Is there anyone on here who ?

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No. I simply ask that you suggest an alternative and then argue your case as to why they will necessarily do better. And people seem reluctant to do this for some reason.

Quote: anarkik "This is of course will always be the case no matter what happens, as things can always get worse, but if we never make that change we can never know, so essentially the argument is circuitous.'"

It's not intended to be an argument closer but an argument initiator. However, sadly too often the people calling for the sack have no clue as to who they want to bring in. Now I don't expect them to be experts in the likelihood of various prospective coaches taking the job. But the fact that they aren't doesn't seem to make them pause and wonder whether there's a soft landing at the end of the leap they want to take.

Asim makes a fair point about Millward, though 'second most successful Super League coach' is a little disingenuous given the extent to which he is damaged goods.

Quote: anarkik "The second but connected argument is that no-one of any quality would want the job, but once again if we take that seriously we wouldn't get rid of McN and we'd never know if that were the case. The other difficulty with this argument is that both Tony Smith and Nathan Brown have taken over struggling/under performing teams which play in brand new stadia and are bankrolled by wealthy indviduals during McN's tenure and have improved them enormously. So whilst we don't know if either of these coaches would have come to the Bulls we do know that coaches have been available that would have likely made a significant improvement.'"

Crucial omissions corrected.

Look. I, like most on here, expected us to comfortably make the eight and have a decent dig at the four. The fact that we haven't done the latter and are close to certain now not even to manage the former gives me pause for thought. This squad, shorn as it has been of Solomona and Morrison, should still have been good enough to do better. In fact we have seen it do better. But rarely for a whole game, incredibly rarely in successive games since the first half of 2007.

The question is, what to do about it? Make the head coach carry the can is the obvious answer and not necessarily the wrong one. I just don't have any confidence that it won't prove to be counter-productive. In the mean time, the long term plan goes out of the window for... what? A new long term plan? Another five years? Or do we keep chopping coaches who can't get the job done inside three?

These are not rhetorical questions. They are very real ones that the club will have to face if it takes the action that pretty much everyone on here save me, Duckman and I think FA (feel free to clarify, folks) want them to take. I think the chances of us happening on another Brian Smith to turn the club around are pretty remote. I suspect we're more likely to end up with another Ron Willey. Maybe I was part of the Negative Tendency all along.