elliot resigns from the warriors, page-12

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    Kinda sums things up safaris ,

    But the worst thing the club ever did was four years ago when they failed to provide Ivan Cleary with security and a contract he deserved.

    Cleary once played for the Warriors. He was on the field for their first grand final appearance back in 2002 against the Roosters. Once retired, he was assistant coach of the Warriors by 2005, taking over the reins fully in 2006.

    So began the era of Cleary, a rather glorious one at that.

    The Warriors didn't win a grand final or the minor premiership under him, but they did make the playoffs four times.

    In his debut year as coach, the Warriors were deducted four competition points for a salary cap breach, finishing 10th with 12 wins and losses apiece. With the deducted four points, they would have made the playoffs to take Cleary's success rate to five out of six seasons.

    However, after a finals appearance in 2007, 2008 will be remembered for the legendary win from eighth place against the first-place Storm, the first team to ever achieve the feat.

    While the Warriors would then lose out to Manly in the preliminary final that year and follow the season with a woeful 2009, finishing 14th, Cleary and the team delivered the goods once again in 2010, finishing 5th.

    Despite such consistency and success - two words seldom associated with the Warriors - the club decided Cleary's services would be required no longer.


    They failed to provide him with a new contract and a deservedly tidy salary, and instead informed the man he wouldn't need to complete the final year of his three-year contract.

    This meant that 2011 became Cleary's last season in charge of the Warriors.

    Every Warriors' fan knows what happened that year. We made the grand final for the second time, meaning Cleary had played a hand in both the Warriors' appearances, and despite losing, fans and players were left to rue what our club had decided to continue without.

    Cleary left for the Penrith Panthers, finishing with a rather exceptional win-loss ratio by Warriors' standards - 68 wins, 66 losses and three draws, pulling him just under the 50 per cent win rate.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/assignments/share-your-news-and-views/9836197/Warriors-future-disastrous-without-Cleary

    Raider
 
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