John Lang would be a very good coach. Would get the respect from the players, has vast experiance and has won the NRL with Penrith.

IMO that argument is a load of tosh. So whats the course of action we just let things get even worse just because the new man might do no better even though the incumbent has shown he's not up to the job.

Who's the guy? Why have you so little confidence that a fair argument can be made that he will do better?

Agreed but it's wrong at the moment and needs to change

Because the last two and a half season suggests he can't.

Let me ask you a question and lets have a proper answer.

What gives you the thought that he can do better and how long do we wait if he can't.

Do you think McNamara is the only reason for our decline?

He's the biggest reason.

Can't you understand that we are building the future. It doesn't matter where we are on the table anymore, what matters is we are building a future.

It doesn't matter that the players are not performing like they should, but they will one day, you just need to keep the faith.I mean who wants to be world champions and S/L champions anyway, that's boring rugby.

No one could understand why Warrington had a great team on paper but never produced the results. Then one day someone at Warrington said, 'Hey this spell of bad luck could be down to Cullen, who says we get rid? ' Then one magical morning, Warrington work up and found Smith as their new coach. This confused the players for a week, but then things started to change and they started climbing up the table.


One day someone will wake up at Bradford and do the same, the problem is, we don't know how deep a coma they are in, so fingers crossed


I mean it could be worse we could end up in the play offs and have to play an extra game.

Not solely but he's a big influence.

2007.

Games in and amongst this year.

The widespread respect he is held in within the game.

Is that enough to fend off Brian McDermott if he was interested? Perhaps not. And Lang to (fair play to 6I6 for sticking his head above the parapet there). But are they interested?

X - Steve Folkes.

Y - Because he's a better coach than Macca.

Very Experienced, Disciplinarian, Proven Winner, Fine Record of bringing youth through, Good contacts.

How's that?

Of course we could just keep Macca and continue the way we are going though?
Hows that sound?

I agree he has to take a fair chunk of the blame. I just got the impression Iestyn saw him as pretty much the only reason.

Putting other reasons aside, surely for a club who (as confirmed by Hood)are spending close to the Salary Cap it would be reasonable to expect a top 4 finish?

A huge turnover of quality players will have an impact and possibly make the difference between being consistantly in the top four and winning SL but at the end of the day we are spending probably close to Leeds and Saints and not anywhere near them.

I didnt personally expect Silverware for 2-3 years given the upheaval at the club but i expected us to rebuild in a structured manner by bringing in quality proven players and developing the academy. The Cap should have allowed us to do this, which leads me to think we are operating drastically under the Salary Cap.

Perhaps a few years ago. A lot more than 4 SL clubs are spending the full cap nowadays. I feel we could have expected to make the play offs as a minimum with the players we have.

So lets forget about the 25 games we've lost since then shall we.
Sorry but the rest of the season easily wipes them out and haven't Salford beaten Saints and Leeds this year.
By who and how much longer can he live off it.
Definitely not.
I think you'd be surprised how many coaches would be intrested. Plus I've been mentioning Folkes for well over a year now and you no it.