Wow, about time. Let's give Mr Rea a real London welcome! Huzzah!

As much as I agree with the demotion/sacking of Powell, I just wonder if its the right decision to get Rea in, or anyone else, as an interim.

Rea will have his own ideas of what he feels the club need to improve on and I imagine that the Coach for '13 will have his own ideas too. So two sets of ideas will result in confusion and after the two years this club have had, more confusion is the last thing the club needs.

Personally, I'd like to see Rea stay on in a Director of Rugby type of role with Royce Simmons as Head Coach. Realistically, Rea will be kept on when no one else wants the job.

Welcome back Tony!!

Back to the future. Party like it's 1999.

I remember Tony Rae being nicknamed "teflon" on a forum board, so it will be interesting to see how long before the Sack Rae calls begin.

The change was needed.

Defensive coordinator

Its only an interim posting i hope

It is about time to and hopefully we get a positive reaction from the players on match day

Was waiting for this. Rea got ripped apart on this very forum before his departure. Short memories. I am delighted however as I was one of a small group who defended Rea.

happy day at last!

Well, everyone has got what they wanted...let's hope that it was RP that wasn't up to the job and not the team!

Having said that, although I do feel for RP, I do agree that his position had become untenable.

What are we going to moan about next now that Powell has been demoted??!!

Great news though and lets pray for a massive upset over Wigan on Saturday!!!! C'mon London.

Agree 100% DSWG. This was not all down to RP but you cant sack the players so there was no alternative. The problem was between him and the players IMO and i refuse to believe that these players cant play better than this.

His position became untenable a long time ago.

Should have been removed after we lost away to Widnes.