St George Illawarra coach Shane Flanagan believes teams embody the personality of their coaches, mirroring his desire for toughness and competitiveness among his players.
St George Illawarra coach Shane Flanagan subscribes to the theory that teams embody the personality of their coaches.
“I think you’re right with some of those coaches you’re talking about. I’d like to think when I was at the Sharks and had Wade , Gal and Mick Ennis, that we could create that, that they were my type of people, tough and ruthless. A plumber by trade, Flanagan isn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and climb into the trenches. At Cronulla, his team played the same way. When opponents came to Shark Park the visitors knew they were in for a fight.“When they come to Wollongong it’s going to be a little bit of that. They’re going to want to scrap and fight. When we go to Kogarah I’d like to think that we can replicate the same from the old Dragons days.
“We’ve climbed the ladder – we’re nearly onto the roof, but we can’t get onto it just yet,” Flanagan says. “I like working with senior players that have done it and I know I can get some more out of them. I don’t know if you’d call them hardened first-graders, but they have the experience of playing semi-finals and winning games.”“Look, it’s one of those things, you have to prove people wrong, and we’re no different this year,” says Gutherson who, along with Cook, is in the frame to fill the captaincy void left by the departure of Ben Hunt.
Now, Holmes will reunite with Flanagan as a senior player, one who can help Gutherson and Cook guide an otherwise youthful roster.
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