Top player, top bloke and hopefully can help get us back on the right track.
WE certainly need some fresh blood and Willie has spent a great deal of time working under Tony Smith, who is an excellent coach.

I certainly agree that we need some fresh blood but how much impact hes going to have as an a assistant is questionable, at the end of the day chester is the boss, the head coach and he decides how we are going to play, I wouldn't think hes going to come in and take over and push chester out of the door or be allowed to

We can always hope .If not we can hope he listen

You didn't manage to check the BBC last week then?

I’m not sure how much impact he’ll have because we’ve had 2 new assistants during Chester’s time who’ve come from outside the club and they had mixed influence.

John Kear had a very positive impact on team performances particularly defence.
Micheal Monaghan seemed to have a strained relationship with Chester and had very little impact as a result.
Either way both left after a shorter period than anticipated!

Let’s hope Willie can impose his ideas on Chester and the team and make us better.

If nothing else we have the next coach if Chester decides to move on. I dont know if Poching has aspirations of being a head coach but he's certainly done his time as an assistant.

Great player, top bloke, hopefully he will have the respect of the current lot.

Get a grip FFS.

If the players can't knuckle down and play for Willie Poching there's no hope for them.

Let’s hope it works out better for them the last time they worked together. Chester got sacked and Hull KR ended up getting relegated!

Met Willie several times and he’s a top bloke, he’ll be good to have around the place. Hopefully it will give everyone a lift.

That's just what I was thinking if he was there when Chester took HKR into the Championship It's a bit worrying

To be fair he left after 3 games the season they were relegated and was replaced by James Webster...

So actually what happened was Hull KR finished higher in the league than us every year Chester was coach, and went to Wembley, and the year he came to us they were relegated and we made the playoffs.

I heard very good things about Monaghan`s time with us.

Good point.

Just to put some context behind this post though PT:

2014 - Chester was appointed head coach when Sandercock left in July - Coached them for 7 games and won 2 games (One against London, one against us) - They were in a better position when he took over.

2015 - 10th Placed finish with what I would consider to be a very talented team with the likes of Kelly, Campese, Blair, Sio, Weyman, Mantellato - I remember looking at the squad at the beginning of that year and thinking they would be challenging at the top. What would you associate with a Challenge cup final team that places 10th in the league - Inconsistency? Something that for me is out number one problem as a team and it seems to be a re-occurring trend.

I made a comment a few weeks ago about looking like a team that had been thrown together and that is because half of the time we are, even when we have a full team to select from we swap and change week from week - If you look at all the successful teams they are built on teams that see very little change, they have those partnerships, granted we have had a few tough periods with injuries etc but even when we have a full squad to select from, we very rarely see the same team from week to week.

Just to finish off - 2016 - Sacked after 3 Games.

Lets hope Poaching provides Chester with the support that he needs, we thrived when Kear was here, lets hope that Poaching`s support can get us back to playing like that although IMHO I just have never seen it with Poaching, I don`t know why I would of been so much more tempted to try and bring in Orr or Sheridan if we could of tempted them away from Cas.