Exactly my point, so he shouldn't have lied to our faces and told us that it was

The board can now start negotiations with the next coach openly now SM has made his descision. This for me is at least the second best situation we could be in

Player or Coach in "saying what they think fans want to hear" shocker.

Someone at the club told me he had "be all and end all" on his t-shirt as well.

Ahhh, the explanation to so much!

Who's to say we wouldn't have slipped further, at a quicker rate, with more long term damage under someone else?



Come on ME, information put out in the public domain, are quite different from the private thoughts if an individual.

He was hardly going to say: This squad is poop, but it's the best we could get, now is he?



Agree in principle, however, I don't think our situation has been quite that black and white, has it?

I sold him that. It actually says "Bell end".

Personally, while the job is such a poisoned chalice, I can't see how ANY coach worth his salt could refuse THE top coaching job in the northern hemisphere, if offered?

1. If you are an RL coach, then coaching your country is (obviously) your ultimate ambition

2. He is not breaking his contract

3. He is out of contract at the end of the year and had no offer on the table from Bradford.

I'm scratching my head to work out how anyone has any issue with this no-brainer? Especially the 'loyalty' issue raised - if that was a genuine 2 way street then wouldn't he have already been signed up for another few years on a big money deal?

I think the players have more brain cells than you are assuming they do!

They get battered and bruised every week and suffer numerous bangs to the head...............but even they wouldn't be as daft to have the same opinion as yours. (IMO)

Calmed down a little now. And after reading what Mac has to say on the SL website I have no problems with his decision now.

I wish him well, and hope, as he says, he can sign off with a GF win. He seems to want to go for the right reasons, not just that we haven't offered him a contract yet.


Thanks for all the work and effort Steve and forgive me for my initial overreaction. Although it may not be remembered in a few years time, you've put a lot of effort and commitment into matters on and off the pitch. I doubt we would have had the likes of Whitehead, Donaldson, Addy, Burgii, Tate, Lilycrop, Hellewell, O'Brien etc etc coming through the clubs systems if you weren't the coach.


Thanks for your effort and commitment and I hope you can produce an England team capable of demolishing the Aussies


Hopefully that will redeem myself, although tbf, before you read McNamara's comments you could be forgiven for being a bit angry.

You cant take Richard Agar off our hands can you?

Surely agar must be doing a great job?? You've just rewarded him with a two year extention to see off the RFL's advances haven't you?

Thats our board for you

Dont worry about it Ewwen, its good to see posters with some passion for the club. We might not all have the same opinions but thats why its a good place to vent your spleen



I would have thought we'd be overun on here by the previously titled NT with threads of joy at todays news.... they must all be busy I guess. (or just quietly satisfied? who knows)

Never know, might work out for you..... [size=60(stop laughing!)[/size

love your sig by the way

Thanks and with him in charge we going nowhere AGAIN

according to dewsbury website addy going to them on dual reg .

What a load of rubbish

More like it.

Quietly satisfied? I am actually over the moon. It is about time. Shame I was at work and could not share the joy.

Open the door Hal.

Mick Potter is who i'd have my money on.

You're welcome to him!

I was quite impressed by your coach on Boots'n'All tonight. It looks like he has put a lot of effort and thought into things and he isn't going to be working alone. Not only does he have the insight into the opposition of Smith for one year but he is also going to appoint a team around him. Given his direct experience with the disaster that was the last world cup and also the changes that were made in readiness for the Four Nations (in which we did look better for the most part), he may work out to be a good risk. I'm hoping he does because he comes across as such a nice bloke and very, very enthusiastic.

How dare you fly in the face of conventional wisdom?? Just about every man and his dog everywhere seems to be saying what a rubbish appointment this is.

My own view is that almost the only one who will not be surprised at how well Macca will do in the job is the dog.

What you have to understand is that Joe Fan on here knows far more about these matters than ever the likes of Mozza or JP will - let alone everyone who was involved in the selection process. The few lone voices who anticipate he will be successful - who also tend to be those who understood what he had to contend with at Bradford - are clearly not wired up right and so are to be pitied or derided.

You may wish to revisit your enthusiasm for backing what will so clearly be a total disaster for England. Its bound to be - conventional wisdom decrees it will be so.

It's a habit for which I am well known.




Being as this is the Bradford board, I didn't want to comment upon his tenure at Bradford but I will risk my neck so far as to say that he appears to me to be a mentally strong guy who would not be cowed by the pressures of being the England coach.






I'm not trembling in my boots. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does in the next few years.