Joey Grima : Sun Jul 05, 2015 11:10 am  

Seems to have got himself involved in an RL reality TV program down under, glad to see the enthusiasm hasn't dimmed: http://m.nrl.com/nrl-rookie-testing-begins/tabid/10874/newsid/87378/default.aspx

Seems to have got himself involved in an RL reality TV program down under, glad to see the enthusiasm hasn't dimmed: http://m.nrl.com/nrl-rookie-testing-begins/tabid/10874/newsid/87378/default.aspx

Re: Joey Grima : Sun Jul 05, 2015 4:53 pm  

Undecided about Joey. Rob Powell has a similar CV to that of Joeys as outlined in the link i.e. Malta and Broncos

What else has he done?

Re: Joey Grima : Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:19 pm  

Think that on reflection he did us a favour. It was a bit of a mess in the beginning, Hendo was dropped in it, but he came through.
I am much happier with him in charge.

Re: Joey Grima : Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:53 pm  

Bostwick wrote:

Think that on reflection he did us a favour. It was a bit of a mess in the beginning, Hendo was dropped in it, but he came through.
I am much happier with him in charge.

You could have replaced Grima with a cabbage and it would have been improvement.

Re: Joey Grima : Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:16 am  

Luckily for us we did not.
But I do agree with you We were lucky that Hendo was in position and it was easy for David Hughes to just promote him.
Still, we could have had Tony Rea back again or even Rob Powell!

Re: Joey Grima : Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:44 am  

Jim Pooley wrote:

You could have replaced Grima with a cabbage and it would have been improvement.

You do him a disservice. Granted he brought a couple of jokers over, but he also brought in Mathers, Garside, Harrison, Wes, Hellewell, Barthau ..... and Hendo. He was engaging and honest, and ok, his coaching cred may be questioned but at the time he was a breath of fresh air. And as has been pointed out, we now have a great replacement.

Re: Joey Grima : Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:09 pm  

Ah but Jim not happy unless he is having a personal dig.

I think what we forget is joey was brought in as an assistant to TR probably at the request of TR so blaming DH a bit harsh. When TR walked we were stuck, so giving Joey a shot to me seemed a sensible idea, as it was it didn't work out.
I do recall most folk on here having a go at another rookie coach we had saying he had no idea, that fella seems to be doing ok at leeds

Re: Joey Grima : Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:19 pm  

That Rookie coach achieved very little at Harlequins for whatever reasons I can't comment

Mac inherited a champion side at leeds with the core of the players at there peaks, lets not forget that.

Wasn't Joey brought in as part of a succession plan?

Re: Joey Grima : Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:38 pm  

PC Plum wrote:

You do him a disservice. Granted he brought a couple of jokers over, but he also brought in Mathers, Garside, Harrison, Wes, Hellewell, Barthau ..... and Hendo. He was engaging and honest, and ok, his coaching cred may be questioned but at the time he was a breath of fresh air. And as has been pointed out, we now have a great replacement.

Agreed, overly harsh criticism.

Re: Joey Grima : Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:37 pm  

Rob from Erith wrote:

Agreed, overly harsh criticism.

Strange isn't it, that this new-ish Jim Pooley chap is getting to sound more and more like gutterfax, as time goes on?