He can sit with his ku klux klan gear on and his cock out for all I care as long as he's winning us games.

yes fair point but can you seperate a players qualities from a man's personality. Whilst it'd be great to learn the art of playing scrum half off someone like longy you'd have to chaperone him everywhere to make sure your young lads weren't picking up his bad habits.

taking it a bit far, I think!

if it's good enough for Kath......

That's part of Long's role, one reason why he was tempted with the move to Hull.

Which players is he going to be bringing on, I haven't seen the academy (or whatever they are called) for some time.

There is one young lad called Williams who is playing 7 in the same team as Lynn and Briscoe, so I would imagine he will be working with him at least.

How far off first team (age and ability) are they?

At a guess 2/4 years but you never can tell with 16/17 year olds, some develop quicker than others. Whether or not there will be somebody ready when Long's two years are up I am not sure. I hope Long is kept on the coaching staff though.

I would assume that Long has been given a much wider terms of reference than only bringing on the juniors, important though that is. I would hope he has a big say in attacking structure and organisation for the first grade both on the training field and in games.

He's probably our new defence coach

Why what was on the Bandanna?