Assuming they were qualified lol.Have no idea whether they are,as I said would be happy to stay with webbo,or powell or morgan if they were available.Its a pity my credibility didn't rest on replacing campese,what did you think then and now ?

This. 100%. Nostalgia taking over des, it seems.

Unfortunately des, I didn't comment on your take on the campese situation. It's no good suggesting the likes of Powell for the coaches job. He's under contract and doing well so I doubt he's see us a step up. You might as well suggest Craig Bellemy if we're just throwing names out there. The truth of the matter is that there aren't many top coaches with experience (a prerequisite for the job as stated by our chairman) that we could realistically entice. If we have a chance of bringing a respected assistant coach from the nrl who was recently the coach of the national side to our club then we should be grateful he'll consider us. Granted, his time at Bradford didn't end well but it was his first coaching job in difficult circumstances. He will have undoubtably improved as a coach since then as would anyone in any job given 7 years more experience.

As my learned colleague has already pointed out, it's pure nostalgia to mention Newton, Galea, Webster & Morgan. How about giving Stan a shot? he's a club legend, clearly the only qualification required.

As for the Campese issue, given his contractual position, were you offering to pay him what he is rightly owed to remove him from the playing roster? Or is it the boards job to pee more of their own cash up the wall?

With Campese's contract. He should never of been put on the length of contract he received. A rolling yearly contract would of been more prudent.

It seems they have peed either their money or the clubs money away on campese already wouldn't you say?

He went straight from his sacking at bradford to the england job,so the rfl must have been impressed by his performance at bradford,which explains why we failed miserably in the 2013 world cup.The only 2 teams of any consequence new zealand both beat us and we arguably had the strongest squad we have ever had,bearing in mind the 2013 man of steel wasn't considered by mcnamara because he dosn't like him.Sound reasoning wouldn't you say ?

Possibly so, without having the benefit of clear hindsight, perhaps you could tell me at what point did you decide we should terminate an employees contract? If it was before we signed him, then subject to evidence of this I will of course, apologise profusely and recommend you for the current vacancy of UK Prime Minister.

After said contract was signed then TC has an obligation to honour it, as do Rovers.

No Des. Get real.

We didn't fail miserably at the 2013 World Cup.

I was at the Wembley semi final, when we outplayed NZ for most of the game. One of the best international RL games I have seen in almost 50 years as an avid RL fan tbh.

Then some recently retired icon of the game overshot the player in possession on the Kiwis final play with 21 secs to go, got easily sidestepped by the same ( a world class half back) and let him in for a try we shouldn't have conceded in all honesty. World Cup over. Not McNamara's fault in any way. I could have throttled Sir Kev after that, but still bought a signed copy of his autobiography. That's what experienced realism is all about. You forgive and move on as anyone can make mistakes. You learn by them.

Similarly I expect McNamara has learnt a lot in Oz as a coach since his Bradford days and moved his coaching competency on several levels.

Des, it seems we will have to agree to disagree on the benefits or not of possibly installing McNamara as our next head coach. I, for one, would think that where we are as a club, to appoint someone who is respected within the game and has years of experience coaching elite players in both hemispheres and is relatively young and hungry would be a positive move. Like I said, bearing in mind where we are as a club and who we could realistally recruit. You seem happy to make a nostalgic appointment based on how well they played for us despite having zero coaching qualifications or experience (Newton / Galea) or Webster who, while improving the mess left by Chester, has a worse super league coaching record, no international experience and never coached in the world's premier club competition. Ok then....................

But like I said. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

Furner's record is abysmal it's like a carbon copy of the sandercock era. His only qualification seems to be an Aussie accent.