Henry Paul has more first team coaching experience than Rohan Smith did coming into this job? Plus he also may have contacts from all over (League, Union, NZ, Russia, etc) So who knows. Will be on a lot less than Rohan too. So even if we are all a bit vexed at Rohan being let go it may have been done for the benefit of the club moving forward. Let's give Henry (should he get the job) a chance.

HP could have the contacts of Wayne Bennett but it doesn't mean he can coach them. One of the things a number of posters commented on, & I witnessed at a quiz night, was the calibre of young athletes Smith was bringing to the club & their mature, humble attitude. You won't get that from a playboy.

Steve Ferret is available

I must have missed something. Where did the Henry Paul link originate? And how does it match up with the owners press release wanting a proven and experienced coach?

Is this just another example of a rumour being passed off as news and then reported as sources say?

Quite. The level of bo11ocks being talked at the moment is insane. If it [idoes[/i end up being HP, so be it, but it really makes no sense whatsoever.

Yeah, there's been parts of the news cycle to do with our admin/liquidation/new club that feel like it would be a perfect case study for the social media fake news thing, rumours and deliberate mis representation being passed off as fact by secondary sources.

Let’s wait and see. As with everything else it’ll be a good way to gauge whether the new owners are serious or not. No coach worth his salt will be joining a club that is only intent on fulfilling fixtures and isn’t bothered about staying up.

If you wait 6 weeks then Brian McDermott will probably be available.

Am I the only one becoming less and less inspired as time goes by?

We're, apparently, to have a full time squad but we don't know on what basis - let's not forget, the government thinks you're on a, "living wage", if you get £7:50 per hour and only get one hour a week on your zero hours contract. It might be interesting to see how they formulate this "full time" squad.

If it turns out to be part time or even a mixture of part time and full time then the new owners should say so from the start. 100% honesty is needed and not statements that are “open to interpretation” in order that they can pretend they’re doing the thing justice.

Like you I’m losing patience. I know the track record of Lowe and Chalmers and I’m going to take a lot of convincing that they’re the right people for the job. The longer things go on as a shambles the more likely I’ll get the NRL on Premiers Sports and stick to that.

I just think that for many, the penny hasn't dropped yet. THIS time around, we died. Sure there are some apparent connections - for example presumably we have a similar millstone lease, and repairs obligations, as the last lot - but THIS time the shiit finally really DID hit the fan, and we haven't even started wiping it off the walls yet.

I'm guessing it may be half way through the season before we are even at the stage of having anything like a squad, let alone a settled team, which is frankly unlikely to happen at all this year. (Playing repeatedly the only 17 non-disabled males on your books every week doesn't count).

By then, we'll be the whipping boys of the division, hopelessly adrift, and there will be no respite till this time next year. We should be either sitting this year out or in C1 but the RFL want the new club to take a kicking just so their fixture list isn't inconvenienced. Get used to that. Get used to being viewed as a bye.

So no I'm not becoming less inspired, I have never been remotely inspired in the first place. I don't see how without spending very big and very fast (which was never remotely a possibility) ANYONE could get out of where we are now other than via the unpalatable pain of a truly disastrous 12 months. As they say, it is what it is, but maybe what "it is" hasn't fully sunk in yet with a lot of our fans who have become accustomed to escaping in reasonable health by the skin of our teeth. They need to get that this really did not happen this time round, we were right royally fscked over and we really are starting from ground zero.

It is ludicrous and, honestly, a bit mad, by Wednesday morning to be "losing patience". Set your realism and expectation level knobs accordingly and your life will be better.

Cheers FA.

My issue is that with the approach you’ve set out the club will be lucky to see 2018.