yep we need to be getting behind him and the team right now, starting this friday with a winnable game against widnes who we have a decent record against , surely the players will want to give thorman a win in his last game in charge and also want to impress the new coach

then its onto the cup a fresh competition to get our teeth into! interesting few two weeks coming up could change our season with two wins

Woolford hasn't been in Newcastle long enough to have real links with local players.
Most of the "second tier" players he has recruited to fill out reserve grade have come from the Canberra area, where he has a lot of links.
If he goes on a recruiting spree from australia i'd expect most will come from Canberra. Canberra had a very strong under 20s side a few years ago - Zac Woolford was one of the standouts, and basically the leader on and off the field. You could do worse than picking up a few of those guys.

We could certainly use an on-field leader.