As fans we have 2 choices - go and watch the club, whoever is the coach, and give them our support.....

....or stay at home and fume because we haven't recruited the love child of Wayne Bennett/Sean Wane (Wayne Wane??) who doesn't exist.

I'll see you at the HJ

He sounds like a pretty determined character.
Now if his goal is to go straight back to the NRL in a head coaches role then good luck to him.
There are not many coaches that walk straight into a head coaches job in the NRL unless they have won a grand final over here.
There are only a couple I can think of over the last 20 years - Mick potter and Trent Robinson
There is a big list of Super League coaches that didn't win a grand final that went back as assistant or drifted off into obscurity (Price, Hodgson, Woolford, Morgan, etc etc.)

So if an NRL head coaches role is what he is after then he knows what he has to do. And apart from the RU experiment he has gone and done what he set out to do.
I am on board but it doesn't matter if the fans are. It matters if the players are.

I heard you shouting his name, in a Kathy Burke/Waynetta Slob type voice

I wouldn't be surprised to see a promotional video nearer to season ticket time featuring Big Sam ,the Starlights & Wizzy Rascal sailing down an airbrushed Mersey at Warrington Bridge..

A Karl production to equal anything by Cecil B. De Mille.

Corrected for accuracy

I watched one. Non of it means he'll be a good coach. Judging by his whole ethos, he was only able to get his team to buy into it for one year over the course of his entire career. Not a good return.

I do feel sorry for you. You are literally going to spend the whole of next season waiting for us to fail, just so you can come here and try to score points by saying 'I told you so'.

I totally get that you are underwhelmed by the appointment (you still haven't said who would satisfy you), but to drone on about it so negatively just smacks of a spoilt child.

Not been on here for a long time but cannot believe the ludicrous negativity about the club taking a bold choice. Everyone should be overjoyed that Powell has gone (he has set the club back five years) and we have a new coach with everything to prove.

The Assistant role now should be very interesting, shame Gleeson hasn’t taken it permanently. Sam on defence, Gleeson on attack.

I feel sorry for deluded lot, frankly. Back on the merry go round for another few years before you see the light of day. I'm so sorry that my opinion is such a thorn for you to see, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to challenge the very real twoddle on here about this appointment. People swayed by an interview in which he talked a good game, his belief system worked for him, but it didn't really work on anyone else did it bar the one year? Which it seems only happened because he decided he was out the door because it'd taken him 4 years of banging his head against the wall and still having no trophy to speak of.

I'm sure we'll do moderate success compared to the last couple years, judging by the barometer of his career at Souths, we'll get about as much success as Price did. 3-4th place finishes on our good years, and a gallent win or two in the play offs. Mediocrity. And just because the ars fell out of the club in the past couple years under Powell, which the same people 'knew he was the right choice to lead us forward' are now throwing him under the bus just as easily, don't expect people to be content with 4th by contrast.

Supporting any sports team is based on delusion/hope. The vast majority of supporters the world over will inevitably be disappointed because only a tiny amount of teams can win the available trophies, whatever the sport.

But supporting a team is about having hope, having dreams, backing those hopes and dreams, seeing that hope crushed, on occasion seeing that hope rewarded.

Supporting a team is not about behaving like a spoilt child, demanding success like some self entitled brat.

Most people know this appointment is a gamble. Most, deep down, because of our record, probably do suspect its likely to end in tears, but most will get on board because its what supporters do - We dare to dream and hope, because ultimately its sport and there are far more important things to whine about.

Perhaps lighten up a bit, enjoy the ride and you never know, you might find some joy in supporting your team.

I'll be happy when i'm given something to be happy about. Until then they'll recieve due response based on the previous decisioms, and this most recent one. At this point they're just throwing sh*t against the wall and BEGGING for it to stick. And What is this nonsense that demanding success means I'm a spoilt child? Will Burgess be a spoilt child when he demands success? Because one would hope thats why he's here?? Stupid assertion. Why am I not allowed to demand success? We've been promising it for 15 years but always end up finishing like wet farts.

Very rousing speech though. Good effort. Maybe we'll become the hunters next year!

Nice to see were all happy with the appointment then.

Im calling it now... a return to the 'souths' away shirt next season.

Like I said, you aren't a supporter. For your own piece of mind, you probably need to find an alternative hobby like golf or fishing...