I think fans get too caught up in this stuff about how a coach comes over to the media. If you're winning, anything a coach says will be hailed as the words of a genius. If you're losing, anything he says will just irritate fans further. If Liverpool had finished 16th in the league, imagine what a prat people would think Klopp was. They would say stop trying to be a philosopher on life and learn to coach football.

I don't think a coach has to be someone who could do a Ted talk to inspire players. We're not talking about managing a sales team that you have to energise at 8am every day. They are managing northern working class lads and aussies who want to be dealt with straight and can see through fakes. Guys like Shaun Wane, Daryl Powell, Brian McDermott, are never going to be charismatic media personalities. What you can sense with them is authenticity. They understand the game and they aren't going to bullpoop a player. They don't have to work to get respect because players will automatically give it to them, and you can imagine that if you're in a dressing room and one of the players starts moaning about one of those coaches the other players will tell them to wind it in.

Fans didn't always like them either. McDermott had a large "McDermott out" campaign amongst Leeds fans every year that they were winning trophies. Over on the Wigan board there was always a lot of debate about Wane, strangely he seems to be more highly rated by Wire fans than Wiganers.

I was looking forward to the media interviews with "Sean Edwards" but it was not to be.
He takes no crap from whoever is dishing out the usual twaddly questions.
Well worth watching.

We won't win anything playing as we do now. Only seriously better performances will take us past Pies/ Saints/Cas/ Catalans and one or two others ( Hudds are still improving). I'm with Rico here insofar as no improvement = no trophies, but grinding out a few wins to build confidence is no bad thing right now. Have you noticed that, when 'set-free' of the game plan by an opportunity from deep ( like Lineham's and Widdop's tries) we can look inspired, skillful and daring? We need to work to release more of that.

We have scored a few from a distance & Widdop/King/Lineham are looking, relatively, exciting. Don't worry I have not gone totally mad.
Widdop's jink off his left foot (for that try) was a cracker.

As you say, we can do it. Let's hope for more of it

There's little value in changing coaches at the present time. Leave it until this season is done and dusted and nothing to play for. Then we'll just have to hope that the next appointee can win stuff while the team play entertaining rugby.