In Smtih i trust

AAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Did not want Lowes to stay

Rugbychick

This is great news.

For how many years have we been complaining about the lack of winners on our support staff, it was always Darby and Chambers good blokes but where's their medals.....

Finally we have someone on the backroom staff with more medals than Mr T

LOL. I thought that was jewelry rather than medals unless you are referring to his purple heart.

Unfortunately he also has the rugby league coaching ability and success of Mr T. Its a crazy appointment, he has failed in every coaching job he has done.

How has he 'failed in every coaching appointment'.

From what I remember he has basically had three coaching appointments:

- Salford assistant coach (Didn't Salford get 5th place in his first season, then he left half way through his second)
- Warrington assistant coach (Didn't Warrington win the Challenge Cup)
- Warrington head coach (flying start then it went to pot)

I don't doubt that he needs a longer apprenticeship before he gets a head coach job again but the clubs where he has been assistant coach have had a measure of success, how much of that is due to his input who knows but you can't say categorically he has failed.

Tony Smith seems to have a lot of faith in him and when they were a coaching duo together for Great Britain we beat the Kiwis 3-0.

Because we can do better! Most fans have lost faith in him ages ago.

Explain.....?

When Smith was off on other duties & Lowes was left in charge we always put in a bad performance & got hammered.

He's the less influential part of a duo (Okay, a team of follk but let that go) that delivered the clubs first major trophy in 35 years, So I'll give him some slack to be honest.

He annoyed the hell out of me as head coach, but all the vibes seem to be that he's a bloody good assistant. Given Che's (see what I did there all you fussball fans) philosophies and insistance on attitude and whatever, Jimmy must have alot of qualities as I think he's made it extremely clear from the outset that he isn't prepared to work with anybody that doesn't have this.

Folk have questioned alot of Smith decisions, alot of folk intimated that there'd be some sort of 'Cull' just as soon as he could, both on the playing & coaching roster, well, I think he's made it pretty clear to date, handing out renewals to the likes of V.Anderson, Briers, now Lowes, if you have the quality of character and want to be here, there's a place for you, fall beneath these standards, like Gleeson, and maybe that Physio, you're gone.

i would hardly call 24-12 a "battering"

bradford, while smith was in france with england. we also didnt have morley that day

I think you will find it was 10-21.
We had a run of 5 wins. Smith goes away we lose. He comes back & we win 3 games.