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Good Luck John

Yes good luck. Taking this role obviously seems to point to JK playing a bigger role on our screens as well next season.

Good appointment for them, he has probably found his level with the club.

Still think he could have a role as a director of rugby at a SL club but not a hands on coach any longer.

Massively excited by this. Dying to know who he'll be bringing in to bolster the playing squad now this has been announced.

Tommy Lee

I would imagine viewers, Henderson and possibly a few others will be options jk is exploring.

Don't agree, he could probably do OK at another SL club but his time with us was over. Don't worry I wouldn't dare mention the mighty Wigan.

i did not expect you to agree and you did mention wigan, you are an odd obsessed man.

In relation to Kear his methods are dated and will continue to regress every year.

I think it is an indication of how he is thought of now that with all these top flight coaching vacancies that have been around he has not been strongly even linked with many, maybe Cas at a push.

Its a sad reflection on most if not all of the English coaches at the moment not just Kear.

You could quite easily change the name of Kear in the above post to Noble, McDermott, Cullen, Harrison etc etc.

Agar?

TBF no, I think Agar has only had one chance and we all deserve a few chances - the others have had a fair few.

Que pre season friendly.

I’m on board with giving him a chance, but I was interested to see whether Agar fits with jonh’s view on English coaches. Also to be fair to McDermott, he’s only had one previous chance.

Fair point.

As for McD yep but he's chewing through his second!

I also don't agree, Kear is a wonderful man, don't get me wrong, but coach wise he is outdated, doesn't have the ability to evolve and the fact he gets unbelievably excited by the simplest RL action when he's co-commentating speaks volumes. I think maybe Vasty is somehow sub-consciously linking to better days/times in the past with some of his opinions, which isn't a crime.

I hope he goes well at Batley, where he can perhaps start to afford to experiment a little more and he maybe gets a chance to have a crack at us or Cas in a later cup round.