I believe Rob will be in charge of the reserves this coming season?

And possible temporary first team coach

I can't see Rob leaving the club so it will most likely be a change of roles

What I mean is if Rob takes charge of coaching reserves he would be first inline to take over 1st team on " temporary " basis if the head coach departs suddenly

Rob is Reserves HC and Chev now coaching Academy.

Looks like we’ve got a new asst coach coming in soon.

Cheers for the info.

Interesting that although you'd want to provide a coaching pathway through the first grade ideally, I'm not totally convinced that the skillset required to coach U18s is the same as open age actually.

Anyway good luck to Rob with the Reserves and Chev with the academy - should be a strong season for both sides you would think/hope.

Happy with them appointments for sure. Interesting who comes in at assistant.

Also, glad nothing came of anything with Rob Burrow, although, they were obviously right in saying he’s left his role at the academy

JJB confirmed as full time assistant coach

Leeds gone cheap again with another unproven coach. Jobs for the boys.

Given we went cheap with Agar, I was hoping we might recruit an experienced assistant.

Oh Jesus, will we ever learn.

This.

yep

Well lets face it you are highly unlikely to get an experienced high profile coach to come as an assistant to Agar

Not a reflection on JJB as a person but disappointed with this.

Despite obvious enthusiasm and an understanding of what a good Leeds culture looks like JJB has no experience. I can see a role for JJB in a coaching set up or as a player liaison type role but not as the assistant at this point in his or the teams development.

The coaching set up lacks experience and that is my biggest worry.

Not sure on this one but let's give the great man our backing and see where it goes.

Jeez it's like Leeds United in the late 70's and 80's. Great players, great people no doubt but it really is jobs for the boys. Keep these guys on in ambassador roles that would be great but filling the key coaching positions with them is the wrong way to go imo.

On the one hand i'm pleased and confident we have a better squad this year than the last couple but the coaching team from Agar down makes me sceptical we can make any more than minimal improvements on last season.

I like the way The club is loyal to it's great servants ,how many are now employed by the club? Not sure about this appointment, it is an important role . I always thought JJB's future was in the media he's a natural for that .

Not surprised by this JJB has coached Stanningley and iirc was involved with the academy a few years back.

Pah, not been as underwhelmed since McDermott & Lowes took over.

GF win from 5th it is!!

Good luck Jamie hope,it works out well.
I am happy that he is still involved and sir Kev is being quite shrewd employing someone who has his back.
With this head coach or a future one.

A completely irrelevant side point, looking at some of the pictures from camp. Looks like JJB turns up to training with all his Grand Final winners rings on...

Never known someone to be so "Leeds". Talks about how Agar has allowed him to look at creating a culture. Only time will tell I suppose...

jobs for the boys. hive him a job but not this one

Coaching meetings could take a while with JJB waffling on about John the Baptist and Moses in the reeds.

Im sure the novelty of wearing Leeds Rhinos coaching tops hasnt worn off yet either.

It depends what kind of coaching mix we want. Jonesy will be superb for atttiude and heart, teamwork. We have lacked that at times.

Coaching is a team affair as much as the playing staff are these days. What we do need to have is technical excellence and nous/tactics (something we’ve DEFINITELY lacked).

I for one like JJB in the coaching set up. Actually the next step is probably to replace Agar in due course and allow him to take on more back office/development role, when the time is right.

Bottom line is there have been so many changes at Leeds during this transition that we’re going to have to judge performances on the field for a while and be patient while it settles a bit.

Agreed, whilst we are always going to have opinions on here, it really is difficult for us to judge an appointment like this without knowing the ins and outs of the day to day training and running of the squad, we're just going to have see how the new set up goes.

FWIW my prediction is we will surprise a few this year but won't be challenging for silverware bar a favourable CC draw. 5th is my prediction with some great wins and some poor losses along the way. I just hope we can get a good win to loss ratio in the first 10-12 games to make sure were not scraping around the bottom of the table again, 8 wins from 12 would see me very happy and should mean we won't be in a relegation scrap bar a spectacular collapse in form.