Bit of a question about Simms. Is it right that he was brought in to take some of the workload of Tarry, leaving Mr Tarry to concentrate mainly on the stadium project? If so, now the stadium project is almost complete, is there still a need for a Director of Football? Or is this wide of the mark?

You'd think that at present somebody (CEO?) must have it within their role to manage the (Willows) stadium - so to sort insurance, liaise with the authorities, source and manage utility use, ensure that health & safety is complied with (facility wise), arrange stewarding, organise for maintenance and repairs etc. All that burden is removed at the new place by the stadium management company.

SS negotiates the contracts I don't think it will be hard to agree a deal with himself...unless he asks for a pay rise

He was brought in to help Steve McCormick,after twelve games Steve got the sack.The rest is history.

No, he wasn't. His role initially was to change the culture of the club signing overseas players without ever seeing them play or researching their recent past about form or injuries. He was brought in by JAW after the spectacular failures of Carige and the Corvo brothers. IIRC, one of Simms first contributions to our overseas signings were Darren Brown and Bobby Thompson who were a marked improvement on what had come before.

Pretty sure he was brought in as an experienced head as the board felt steve Mac would benefit from having someone who had been a coach in the top league before! then I think his role changed!

Don't think so, his brief was to utilise his contacts in Oz and visit there on scouting missions right from the get-go. It may be that it was because Steve Mc had no substantive contacts in the NRL or even the country RL set up over there that led to Steve Simms being employed by the Chairman. I spoke to Simmsy for an hour about his role when he'd just joined the club (in the Walkabout actually, I was there on my works Xmas do and he was there on Salford's Xmas do. He'd got there early and was stood on his own waiting for Ian Millward to turn up, so I took the opportunity and struck up a conversation). It's a fair amount of time ago now but even then he said his role was to help source and negotiate the overseas players terms for joining us and help with player welfare - no coaching involved and he didn't want to be a coach either as far as I can recall.

fair enough! our recruitment before him was shocking even tho we have had a few turkeys it has mainly improved 10 fold. Walkabout of all the venues hey!!

and 6 hours later memory erased

Perhaps this could be made a sticky for the poor people on here who suffer from chronic Simmsophobia.

To be fair, we were only there for a cheap beer before we went to the V&A hotel for posh nosh and ridiculous beer prices!!

Amen to that, matey.

But just make sure nobody mentions signing Borgese off youtube, or the crocked Bailey, or paying top dollar to Jeremy Smith...

Or letting the aussie players have a clause in their contract saying they don't have to return to training til January, much to the frustration of our new head coach..........