heard ritchie blackmore will be at the fans forum tonight.

Along with other unqualified coaches !

So no qualified coaches want to coach us...but good on Ritchie for going to the fans forum in what must be a really strange situation

Leigh are being coached by one of the most highly qualified coaches in the RL, Paul Rowley has a level 3 coaching certificate together with Neil Jukes's level 2 (studying level 3 at the moment), the 'new guy' if he is appointed will either take the title General Manager with duties more than team one's and will work towards the level 3, that will be either of the antipodeans or the 3rd guy who is already based in this country.

Seems good to me.

It really is a ridiculous situation that you have to attain a ' badge ' to say you are capable of coaching at pro level , and that this applies to players who have spent years competing at the highest level of the sport

Well said

Folk are so bl**dy negative at times and one would think Dave Woods's agent was on here.

So are the aussie and the new zelander only over here to visit family and to watch the 4 nations and leighs actual new coach is paul rowley?

What concerned me a little was Keith Freer making it very obvious that of a field of three coaches they only really wanted two of them. Now if the nightmare scenario comes true and neither get a visa, we will have a coach who knows that the club don't really want him and will probably replace him when someone better comes along. What kind of job is he going to do?

Tact, diplomacy and winning hearts and minds has never been a strong point at Leigh.
I'm sure Trevor sees it as very much a work in progress....along with the gazillion other things that need doing.

But they're the best people we have - so why not cut them some slack now and again.

We lack in the forwards so sign Blackmore as a player he's a monster

I was a little surprised to learn Paul Rowley was advising with the signings.This follows on from my viewing of a fans forum when it emerged that one of the first jobs on the second coming of Ian Millward was to reduce the budget afforded to the playing staff.This would mean that Rowley had a squad of players assembled with one of the highest budgets which only escaped relegation in 2009 because the above mentioned David Woods had taken steps towards an Employment Tribunal and his former club was liquidated to prevent him getting any compensation.
I thought Fred would be impressed with Gateshed Thunder completing the double over Leigh with a number of the players either signed by DW or developed by him,(but not coached by him,that year.) Perhaps not !
I am NOT his agent by the way.Wouldn't have thought he needed one - with his qualifications.
Still,they do say 'If you always do what you always did you always get what you always had.'

Sincere good luck.I admire the support you have for your club.

If Blackmore or Anderson aren't appointed coach then I'd be happy enough to have Paul Rowley as our coach for the season until we find the right coach to take us forward. Paul knows the Championship inside out, we can't get relegated & I'm sure working along side IM he would of picked up some good coaching tecniques learning from the best.

Along with 90%+ of all the ridiculous rules about at the moment, it's because of the requirements of insurance companies.