As a fan looking in, I can see Chris Chester being a candidate if he's not Head Coach at Leigh or he gets fed up with Derek.

Who's our reserves coach? Mark Dunning? It will probably end up being him.

I think Mark's savvy enough that he won't be applying if it comes up at the end of next year.

Whoever we do get must have a decent track record. It's easy to be seduced by someone young, articulate and enthusiastic (Rohan Smith) but in the end its results that matter. That loss at Fev at the end of 2016 when we had a great team on paper still sticks in the mind. Smith was utterly out coached.

We've turned in some awful performances under Kear too but I see them more down to the limitations of the players than the coach.

O/T but Adrian Lam new coach at Leigh. Don't think this is a good move, I thought Wigan looked worse than I've seen them for a long time, particularly in attack.

Agreed

Kear has done OK with what the squads he's been given but in both seasons in the Championship we've faded late on. We've often lost close, crucial games when it really mattered, to York and Workington in 2018, and Fax and Widnes this year. I don't mind a forwards game, but it needs to include an offload game. At times it is dour stuff.

On the up side, he's signed a whole new backline which will have more pace and hopefully bring us out of back field thereby giving us more sets in the opponents half. He's signed some projects, and it's very much his squad now. Whilst, I like him and appreciate the way he presents the club, I think this season needs to be a big improvement or it's time for a change.

I too think we could improve our offload and support play. How many times have we seen a player look to offload but nobody is anywhere near. Or even worse a player does offload but players are oblivious because they're just expecting him to take the tackle.

Think the crumbling toward the end of the season may be a lot to do with our small squad.

I was disappointed that Rohan never got a chance here. I still see his name mentioned over in Aus and I'm pretty sure he just won the coach of the year award for the competition he's coaching in currently.

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He coaches North Devils and they just won the League under the NRL.

It'd be interesting to see if an NRL team picks him up.

Smith was out of his depth if you discount the pointless championship shield which was a sign of failure his record isn't great. 5 defeats in 12 games including the debacle at Featherstone the 20 - 0. Its another of those mysteries while he's held in such regard that's more probably to do with stopping on after the admin not his coaching record.