What is important is that the fans get a sniff of improvement to performances through an improved & settled squad in the second half of the season . No good promising jam tomorrow when the club will be trying to flog season tickets in 6 months time & we all know how many false dawns there have been at the Wire. There have been plenty of false dawns in my 60 years of supporting the club.

One thing to remember with Powell was he also had to do a lot of "squad surgery" when he took over at Leeds from Dean Lance as they were carrying a lot of senior players who were underperforming and the club was in a frustrating state of underachievement.

Powell moved on guys like Andy Hay, Darren Fleary, Anthony Farrell, Ryan Sheridan, Jamie Mathiou plus the big gun NRL signings Brett Mullins, Tonie Carroll, Brad Clyde and Robbie Mears. Iestyn Harris also departed for RU soon after he took over.

In their place he signed Andrew Dunemann, Chris McKenna, Matt Adamson, David Furner, Gary Connolly, Adrian Vowles, Willie Poching - who were all good reliable senior professionals to create a positive environment in which he could bring through the guys from the youth team - Rob Burrow, Mark Calderwood, Danny McGuire, Richie Mathers, Ryan Bailey, Danny Ward, Matt Diskin, JJB.

Leeds didn't implode like we are doing now probably because he had access to a much stronger pool of senior players to recruit from and also their youth talent that he was bringing through was far superior to ours, but there was a bit of turbulence in Leeds at the time and I expect Powell ruffled feathers by moving on so many of the old guard particularly as some of those guys would have been his former teammates dring his playing days.

That squad surgery job he did at Leeds was successful and he left a team for TS which was ready to challenge for the title (and won the GF in TS first season).

And Ryan Sheridan is now his right hand man.

You're not wrong but you've overlooked the part that Hetherington played. Signings for example: it's probable that he held a lot more sway than Powell in that regard. Then there was the masterstroke of recognising Powell's limitations and replacing him with Tony Smith. At that time, the Leeds golden generation had only narrowly lost a cup final to the then dominant Bradford side. There was no crisis and fans weren't calling for Powell to go. As far as many were concerned, Leeds was a side on the up. Really ruthless stuff, both from Powell who ditched a load of former team mates and from Hetherington who pretty much did the same to Powell. Maybe it's that kind of ruthlessness that Powell's meant to bring to Warrington, rather than simply coaching the 17 on the park?