Quote ="Exeter Rhino"Leeds need to be aiming to be the best, not just catching up with Wigan and Saints etc. If Wane is so good why hasn't he been a head coach for years? Why isn't he head coach at Wigan? He's just another name on a merry go round that gets mentioned after every coach comes under pressure. 10 years ago it was Brian Noble. No thanks.
The next appointment has to be done right, especially if it is going to be a mid-season one. I'd prefer an interim coach if it is decided that Smith has to go, rather than going with another SL journeyman coach. If we're going down that route Rowley would be preferable. Hopefully not McNamara either but somehow he has managed to extend his career beyond others who have achieved more in the past.'"
A bit unwarranted on Wane, he has only had a successful coaching career. He left Wigan to go to Union (although i do think the time was right to change), he was never sacked and won plenty of silverware with us even with teams that on paper should have been nowhere near a title.
For the record, i think the only job that Wane would leave his current position for is an NRL head coaching gig, and the only chance he has of getting that would be a series win / world cup win over Australia. At the moment though he is living the dream really. Part time job at his hometown club that is in a period of success, free attendance to all his hometown club's games, free attendance to many games actually around Super League so that he can watch players and still dabbles in a bit of coaching with England. Why would he leave?
On Smith, i have never been a fan since you signed him on. I think he comes across as arrogant in his interviews, almost as if he is too good for the league and we should be lucky he is here, probably galvanised in his head by the brilliant run you guys had when he first signed. I feel i would dislike him just as much if he was the Wigan coach.
Hope your players have the decency to really put a shift in this week and make a true occasion for Burrow and his family, with or without Rohan Smith.
