Agreed. Surely you get more bang for your buck on thew pitch? That is what fans pay to see, after all.

Or maybe a marketing director who would actually get us more fans and revenue to spend on players?

Well, yeah, but I don't see why we should need to go to the expense of hiring someone new for that; it ought to be the responsibility of someone already at the club.

We could do better than a big game choker like smith

The guy responsible left the club and replaced by someone I believe with nominal experience of heading up a marketing department as well as his other role in the club. Part of the cutbacks at the club together with reducing the playing wage bill

This is something I’d posted about but other posters will have us believe otherwise. Just because we may hire more back room staff doesn’t mean they work better. I saw an advert in Springfield just past ProCo as if you were driving up to the Brick Makers arms, the big billboard had 3 red faces and 3 blue faces saying ‘The Derby Is Coming’. Now I’m a massive Game of Thrones fan and I only just about got what they were getting at and could t make out who the faces were, especially driving past. Massive waste of money by someone who is unskilled, unqualified and unsuitable for the marketing role of the biggest rugby league club in the world. We are going backwards.

Biggest RL club in the world?

Do you know this for a fact, or are you just hooting like a kettle?

This is a genuine question, because I feel there is a lot of hooting going on at present in various quarters.

Lots of people on here claim to know stuff. It's difficult to work out who does and who doesn't, but until proof is offered I'd council browsers against taking every bit of bad news they see on here as gospel. Too many of them do.

Give over Throbber

Example of Jobs for the boys

Lam - The jury's still out
Edwards - What a fiasco
Radlinski - out of his depth
Johnson - look at the state of our fitness
Betts - least said the better

Add to that several players that should have been let go at some point but for some reason get nice shiny new contracts

He should only get a coaching role if he can prove himself, Not because he was one a great player (2009-2016)
If this club is to move on then it needs to sever ties with former players and only bring in the best qualified persons for those jobs,

You need to take of those tinted spectacles fella

Utter Bollox. Not a single issue you’ve listed is anything whatsoever to do with Lockers.
He’s been coaching the academy for years and is heavily involved with the U19s and 1st team. How do u know he he hadn’t already proved he’d be a suitable assistant coach? You don’t!
I’ll not be replying to you again. You’re just a clown who posts negativity to get a bite. You got one this time so congratulations. You’ll not get another from me. What a n0b!

i'm on about Jobs for the boys in general Mr Throbber, As for Lockers maybe we should bin Lammy off and give Sean the job due to his heavy involvement with the U19's

Andy Goodway was a superb player, in fact one of my fav players of all time. However when it came to coaching he was absolutely dire.
The best players don't necessarily make the best coaches.

I couldn’t agree more Hatty, you only have to look at Kieron Cunningham for a more recent example. The difference is that Lockers isn’t jumping into the head coach role. He’s certain of a position in the coaching set up but that could be Academy, U19s etc. His role is not stipulated yet.

OK I'll bite

Won the Championship final to get Huddersfield promoted to Super League
Won two Grand Finals with Leeds (including their first in 32 years)
Won the World Club challenge with Leeds (their first ever)
Whitewashed New Zealand 3-0 when Great Britain coach
Won three Challenge Cup Finals with Warrington after a 19 year drought

Obviously he couldn't get Warrington their Grand Final win, but there's 10 massive games he's coached teams to win. Most of which were teams that hadn't won trophies in a long time prior. Not to mention all the knock out games his teams will have won to get to that point. Smith as Director of Rugby with Lam working under him doesn't sound like a bad idea at all to me.