I back Mr Glover 100% and our crowds this year it looks like others are too.

Sorry mate, you've dared to criticise the super being, your card is marked now.
There's a Bren shaped doll now in vastmans lair, along with his blow up ones, hope he doesn't get em mixed up!!

Come on vastman, they've put an advert on the telly and sell beer cheap, that's all that matters!

Anyway, back on topic. In my opinion Peter Roe was dealt a crap hand by the club, he was left scratching around for players for some games, having to play youngsters who were far from ready, yet the minute he was gone and Shane McNally was in charge we appeared to bring players in, something denied to Peter.

In an interview (Radio Leeds, I think) after he left , in answer to a question about how things were at the club his comment was 'You can't sack the unsackable', I think we all know who he was talking about and let's face it at that time he was right.

I don't know Peter Roe and don't agree with some of his opinions on the game but I believe he is a decent bloke who loves the game of Rugby League who served his apprenticeship in the NFP/Championship and got his big chance to coach in Super League at Wakefield, only to discover that he'd been dealt a bum hand.

Just my opinion.

Nah, Peter Roe was sacked because he wasn't good enough for SL - end of. McNally didn't get extra cash because he was McNally, he got it because we left the CVA in 2004 allowing us to re-finance the club. Whether he could have done better with the money is pure speculation, but I'll speculate he couldn't.

Peter Roe was typical of British Coaches of that ere, stuck in his ways. Great in a part time environment but bereft of the ideas and imagination required at the higher level.

I don't blame him for failing but it does annoy that he wasn't man enough to admit he was out of his depth.

Put it this way, has Roe achieved anything since - no because deep down he knows and so does everyone else.

If the club let any coaches down then it wasn't Roe, Harbin and McNally have a small claim but Andy Kelly is the real victim. I'm not just saying this for Clans benefit, it's because I believe it. I'm not convinced AK was ever going to take us all the way but he deserved far more time than he got.

Just my opinion also.

I totally agree with all the above.

I once worled with a former Leeds Rhinos player and he said he could never work under Roe because of his voice.

Agree with you 100% Lindsay. Peter Roe is a man of integrity which is maybe why he didn't fit the bill at Trinity back then. He's also a very knowledgeable RL coach who, in my opinion, would have succeeded at Belle Vue given the same resources as McNally.