Is Rowley a big Ken Hom fan.
Do we want Rowley. They were presented a chance for promotion and unravelled. The other Championship teams out performed Leigh.

Of course the missing players are a big loss and yes rovers were playing some very good attacking rugby last season.
However, the fact remains that even with a full squad playing attractive rugby, we still had one of the worst defensive records in super league and finished outside the top eight, a fact that was supposed to be addressed during the close season
Up to now this hasn't happened and the old failings of last season are still very evident, I believe that time is fast running out for Chester and Poching who, for whatever reason seem unable or incapable of make any headway in addressing those failings any time soon.

It's not luck...there's a old Lee Trevino quote about luck. Was Alex Ferguson lucky for 30 years?

The players don't lack desire or commitment, they lack confidence. They are putting in the effort but they have lost belief in what they are doing.
For 4 seasons Morgan got better results against much better sides at that time, often with much worse players because he inspired the players....until his ego got the better of him.

Sandercock was a technically better coach but couldn't inspire anyone often because they were tret like children.

The players clearly have no faith in the nonsense being fed them.

Kelly and Horne's channel has been an open gate for the past season. I watched them Sunday. They never communicated once. Horne was ball watching every time. This is a coaching issue. Chester clearly has favourites but they are often our worst players.

The basics of coaching is build a good team....good players for each position..we have no second rows....none of any worth (Larroyer excepted) yet we have half a dozen utility backs He intended starting the season with Blair as our gun second row. We have no full back. He intended starting Sio there and apparently prepared preseason to....then changed his mind 30mins into the first friendly.
Lawler has been good but the role of a hooker is to distribute and read the game. He can't do either at the moment hence Kelly had men all over him due to half his passes hitting his bootlaces.
I could go on and on (I often do).
Chester needs putting out of his misery and given a job he can do.

Those proposing Rowley are way off the mark IMO, we need an experienced coach. We have never had an experienced coach since we got in to SL. We need someone who can come in and sort this mess out by stamping his authority on this squad.

For a time, after Radford was given the coaches job at FC he was slagged off and accused of many things, but what he had and made very clear was that he had a plan, and that was to get rid of the free loaders and start building a squad from the ground up, and at this moment in time, with pearsons backing that is where they are. Following the Sandercock clear out, I for one thought we might have the same plan, but no, we just seem to limp from one cockup to the next without any clear direction or remit. This for me is the crux of our problems, no clear defined plan, and very poor communication with the supporters of the club. What we need as mentioned is somebody to take the club by the scruff of its neck and drag it in a positive direction. peacock can recruit who he likes, but if they aren't motivated they might as well have kept all our homegrown lads and saved money

The only mentions of Rowley are coming from supporters of the champions-elect.

Chester cleared out after Sandercock all right, but look what he's recruited to date.

Campo. Brilliant but fragile and very costly
Lunt. Good but fragile and very costly
Kelly. Brilliant but fragile and very costly
Sio. Brilliant but coach unsure of his best position
Dixon. Flashes of brilliance but too inconsistent and cannot defend
Mantomato. Consistent and probably our best vfm new signing
Allgood and Tilse. Below average Aussie props.
Blair. Mr Versatile. No pace but a great defender and reader of the game. Our second best vfm new signing
Boudebza. Le Pocket Rocket. Getting better all the time. Our third best vfm new signing
Donaldson. Too small for back row, but brave and a good interchange. A good signing.
Thornley. Too early to tell. OK so far
Clarkson. Good defender. OK so far
Greenwood, Minns, Mulhern. Young with potential but that's it
Shaw. A wasted signing imo
Larroyer. Good player if deployed in the right way

We let Welham go but kept Salter.
We let Cox and Ollett go but kept Horne
We use Cockayne as starting fullback, but he is poor on distribution, high on mistakes and lacks pace and guile joining the attacking line. Ignores overlaps too.

18 of the 26 are Chester signings. It's his team following the Sandercock clear out. When they don't or can't perform like now, who is responsible? Certainly not Alan the kit man.

For me on the evidence of his time in charge, Chester is NOT a leader or a good enough strategic or tactical thinker. A proven coach with mentoring and motivational qualities is required.

Well said and true

We look as though we are signing lauaki on loan from bradford. Thoughts ?

We aren't short of props at the minute (unless there is an injury occurred that hasn't been announced) and if we were to sign a prop, it would have to be someone who's better than what we have.

I may as well get my boots on. I was a SH in my day but with the timber i've put on over the years, I think i could get in Stan's team at LF

No doubt this would lower our mistakes and penalties conceded!!!

If this is true then I give up.

I know things are tough at the moment, but Lauaki?

There must be better players out there surely, I don't know you cap and who would be released but even at Hull you would be better with someone like Hadley, Feka, Abdul or even Yeaman.

Rovers should have done a partnership with hull for the Reserves team (At the moment we share it with Donny) and then you could have maybe kept some of the younger players like Ollett and Esslemont, who would have been playing first team now.

Poor planning by Chester and Hudgel (I'll leave out Peacock as not really sure what role he plays)