Leeds lover appears to think he is the voice of all Leeds fans. And even if he was, without somehow filtering out the heavy proportion of s how could you gauge the feelings of the ones with brains?

The difficulty with appointing a new coach is that Omar and Gerry are so new onto the scene that they must surely have extremely limited knowledge as to whether Cummins is the right guy.

If I were them I'd need for evidence than Mick Potter's recommendation - which will possibly be skewed by a sense of loyalty engendered by the way Cummins stuck with the club this season. In that position, I'd be having a quiet word with some of the senior pros in the squad - Diskin, L'Estrange, Langley.

It's a key appointment, if we get it wrong and it all ends in tears, then we could be into a downward spiral quite quickly

Cummins is clearly highly regarded by Potter and the players but I'm not sure he is ready for the hot seat without some sort of senior support. If he is appointed as Head Coach I'd like to see Noble or Kear brought in, in a Director of Football sort of role.

agree with idea of bringing in someone in a director of rugby role. let Cummins concentrate on coaching side initially and let someone else handle management side. Think it would need to be someone who was capable of taking a step back and not micro managing coaching side and undermining Cummins. Not sure either Noble or Kear could stay in the background.

It will be interesting to see what the overall management structure will be. Previous chairmen, Hood and Caisley's, appeared to be fairly hands on in running the club particularly regarding recruitment. And they employed CEOs to deal with the day to day stuff. Khan And Sutcliffe don't have the experience on the rugby side and will focus on commercial activities.

Both have said they will leave the rugby side to, and be guided, by, the coaching staff.

I don't think we can afford the luxury of a director of rugby unless there's somebody prepared to do it for nothing. Cummins is either up to the job or he's not. He's been an assistant for long enough. I can't think of any coaches who didn't start as an asistant- Shaun Wane was an assistant last season.
They either
1, Have a target from outside the club in mind.
2, Advertise the post - but as we need someone fairly quickly the process would probably take too long.
3, Promote from within - ie Cummins gets the job.

I dont think it will be that to appoint, there must be 300 fully qualified international coaches on rlfans alone.

The winner of the fantasy league competition has to be a shoe-in surely.

Would have to be the bradford league winner tho for loyalty, someone who turns up to all the matches, knows everything about the bulls, knows the players inside out, always puts forward a valid argument why we should have won and why we lost.

Step forward mr mystic eddie with tigertot as his assistant.

It's hard to say what cash will be available. I know, I've said myself, a few times, we probably won't have money for this, that and the other, but in truth we really don't know exactly what will be available and before we forget, OK has already said the full cap is there to spend, so it doesn't sound [iexactly[/i like it's being run on a shoestring. I guess that there is also the possibility that OK will be trying to get more people (and finance) onto the board and maybe there will be some experience there. does anyone know if Gary Tasker is remaining as chief exec? He certainly has a wealth of experience and would take much of the load from the other guys. I'd say someone of his ilk would be an essential part of a well run club.

Taken at face value though, and having no knowledge of other appointments, I have to say that a rookie coach along with owners with no real experience in RL does sound to be taking a risk, and I'd suggest that the 'director of rugby' route might be the safer option, with the obvious tag - with money being available.

From what I've heard it is an experienced coach we have approached.

Nobby?