Fair enough.

I think interested sums up how I feel about this appointment. Enough experience to se how he’d be an improvement right now, while seemingly potentially quite a high ceiling as a young coach.

Personally I think its a decent appointment.
We were never going to get an established NRL coach and what was on offer over here was pretty abysmal.
The guy wants to prove himself like Woolf and Holbrook and eventually head back to Australia with some recognition and fingers crossed success.
He`s coming into a fire pit with decent players underperforming and injuries that would test the best of coaches.
The downside is that once again we are in another year of rebuilding as it will be next year before he can put his stamp on the team and bring in his type of player.
7 years of team building I think that makes it.

It’s a quality appointment for Leeds. He’ll turn the team around no doubt about it.

how much power does mcmanus have at sts most consistent team ?

Yet they also had the Cunningham years?

From the YEP Article, "Rohan has vast experience having been part of various coaching teams over the last 29 years, working with people some of the biggest names in modern NRL coaching." Apparently he started coaching when he was 11...

Do we know when he will actually be here ?

Well, good luck to the bloke. All we can do now is get behind him and the team. It's a little underwhelming but we have to realise where we are and where the SL is tbh.

Work Visa takes up to 3 weeks if you're not already in UK, 8 weeks if you are bizarrely enough...

Then they will book flights, etc.

My bet is at least 1 month. Will be interesting to see what (if anything) changes for us in the meantime. Worrying times, Friday is the most "must win" game we've had in a very long time....

I am actually really pleased with this appointment.I think he is exactly the right age and his reputation in Queensland is excellent.He took over North Devils when they were struggling and turned the whole club around with an empasis on developing young players. He seems really well liked and respected and was expected to move to thr NRL as a head coach in the next few years. If Carr was the expected choice this guy has more experience and also no prior connrction with Leeds which to me is a good thing. Lets give him a chance as there is a massive job to do.

were they close to being relegated

We're not close to being relegated...

Yet

In 2015 we finished 2nd in Cunningham's first year. In 2016 we finished a lowly 4th. We might have finished lower again in 2017, but Cunningham was out, and Holbrook was in, and we were an American Football style block away from meeting you in the Grand Final (or Mark Percival being able to kick a goal in Castleford - whichever you prefer).

We weren't [ibad[/i under Cunningham, just disappointing - and there were lots of other factors poisoning the club (like Cunningham insulting the fans). We went from discussing dynasties from Browns team to needing a complete rebuild when Holbrook came in (not that he did - basically the same players under Cunningham became league leaders under Holbrook).

Jeez.... a lot of damage could be done by then...

A little underwhelmed but not that surprised. Everybody wants a NRL head coach but the reality is Murray is the only one (excepting Furner's short tenure at Canberra) that we have had in the summer era. We even got a bit lucky with Murray in thatthe demise of Hunter Mariners made him available. Plus points for Smith: 1) No record of failure that I can see. 2) Very recent record of success in a very competitive environment. 3) Despite his relative youth lots of coaching experience in the NRL and tremendous coaching pedigree in the Smith Boys.
He's got a big job and he needs the fans to support, not write him off before he gets here. Let's hope he turns out to be a gem.