Mate, you won't find anyone on here willing to let anyone have mistakes in their past and learn from them, but I agree with you completely!

This forum's majority view is: Coaches don't develop, if you say colourful things to make good copy then god forbid you ever want a proper job again, our BoD is a joke, everyone we offer the job to turns us down - Fact!

Exactly my point, Millward has done his time in the lower league and now deserves another chance in SL.

No, I completely concur and I don't think they are free from accountability, but the furore and criticism based on SPECULATION and castigating candidates for historical reasons without an objective consideration for what they may be able to do for us now frustrates me.

I am in almost total agreement with most of what you have said, everyone fails, makes mistakes and grows and develops - thank god the people who have employed me over the years are not the posters on this forum, I would still be being turned down for jobs for p155ing the bed when I was 3!

Agreed about Powell. He is now a very good coach. Same could be said about Harrison. Getting Batley silverware is possibly the geatest achievement in RL this millennium.

I think its a bit harsh to say Dave Woods is failing at York. They were tipped for the wooden spoon by most and he always gives youth a chance. I would rather have a coach that got us into superleague and was never given a chance rather than a loud mouthed buffoon like Millward.

100% AGREE ..I like Harrison...also lets remember we need to give our British Coaches a chance to develop and grow in the game and if they are good enough lets see some b..ls from BODs and give em a chance for gods sake !....please dont think im knocking overseas coaches there some good ones,but its time we started to look around us, on home soil..

no offence to TM i think he is a good coach

Every club is the same when it comes to speculation I guess, on the whole most supporters are passionate about the clubs they follow and that flows through sometimes into comments that fly wide of the mark I guess,but hey thats the Rugby league community for you.

I prefer to take the positive from the fact that people care enough to "debate,speculate" on issues and therefore means our game will survive for now...the day people stop caring is the day were finished..

Think your paragraph above was spot on for a lot of us

Another nail in the coffin. www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480

Another nail in the coffin. www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480

Certainly differs from the wise opinion of the club owner who offered Dave a 2 years contract recently,with the club facing the possibility of relegation,but obviously recognising that building from the bottom takes a little time and also that Dave has built the platform to move forward in a very short time span.

Absolutely astounded at the reaction on here to Millward. He's one of the best coaches in this country, nobody can argue with his record apart from his time at Wigan where he was never given a chance to change the culture of the club, something that he did at Leigh (twice) and Saints and won pots galore. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth.

"The Tigers are to announce their new head coach tomorrow and, despite being heavily linked with current Hull KR boss Justin Morgan, Press Association Sport understands Millward has landed the job"

His mouth is a big part of the problem.

Yeah, I mean it's an absolute nightmare having a head coach with any sort of media profile, isn't it?

When?

It wasn't his mouth that got him sacked at Saints.