I think that if Smith stays, then we may have a decent shot at top 8 but, if he goes then, it will very much depend on who comes in.
We have seen it so many times, over the past 20-30 years that, assistant coaches from other clubs come in and fail miserably, not always straight away but, we normally end up in the mire.
Agar, Webster, Smith (Casper) etc, etc.
In Brian Smith, we have a top coach, who's knowledge is supreme and I would take him with a group of "lesser" players rather than a hopeful with a "better" squad.
Of course, he said that he hadn't made a decision and that his "life was not his own" but I really hope that he fancies some more time at Belle Vue and we may then actually avoid the "qualifiers".

Clearly, it was hard to miss the part of your post that was in capital's but, clearly we need someone capable of ensuring that players perform close to their potential and who want to play for the club, unlike so many of our squad atb the start of the season.

So this fantastic pack that was able to get on top of absolutely no one in SL, that managed to win 3 out of 7 middle 8 games is suddenly pretty close to competing for a top 8 spot according to Vastman. Never in the history of RL forums has such rubbish been spouted. We need to sign three rough tough no nonsense aggressive nasty forwards to complement Anakin. Apart from Simon and Anakin our pack looked like a bunch of girls, soft as hell and a bunch of surrender monkeys. Anderson can go for me : big girls blouse.

Anderson sure was not a '----------------' when he took an almighty battering away at Leigh and just kept going.
Plus you are no 'softy ' playing so many NRL games including Grand Final.

Moi moi could be on his way out at Leigh with all their signings. A bit of a penalty machine but plenty of aggression and go forward.

Even talk of moving him out to make room for Ryan Bailey

Include me in that. I think you are talking tosh Belly

We played a game this season where we actually only had one recognised prop in the 17.
Anderson has missed quite a few and we didn't get Mullally until late.
Hand and Gleeson were gap fillers and not up to super league standard but that's what we had to do.
Kavanagh was a slight improvement but was not able to get in the Widnes pack so he is what he is.
We had McShane having to play full minutes because we didn't have any cover.

Our pack now should be
Scruton
Sio
Anderson
Molloy
Kirmond
Simon

Walker (?)
Yates
Ashurst
Godinet/Howarth/Moore (depending what we do with re-signings)

That pack is good enough
We will need another prop to be able to keep Simon at 13 (ideally 2) then Walker or Yates would be 5 prop. England would be ok for me.

The key for me is that a scrum half that can handle 6th tackle plays will keep this pack rolling and not having to do twice the normal work load as has happened this year. We made far fewer mistakes under Brian Smith and suddenly the pack looked a lot better.
He started doing some basic plays rather than fancy ball dropping plays.
He said on Saturday that they'd talked about just taking the tackle on the 6th being better than making a poor kick that gives them a lift down field.

England played over 30 games for Warrington, his first season he partnered Chris hill and they were just few mins from grand final, he played well against St George probably being best player on park that night, but last year got injured frustrated, having to play interchange , he had 4 offers on table, Warrington didn't want him to leave but according to sources he wanted back to Yorkshire, and was happy to go to wakey, he wasn't happy at wire , and he had reason to as he was much better than Simms, but just wasn't as nice and polite, he's an enforcer, not scared of the biff, and if you get the player that appeared in previous season for us, you got a good prop, which are hard to come by,, good luck to him, never let us down,

molloy is always injured

Would like to see Tupou on wing with a good centre recon he would be better than Carney as he can turn and chase also a good centre with Johnstone.Would not say no to Scott Moor interchange with Godinet and move Sio to loose.The one glaring thing we need is a good 7 who can steer us round the field if we had one against Bulls we would have mullered them mind by same token if they had they would have mullered us. Tim Smith for the most this season has been poor and that's why we have struggled when he did give it a go we were decent.We could do with a mean nasty bullocking prop.

Quote: les-goose ".Would not say no to Scott Moor interchange with Godinet and move Sio to loose.The one glaring thing we need is a good 7....We could do with a mean nasty bullocking prop.'" Agree. Anthony England fits the bill for the prop..would be great if Trinity could afford Dureau. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/24490411

Quote: les-goose ".Would not say no to Scott Moor interchange with Godinet and move Sio to loose.The one glaring thing we need is a good 7....We could do with a mean nasty bullocking prop.'" Agree. Anthony England fits the bill for the prop..would be great if Trinity could afford Dureau. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/24490411