Why Hook Should Never Coach Again

Exhibit A:
At the end of 2013; Griffin had 3 specialist halves. Hunt, Prince and Wallace.
He cut 2 of them, with the intention of playing a formerJunior Kangaroo fullback who has had several knee recos and played only a handful of NRL games in the 3 quarters to partner the most inexperienced and unproven of the 3.
That player ended up injuring himself pre season so rather than picking from a group of 4-5 specialist halves from their stocks; he selected perhaps the most 1 dimensional fullback in the comp to fill the gap.
This player bumbled and floundered in this role and never looked anything like an NRL standard 5/8. Meanwhile Brisbane's ballplaying fullback with extensive lower grade halves experience's confidence was shot and was performing horribly. So much so that he went as far as to grade his performance to the media on how many bombs he was dropping. It wasn't until after around 20 rounds and a lean trot that had them drop out of the 8 that he decided to switch them.

 

Exhibit B:
Griffin has an obsession in picking his best starting forward pack on an individual level rather than a sum of it's parts. I call it the A-team Mentality. Instead of picking 2 specialist props, he pairs his 2 best workhorse middle third players as the starting props; then 3 edge forwards in the 11, 12 and 13. He'll then select 2 strong runners as his bench props who don't see action until around 25 mins into the game because of the fitness of his starting props. Meanwhile he'll pick a veteran workhorse-type player on the bench and give him around 9 minutes when the game is likely on the line and he cant really have any effect on the outcome.

 

Exhibit C:
Rather than address the actual issues the club has for years; namely ruck speed, goal line defence and the wrestle. Griffin becomes hellbent on making his players The Strongest and Fittest Players the Club has ever seen.

 

He was signed for 2 seasons and Hook wanted Kahu. He was moved on.

 

Exhibit D:
Broncos played so bunched and flat this year. When coupled with McCullough's shitty service and only 1 creative option it became so rushed and outside of a miraculous Parker offload had almost no 2nd phase and would readily break down. From all reports this wasn't an event that manifested via fatigue/player error; this is how they trained. Flat and 1 dimensional.

 

I find it hard to believe that a player would make a call to end his career out of the blue a month after the season finished before he had even attended any pre season.

In reality it would've been: "Scotty, you'll be playing for Norths next year barring 2-3 injuries, what say you?"

 

Exhibit E:
Hoffman.
Barba.
Milford.

 

The best thing about the Broncos this year was their post on facebook spruiking about how well Hoffman was going at five-eighth. Used his running metres stats to say it was what he was meant to do in the 6. Several thousand cunts just told them they were retarded.

 

Further adding to this, when he returned from injury to QCup, he played on the wing and in the centres... Surely if you see a future with a bloke playing halves at NRL level you'll pull whatever strings necessary to have him play in the halves or at least fullback when he is trying to make his way back into the side.