whoever it was dosnt matter turks had us playin great rugby the win in the cup against salford was great also crowds were touching 4000 he took us forward and made us a great team to watch but now agree were back 10 yrs

Paul gave the club great service and we did indeed play some good stuff under his managership

I personnally kept him in the job after the loss at Chorley to D Abrams team of ex leythers

In the end it wasn,t just down to Dereck as someone has suggested , it was a unanimous decision by the whole board , Paul was beaten man after the 5th match against Salford [ the 4 th loss after the 1 st draw and then progressively worse results ] he had nothing left to put into the team

What I can tell you is on the day we had 3 directors flying to the south of France to try to get Alex involved again I was Stood outside Stuart Rapers house [ recently relieved of duty at the pies ] as his furniture was being loaded into the removals van trying to get him to agree to stay over here for the last 2 months of the season and take us into the play offs

Unfortunatley I was about 2 weeks too late and he was flying back to OZ the day after , if the flights had not been booked and his family already back home he would have been happy to have had a go for us

Hindsight is a wonderful thing , I do recall at the time most fans were more than happy to see the back of Paul , it was probably the hardest decision we had to make as without doubt Paul had talent , sometimes he did have some strange ideas , but a thourghly nice bloke , and good company , it does not surprise me that he has been successful in business as he was an excellent organiser he was basically running the club for a while

He combined coaching duties with being club general manager didn't he?

Yes as well as club rep at APC and club council meetings

1 st one in in the morning , locked up at night

Heard on the grape vine that Mr Millward has already agreed a contract with St Helens! Would make sense as to why our form has took such a dip over the last 4 weeks if the players know this!!

So he`s been re-signed by the same people who sacked him.......... Yea h right...

cant see that more like bradford but if he has try and get turks back

Was that the same grapevine that said he was going to bradford with robbie? The job that mick potter's just signed up for?

I heard on the grapevine that Paul is getting a new prosthetic ball to boost his confidence

I think that is a fair enough assessment of him.

Lovely bloke to speak to, but should have got us in SL earlier IMHO.

We had a cracking side, only to blow it !