#1 choice for me is Noble. Wonder if he could bring Warren Jowitt as his #2? He seems to be a promising coach and they were at the Bulls together.

Morgan has done brilliantly with KR but has taken them to the same level as us or thereabouts. What we need now is someone with experience of taking teams that next step and taking us from play-off makers to play-off contenders.

Noble suggested on SL show that it was pure speculation that he had applied

Brian Noble with John Kear as assistant if Wakefield dont get the nod.

Also, interested noone has mentioned a formwer legend who has been doing well coaching in NZ. Possible assistant to someone more experienced. Tawera Nikau anyone???? I dont know, just a thought

Question: How many of the following coaches had top-flight 1st team coaching experience before they joined Cas as coach?

Mal Reilly
Dave Sampson
Darryl Van De Velde
John Joyner
Stuart Raper
Graham Steadman
Gary Mercer
Dave Woods
Terry Matterson

Amazing, really, how few of them there are.

Apparently noble was seen coming out of hudgells office two weeks ago can see this been Morgan to cas noble to kr

So Georgie, what you are saying is we've won practically naff all with all those coaches, it's time to get a proven top coach in at the club.

Oh i dunno Marshy we came close under Van de Velde and Raper !!

Won stuff with Johnny Joyner and Malcolm too.

Woods got us our first ever League title.
Terry got us our second.

Didn't win the league as such with Woods, Haven did. We did win the league the second time under tm though.

Noble for Cas. We have been down the assistant route before, and i don't think the players will react the same to Hay if he starts giving the orders,also we are pulling in new sponsors to the club new to r.l and the appointment of Hay would stop any momentum we are building at the club.

May i suggest Kear?

John Kear suggested John Kear, but all that managed to do was raise a chuckle when they saw he had applied

I always thought that the GF winners took the league championship, and the table-toppers took the League Leaders' cup. Ah well, can't win 'em all!

May we laugh in response?

You may!

I'm surprised noboby has mentioned Paul "Chubby" Broadbent. He would certainly turn the air blue in the dressing rooms.

i hear the club will appoint from within and it will be announced upon confirmation of the franchise ...............hay and thornton maybe ??????

I hope not. At the start of a new licence period this appointment will speak volumes for our ambitions.

Nobby or not Nobby, that is the question:
Hoping 'tis Noble in the mind or we'll suffer

Hay would be worse than Dave Sampson. Hay has never shown any leadership ability or example. He turned fromthe best prospect of his generation to a stroppy brat.

I love our fans, arguably he is an integral part for the last 4 years of the success story we have credited TM with, surely on that basis he, if appointed deserves at least a period of assessment before we castigate him for being crap?

Anyway, remains to be seen who we appoint I guess, anything could happen, I don't think anyone tipped Terry Matterson before he was appointed, or David Woods when he was.

History's warnings should be headed !!!!

Or even heeded.....?

You could make the same argument for Francis Cummins or James Lowes.

Didn't know they'd been at Cas in the backroom staff for 4 years.