Quote: Chris71 "Last did a good job in steadying things after Radford was rightly relieved of his role. As COYU said AP made the right call in not appointing Last as Head Coach despite the recent job he’d done. BH in fairness may well have worked out had we a better work ethic within the core group but sadly the tail was still wagging the dog. The recruitment under Radford since 2018 was very poor and we are now paying the price for his band.
Watching Cas last night under Last they look to be the same as we were under BH but it’s next season and the season after that the will cost Cas due to Radford reforming his band there.
Think Pearson has the right man for the job and as a possible DoR in the future as TS will I believe be taking the weight of playing staff/team off the shoulders of AP & JC.
It’s a big job and everyone in the RL world knows it which is why TS proven track record and experience will pay dividends.
Look at HKR now which, as much as their fans no longer want to admit, it’s the foundations that TS put in place that they are benefiting from.
For us now it’s hopefully short term pain for long term gain.'"
I won't deny that TS did lay foundations that were now seemingly benefitting from, but I'm not sure how much further he would have took us though, and I'm not just saying that because he's gone or because he's now coaching you either. Under TS we could always pull of a shock win against a top team, or push them close, but we couldn't do it consistently though, we had no structure and our defence was terrible too, poor fitness and line speed, Sky commentators loved us because we'd throw the ball around and score some great tries, he loves that 'heads up'style of play but that's no good when your still losing games.
Time will tell whether he can change your fortunes, he's obviously got a track record of doing it so maybe he will, but I just feel his methods are out dated now, his softly softly approach to fitness training in pre season looks like it's a terrible idea now.