Briers' continuing to play the panto villain is brilliant IMO. What's not to like? It seems to afford no apparent benefit to his side.

Wire have always done this. Marshall once spent 10 minutes out of final 20 on the pitch at Huddersfield directing the defensive line and attacking play. There's s difference between a "water carrier" coming on for a moment and passing a message and what briers was doing - which was coaching on the pitch. It's been noticed because it's briers- but that doesn't mean it's right.

All teams do this to a greater or lesser degree, it's only because it's Briers that this is now well into its 5th page. Anybody else from the Wire back room staff and nobody would even have noticed. Funny though

You can have a situation where you have a physio, water carrier and coach from each side all on the pitch at the same time.

Only at a break in play. As I understand it, during play, the defence aren't allowed coaches or water carriers on and physios only to attend to a player that's gone down.

You are clearly wrong

More faux hysteria about faux hysteria.

What's actually happening here in the real world is that people are discussing things - on an internet message board set up to facilitate the discussion of things. Go figure.

6 pages because some bloke from the coaching staff of a club is on the pitch. Get a life.

Continuously contributing to discussions with an affected world weariness about the discussion and/or the people discussing it, because the matter is apparently beneath discussion and not worth discussing. Get a life.

....and yet you can't see the irony in your post! Some folk really are thicker than the average bear!