Brian must go. Paul Blanchard should remain. If we are to bring in a former player to coach he must be attractive to work with, an RL legend. Henry Paul would be ideal rather than someone popular but average.

Yeah, let's get Henry back!


(and Marty too).

Jim Dymock anyone-coaching in Aus

Dan I realise he isnt as good looking as Henry and Marty

<in gutterfax mode> Give Paul Blanchard a decent budget to work with.

There's very little in here to disagree with as far as I am concerned, I think appointing JW or another recent former player could be a great move.JW is articulate and close enough to the 1st team to carry out a CE role and would do a good job for us as the 'face ' of the club. Definitely agree with the kit move, outside of those that follow RL most people see one of our shirts and think its a RU one - the red/yellow/blue quarters would give us a distinctive look and most importantly it would be ours! The black Fulham style kit would be great as our away strip. I've long banged on to anyone who'll listen about bringing in a young coach from the NRL (someone like Nathan Brown for example) - if results improve it would make GF's job easier to sell RL to the public of London and the South.

I'm not exactly bothered if Mac goes or stays. If you look at the clubs that are at the top (Wigan, Saints, Leeds, Warrington) they all have massive strength in depth in terms of their squads. Tony Smith has created a huge squad full of quality at Wires, with each player playing for his position. If there's an injury, they have players of almost equal quality coming in to plug the gaps. Ditto Leeds- you saw how they outclassed us even with quite a few of their best players out.

If you look at a team like Catalans, they have similar problems to us in that they've had a lot of injuries and lack the strength and depth.

However, injuries permitting, we do have a squad that can be in the top half of the table, as shown last season. Their have been flashes of that quality this year, but we're clearly heading in a downward trajectory. Maybe a better coach could get better results out of a, at times, threadbare squad? Or at least instiute signings and sacking that would move the club forward...

The tone we play? Over this season, I have only been frustrated by our overall performance once, and that was when we got beat at home by Salford. Our game plan has been effective to an extent - people complain that the forwards aren't setting the platform, but to me they are, and its our backs that are letting us down big style.

You think another coach would do a better job re: players, training plan etc? Clutching at straws springs to mind. If we are talking about accountability than whoever appointed McDermott should take responsibility.

Thank you BroncOnIon, this is exactly what I was getting at.

Henry Paul? Are you having a laugh?

Who cares about the shirt! It makes 0 DIFFERENCE. We are Harlequins RL, we should wear a Harlequins shirt for a prolonged period of time and people will begin to accept it, rather than shifting back to the colours of two failed eras that have no association to our current club whatsoever.

I notice that the team are practically IMMUNE from any criticism on here. In fact, I don't think I've seen a bad word written about any of our players all season, yet we are practically bottom of the league. But yes, of course, it must be Brian McDermott's fault

He has no strategy and no consistency so how can we expect that from the team. They are not played in the same positions three weeks in a row. Look at Senior for Leeds or Cunningham for Saints. They play consistently in position and DELIVER!
Dorny and Orr in the miiddle were brilliant - a couple of times. At HKR where was Dorn?? Lighthouse duty!!!!??
McDermott is not as committed as he was at the beginning. Maybe his family living up north and him being down here is something to do with it but
please
give up or get on with it. We deserve better. Who can blame the young un's if Bl**dy O**iah comes round with £ signs in his eyes and a contract for up north.
that's it - rant over