According to TRL www.totalrl.com/jon-sharp-become ... ulls-post/ Can't say I'd be over the moon at this news - he never particularly leaves behind a huge fanclub in organisations when he leaves, just ask some of the refs.

According to TRL www.totalrl.com/jon-sharp-become ... ulls-post/ Can't say I'd be over the moon at this news - he never particularly leaves behind a huge fanclub in organisations when he leaves, just ask some of the refs.

Quote ="amberavenger"According to TRL www.totalrl.com/jon-sharp-become ... ulls-post/ Can't say I'd be over the moon at this news - he never particularly leaves behind a huge fanclub in organisations when he leaves, just ask some of the refs.'" He's a strange one. Take a look at his CV and you'd snap him up in a heartbeat, especially at clubs where he's performed well with little investment. However, the opinions of those around RL is not positive in the slightest. Take a look at Fev, two consecutive Middle 8 finishes yet shown the door for a guy who has done little with a poor swinton side other than try to knock opponents heads off. Wouldn't be thrilled at the prospect long term but it wouldn't surprise me if he took the job and did well at it.

Quote ="amberavenger"According to TRL www.totalrl.com/jon-sharp-become ... ulls-post/ Can't say I'd be over the moon at this news - he never particularly leaves behind a huge fanclub in organisations when he leaves, just ask some of the refs.'" He's a strange one. Take a look at his CV and you'd snap him up in a heartbeat, especially at clubs where he's performed well with little investment. However, the opinions of those around RL is not positive in the slightest. Take a look at Fev, two consecutive Middle 8 finishes yet shown the door for a guy who has done little with a poor swinton side other than try to knock opponents heads off. Wouldn't be thrilled at the prospect long term but it wouldn't surprise me if he took the job and did well at it.

Please NO NO NO. Not a popular bloke in RL circles. Seems to have a reputation of rubbing people up the wrong way.

Neither disappointed nor elated. Agree with what Bullinenemyland said. When i saw his name mentioned i wasn't thrilled. But pretty much everyone thought he was harshly treated when shown the door at Fev. He also coached fev to a 20 NIL win in one of the most important games For either club. Lee Greenwood is my number 1 choice.

Wasn't he accused of all sort of homophobic and other nonsense?

If so I'd rather he fekked off somewhere else. Our reputation's on it's 4rse as it is.

As already mentioned Sharp isn't a very popular man with a lot of people, but his boring style of rugby can get results and that's what we need.
Personally, I'd rather see someone in charge that could grow as the club does, rather than someone that's coming to the back end of their coaching career and probably a short term (2 years) appointment.

Absolute unmitigated disaster if he comes to Bradford.
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What a CV - and our lot give him a job?

Sincerely hope this press talk is a load of roll ocks

On the positive side - He'd make us harder to beat. He did alright at Fev right up until they sacked him just before the play offs for some as yet unknown reason. he's an ex forward so should know a bit about what it takes up front and that area for me is the part of the side that needs most work.

On the negative side - Seems to have a bit of negative baggage following him around. Also quite possibly one of the dullest speakers I've ever heard, could send a glass eye to sleep. Though this was when he was coaching Hudders so he may have got better.

On the whole it's a bit of a "meh" type of coaching appointment if it's true. I worry about the baggage, we don't need anyone that's going to put noses out of joint.

I understand - no problems

Happy to let these three pages put my point in a different way.

[urlhttp://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/chris-leatherbarrow-dies-rugby-league-10370322[/url

And

[urlhttp://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/705044/Super-League-RFL-George-Stokes-Matt-Thomason-Ralph-Rimmer[/url

And

[urlhttp://www.rugby-league.com/article/32667/rfl-statement-jon-sharp[/url

If he arrives - I won't be buying a season ticket.

Sorry, could somebody please point me to the article whereby the long suffering fans have been informed of Toovey's decision not to return....

Either on the Bulls website...?
Their twitter feed...?
Or perhaps it was in the ever up-to-date and reliable T&A and I missed it...?

Business as usual regards communication with the fans then

Please no. Isn't that journalist a Halifax fan? Hopefully he's just trolling us.

There's a couple of anomalies in that report.



So is Chalmers in Australia, scouting players at the World Cup (as he himself said) and meeting with Toovey whilst there (as the T&A reported), or was he at Tong last week addressing the players? Can't both be true...



What???? Surely that can't be right? Isn't it more the case that the Fev chairman decided not to renew the contract for 2018, and they agreed a pay-off so they could get him to leave immediately? I find it hard to believe that any club would hand a coach a contract that ended part way through the season (especially given the way that Toovey has sat on his contract until November, and everyone has been saying that its the norm because that's when all contracts end)

Given these anomalies, how confident are we that the rest of the story is accurate?

Video conference call?

You think we're that tech savvy?

I can just imagine the squad all clustered around one smart phone.

We were once sponsored by the biggest computer company in the world - mind, there's plenty of stuff that we once were......

Andrew Chalmers arrived back yesterday afternoon, so he definitely didn't address the players at Tong last week.

Everything is good and building for a successful 2018.

Underwhelming and somewhat worrying given some of the rumours within RL about him.

Deemed not good enough to take Fev from top 4 to genuinely challenging for SL. Wonder what our aspirations are as a club?

He was never going to take Featherstone to super league. No one was though. Not lending 4 leeds players everyweek and the budget they was spending.

Think people are forgetting we are in league 1. He can get us out of league 1 and spend a couple of seasons getting us to top 4. After that we make a decision.

I don’t think anyone is forgetting what league we are in. Personally I don’t feel like we should just be happy to have anyone because we are in L1. Personally I hope it’s just papertalk and we have a few other options in the mix. Perhaps a decent up and coming coach who really wants to make a name for themselves... oh hang on.. we sacked him off for super coach Toovey!!

Sounds like its a done deal. Guess its a wait and see job. You can make a case for and against him. Hope Lee Greenwoood is his assitant.

He is, but Aaron bower has been on Twitter saying he's heard similar and I trust his opinion, and that toovey is not coming back.

Really not sure about this appointment if true.

Looks like its all done https://twitter.com/M_Shaw1/status/930551354086641666

Looks like its all done https://twitter.com/M_Shaw1/status/930551354086641666

At least Jon Sharp might actually want to be here, unlike Captain Indecisive.

I've been saying for months I didn't want Toovey coming back. This is good news IMO. I'll happily give Sharp a chance before I condemn him on his coaching abilities. As far as signing people with questionable morals, we just spent half a season with Scott Moore as our captain, so I think that ship has sailed.