Such a shame we had to give up our own youth system and identity and decades and decades of bringing through our own players in order to somehow be able to afford to tempt Jason Netherton to coach a "joint" academy...

I seem to recall a fair number of Wakefield fans were glad to see the back of Webbo. Yes he had a tight budget but he must have contributed to their woeful performances.

At least he will have the luxury of a decent 17 over the next few weeks.

Personally I'd have left Poching in charge. He managed to galvanise the squad with his open play approach, but now we have a situation where Webbo has to gain the respect and confidence of the squad, which could go either way and lets hope not the Wakey way!

brian smith transformed wakey in a matter of weeks after webster departed. IMO he shouldn't even be coach of the academy, never mind a SL team again.

Having read your posts and contributions on RLFans your opinion doesn't carry much (if any) weight.

Webster was in the main awful during his time in charge of Wakefield. He started fairly brightly in the first 6 or 7 games after Agar's dark days but it went rapidly downhill losing 4 of the last 5 games of the season. Throughout his time in charge we looked a mile off the pace with a complete lack of fight, heart and defensive structure the major issues. Last season after winning the first two games we conceded 40+ in 9 of the next 11 league games and then went out of the cup at home to Leigh, shipping in 36. His head went down way too early and he lost the belief of the players. The best thing that ever happened to us was his resignation, we would have without a doubt gone down with him in charge.

Whether 'coming home' to Hull KR will fit better and lead to better things i'm not sure but i'm surprised that is the direction you have gone given it is only 10 months since he was a disaster with us. Maybe the fact that it only until the end of season will be helpful and he will be able to give the short term lift needed but i have my doubts to be honest. I expected you to go with an experienced head like Noble to guide Poching until the end of the season with McNamara taking the reigns then.

Cheers, a little ahead of yours still, of course

. . . in your opinion, no doubt!

Reading some of your posts is strange, ok your struggling atm but you have players to come back and a lot at that, yet some are saying you could finish up in the championship? no way will that happen yes you might finish up in the bottom 4 so might we lol, but go down nah , never,

That's where my head is to be honest. Just have to look at the likes of Leeds and Hudds to see what key injuries can do. We'll be ok with a few bodies back.

Yet Smith has only managed one win against SL opposition and struggled in most games against championship sides including one defeat.

Even Wayne Bennett would struggle with our squad