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Crawley explained that the reason Flanagan has no options to change the side is that he pushed quality players out of the club through a lack of opportunities. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll tell you where it\u2019s gone wrong, there\u2019s not another halfback that\u2019s ready in the club because they\u2019ve all been pushed out,\u201c Crawley said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou go through Jayden Sullivan, Jonah Glover, Lachlan Ilias, you can keep rounding these blokes up that have been pushed out of the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got a young bloke there now in Kade Reed, who I think has played five NSW Cup games. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know it\u2019s a danger bringing a young guy up, but at this stage, they\u2019ve got to do something. You can\u2019t keep treading water and think it\u2019s going to be fixed.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Riccio warned against throwing Reed to the wolves against South Sydney. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut why crucify the kid against South Sydney who granted I don\u2019t think we knew David Fifita was going to be sidelined for six weeks, but to have that edge of South Sydney, which is their potent weapon, going after Kade Reed?\u201d Riccio said.<\/p>\n
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Braith Anasta agreed that Reed was not ready to come into a team playing so badly, but put Flanagan on notice for his roster management and development of his players. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s about Kade Reed,\u201d Anasta said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t play Kade Reed because of the diabolical state the club\u2019s in right now because I wouldn\u2019t want my young guy, who\u2019s got a bright future throwing him into that team right now and that environment. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think the point is, is that he\u2019s got no one to pick, but he\u2019s got no one else to blame but himself for that, so you can\u2019t make those excuses when you are the one that\u2019s created that problem.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Crawley is adamant Flanagan signed his own coaching death warrant by admitting he doesn\u2019t have the players and the depth that every club needs to be successful. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think he signed his own warrant on that one in respect to his future at the club by confirming that there\u2019s no one there that he\u2019s confident that he can bring up into his team,\u201d Crawley said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not his first season there. It\u2019s not his second season there.\u201d <\/p>\n
Gorden Tallis interjected: \u201cIt\u2019s his job to have kids ready and have kids coming through.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cOf course it is,\u201d Crawley replied. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got football managers and you\u2019ve got recruitment staff and you\u2019ve got all this, but you\u2019ve also got a head coach who is called the head coach because it\u2019s his job to bring this all together.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A damning comment from Shane Flanagan that he doesn\u2019t have the players to make changes to his winless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,18194,294989,294995,17343,294991,52527,4509,294993,140185,107311,2105,294994,5330,4518,14872,29043,4601,60457,4746,673,677,294990,11396,668,25368,294992,294968,219565,14867,4439,85,4563,4546,4535,54342,4526,163641,235411],"class_list":{"0":"post-606223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-braith-anasta","12":"tag-coaching-coffin","13":"tag-coaching-death","14":"tag-daily-telegraph","15":"tag-damning-comment","16":"tag-dave-riccio","17":"tag-david-fifita","18":"tag-death-warrant","19":"tag-final-nail","20":"tag-football-managers","21":"tag-getty-images-inc","22":"tag-grant-backing","23":"tag-head-coach","24":"tag-jamal-fogarty","25":"tag-jayden-sullivan","26":"tag-jonah-glover","27":"tag-manly-sea-eagles","28":"tag-mark-metcalfe","29":"tag-mark-st-john","30":"tag-new-south-wales","31":"tag-oceania","32":"tag-officiating-error","33":"tag-paul-crawley","34":"tag-press-conference","35":"tag-recruitment-staff","36":"tag-reserve-grade-players","37":"tag-roster-admission","38":"tag-roster-management","39":"tag-south-sydney","40":"tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","43":"tag-stephen-crichton","44":"tag-tom-trbojevic","45":"tag-winless-team","46":"tag-wollongong","47":"tag-wooden-spoon-position","48":"tag-young-guy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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