he's back in his old stomping ground Asia.

Hongkong.

No proven world-class coach is going to come over here from the NRL unless they are paid the kind of over the top silly money that any club paying off an expensive brand new stadium would be mad to be shelling out.

To be honest none of the mentioned candidates exactly fill me with excitement, Brown being probably the worst of the lot or me. His teams fade badly towards the end of the season and approach near-Wigan levels of tedious awfulness to have to sit and watch. He may or may not bring us success, but at what cost?

True mate, but like I said, if they're willing to offer 25/1 on Meninga and 18/1 on Morgan i'd guess that they're fairly confident they won't be coming. You can bet up to £2000 on the market so they'd be looking at a £50k payout on Meninga per customer. I'd guess they've done a little research.

To be fair to Brown - he lacks the kind of attacking firepower Wigan, Leeds & Warrington all possess.

You will proably find it will be Morgan. At least until the end of this season.

Give over.

I did enjoy watching Hudds take apart Cas. They played some good stuff when they got space.

Most would stick Morgan in the pretty good/half decent catogory. You wouldn't particluary say he was bad, but you wouldn't say he was top drawer, either.

Could a coach of that middling standard have a real positive effect in such a short space of time?

The biggest drawback for Brown will be the daily round trip from Honley, down the M62 carnage park.
l think all this talk is pure speculation at this point in time.

ive been told that he has told the rest of the coaching staff at fartown thats a done deal

Really?