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.

Des seems to object to McNamara based on his record in his 1st coaching job, citing Bradford supporters as his primary witness.

He then goes on to want Webbo despite his abject failure in his 1st coaching job. I would like to direct him towards Wakefields forum for their opinion of Websters spell in charge.

Maybe it goes deeper, Webster is a former Rovers playing legend ( who I happen to have huge respect for) whereas McNamara plied his trade on the wrong side of the river.

That seems fair,thats what this forum is about,opinions,as it turned out I was right about campese and will be highly delighted if iam wrong about mcnamara but i fear he is a dud.As for newton and galea assuming they had their coaching badges,both loved their time at the club and its a difficult question who would you want as coach its hard to know who is available and who would want it,but powell would be my value for money choice.Morgan had no experience as head coach but did a damn good job.

Heard a whisper that Garth Brennan is in the frame.may be right may be wrong but he would be ideal for rovers imo

Morgan took Toulouse to the cc semi before his spell with us.

Hardly fits the bill as a proven head coach though.

Between macnamara and mcdermott I'd appoint mcdermott as rovers coach every day of the week but then I am a Hull supporter