWorld]

5 years ago you could have been forgiven for thinking that NSW would dominate most of the Origin series over the next decade.
We had the opportunity to, but didn't stay ahead of the arms race. Probably didn't blood the right players or really instill the right culture.
Now we're staring down the barrel of the likes of Walsh, Grant, Carrigan, Cotter and Cobbo and maybe even Sam Walker just running a train on us for the next decade. They're all young too, and now have the confidence.

[Mickie Lane]

The main reason Qld have been better this series is because of Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Johnathon Thurston, Reece Walsh & DCE.

[trewhella]

I just watched the press conference and I would invite any of you to do the same.
There was no back peddling.

A coach bereft of passion or accountability

[bondi paul]

NSW select a side whilst QLD select a team.
I find the whole series so predictable regardless of what team wins.
It’s all about the QLD $ , betting revenue for the series owners Ch 9, media revenue via tabloid stories pre game and post game, the coaches involved all as employees of Ch 9 and Fox. The non suspension of the two butt heads just adds to further theatre in the lead up to the next game which generates further income for all involved.
The commentary silence on the first two QLD try’s was also so predictable due to it being discussed post game.

[dice]

A coach bereft of passion or accountability

It was always the case. Players out of position and poorly prepared -> playing like strangers -> lose -> blame players.

There is a long list of players Freddy has blamed losses on. Walker, Keary, Latrell. This time it was TPJ and Hynes.

Should have been shown the door after he lost the series against "the worst Queensland side ever" where he played Gutho and Wighton in the centres.

[trewhella]

I just viewed Slaters press conference.
Wow.

Melbourne Storm will still be a powerhouse in years to come when Bellamy goes