Ultimately - but no-one gave us much hope of getting to this stage, with a fully funded package, this quick. With OPP we can then move directly to the detailed submission and so on...

I take your point, but this is being persued on many levels with the turn-key event being the PP.

I think people need to be realistic. We are not a big club, but the three players we lost this season would have affected any club in Super League, let alone Wakefield. It's impossible to get like for like replacements half way through a campaign. We've had one top eight finish, and everyone now expects this to be a minumum benchmark. John Kear is the best coach this club has had for over 20 years, and has had one bad half season and now everyone wants rid. If he were to go, I don't think we'd be get anyone with a better track record wanting to come to Wakefield.

what gets me about king john is, the way things are going he might not get another job in sl just like cullen,harrison,powell and be looking in from the sides. do yourself a favour and walk away now before you destroy your chances of a job and we end up stuck with .

i agree hes doing it on purpose

Slightly O/T but I can't believe that Cas are still favourites with Hills to be kicked out. Do the bookies have some inside info that we don't?

So who do suggest we get to replace him?

Please not that old chestnut again. Name me someone who could do a worse job then what Kear is doing now (not what he did last season or seasons before that)

Anyone !!!

Nice bloke decent coach but he has a shelf life at every club he has coached and he has now reached it with us. Time to move on at the end of the season.

I don't want Kear to go, so I have no need. But if you want him out, who would you propose to replace him?

absolutely unbelieveable. what planet are you on?

DARYL POWELL. give him a chance, he transformed everything at fev.the players mentality, the juniors.the whole club is now run professionally.the players go do their own extras. this man imo would be a breath of fresh air for this club. why do you want him to stay on what grounds

And Powell was, in my opinion, doing a decent job a Leeds before he left. However, I feel Kear has improved the side each season he has been here, with the exception of the second half of this year. But I do feel that the players we lost were out of his control and with them back in the side we would be transformed immediately. He couldn't replace them with adequate replacements this season, and with his track record he at least deserves another season.

It was only a few months ago we were all begging him not the take the England job. He hasn't become a bad coach over night.