[iKurt Wrigley has told Steve Simms he is not interested in becoming the head-coach at Salford City Reds and he will be staying down-under.

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Worrying. The issue is if we appoint from the British game: with both Messrs Simms and Wilkinson travelling to Australia, the rumour will start that we 've been turned down by our prime hopes and having to settle for second-best ([size=85and the game thinks we are not good enough[/size).

In the newspaper it mentions several applicants from Australia, why would people assume that all those overseas coaches who applied for the job in the first place turned the club down?

This is hypothetical until an announcement is made.

Farcical. If he has applied for the job how can he be turning down the club before the Chairman has even arrived and any proper selction process has been applied?

Furthermore why is it so public that this guy has been seen and this decision made?

The process already risks the suggestion that the appointed coach was not first choice!

A chance to make a clean start already smacks of rank amateurism and poor management. salford fans deserve better.

Did he apply for the job or was it all just paper talk?

Has anyone from the club made it public?

Has anyone from the club said he was first choice? Has anyone from the club said he was [iany[/i choice?

The answer to your fourth point depends on the answers to the previous three.

I've heard a suggestion that Wrigley was advised to give Salford a wide berth by an NRL club official who used to work over here - they suggested that there may be better jobs coming up than the Salford one.

Quote Red John="Red John"Did he apply for the job or was it all just paper talk? Has anyone from the club made it public? Has anyone from the club said he was first choice? Has anyone from the club said he was [iany[/i choice? The answer to your fourth point depends on the answers to the previous three.'" Press coverage and direct quote from Simms: menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... SS+Feed%29 Maybe Simms is speaking to people he is [unot interested[/u in AND just to reinforce the point he is speaking to their agent. Then once he has established a lack of interest Simms tells the press that the coach is not interested. or It is a botched job bearing no resemblance to a professional selection process.

Quote Red John="Red John"Did he apply for the job or was it all just paper talk? Has anyone from the club made it public? Has anyone from the club said he was first choice? Has anyone from the club said he was [iany[/i choice? The answer to your fourth point depends on the answers to the previous three.'" Press coverage and direct quote from Simms: menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... SS+Feed%29 Maybe Simms is speaking to people he is [unot interested[/u in AND just to reinforce the point he is speaking to their agent. Then once he has established a lack of interest Simms tells the press that the coach is not interested. or It is a botched job bearing no resemblance to a professional selection process.

Or could it be that potential coaches price themselves out of it by asking for too much money?

It seems to me that the club is in a no win situation. If there is no statement then we get anxious because we don't know what's going on; if it drip feeds information along the way then people put a spin on these statements and may come up with the wrong answer.

In the mean time we are left with rumour and speculation. Other clubs looking for a new coach manage to carry out their selection process in relative secrecy as they haven't had a coaching vacancy so publicly obvious.

One thing I am certain of is that we need a new coach urgently and that coach needs to be a good one. The sooner it is all resolved the better. I don't care whether the new coach is perceived as first, second or third choice in some people's minds as long as he is good at his job and can get this group of players to perform to their potential on attack and defend with organisation,spirit and purpose.

I don't think it does. How could Wrigley be first choice before they even interviewed him or all the other applicants? Had he turned it down, had they offered him the job, then that would be different. From where I'm sat he's applied for the job and changed his mind before the interview. As it says in the newspaper there are still several others in Australia and England who want the job.

You may not care but some potential coaches do care about these things. and if simms had not cleared it with Wrigley that he was going public then that would be another c*ck up.

So it was NOT an interview but it WAS talks with Wrigley and talks with his agent. And as a result of these talks - not an interview - Wrigley says that he is not interested in the salford job.

And then the need for a public announcement from Simms.



The jabbering with the press by Simms shows he is out of his depth with such an important project. .

Can't really blame him can you?