According to RL express Wrigley has applied but isn't necessarily a shoe-in.However what drives me nuts is the Club will be happy if they have someone in post by the end of the month.A month!!!-surely even an Aussie could be appointed before then and get a Visa through in a month.He could at least be watching vids of the players then.

He could get the job and not get the Visa... McGuire at Wigan was in the same boat and got his Visa due to certain circumstances... those may not apply to Wrigley.

If it takes a month then so be it.... we have a max of 4 games in May... assuming we beat Hunslet and get a good draw in the next round... all the games are winnable and well within our sights... So I'm OK to wait a month for the right guy.

However... I'm not sure Wrigley is first choice... but he is definitely up there.

Has anybody considered, the club may already have been arranging Visa(s) and will take this into consideration before appointing a coach. Let's face it, maybe, just maybe, the appointment of a new coach has been going on behind the scenes for a while. McRae's, effectively, been gone for two plus months now. It could be they've found their man and acted quickly to get rid off McRae.

I'd be very happy if the club did something right for once. Take the required time to get the right person and not just a knee jerk appointment. As has been said before I doubt if it were to be Lam that he would have any issues with a visa as he if I recall has an English parent?.

"Michigan Red"! You took the words right out of my mouth! I said before on another thread, the important thing is we find the right coach & if that takes the rest of the season to put in place that will be fine with me. Lets not put pressure on the club, they already know how important it is to get this one right.

I see our target for motivational coach is now not available since the yanks got rid of him this morning.

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I think the club has come in for a lot of criticism in recent weeks and I'm not sure it's justified. I'm not saying that things have been perfect off the field but in the circumstances the powers that be have handled themselves pretty well it seems to me.

The Chief Coach goes off on long term sick. It seems that the club negotiates an agreement with him to allow for another appointment. This can't happen overnight.

An Assistant Coach is in dispute with the club. All statements follow employment procedure protocol and no silly statements of any sort are made whilst attempts are made formally to resolve the issue. This too won't be resolved overnight.

The current staff seem to be doing everything to keep the players focused on their rugby. As we know only to well there have been ups and downs whilst they tried to do this with the Warrington and Huddersfield games massive disappointments.

But the club does need to resolve the Coaching position quickly I think. I have enough faith in the powers that be to think that they are trying to sort out the coaching job currently and would lay money that they have been trying to do that for some time.

I just hope the new coach has got vision, awareness and the strength enough to be his own man. I also hope that he will be allowed to bring with him his own assistant if we do have a vacancy in the future as the idea of a coaching team seems crucial.

I do not want a man who smacks of being yesterday's man with a lengthy track record from years ago, but hope that we can appoint a dynamic, determined and innovative coach who can organise the current squad defensively and motivate them to play for him. Our attack does seem to be functioning well most of the time and anyone watching videos of our performances must know what we have to do to improve.

I hope we make the right decision - and pretty quickly too!

If he wants to be is own man,he's no chance of getting the job.

nobby or kear END OF....stuff the convicts

sorry but I am not stuffing



Both would not rip up and relace the malaise we have been so concerned with for so long. They really are icing on cake coaches: excellent with the team but not good preparing the future.

We've had 4/5 such coaches - let's be ambitious.

HANDS OFF KEAR

Not to upset you Wakeymandan8,but im sure your great coach wont have to think to hard if offered the position with us in our sparkling new ground or stood at a funny angle watching you boys at mount pleasant!

Lam for me.
Young, ambitious with new ideas exactly what we need.
Dont think he would come, but you dont know until you try do you.
Kurt Wrigley is at Souths where McRae came from which is enough to put anyone off

Even though he wants to continue coaching in Super League, he absolutely loves it at Wakey, and it would take a big offer to prize him away. In recent interviews, he has continued hinting that he will sign a new deal by discussing how much he is enjoying himself this year. And also, when we had a fans forum at Belle Vue, I am sure that he said its upto James Elston (Chief Exec) and Andrew Glover (Chairman) to offer him a new deal because he is ready to sign it (or something of that sort). Andrew Glover will do EVERYTHING possible to keep him at Wakey, and we all know that Glover has the money to offer him a decent pay package, therefore, I hope that he will sign a new contract as soon as possible.

The way i see it in a few months time there are going to be at least 4 super league head coaches positions available,(if salford dont appoint someone before the season ends),namely salford,hudds,pies and dull.Clearly Nobby,Kear,Millward and several other convicts names are going to be thrown into the bag!I do think realistically though that regarding the head coaches position at Salford it will be sorted within the next month and with the power and string pulling capabilities that father ted has,we are more than likely to have an Aussie on board than Mr Kear!

Though i,ve never been a big fan of Nobby,you have to admit he did a great job with the welsh at the begining of last season.Why not as a short term contract, then perhaps look at hunte or somebody of that ilk.I do nothing but complain about the influence of the Aussies in our game,and with 3 years before the next franchise nonsensemaybe we might just find that young English coach we are all hoping for.

I'd favour an experienced coach with SL experience. We need someone who can offer more than innovative ideas.

As for Lam, a top bloke. You couldn't meet a nicer bloke IMO. He has experience at a number of clubs and appears to be ambitious. However, I think we need a bit more than that.

Anyone remember Kurt Wrigley playing for the opposition at The Willows? He was a clever player.

Am i mis-reading player tweets or are they discussing 'the' new coach before any anouncement?

looking again - could be mixing conversations and mentioning the possibles...

A young(er) antip with a point to prove, please.

As far as it's been reported , Phil Veivers is the only person who has definately said he has put in for the Job , not even Kurt Wrigley who has been mentioned as Salford top target .

There are only- 16 Top grade Coaches Jobs in the NRL & at Present 14 in the ESL , Salford are one of those top 30 Jobs. That's a pretty elite Job !

The previous 5 Coaching appointments made at Salford have all happened mid season with the Club ' in Crisis ' , the last time it was offered to a Guy who had only come over to do a bit of Sky Punditry...

Again we have Radio ,Trade Press & Forum's ramping up the Salford in Crisis senario and I don't want Salford's next choice of Coach to be "yet another one we will live to regret ..."
So if we have to wait until the end of the season in order to secure the right person so be it , it's one of the best Job's in the world !

what do you mean "one of the best jobs" !!!!

Second only to President of the United States of America.

Oh and Manager of Manchester United.

Every other job is crap.