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Here is my 2p worth.....

Signing BS was a big deal for us. He brought extra media attention and experience that cannot be denied. He is also a builder of clubs. IIRC he spent about 3 years each at Hull and Bradford before leaving, and straight after he left, both clubs won something (under the coaching of the assistant from the previous 3 years)

He needed time to build. if we finished bottom but this time easily won every game in the middle 8's then that would be an improvement while he got the type of players he wanted.

He also needed resources. These are not available at Wakefield, so it is hard to build when you have nothing to build with.

The players do not seem interested. If BS was making them train every day, they probably did not like it or were so unprofessional to see that it would benefit them down the line. Obviously sitting in Costa is easier than training. i am sure you get my point.

so where from here....

We are getting nearer and nearer to relegation, and we don't bring much to the superleague party. I feel our 9 lives are running out.

As for the usual candidates..

Forget John Kear - many wanted rid of him as his tactics were 1 dimensional (big forwards and a skillful halfback)
Glenn Morrison would be fool to come (but would lift the club).
Poaching? Goulding? etc. all untried and untested in what is probably the hardest coaching job in RL - Poor players and no cash to resolve it.

The new coach must be string in character, bring back some fun into the players so they enjoy playing and what to play. I can watch a team that tries and loses. i cannot watch a team that doesn't try.

Personally i would like to see Geoff Toovey, but that won't happen.

Whoever takes the job appears destined to fail.

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Quote: Daddycool "calm down guys, it wasn't intended to start a witch hunt.....

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It is NEWildcat, you are right.

I think will we thought things could improve, I don't think many fans in the wildest of dreams could imagine a turnaround like this, so quick

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Quote: Rumble "I am pretty new to this forum, and have read some of the posts regarding this including all of my husbands views on the subject.

One thing I will say, regarding EW, I have been married to him for about 25 years. I worked with him at the same company for a few years.

He is a loyal fan of the club, and has been for much longer than I have been married to him. Maybe he does have faults his biggest for me is listening to the gossip in the local chippy because they know absolutely nothing about rugby, it is because sometimes he's been a little too passionate in what he says, and gets too excited and carried away with the moment.

I have read all of his posts, and I will be honest, I dont agree with much of what he says, I dont ever think for one moment that he has a clue how to run a club, but I don't recall him saying about having knowledge on how to run a rugby club he might have thought it but he's never said it.

He has played the sport to a decent standard at Eastmoor Dragons, worked within more than one super league club the other one being Hull KR as well as ours, and done some voluntary work abroad with an emerging nation when we went on a fortnights holiday to the Ukraine, so although he doesn't have the knowledge needed he will have some, I would think reading all the rose tinted glasses brigade, he will probably know more than some of them on here.

I caught up with him over a beer or three at a barbeque at our house last year when I was busy hosting family and friends from the Hull KR club, and he was saying about the good ideas of generating extra income he had for the club, most of the ideas were silly, but there was a couple that I don't think were that bad. I wonder how many fans have actually thought as much as him about how many different ways there are to get more people through the door, to generate more income?

As for the doom and gloom bit, and the grim reaper bit Lets be honest, we all get carried away when we've consumed too much, there was probably a lot of fans that felt at this time that my Andy was probably overthinking things, I recall this morning over breakfast with Andy the interview at the end of the MPG, and I will be honest, he wasn't that confident that MC would be running the club much longer after that, the way things were worded convinced us of that. Maybe, just maybe, he thought that, at the time of writing his posts, he was convinced that MC's heart was not fully in it at that point'"

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I can assure you it was NOT Hull KR

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