It seems odd if we're going to announce a bunch of new signings when we haven't got a coach, unless:

a. Agar is the continuity and advised on the signings and will still be around next year.

b. We've been in secret negotiations with someone, and they've provided a 'wish list'

c. The signing of players is done by someone else in the club regardless of what the coach wants.

How Many new Signings are the club looking at unveiling?
I’m really concerned for the new Boss and the team they are going to inherit.
With all of the outgoing players and those out of contract there’s going to be no one at training.
Does anyone know who out of the current crop are contracted for next year?

This is why we should have struck whilst the iron was hot and made this decision months ago - probably after the Huddersfield game. We could have had someone in place now preparing for next season.

Sure you guys don't want Betts? He knows Brown really well. Perfect fit for your team. We won't even charge you £100k this time!

Unless your mate works for The Samaritans.



We're acting like a teenager whose first girlfriend has broken up with them. We think that we are never going to get anybody as good again.

Wigan, Saints and Leeds all go through coaches every few years and it never seems to stop them getting to finals and winning things. Our club needs the same mentality.

^^^THIS^^^

I think it should have been made 8 games into the season when it was clear we couldn't turn things around.

That way a new coach would have had the rest of the season to secure at least the Top 8 and a good cup run (a la Smith 2009) and then use the off-season to work from a clean slate and have a good first full year in charge.

Look at where we are now - no signings and struggling to get a coach all because of the uncertainty of whether we'd be playing in the top flight.

Don't want to rain on your parade BUT, Wigan have stuck with Wane, Leeds with McD. Saints have chopped and changed with little to show for it, and then stuck with Cunningham through thin and thin for longer than any right minded person would have thought possible.

I bet there will be a few rings twitching in the back room too ,some of the boys could be joining the dole queue.

I'm talking about over 10/15/20 years, not just the last few. Leeds have won Super League with 3 different coaches in the last 13 years. Wigan went through 7 or 8 coaches in the mid 80's to late 90's. Saints probably haven't won as much as the other two out they go through coaches and are always there or thereabouts; more so than us anyway.

We've got fans wetting the bed because we've had a decent coach who has finally won us a couple of pots and can't see the likelihood of us ever winning anything again now that he's left.

Sad day really but one that's been coming for months now if not the last 3 years be interesting to see how the team perform in the next 2 games now this decisions been made

I hope to God that Moran's has had" irons in the fire" since early May, regarding players and coach. ATEOTD, he's a business man, and he won't want to see it go down the pan.

Smith (for me) has been a dead man walking since May. His attitude has stunk, performances from the players too.Yet the regularity of "Smith Bingo" in press conferences became a joke. The things he mentioned are HIS responsibllity, but nothing changed, week in, week out.

We had more chance of plaiting snot than us getting Top 4, so the ignominy of not even getting Top 8 was his final nail in the coffin. I don't think Moran's wanted to take the risk of a new coach for the makeweight 8, so he trusted him to get us through. Limping over the line, with dross performances has just killed us all. Players, fans and board.

I can't be ar5ed looking at who's contact runs out in October,. I just hope a lot of them are gone.

Oh, and Clark, Cooper and a few others to have a long look at themselves in the mirror. I'd expect a damn site more from an ex Mos and someone returning from Oz with a big reputation. Carrying knocks or not, they've stunk, and bear culpability to the season's predicaments.

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