Quote: *1865* "Right, let's get one thing straight, I'm not pro Radford or putting down what Powell has done at Cas. I'm making the point that whoever is in charge will need 5 years to change this club fully. We're not a 'half decent coach and 4 players away from top 4' we're miles off. It will take a full stripping down of the current playing squad and that will take 3 off seasons of heavy recruitment. Not one of our 17 on Saturday, except for Westerman would command a starting spot in any of the Leeds/Wigan/Saints/Wire teams and only Lineham of those that didn't start.
You're fooling yourselves if you think changing the coach every time we hit a rough patch during this process is a good thing. AP's chose his man to do this in my opinion. We change coach now or at the end of they year or even next year, we'll be in the same position 12-18 months later.
We have a great set of juniors coming through, something to build this club on, alongside the likes of Westy, Lineham, Shaul, Crooks, Bowden, Green & Hadley'"
At this moment in time that is probably right. However if you took those players that were playing for Wire under Cullen who looked bang average at best, a big chunk of those became vital parts of the team under a different coach. Great coaches bring the best out of the majority of the players the majority of the time. Radford seems to have brought the best out of Westerman and Shaul (although Shaul was showing that last season as well) but nobody else seems to be putting in their best performances under him.
Do you think there is a big percentage of players that are playing as well as or even better than they did last season? If your answer to that is no, then you have to ask yourself why not?