Am i missing something here? Fordy was out of contract at the end of the year and has moved to secure his future and gain a promotion at the same time. No problem there. He was willing to see out his contract and move at the end of the season. Featherstone would have liked him to start straight away but were willing to wait. Wakey have said ok you can go now then and we’ll move on. Job done, move on.

You get all that from the small announcement by the club?
I don't see how you think MC is being called out on it.
As far as I know, you are not even close on any of that. But it doesn't change the facts either way.

Personally, in any business. If someone gets another job with a rival (at leat an IMG rival) you are better letting them go than keeping them while they have eyes elsewhere.

According to Mash in the press ,looks like Fordy was one of the major problems why our attack was dire. Will be interesting to see if things are different tomorrow. Let's hope we can put up a fight

Ahh the good ol' 'it's not me guv, it was the guy who just left'

Is there a link?

One thing that has been playing on my mind is Sreve Ella's interview with the Heritage boys.

He talks about the year he was here. He said we started off with some great wins but Graham convinced Toppo to change style to how he played in Oz. We hardly won another game. Ella said the team just couldn't get it.
When he left at Christmas Ella suggested we go back to a more simple game plan and we started winning again.

I wonder if that's happening here. If Ford is attack coach and hes been trying a new way, and we simplify it now he's gone, it might make a difference.

We have a strong but slow 3/4 line. If we try to play fast rugby it probably isn't going to work. Maybe just sending big lads in the centres through a half gap with a slip ball offload....with runners, it'll punch holes.

To be fair if he was the attack coach then he's right, although head coaches take the liability of their staff so he's just as culpable. We couldcdo worse than having Gale put some structure to our offence.

How much simpler can we get then nothing.

how much more simple can it be? barge our way over with no attacking shape or plays seems to be the plan at the moment.

That isn't what they are doing in my opinion.
They are attacking with forwards, trying for a quick ptb but not getting it, trying to pass out wide but doing it too slowly, so whoever gets the ball has 2 defenders already on them, so it looks like we have no shape.
If we actually tried to barge over you'd have big runners standing deep with lots of dummy runners.
The wingers won't get a nice pass but the centre will have a better chance.
Add a short kick for players to chase and you have a simple game plan for a slow team.

Just read it. That was quite a dig wasn't it.
I guess we'll see soon who was right.

Well, you could say that about [ianything[/i.
I'd rather hear from a club official than the bloke down the chip shop........

Can somebody tell me what the issue is here?
Ford jumped ship (he was committed to the RW and B wasn’t he!)
The club got wind and told him to go now so what’s worth all this debate?

The email from the fan to MC may have given him a poke to kick someone up the and get a press release issued but I doubt that it affected any content within the release.

Now have an option to demote MA, put him under a more experienced coach for 12 months to gain more experience or less surprising option, give the job to Gale.