The man has only just landed in this country, although God knows he must be wondering what on earth he has let himself in for. You don't throw someone who knows nothing about the ethos, structure, etc of a team straight in at the deep end if you don't have to. He has played in the halves though and we won those games (although that could be coincidence of course). But not consistently as yet because he needed time and Royce wanted to keep his players fresh to get a GF win this time, so he was rotating them.

Are you Phil Clarke?

Listen, the was props available and we opted for a average backrow to replace the best player at the club.

Is is from a coach that constantly said he won't pick players out of postion and that was the main reason for the back on the bench.

He wont play players out of postion but signs a backrow and fullback to play prop and stand off

Well if we can't find a prop anywhere in the world in the time we had (10 props moved in the NRL) then props will be extinct soon.

He's a world cup winning player who's played in NRL grand finals so I'd suspect he'd be ok against super league sides.

I'd thought he'd stuck with him at #7 if he thought he was the answer.

Only time will tell if he makes it in the halves but I'm willing to bet you £200 he don't make a success of that postion.

Look (which is more appropriate since we are typing on a screen), there were props available, we bid for them, and they went elsewhere.

End of debate.

Maybe they just had chat with Royce and went elsewhere

Wrong choice of appointment in the first place.

I can remember when the appointment was announced and the Hull fans were saying, top bloke, yes, will run marathons for you, but head coach? No.

Eamonn was trying to emulate Wigan by taking an NRL assistant coach and hoping he would do the magic over here. Dont want to sound ageist but, there was a reason why Madge was no 2 at the most successful club in the NRL by his mid thirties. And also a reason why Royce was not a head coach in the NRL by his fifties.

At least Eamonn has had the balls to admit his error and tried to rectify it.
KFC I don't think is the answer, too much too soon, could do more damage than good and could take him years to recover ala Betts at Wigan.

What you need now is an old hand to steady the ship in these troubled times

Wayne Bennett must be total crap then!

What?

You keep saying there were props available. So far you haven't listed a single viable candidate. And I shall restate an obvious point - a club's "best player" is BY DEFINITION extraordinarily difficult to replace. There are only two or three props in the world capable of doing Graham's job. NONE were available.

You describe Laffranchi as "average". Yet he has played for both NSW and Australia and has consistently been regarded as one of the top back row forwards in the NRL. I mean, you're making yourself look utterly stupid.



Did you miss the bit about saving players for the playoffs?