I don’t get this overhaul the back room staff Chester is the coach success or failure stops with him he’s an experienced super league coach now. I also don’t think it would be acceptable to bring say someone like Kear in it would just undermine him. If he shows his strength and makes some tough decisions in the next few week I feel we could be just ok

For mine overhauling the back room staff is necessary because they have been here too long and there is no sign of them developing. The conditioner, I believe is very much old school and the methods used do not imo translate to the way the game is now played and hence why again, IMO, we don’t look as equipped to play for 80 minutes as pretty much everyone else in the league.

We also need to start signing some younger players who are playing SL rugby on a regular basis to bring the average age of the squad down. The toll on some of the older players bodies from playing SL for years is a factor that affects us more than most.

With regards Chris Chester, if he is not willing to look at the back room and also his own deficiencies and accept he needs to re-jig things, then maybe he needs to go as well, because the performance levels have been poor since the Widnes game - we were told when we get players back, we will be ok, but the performance levels have dropped further,

Although you are absolutely right to say that the buck stops with Chester.
There is no shame in him seeking help to get Trinity out of a hole. It doesn't make him any less of a coach, it would purely be recognition that something has to change, which clearly it does.
Our structure, either with or without the ball has gone to pieces. Regardless of how good or bad our halves are, without willing runners, they cant do their job.
The whole squad needs to have a real look at themselves and take some responsibility, not easy when confidence is so far down the crapper but, unless there is a huge change in the next couple of weeks we will be gone from SL and possibly gone completely.
Its not a time where we should be too proud to ask for some help.
If things stay as they are, it will be all over, doing nothing isn't an option.

Everytime Saints made a break there were three or four players up with him, When Fifita & Brough made a break they were on there own looking for support but we were back where play had started that comes in training. The trouble is now is it's too late to replace the coach but even worse, Somebody is willing to let us go down because they will not make a decision to what happens next

Felt sorry for Tanginoa on his debut at MM because at every opportunity he was looking to offload the ball and NO ONE was there. Don’t know why the likes of Wood or Hampshire aren’t backing up Fifita/Tanginoa/etc or being allowed to.

Am hopeful we will survive this season ,but I’m afraid Chester’s coaching skill have come into the spotlight Through this rough patch .Nothing seems to have changed in our on field tactics even though we are on a miserable run ,think the guys ok when the goings good but not a clue how to get us out of this hole ,wether that’s players attitude or game plan .
Unfortunately RL throws these thing at you when least expected and it’s a measure of the coaches skills to get you back on the straight and narrow ,in this respect we are woefully underperforming both on and off the field , but hopefully get to sort this fiasco out next season in the top flight .

This just jumped out at me; contrast our predictable, easy to defend approach to every game, with London - everyone's pre-season whipping boys, who have turned up to every game with a plan, executed it well, with bags of individual and team spirit, and desire to win. As a result, they've picked up way more points than anyone expected them to, and played some really entertaining rugby.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if we end up in a faux million pound game with them at the end of the season - and I wouldn't be at all confident of a win.

Was it Phil Clarke or one of the lads on Sky who predicted that London would not win a game?

I'm not too disheartened by more recent results. When you looked at the team we put out at Wigan, and some of those will have been carrying some injuries, the score was pretty much what would have been anticipated. Similarly, against Saints.

Chester has surely gained enough brownie points for one bad season. But when we compare to previous seasons, there are some obvious differences:
1. Attack - Danny Brough. He wasn't there before. Now he is. We're not as good.
2. Defence - we've no assistant coach. Before, we had one focusing on defence (Kear) and now we don't, and we're not as good.
3. Fitness - what has put as at risk this year has been London's unexpected success, and what stands out is their fitness. They just don't go away. If you can't be the best, be the fittest, and then you have a fighting chance. Us? Too many fat blokes or old and broken blokes.

Yet its the same coach, team and conditioner who got us playing so well the three previous seasons, so how do know it all nobodies like you and Avenger square that?

But maybe that says something is wrong at the club? How do you explain how poor Miller, Brough, Jowitt, Batch, Tupou have been since their return from injury? They look well off the pace, almost disinterested......unfit and badly conditioned? Who knows, I don't think you can dismiss it completely. How did Leeds under McDermott finish in the bottom 4 the win the Grand Final the following season?! Point is, last season was last season. Even if we win a couple more, that would be 3 wins out of 17 games?! Any coach would be lucky still to be there given that record.

PB and The Avenger are two of our less excitable posters on here and apart from being very knowledgeable about the game think first before reacting and can see what you obviously can't regarding the reasons why we are in this predicament, I must stress this is only an opinion and not fact as is they'res, just a thought those 3 previous years that we've done okay, perhaps maybe we find ourselves where we are is because unlike other clubs who have moved on, we haven't and eventually our backroom team have been caught out and are unable to respond, just a thought.

I see your points but I think there is a much simpler answer, yes we've had a horrific injury list with at one point 11 first teamers out, but that means we're short on FULLY fit players, players who are 100% fit. Unfortunately I feel that our injured players have been played when only 75% fit and it's showing now.