Exactly...... Wait and see where we are at the end of the plan

Feeling like one of Baldricks cunning plans at the moment

Sacking Gentle would be a mistake. Give him next season at least. Now that McRae has gone you may see a difference. Too many cooks and all that. Once the players cross the whitewash it is down to them. If the game plan is not working the experienced players need to realise that and change it. (Cup final was the perfect example, Holdsworth/Miller continued to kick high and Wigan kicked along the floor using the wet conditions. Holdsworth should have seen that and changed). A lot will now depend on who Gentle signs as McRae is out of the picture.

McRae has had no input in to the first team training and their tactics etc and while he has handled the contract negotiations and signings...the club have made it very clear that Gentle has had the final say in who is signed and retained. The way things have been working is that Gentle indicates he needs say a 2nd rower, McRae finds who is available and at what salary then Gentle picks which one he wants.

i.e. I doubt McRae leaving is going to make any difference to how we are performing.

Recruitment and coaching are 2 different issues, and neither have been good enough IMO. I can accept that Gentle may not have got the players he has wanted, but that's probably the same for most coaches. But the issue for me is that we have not improved during his reign. His aim was to close the gap between our best and worse performances. That hasn't happened,

Exactly, I ended last season feeling optimistic, we had a wobble mid-season but recovered and hammered Hudds in the playoffs before putting up a good show at Wire, you felt that the building blocks for a good side were being laid.

fast forward a year and we've actually gone backwards, and the 'fill-in' players like Aspinwall & McGoldrick actually made a better team than the dross we've brought in this year.

There's a bullet with 'gentle' written on it in his pocket I bet, that's the plan

Dead man walking

He's had plenty of time to put in some basic structures and improve the basic skill set of the players and hasn't done it. How much time does he get?

6 losses from 13 at home isn't it?

It is. Won seven lost six, compared to W10 D2 L1 last season.

Very poor.