Glenn Morrison struggled badly at Dewsbury over the last couple of years. I know a lot of lads that have played under him that don't rate him very highly and he's always appeared to have Jimmy Lowes syndrome when it came to picking his favourite players regardless of form.

I'm not convinced by Morrison as a coach. He gave 100% as a player but I think he struggled as a coach to get that out of his players.

Don't forget that we are talking about assistant coach at a Lg1 club. There can't be many people that would find this their dream job.

You are right ,I've heard from former players a very similar story.

on a positive note who at the beginning of the year expected a Toovey?? ,absolutely anything is possible at bradford

We don't need a big name or an ex player we need a tried and tested coach that will get results..ala Kear.
Buggering about with the above has cost us big time in the past and will continue to do so..

I would say kear is a big name.

He won't drop to the depths.

His inability to inspire seasoned players (and thoroughly p them off) was his downfall at Fev. Developing and bringing on youngsters is a completely different kettle of fish to coaching a first team.

Boring training sessions was one negative I heard from his time at Fev.

Apparently John is very big on the small things and would spend a long time on things like grip and carry each session. Let's be honest, that's exactly what this group of players needs (although we don't know what'll be left of the group).

Personally, I think that he's as good as anyone we'll get in League 1. As I already said, it's all well and good saying "He needs to continue the job he's doing", but he might want the opportunity to be a head coach, and if the Bulls don't offer him a chance someone else probably will.

If your squad next season really needs that level of coaching it isn't going to break many pots in L1! As for him wanting to coach at 1st team level there have been plenty of jobs come up since he left Fev but I don't recall him being linked to any of them. Also since the RL world is a pretty close community I would imagine the stories of his time at Fev are well known and might well go against him.

Nobody seems to know for sure if John actually wants to be a first team coach.

I'd sooner he stay where he's done so well up to now. Horses for courses and all that. We need to ask if we're serious about getting promoted. The coaching appointment will be key to attracting decent talent, which makes me concerned about the lackadaisical manner we seem to be treating the Toovey staying or going situation.

Indeed, but the question isn't "Is he the Sp[ecial One right now". We're gonna be a pretty ropey 3rd division outfit and won't have a queue of decent applicants. We should never have let Morrison go, I had him down as joining our coaching setup and cutting his teeth gradually.

I don't dispute he's not cracked any pots but I'm making an assessment as a bloke and as a player. Asa player he commanded respect, and as a bloke he spoke very well and seemed to have plenty of idea and front and grey matter. So I reckon he could make a decent coach.

Plus, there is no doubt he will have had the opportunity to have learned from his mistakes in coaching, granted, peoplle do not always learn from their mistakes but I think he's clever enough to have done, and would likely do things differently next time round. Which is after all prety much the same basis as most decent soccer managers stay on the merrygoround. They all get sacked, but it doesn't make them crap.

Like you say, he's not achieved coaching greatness so will come cheap. Plus, he's got Odsal history and must have some sentiment for the place and the fans. Might be a good stepping stone for him and I don't know how much better we could reasonably aim.

Well who'd have thought we'd have got Geoff Toovey with a 57.6% win ratio in the NRL? I understand we'll hardly be an attractive proposition but his appointment last year was so out of leftfield as to make me wonder.

Having said that I suspect Toovey is here partly down to a connection with Graham Lowe being a former protege. I also suspect that once Toovey is gone Chalmers will be setting his sights as low as possible in terms of cost though I still have a tiny kernel of hope he'll prove me wrong.

At the end of the day you can have an ace coach but if the squad is made up of players that nobody wants then you're going to get stuffed. So far we have Gibson, Lee Smith and Hallas under contract for next year. Over to you Chalmers, get on with it...