I'm just not sure where this unwavering support for Powell comes from. I'm not saying the players are blameless,nor am I saying they're good enough, but facts are these players are better than what they've shown this season. As a team we look clueless. It is absolutely the coaches job to get the best out of the group he's got. I can't see a single department that's improved under Powell - can you? We're not fitter or stronger, we look less drilled, less disciplined, worse in attack and worse in defence. So what is it that makes you think he's the man to back and trust going forward? Genuine question not meaning to sound confrontational at all.

I hope I'm wrong and he is the right man, the saviour, the guy whose going to take us to a grand final win.....but so far there's absolutely zero to suggest he possibly might be.

Ratch, Charnley, T King, Lineham, D Clark, J Clark, Cooper, Currie, Hughes are all supposed high profile players who've been around for the duration of Price's under achieving rein, some from earlier, and these players form the core of our squad (apart from the ones who have now left).

Are you seriously expecting us to to be performing well when many of those players who are still here have been told they need to improve, can't leave early and that they need to get out their comfort zone?

They're rebelling against the coach. Any coach brought in who's remit was to change the culture to a winning mentality would have faced the same problem imo to differing degrees. Powell, by the looks of it has gone in too harsh, but I'd rather that than get another yes man coach who's going to pander to the players.

Many of the great coaches at the greatest clubs in any sport are given time. It normally takes at least a season for new ideas to bed in - look at Watson at Huddersfield who were poor last season as an example.

People can say there are no shoots of recovery and I agree as I'm also disappointed and would have hoped for more, a lot more. But if we're going to change the culture medium to long term, it needs a root and branch clear out. Unfortunately Powell is stuck with these rebelling players for this season so we're going to have to ride it out.

Every single club he's managed, over 20 odd years, has improved and the players have improved also. There's no reason for this not to happen once he's rid the club of the players who don't give a monkeys. We'll have to wait til next season and judge him then.

I do agree though with a lot of things on here about the way he's gone about it, selection of young players and underperforming players for example.

The players are rebelling. They can't finish early and they've been told to improve and they don't like - it's player power. It's not that he can't coach and isn't a good coach; the players have apparently chosen not to take anything on board and are going through the motions.

We'll have to wait til next season to judge properly.

I'm not going to say too much more on this topic as I'm going round in circles saying similar things but on different threads.

I'll respectfully agree to disagree with anyone's who's disagreeing.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

I'm sorry but that's absolute nonsense and doesn't even make any sense.

Anyway I honestly hope this time next year you message me telling me I told you so. Fingers crossed

The list of high profile players above that are dragging the team down because of Powell’s positive intervention…

Ratch (Powell gave a new contract), Charnley (Not played since April, not been at the club for weeks), T King (Powell gave a new contract), Lineham (plays for Wakefield), D Clark (not what he was, but still a high calibre player, selected without question week on week despite a young, keen understudy), J Clark (Powell gave a new contract) Cooper (Our best prop, starts every week. Nothing more to add), Currie (poor form, his understudy has been on the naughty step for missing a tackle in April, since loaned out), Hughes (re-appointed captain by Powell. Not played in months)

I’m sorry, but the excuses that are being peddled by a few on here are absolute tripe. IF, and it’s a big if, Powell has come in and shook the system and changed the pattern of normality. That would/should have been done in November and December. How, in all seriousness, could it take until the last week of June to work out that Toby King is a bad apple?

These players didn’t win anything, but we’re in the competition and got to the latter stages of competitions. If that is underachieving, then what we have now is completely unacceptable. So what’s changed, we can no longer defend, we can no longer complete sets, we fall away at the back end of games. They are facts, not opinion. So what has changed?

Unorganised, underprepared and unfit.

MUST win tomorrow. They’ve got no pack and little to play for. If we don’t, there should be no more time wasted.

Waiting for next season? We are 4 points off relegation and have not performed well in more than one game all season. Unless something changes quickly then we are going down and can forget about next season

One last thing I forgot to mention and I'll shut up:

Did anyone see Lee Briers on the Sky Sports Superleague coverage a few weeks back and did anyone notice anything?

For the first time since he's been a coach at Warrington he didn't look like a tramp. I wonder if it had anything to do with his new position at Wigan. I wonder if Wigan would have employed him looking like he did for us as one of our senior coaches. It's a bit of a coincidence that now he's joined a more successful club, he's decided to project more of a professional demeanour.

At Warrington, he was a senior coach the players would have looked up to and someone who'd have been setting an example. If your senior coaches are turning up half washed, what does that say to the players. I reckon Powell saw this and its no coincidence that Briers left.

From top to bottom it's not been right for years. That's why we have no GF wins and that's why we need someone with the guts and track record of creating the right culture in Daryl Powell.

Before anyone says he didn't win a GF. Klopp or Fergie didn't win the Champions league before they had success at t heir respective clubs.

I'll shut up now.

Happy days beckoning in the Championship. I originally thought we shot ourselves in the foot bringing in Powell, his entourage and his player mates, I now realise we’ve blown our legs off Bad mistake- I hope I’m proved wrong

On what grounds is Powell this “good coach”? The team he left and stripped of his mates are on course to finish in their highest position since 2018. That would say that Lee Radford is doing a better job than Powell has done in 4 years. I think they’ve only been 4th or better 4 times in 10 years, and picked up a grand total of one league leaders shield.

Price had more success. Radford, more. Agar, more. Anderson, equal. How is he a better coach than Agar? How is he better than Radford?

None of those coaches you mentioned took a relegation threatened side/side consistently in the bottom half of the table to a League Leaders shield and GF. Let alone on the budget Powell had.

From Wiki. I've copied the info from just before DP was appointed as Castlford coach to the end of tenure:

Terry Matterson stepped down at the end of the 2010/11 season to take up a coaching role in Australia and was replaced by former St. Helens coach Ian Millward. Millward released by mutual consent on 9 April 2013 after a poor run of results with 1 win in 18 games and with the team at the bottom of the Super League table. Daryl Powell was appointed coach in May 2013 taking over from assistant coach Danny Orr, who had been in temporary charge of the club.

2013–present Castleford finished the 2021 Super League season in 7th place and missed out on the playoffs.