Agree ,it`s the same scenario that brought our club down Tony Anderson was our hero but they kept him too long when everyone realised he was no good.He signed all his mates and most of them sat about spending some of the time playing cards instead of training and he had no man managment. They even gave him another contract and our hero just turned into zero ,it was sad as he never comes near the club now.
If he gets you relegated will the same happen to him I hope not ,he should have let Neil Kelly do the job he was brought in to do. Nobody is going to tell me Rowley is a better coach than Neil Kelly.

I wouldnt be in a sinking ship because i would have a skipper who knows how to sail it !!!!! not a local lad because "he`s a TRUE leyther""

Yeah... but Kellys not a Leyther.

Its a good job Basil is an adopted one

The split in the dressing room didn`t just happen at your club it hapened at Fax too ,he trained apart from the team on his own it got that bad .Even his Leigh "mates" that he traveled with used to "forget" to bring him back home. He was a good hooker though but just a big baby.

1), Which coaches the only Leigh coach Paul fell out with was D Abram which just about every other player did in that SL season

2), Our position is no differnent to when he started, how many games as he been in charge of and hasnt he had to face Fax 3 times?

3), He got offerred an interim position whilst we recruited one of the best ever coaches in SL.


As for your flippant last comment Mr A Thomas is in charge and makes the decisons.

Wrong . Come on facebook chat Ste

It is unfortunate that good players don't always make good coaches. Also if a team does badly the person responsible is the coach.

You only have too look back over the years at every rugby club that coaches that do poorly move on. They may be sucessful elsewhere but its isn't a guaranteed job for life.

Time to move on.

I will look forward to myou telling him that to his face at the next LISA meeting he is at

Isn't it fair to say that you've had more than your fair share of crocked players this year? Didn't seem to be much cover though whether it be from within or loan signings. If there are no players/money available is that the fault of the coaching staff?

Again somebody talking sense but your wasting your time on here the knives are out.

Knives out is the standard practice on here though. Some have even got the knives out for someone who isn't even here yet

In todays Lge Express Rowley states that he is looking for a "long apprenticeship" under Neil Kelly and then Ian Millward. In the same paper Kelly says he has had nothing to do with any coaching for some time now.

Why then if Rowley says himself that he is not yet "head coach" materiel was the decision taken to remove Kelly from coaching and let Rowley fly solo? Doesn't add up to me!

You need to know the history of Kelly since he was at Munster to know the facts, his health has suffered (well documented elsewhere) and as a result the change had to be made.

Millward must like Rowley with him staying on as his no.2 or will he have been told Rowley must stay ,cant see it myself dont think Millward would have accepted head coach under those circumstances he does'nt strike me as someone to be told who /who not he will have on his coaching staff after all AT has been after him for ages so i would think Millward has come under his terms surely.Plus other posters have stated that it would'nt matter who coached us at the moment with the players we have so getting rid of Rowley is not the answer its good loan players we need.