Quote Pinkerton="Pinkerton"'Cause he started this downward spiral at the club and is responsible for the rut we've been in for the past three years. Whilst he gets rewarded with a job at a bigger club, we get rewarded with another rubbish season playing dour Rugby.
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I think you could take it one further and look who appointed Brian Mac, and who took over another club in 2007. The rot did not start the day Mac took over, it started the day we lost half of our financial backing. We played some interesting stuff in the Brian Mac years, but increasingly lesser players on increasingly smaller wages has resulted in weak, weak gates and the bottoming out which has been 2011; and three new good quality Aussies, rather than Dwayne Barker's, Mat Gardner's or Kyle Bibbs.
Brian Mac was and is not a great coach, and equally he is not the worst in the league, but as others have stated with Powell; what were the realistic expectations. LMS and Will Sharp were complimentary about the coach, only leaving for competitive clubs who are more rounded sporting organisations.
Did Mac push the club into a downward spiral; no, but he was unable to hold the tide.
