Smiggs wrote:<REMOVED, Please be careful with potentially libellous statements>
Thats a big accusation! And you'd need facts to back that up.
I also don't think anyone goes into RL to make money, its more of a personal enjoyment project for him, and possibly at the start a way of sticking two fingers up to the Allams (everyone was taken by surprise that morning when the takeover was announced)
I personally I feel his heart is in the right place, in particular he spent big in 2013, again in 2016 and then again for 2020 to try and bring sucess, most of of that outlay has been wasted such as Fonua and Reynolds being paid off.
McRae, Radford and Hodgson all have made mistakes on contracts and signings. Only Motu can hold his head up high recruitment in the Pearson era.
Pearson should have backed Gentle rather than let the players down tools, that just led to two more dead seasons while we rebuilt. Radford should have gone after that long spell of defeats in 2018. I'll excuse hiring and firing Last as it was just a weird season, and due to Covid an Aussie coach couldent have flown in anyway.
We needed a Tony Smith type experienced head coach years ago, that has been Pearsons biggest mistake in my eyes.