I hope when Mike Cooper is finished with Wigan we can bring him in to the back room staff. Make him "head of performance" or something. Maybe Wigan could let him have some time off training to start learning the job now.

To be fair recognising that you have a problem is often cited as the first step on the road to recovery. I too wish Chambers all the best in his new role, at least the Club's hierarchy have concluded that all was not well with the structure of the Club and addressed it.

It pains me to use this particular football analogy, but City worked towards where they are now under Guardiola by putting their house in order first. The difference of course being that they seemed to have targeted their man and put all the 'back of house' pieces in place with Director of Football Scouting and Recruitment roles on the basis of 'what would Pep want?'

They didn't use their new found wealth to put in place what Pearce, Hughes or Mancini wanted, theirs was a bigger vision. However, I hope like them that we agree a plan and make sustainable progress and stop jumping from the frying pan into the fire every couple of years exciting though that can be.

I hope it's a true board level position with empowerment and not just a convenient deflection shield for the board and CEO.

i hope so too, as it's the only way to test the strategy, Chambers himself and legitimise the role.

Talking of the CEO, he has been anonymous hasn't he?

That's what we want, isn't it? Focus on the business side of things and let others worry about what happens on the field.

Does anyone really care.

We had this kind of set up with Alex Murphy as Director of Rugby and Jon Dorahy as first team coach.

Murphy was in charge of recruitment and he said there'll be no more money at this club wasted on second rate players....although if you look at the players we brought in during that time....

I also remember him being asked at some kind of fans forum what the title Director of Rugby means and he gave a one word answer which rhymed with rollocks...

Or are they gonna conveniently leave it till they are time barred just like eufa did

Yes the elephant is still in the room

That's a lot more easily done if you're the club with the most money in the whole sport like city were at that time. That's not what Wire are, superleague money compared to the NRL is like trying to attract pep as manager to one of the biggest clubs in the championship, probably someone like leicester city right now. Still good but just not at the same level financially or in terms of sporting standard. We can't afford the best and sadly superleague isn't the pinnacle of the sport where the best want to test themselves. Let's hope IMG can help to improve both situations.

Will Gleeson join this week to work on plays for the Leeds game.