Is anybody honestly shocked?

Holbrook didn't exactly have the best record when it mattered... Lost multiple knock-out games to both us and Catalan. Bit of a choker, no?

He won the Grand Final.

Well good luck to the guy if be comes.

We'll have ample time to judge whether he's a good coach, man manager AND political manoeuverer - if the rumours of really how bad the situation is within the club are true.
If he's just the former it'll end in tears I'd suggest.
If he does the business, I wonder how many of the sceptics will come on here to say 'I was wrong'. Not many methinks.

From the long list of 'possibles', he and Wane were the two that stood out for me - and I thought all along that Wane was a non-starter given his background and current commitments.

I note on other sites it's said he's 'rejected' the Wire approach (according to Vossy for example). I have no idea if that's true or not.

About the same number from those on here who were urging to stick with Powell and slating the "knee jerkers" over the last 18 months. Zero.

This does sound a little Aesop.

By stating a fact? I care neither way whether Holbrook comes or not because I don't think any coach will get us over the line such is my dissolusionment with the club in general after the past couple seasons, so why not Holbrook tbh. Just saying that we did in fact make him look silly with the likes of Price in charge and the something club that was Lineham, Mamo and was it Currie? Maybe King. Point stands.

HHolbrook was reportedly keen to accept our offer but sadly his family didn't want to come back.

Also Justin Morgan signing a new deal to stay in the NRL: https://www.totalrl.com/ex-hull-kr-boss ... ague-move/ I'm getting ominous vibes of the mess we found ourselves in after DVDV left and Neil Kelly turned us down and we were scrambling around trying to find somebody and ended up with Anderson and Plange. If needs be just stick with Chambers and Marshall for a year and look to recruit next year, rather than just grab whoever we can get and hope...

Also Justin Morgan signing a new deal to stay in the NRL: https://www.totalrl.com/ex-hull-kr-boss ... ague-move/ I'm getting ominous vibes of the mess we found ourselves in after DVDV left and Neil Kelly turned us down and we were scrambling around trying to find somebody and ended up with Anderson and Plange. If needs be just stick with Chambers and Marshall for a year and look to recruit next year, rather than just grab whoever we can get and hope...

To be fair his first year was as bonkers as anything I've witnessed and not just at the Wire, to say Powell's methods polarised opinion is an understatement and some might rightly but not in hindsight supported Powell to make it work given full backing and a reasonable amount of time. .

As a collective, once our heads cleared and we faced up to last season's nadir (given the investment and expectation), we seemed to be saving our assessment for the first run of games (6 or , where we all thought we'd know where we stood. How daft were we then?

Although as I've stated elsewhere I don't think that the majority were fooled by our blinding start and his removal from post is anything but a knee jerk reaction.

So who next then?

Holbrook will no doubt have swung back to the new Wayne Bennett from the overnight Andy Last on the redvee scouse reactionary coach-o-meter.

Daryl Powell is available.

On the positive side it shows our intent to get the best coach available and we moved fast but we might regret the rumours about how much we were willing to spend. Getting Aussie families to commit to a few years over here is a real issue. I think the vast majority of fans were looking forward to seeing what Holbrook could do ... but not to be. We move on.