Here's the link. www.leaguehq.com.au/news/lhqnews ... 09704.html Seems we are linked with Kearney Full Back/Stand Off! Ah well time will tell.

Here's the link. www.leaguehq.com.au/news/lhqnews ... 09704.html Seems we are linked with Kearney Full Back/Stand Off! Ah well time will tell.

Delaney has signed for Leeds hasn't he?

Seems so, looks like we get the player with injury history!

I did last night. Obviously its a completely different and not comparable situation though...clearly...

Well no two situations are exactly the same, but the rough out line of the story is similar.

Infact change the names and the detail (scores teams etc) and you could have been reading about us!

Er...I think you need to improve the sensitivity of your sarcasm detector!!

Its certainly looking that way. If there is to be a change it would be better sooner rather than later. I suppose its possible that we are lining up an aussie coach but would not be able to announce it until the end of the NRL season. But it doesnt look like we could replace MacNamara before the recruitment for next season is completed.

I haven't been following NRL much recently but it might be interesting to see how many of the coaches of - say - the bottom 3 clubs in the NRL over the past few seasons have kept their jobs. Seeing as they have been dealing with the franchise system longer and are therefore fully aware of all the alleged benefits of franchising - ie no relegation, can bring through youngsters, time to strategically develop a club, no knee-jerk sacking of coaches etc.

Maybe Hood has been discussing the recruitment with our new coach then suggesting it to Macca? Maybe Des Hasler wants to work with a lot of his current team

Its possible but unlikely in the extreme I reckon, and if I were making a change I'd go with a whole new clean sweep and bring in an NRL coach.

But I'll be astonished if McNamara is not here at the start of next season.

Out of interest, I wonder what Hood's limit is for McNamara? He must have one, no more wins this year? No wins in first 10 next year? Missing the playoffs next year??... or just wait until McNamaras contract runs itself out as he doesn't want to to sack him but cant be seen to extend it?

A fellow fan was on about this yesterday seeing as it was odds on that Salford nd Celtic would finish 13th and 14th this season so that means that we are bottom of the established super league clubs.

The problem is that if we start the season with McNamara and start badly, he effectively becomes a dead duck coach. We're then faced with the choice of waiting until his contract expires and writing off the season, or sacking him early in the season when good replacements are hard to find.

I'm not sure the club would survive another season like this.

Surely he became that this season!