Oh come on PT, people in all walks of life are often promoted with reservations for many many reasons I myself got my first management gig on probation as they were not sure I was up to it (I wasn’t that time so they were right). It would be shocking management to take on someone as unproven as Poching without reservation.

You live in the real world your just being awkward. I’m hardly being controversial, it’s how life is.

Poching won six from twelve in 2021 I think. That would be enough to convince most people he deserved a chance. However I doubt any management would consider that enough to be a certainty. That I assume is why he got a one year deal

Put it another way, do you think Poching would have got the job if CC survived till the end of the season and the job opened to more applicants, I don’t.

I’m guessing the BOD know Applegarth so well they simply don’t have reservations, who knows but them.

It’s not my fault I was right about Poching all along

What was M A position in the team i must have seen him play but can not remember .Thanks

Think he was a back rower

He was a back rower but not a regular in the first team.

He played second row for us when he started.
He moved to prop when he got older at other clubs.

He played about 20 games in first two seasons but to be fair he was behind Solomona, MacGillivray, Henderson, and Elima.

I thought he appeared on the scene as a prop but I see others disagree. Fair enough.
Wished I'd kept all those programmes now.

RL Project has him down as playing quite a bit of loose forward for us

rlhttps://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/mark-applegarth/summary.htmlrl

Yeah. I just saw program notes from 2004. Promising Loose Forward Mark Applegarth signs 3 year deal.

An utter disaster it's turning out to be.

The absolute lack of creativity, ideas, structure, awareness is mind boggling. We are so far off the pace we'd struggle in the championship.

It is time to make a change, not that I think any coach coming in would change the course of our direction (down), its more to bring some actual enjoyment back to attending matches. I genuinely now go to games not worrying whether we're going to win, but worrying whether we're going to score.

A bit of an understatement. Sixteen halves of SL rugby played this season and ten of them have seen us score 0.

Sometimes a few adjustments are all that are needed to turn a season around. To turn our season around will require a complete rebuild and reprogramming.

Whilst still lacking creativity admittedly, there was that period just after half time where we actually played with urgency and what a difference it made. Why not play like that beforehand? We look so lacking in confidence it’s untrue.
We look like we need a motivator as much as owt. We need……?

Mr Motivator!

I agree.
I actually said to my pal, "bloody hell, we've started playing rugby league".
Although it's hard to gauge, as Cas aren't exactly world beaters just now but, the second half was possibly our best 40 minutes of the season.
We have to be more adventurous with our kicking game in the opponents 20.
Maybe, confidence is so low that, we actually daren't try anything.

We have to persist with Lino and Smith in the halves though, they still look better than Gaskill.

Ditto