The problem is, you're putting words into my mouth.
I never said I was happy that the team got hammered in some games; nor have I said that all of Terry's decisions are spot-on.
However, you overlook the facts that when we got relegated, we had more wins than any other relegated team in SL, that we were the only team ever to be relegated from SL by not finishing bottom, when we did finish bottom after our promotion year it was because everyone knew that any possible relegation that season would not depend on league position and rather than spend lots of money chasing players after the NL1 Grand Final, the club decided to give more of the up-and-coming players at the club a chance to bed in, as well as getting hold of better players later on.
It's interesting that you make a point that Terry got a team relegated, which was a team that he had little choice with the signings, as he was appointed when the majority of the team had been put together. However, although TM has been at the club for 4 years, you're giving credit for last year's squad to Mick Robinson, despite him leaving in October 2008. Since he left, the club has finished higher up the league than at any time during his time involved with the Tigers.
If the team "treat [Terry] more like a mate than a boss," how come Mason, Blanch, Dyer, Brough, Boyle, Faumuina ended up leaving? To believe that any style of management works for everyone is simply naive. It's clear you don't rate him as a coach, but to brand someone who has overseen a period of improvement at the club and brought some stability, got us playing some attractive, attacking rugby as clueless and inept is simply wrong.
Would you brand Mal Reilly as clueless and inept (Huddersfield finished bottom under him in 1999), Ian Millward at Wigan (how heavily did they get hammered during his short reign there?), John Monie at London Broncos, Alex Murphy/John Dorahy at Warrington?
TM maybe isn't the best coach in the world - but he's not the worst by a long chalk, either.
