Yeah, that was funny when Smiffy said about the Barmy Army chant.

You have to wonder whether Teffers is a sado-masochist? He escaped once (thanks to IL) and now he's back of his own volition...the man is glutton for punishment!

Welcome back Tony...it's good to have you back.

Good observations from Homer (particularly regarding the yoof) - I wasn't sure whether a permanent move would be good for him and/or the club but the positive impact he has brought cant be ignored.

I am just worried that this good news will be offset by some terrible news regarding the next ground. They could have signed Wayne Bennett and the Australian squad for 2013 and I wouldn't go to Gillingham!

Yes, I wondered about the good news/bad news scenario.

Maybe the powers that be think we fans deserve a long holiday from the Broncos? We have done our fair share of suffering for these last 7 years!

Mind you, could just be Paddocks shorts they want rid of.

And if they had waited 24 hours Brian McLennon was available as well.

No reason to think they wouldn't have been top notch.

Still, we have proved in the past that a top, trophy winning coach isn't neccessarily going to succeed in this club.

Darth- Is that where BU lives?

I am not really sure what to make of this decision. Granted there has been a massive turn around in the teams performance since Tony arrived and he deserves a lot of credit for that but I cant overlook the fact that at least some of the change will be down to the simple fact that Powell has gone.
I didn't think Tony was a good enough coach the first time around to take the team where it needed to be and since then he has not done much in the way of coaching. I do wonder if the credentials of all the applicants were really that great after all

Anyway I hope I am wrong and I certainly wish Tony all the best and every success and will be more than happy to end up with egg on my face

Perhaps it might be a good idea for you to start house hunting again in the London area, as Tony might soon if not already beware aware of your mate Gus's limits and let David Hughes know. This could be your big opportunity. Have you bags packed at the ready

So its Tony Rea .... never saw that coming

My god I am in shock. Tony Rea's appointment even made the BBC 1 o'clock news. Just was down in my works restaurant and the news was on - normally we're never mentioned.

I am beginning to think that this Gillingham thing is a load of old cobblers, as surely that would have been an enormous negative in TR`s decision to sign.......yes we might be moving at some time in the future (I hope not), but surely it would be to another London ground.

TR calls missus........`Guess what we are all moving to Gillingham for a couple of years`
TR`s missus...........`My lawyer will be in touch and I want custody of the kids`!!!

Tony Rea was rumoured to have had only £900k to spend in his last season of 2006.

We started the season plagued by injury and our thin squad took heavy beatings by the likes of Bradford, St Helens and Leeds but this was compounded by unacceptable home losses to Castleford and Wakefield.

I'd suggest that in 2006 Rea had only half a squad of experienced and quality players including McLinden, Leuluai, Hopkins, Purdham, Danny Williams, Dorn, Randall, Temata, Mbu, Tookey and Sykes. This was supplemented by good first year professionals like Tony Clubb, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook and Mike Worrincy.

Others like Wells, Gafa, Heckenberg. Sheriffe and Tyrone Smith were not of a top eight standard.

But they were relatively strong compared to some of the unknowns, fringe players and lower league standard players such as Pat Weisner, Filimone Lolohea, Tim Hartley, Paul Noone and Neil Budworth plus Nick Bradley-Qalilawa who he had to draw on that season.

I think Tony was doing acceptably with what he had to spend and his previous track record of relative success suggested that we would be ok going forward. But Lenagan just fired him. That seemed hasty to me. I'm glad Tony is back.

Cheers
Rammo

Good positive step forward, well done Tony and all.