Good luck Medders

Deceptively pacey as a second rower, great at running out wide - formed the perfect team with Koncrete in the second row

Thanks for all the youth work/coaching - we have the Burgesses, Bateman, Whitehead and no doubt a good few others al because of you.

Cheers B&B Paul!

I'd like to thank Paul for all he's done for the club. If anyone exemplified all that was good at the club it is Paul.

When he gets to Rot Hall I hope he delivers a few crash tackles on some people who deserve it.....

Medley's job has not been confirmed. The RFL want evidence that he can pay his tax for the next 10 years, a £1/2m bond and they are going to withhold half his wage for the next 2 years and distribute it amongst the other staff. The last bloke also left a lot of debts and a tax bill, so Medley has to pay those.

The RFL gave a substantial loan to the last bloke which he can't pay back so Medley needs to cover that too.

The last bloke also had given a charge over all his assets to Greggs, but has defaulted. For some reason the RFL don't want to upset Greggs, so Medley has to pay them too.

And for the next 12 months he has to agree to Nigel Wood accompanying him on weekly shopping trips to approve any purchases.

It is an unwritten clause of the contract (in order that the RFL can deny any such arrangement ever existed in the event of death by starvation)that the employee buys 24 jam donuts on each and every such aforementioned shopping trip as amended by clause subsection 99b.(written as we speak)

A big loss. Medders has been a great servant to the club since 1989. Good luck to him.

Should have happened ages ago then kids like Wardle, Hellewell, Naughton wouldn't have left.

Yeah that's all down to Medley and nowt to do with the club having bugger all money or them not ready to play in the first team.

Boo! Medley Boo!

Probably went before being made redundant.
Best servant the club has had since nobby !

Unbelievable. RFL giving us the full backing by taking our staff now. Not enough that they register our players to other clubs they now take our coaching staff as well. If the RFL are the guardians of the game then I'd rather have Jimmy Saville in charge of the local nursery

I see. So, then, Wardle, Hellewell and Naughton - how did they achieve the standard they did if all he did was talk a good job?

Rubbish - them kids left for money, nothing else

Seems some of them wanted back too after finding out the other side wasn't as rosey.....

Difficult to know isn't it? Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but without any 'insider' knowledge, we fans generally take an overview and just see the overwhelming good.

Don't know a thing about our 'inquisitor', of course, but it all sounds very personal and I suspect he may have been some kid that Medders had the unfortunate task of telling that he wasn't good enough.

We've had this before with an ex-junior coming on here and moaning about the coaches [specifically McNamara], and it turned out he was exactly the same, Macca picked others before him so he slated all the youngsters that Macca had chosen ahead of him and Macca himself.

I felt the same about the music teacher who chose someone else to take the solo and not me.........good job there were no msg boards back then

I'm sure that if you looked hard enough, you'd find someone willing to claim that Trevor Foster was overrated, Keith Mumby wasn't all that, and Karl Fairbank was a bit of a wuss.