Agreed but he isnt good enough to play at half back in SL, so that was kears fault.

Lee could have gone into the halves or Howarth could have played stand off.

There does seem to be a trend in having lots of small men in the 17 which baffles me.

We used to have Latu, Obst, Drew, Brough, Rooney

Now we have, Obst, Lee, Rinaldi, Hyde, with Smith & Jeffries to come in at some stage.

If we go down lets get jd back as coach to inject some passion and pride.

If we got nobby we wouldnt have to pay his wages cos rl would do it,so more money for players.

JD & MORRO? The new dream team!

And, outside of passion and pride, where are we looking for his skills in coaching a defence etc. as he certainly wasn't able to practice it on the pitch last year.

Think that is a bit harsh after the good years of service and hard graft that he gave to base it on his last year with us,everybody knows in 99% of games he gave everything.Also where is jk's teaching of defence?

I'm not basing not making him head coach based just on his last year playing, I'm basing it on the fact he has no track record as a coach! The problem this club has had for years is rating 'years of service' and 'hard graft' above ability to do a job.

Yes, whoever recruits the next coach at trinity, they have to look at the style of play he's got his team currently playing and the defensive structures he uses etc. It is essential they get a modern 'thinking' RL coach.

If Jeffries was not injured then Kears master plan of playing Hyde instead of him backfired big time.

No it's not harsh. You can't possibly think JD is ready to coach a SL or even a NL1 team for that matter. Where is his experience, his learning curve etc etc, come on. As for passion, I have passion for the club but you wouldn't want me coaching would you?

You'd have been better than Tony Smith was! (And I don't blame Smith, I blame those who appointed him on a knee-jerk. Still, hope he enjoys the flats he got.)

I concur - the suggestion of employing an unqualified, inexperienced head coach is part and parcel of what got WTW into the mess it's currently in; we need competent, qualified, experienced personnel in key roles, not 'great servants of the club', people who are 'rugby through and through' or respected former players stuffed into a suit.

Absolute crazy talk. The fact that JD walked straight into a coaching job is another reason why the game is in the state that it is. He has no coaching experience whatsoever. Going with your theory I propose Sonny Whakarau as our next head coach as I liked him and he never took a backward step on the field.