I mean Smith as he is now, the old salt. Just an example though....hang on......


......Wayne Bennetts just moving in next door.....we are saved!!!!

Surely too complicated.
5 drives and kick everytime would suffice.

tbh thats an improvement on last years 4 drives and a kick to touch or drop the ball, so he's learning.

I forgot the "ball back inside move"

Isn't Agar employed as team manager? That's what we have usually had in the SL era.

There is a world of difference between managers and coaches. A manger manages players, on and off field. He employs coaches to train players to play to his game plan, he usually doesn't coach them himself. How often would you find Alex Fergusson, stood on the touchline at MUFC's training ground, calling moves for set pieces?

I have no doubt Rich Agar is a capable coach, not yet in the John Kear calibre (because Kear is also a coach and not a manager) but he is certainly not a team manager. A manager will take on board what his coaches and scouts tell him and will then use that knowledge to get the best out of his own players, while also pointing to the weaknesses of their opposition.

The manager will develop the game plan and that plan will be specific to each game. It will involve telling players, who may have played out of their skins in the previous game, that they will be on the bench, or possibly not even featuring in the next game. They are called managers because they manage to do that without some player spitting his dummy.

That is not Agar. He is not and I honestly believe, ever will be a team manager. He would make a good "John Kear": someone who has the freedom to analyse the opposition, influence the way a team plays and help develop players. They both should never, ever be given total control. Neither of them are up to the task

No one thinks that, however plenty know it would be the first positive step towards it

So who manages them then?

James Rule?

Didn't he have a rugger match to play in this afty?

James Rule please do the honorable thing and replace Agar with a competent coach .....Ian Millward !!!!

a bugger match

Well to be honest he spent most of the time lookng at his phone and talking to his mate whilst at the derby. He was sat in the next row.

was ringing his solicitor to get agars new contract ready for the morning..

DoR anyone?

The Heatheringtons have previous.

Remember Daryl Powell?