I think, personally, there are a number of factors that have come together to mean Keighley aren't getting the results this year.

- March is not the player that he was, his timing is way out from the other players and his decision making and execution is poor, but he's gone from bit part player last year to seemingly the first name on his own team sheet this year.
- March only has the players available at his disposal, if he didn't pick himself in the halves and play Jones at fullback we'd either be short of a half back or full back... because White is not the answer at fullback.
- I don't think March has the skills to look at the details and improve the team that way, he comes across (and plays) as a 'try harder!' type of guy rather than a constructive, analytical coach. And either way, it is hard to take the necessary step back when you are out in the middle of the park.
- We've been fairly unlucky with injuries.
- We have done really badly out of the dual reg system. Whether you agree with it or not the best thing for the club to do is make the most out of it. We linked up with the Super League side with the smallest squad and gained nothing.

I don't think March is 'to blame' as such, he is the character he is and the club hired him... they must have known what they were going to get because we all surely knew. What is happening now is a result of not taking what the team achieved last year and pushing forward.

Woo woo woo he's magic you know youll never get past Danny Jones

I personally thought our main problem at the start of the season was injuries. It's seems to me that that's why the club had to resort to D/R.



Following the work by Kolb then Honey and Mumford it is recognised that people also fall [iacross[/i learning styles and don't align into neatly labelled groups. However, personally, I think JD was also activist/pragmatist. His tactics on the pitch seemed very simple and quite often it was his introduction to the field, playing character and force of personality that got us some tight wins.

You've made some very interesting points, it's refreshing to see someone back up their thoughts with detailed reasoning.

Personally I don't think March is as naive as you've suggested, but I do agree that we have been limited in tactics at times by player suitabilty/ability. There were plenty of matches where JD persisted with ploughing on with forward led one man rugby even though it was obvious it wasn't working. We should remember that our "loosing streak" started at the back end of last year under JD. I liked JD, by the way, it would have been interesting to see how he handled the D/R situation.

With regard to sloppiness of passes, I think we are trying to speed up ball movement across our attacking line and are sometimes passing before we have hold of the ball. I don't know how much we practice this but I would have thought it should be an area we concentrate on. If you watch top players they receive and pass the ball in one fluid movement. Fast ball opens gaps in sliding defences and gets around the end.

In the fist half against Batley, our fast attacking line speed scored us tries. John Kear obviously spotted this and briefed the team at half time. In the second half Batley sent fast runners to leap out from their defensive line and attack our playmakers. They were successful a number of times and broke up our attack/caused a sloppy pass.

If March were on the sidelines he might see much more than he does and be able to change our tactics to compensate for other teams plays. I don't know what his contract is but I suspect he gets paid both as a player and a coach and It being part time maybe he need both incomes.

We've reached (gone beyond) crunch time and something needs to be done to improve the team.

Or was it a case that JD saw how the game was going from the sidelines. He analysed the game as it progressed, identifying the areas of weakness in the opposition and exploited them following his introduction?

And why do you think he recommended him , Try thinking outside of the box
With your thoughts and I think you might just get to the correct answer.