It does not surprise me what has transpired with Jones and the squad we have. We have yet again fallen in that 7-10 spot which by looking at our playing roster is pretty understandable. It would be interesting to see what people would genuinely mark Jones (pardon the pun) out of 10 given the FULL SQUAD he has at his disposal compared to every other teams. As a whole I would probably say around a 4/10 for me. Would have been nicer to finish higher then CCM, Wello, Adelaide etc but would it honestly matter? If we had finished 7th would everyone say he did an OK job? We had some good runs throughout the season but ultimately finished where we deserved. I can't say though that finishing up to and including 7th was a much better result.
So it now comes down to two options.
Does the club pay Jones out, bring in someone proven ($$) to try and attract decent quality players?
Does the club stick with Jones, open the cheque book and have faith that he will attract the kind of players we need?
My gut feel is he is in over his head. A decent assistant coach but a little too rough around the edge for the main role. However I'm just not quite ready to knife the bloke until I see what he can do with a decent list of quality players.