Quote from guess who "A new coach will be announced in two weeks time"!

How about a little game, who do we think the new coach will be?

Will the new coach be a player coach or a coach who's playing days are well and truly over. Will the new coach be an experienced or likewise and inexperienced coach. Will the new coach be a coach who's been with us before or a coach who is new to Keighley.

Who do you think or who would you like to be the new coach?

[iI wonder what Cobbydaler Jack Reeds coaching skills are like?[/i

Two names were mentioned on the coach trip to Barrow as having been interviewed. It will be interesting to see if either of them come to fruition.

Who were the coaches jeff

I don't want to say something that might be out of place Tony, but I will pm you.

I mentioned it purely to say that the club seem to have something definite in progress.

If we can't afford to pay our players, can we afford to pay a Coach?

Might be a player coach?

Whoever it is. I hope its not a player coach.
We need new blood bringing into the club.

A current assistant coach from a sl team is my guess.

Jason Demetriou please?

I enjoyed that short period of history.

Man for the job should be who should have been appointed directly after JDs departure , Matt Bramald , ex Keighley assistant coach , ex player and crucially ex scholarship coach who knew all the young local talent coming through - should have been a no brainer at the to.e ..hope the buggerz see sense now ...

Well it would appear he is set to leave Hunslet...

Personally I can see it will be Matt Bramald. I agree he did great at keighley when he was here but I really dont see him turning the club arround

I read Mike Smiths thing, I disagree with some stuff he said but one thing he was right if the club has any chance of bringing people back (myself included) It needs a high profile character (forgetting any money issue for one moment)

2 Options I see

1) It needs another JD Character an aging SL player (just about to or just has retired looking to get into coaching) who can be a player coach for a season or two, maybe bring a few with him

or

2) A an experienced coach who has coached at a higher level in the past



From that for me id like to see

Option 1.

Luke Dorn - Just retiring at Cas, very experienced player in the top level good media links etc I can see him as a new JD (could possibly play 1 season at this level)




Option 2.

Could be quite a controversial one but Karl Harrison (remember King Karls barmy army) Experienced for sure but he is strong character and he would be a good catch I feel

or

Personally would like to see Paul Anderson recent sl expereince I know things havnt gone well for Hudds this year but that didnt make him a bad coach just look at Hudders i recent years before this one under his tenure, quite experinced including his assistant years

A coach is only as good as the players. If the players won't do what is requested, and its their choice, then what can a coach do?
There are many ego driven mercenaries in RL. Club loyalty zero, team loyalty zero, bank balance xxxxxxx !!
The RL system has changed. Some detest change and sadly they have a narrow blinkered view but believe everything is fine. It certainly isn't.

That simply is not true.

Look at what happened when Tony Smith went to the perennial under performers Warrington:-
He spent a short time identifying the issues.
He transferred players ( even the best ones) whom he thought wouldn't change.
He told Lee Briers he would be sent out on loan to a lower division club if he didn't mend his ways.
He got the players to buy into a new team culture and work ethic.
He brought in players who would match this new ethic.

He has great man management skills but will never be one of the boys. The players know where the line is and he has demonstrated what will happen if you cross it.

Most of the teams we are competing against have similar budgets to us, some have a lot less. We should have performed better than we have this year. That failure is down to the coach ( who has now been with us 5 years) and directors between them. The coach has worked with this group of players long enough to know the issues and should have sorted them.

Can't agree with that. A few years back Harry Redknapp went to Spurs when they were 9 points adrift at the foot of the table at Christmas. He turned the same players around and they ended up mid-table. March's worst moment (his words) was at Toulouse when he totally misread the tactics. He went to Toulouse (just as Kilshaw did a few weeks back) thinking his team could slow down play and disrupt the flow. The plan backfired quite spectactularly.

Sorry but if the players won't buy into doing what is right they won't . They are on the field missing tackles, can't be air&&& to tackle and put the effort in.
It's an attitude of mind and I stand by my comments. Adding "free" cash just makes it worse.