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Quote: Asim "Iestyn Harris - highly regarded by those in the game in terms of his coaching potential, seemed to do a good job with the Wales team he took over in a short space of time last year and has been involved in some promising work at both Featherstone and Crusaders in the last couple of seasons.

As a pundit he always seems to offer a level of insight and reading of the game unmatched by anyone else on our screens or airwaves and I'd be very interested to see how he does as a head coach, at the end of 2007 when I gave up on McNamara as a first team coach I did suggest him as a replacement, so I may be slightly biased here.

Cummins and Poching have both been involved in a coaching set-up that has led a team to 3 GF wins in a row, while successfully integrating home grown talent into the first team, they were both brought into the coaching set-up at Leeds by Tony Smith, who is of course brother to Brian so they can be claimed as part of his "stable" which oddly seems important to quite a few people, they might not be such a bad shout.'"

Id very much agree on the Harris points, I think he will make a very good coach, but then, that was exactly what was said about McNamara. Which might stilll turn out to be the case for both of them, but do we want to be the place where another coach learns from his mistakes in publc like Mcnamara has? (or not as the case may be) A gamble which might well work, but still a gamble. One that I would support though if the club felt that was the best option.

Cummins and Poaching??? Absolutely not for me, hard to think of a worse pair of names that have been linked, and thats a list that includes Paul Cullen and Ian Millward.

Quote: Asim "A new coach providing decent results is the only way crowds will start going back the right way, backed up with a pro-active marketing strategy.'"

This is spot on, no matter who the coach is.