Its all good what he is saying and its what the fans have been crying out for for years but this and other little things sound to me like he is trying to get the fans on side and is maybe trying to persuide the powers that be to give him the job which in my opinion will be a backwards step!

I disagree from what I seen on Saturday night he is getting the squad motivated and to make this judgement after one game is wrong.

If John is taking the role on as head coach and fitting in well with his ideas and have the players behind him then its all good.

Maybe you should give it a few more games before you make this call and it seems as though your jumping the gun a bit.

John has my 100% backing and hopefully the club will give him a chance to prove himself .

Good luck Stankey

A lot of positive comments about John here, would you be happy to see him given a go as permanent coach?

Some Widnes fans are to easily pleased and are happy with anything after the Oldham game a section of fans were applauding the performance! I may be jumping the gun with my comments after just one game but arent you giving John abit to much credit after only one game, one weerk of training and alot of verbal promises lets remember it was only Gateshead and the next three games are hardly difficult tasks are they so lets not start believing we are world betters and John is the man for the job we will see how far the team has come when we play a team that will give us a challange.

It's far too early to tell to be honest. He did well, but it's just one game. I'd be more than happy if he made a massive impact and got the job, but I doubt he'll have the time to prove what he can do in the long term. SOC has already said that, at the age of 29, he lacks the experience he feels the job needs, and wants him to learn under a more experienced coach with a veiw to taking over someday.

It is very early in the process but it doesn't look like the club are in an immediate rush to appoint someone so it looks like Stanny will have a bit of time.

He had about 5 days to change the way we played ready for Sat night and I thought the changes were quite apparent. This could have been because the changes were fairly easy to make (which I suspect) or Stanny is a very good coach (which I don't doubt). He has a couple of games and maybe that might be enough. As others have suggested I personally don't think it will be no matter how well we play.

If it isn't I hope he sticks with us because I wouldn't question that he will become a first class coach in a couple of years time.