Andrew Davey has by no means taken the simple means.
The 44-game NRL veteran made his debut for Parramatta on the age of 28 in 2020 earlier than shifting to Manly, the place he had two video games earlier than a horror knee harm in 2021.
But after rehabbing and coming again for a second season at Manly — the place he was inadvertently dragged into the membership’s Pride jersey saga — Davey linked with the Bulldogs, a transfer that lasted simply two video games earlier than he returned to the Eels after spherical eight.
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The Eels welcomed him again amid dearth of edge forwards after he was launched from the ultimate two years of his cope with the Bulldogs.
But because the Bulldogs coaching punishment scandal erupted, the ahead spoke to the The Daily Telegraph, revealing he wasn’t a fan of Ciraldo’s teaching.
“The way the Bulldogs went about things, I didn’t like it,” Davey stated.
“It wasn’t a culture that I fitted in with and it wasn’t the style of coaching that I resonated with.”
Surprisingly, he informed the masthead that though he went by means of the Pride scandal, the scenario at Canterbury was worse with gamers comparable to Tevita Pangai Jr, who has walked away from rugby league for boxing, Fa’amanu Brown, who went to the Knights a month in the past, Braidon Burns, who is ready to depart for the Super League, and Franklin Pele all had sure points.
“Players had concerns (at Canterbury), but they weren’t at panic stations,” he stated. “I had a couple of gripes, but I won’t go into specifics. We weren’t all pulling the same way.
“It just wasn’t my cup of tea, and a lot different to what I’ve experienced at Manly and Parramatta.”
And whereas he wasn’t there to witness the coaching punishment incident which has sparked the furore, Davey stated he actually didn’t gel with Cameron Ciraldo as a coach.
“It wasn’t great with Cameron,” Davey stated.
“In the end we didn’t talk when I was leaving. It was very cold. I didn’t get the ideology of the coaches. It wasn’t a process that I’d been accustomed to.
“I guess in every business there are people that don’t always get along.
“You’ve just got to go somewhere else where you’re happy. And that’s what I chose.”
It’s a damning response from a participant in Ciraldo’s first 12 months on the membership.
The coach has been within the highlight after a participant was subjected to a brutal wrestling punishment after he was reportedly 10 minutes late for coaching.
Reports say he was pressured to wrestle 20 gamers in round 4 minutes, with options the participant is contemplating authorized motion.
Ciraldo defended his coaching methods because the membership goes by means of a rebuild, having not made the finals since 2017.
“I don’t want to comment specifically but at different times we’ve wanted to put some standards in place and obviously if you’re late we have to do something,” he stated.
“We are trying to drive standards. We want to have winning performance standards and a lot of that is around individual responsibilities and we have to hold those standards.”
Ciraldo has additionally had different gamers together with Reed Mahoney and Viliame Kikau come out in assist, whereas Penrith fullback Dylan Edwards had nothing bur reward for the previous long-term Panthers assistant.
“Everyone‘s on-board,” Bulldogs captain Mahoney stated on Friday.
“Training‘s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. It’s hard to get here (to the NRL) but it’s also harder to stay.
“You come to training sometimes and you might feel sore and that, but sometimes you’ve just got to get through it. That’s part of life being a professional athlete.
“I definitely think he’s [Ciraldo] a mate before he’s a coach, and that’s what everyone loves about him. He’s easily approachable, his door is always open, and a lot of boys go and talk to him just about life advice, and then footy comes second, and that’s how he is.
“But he has standards, and we have standards as a playing group and as a club with where we want to go. I think Cam is stressed out a lot that this is the way we’re going, and if you don’t really like it, then it’s probably not the place for you.
“As players, we’re all on-board and we’re willing to do whatever it takes this week especially but going forward as well.”
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