Geoff Toovey finally has his visa and is now officially our head coach.

And will it change anything this year

Doubtful.

Surely you lot must be sick of these types of "rallying calls" by now?! www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... to_safety/ You've turned up when asked, backed the club all season yet the T&A still feel the need to say you need to do more?! If you ask me it's the bloody Club itself that needs to do more ...and fast!

Surely you lot must be sick of these types of "rallying calls" by now?! www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... to_safety/ You've turned up when asked, backed the club all season yet the T&A still feel the need to say you need to do more?! If you ask me it's the bloody Club itself that needs to do more ...and fast!

Not sure what else you expect them to say TBH

Actions speak louder than works - and to be fair to the club they haven't really issued any real rallying cry this season thus far probably because they know they haven’t been in any position to do so. This isn’t on a par with some of the patronising guff Ferres was coming out with in the previous two campaigns, but it still won’t convince me to go to any more than the handful of matches I have already been to. That article talks about tipping points, well I do hope they’ve realised that a startling percentage of the hard core have reached a tipping point with the club and the club needs to reach out to the fans with more than simple platitudes.

That said, Toovey should be a step in the right direction. At this stage in the season, he can’t save us – nor can anyone who has, is or will ever coach in Rugby League. So why has he stayed – logic says if he’s just going to go back down under after relegation then why bother sticking around for this? That tells me perhaps he may stay in League 1 and build a squad then that’s something. Logic, however, has been in short supply at Odsal for well over a decade so I won’t hold my breath.

Hard to know what to feel about this, to be honest

Obviously, he has been coaching the team all season anyway - not that it appears to have done much good. I didn't actually think he would ever get a visa, and would quietly leave at the end of the season. So I'm actually a bit surprised by this announcement.

Perhaps it will somehow give the team a boost and they'll start playing like world-beaters? Seems doubtful, but I guess we'll see on Sunday...

The only real positive about it currently is that one of the things that's making our club look like a joke has finally been resolved.

It doesn't affect the coaching in the slightest.

Another positive that MAY come out of it is that if we can now get Visas as a club, perhaps any players waiting in the wings who were not announced because of visa issues, may now be able to come in. I won't hold my breath though.

Going from the other thread (while we wait for the minutes of the meeting haha) i'm sure if he wasn't going to be here next season they wouldn't have kept pursuing the Visa. Toovey could have walked away without officially being in charge this season. For me this is a massive point in the direction that we will be around next season. Why on god's green earth would Toovey, who knows we are 98% relegated be happy taking a club on in CH1 without the promise of being backed to get straight back up

He is on RHPs show tonighthttps://twitter.com/Pulse1Radio/status/874863043813023744rl

It'll be interesting he hear what he has to say.

The downside being that you'd have to listen to RHP's show...

Because it was the best offer he'd had, perhaps?

I risk repeating myself, I know. Geoff isn't a super dooper coach from Aus, he's a former super dooper player who took over his former team and led a top quality side to the Premiership. He then led the team through a period of decline before losing his job. He's here, I guess, because it was the best offer on the table. Hell, would Wayne Bennett have hung around half a season waiting for his new club to be in the position of sponsoring him for a visa? I really am baffled by the number of fans who seem to think he's some kind of superstar coaching guru.

Geoff may well turn out to be the answer to all our prayers, let's hope so, but there's little on his CV which suggests he's going to build a side from scratch and get us back into SL.

Well, I'm surprised we've actually now had GT confirmed as our first team coach! I honestly thought he would have departed Bradford for the South of France when the Dragons and Frayssinous parted company. It's great news for the club and this "Geoff's VISA is being sorted, should be another couple of weeks" business can finally be put to bed.

Best of luck Geoff!

Oh dont get me wrong I dont think he is a genius coach and ultimately his shall we say old school ways of shouting and balling probably dont do any favours when the players heads drop. He was supposedly earning a good living as a chartered accountant before coming over. I would personally rather have Smith in charge. I just feel for someone to drop everything come halfway round the world he must have some promise of some kind to hang about the length of time he had.

Also if rumours turn out to be true and we stay full time next season regardless of division, theoretically we will offer players probably too good for CH2 better than they will get elsewhere but be too good for that level to get us up and we still wont see how good a coach he will be