Quote: Dave26 "The conditioning shouldn't be an issue imo, a lot of it is down to Mark Bitcon and he's going nowhere!'"
I agree, but I also think that Madge will be irreplacable for various reasons.
Unless we were to bring in a top NRL coach, which obviously we weren't, there is no-one else I'd want ahead of him. Certainly no-one currently in the UK (maybe Tony Smith, but that was never going to happen either).
This is a bridge we were always going to have to cross at some point. I see no better alternative than bringing in the guy whose been Madge's understudy for the last two years.