Looking at the coaching staff list a couple of things spring to mind. Like the playing staff the average age isn't particularly high so we lack experience in running a top flight club. The other thing is how many of them have been with the club for a significant length of time and are able to bring a winning mentality we certainly had 4 years ago.

Stuart Barrow was added as part of the development coaching staff so again that looks to be a high priority that hopefully long term gives us a squad to compete.

If MacNamara isn't happy with the playing staff he's hardly likely to say so publicly. While they are his players there is always a risk that some players just don't work out like you expect but publicly criticising them or trying to offload (the Ellis debacle reinforced this) them isn't going to help.

Every body in all walks of there working life have to deal with things that are out of their control. Like I've said before other super league coaches will all be having similar issue's it's not just a problem of ours.
So if we are past the stage of them being an issue why keep bringing them up.
Like I've said before most of the other coaches in super league will have a less than ideal working situation but they appear to be making a better use of the available resources.
That's a fair point but do we carry on as we are now just because a change might not work even though things aren't working in the present.

So we [ido[/i have a decent coach after all? Bugger, I will have to change my vote now.



Incidentally, 16 people have voted option 1 yet no one thus far has said so on here or given us the reasons for choosing it?

Because of the difference between "excuses" and "causes," or "reasons" if you prefer. I did not say we are past the stage of any of them being an issue (if indeed any of them are). I said we are past the time for excuses - from whoever. Two different things. I'm fed up with excuses; I want to understand the reasons.

Yes, to a point of course you are right. But I wonder whether our coach is having to contend with a lot more issues than most? Again I speculate, but there is a fair bit of anecdotal indication that he just might. For instance, despite all the early-season poor performance at Warrington, its unlikely their coach has money concerns with Moran in the background. And even more so at the Piedome, where they seem to have invested heavily in support and commercial staff? For example?

If doing his best (option 1) is 13th & out of the CC then you are fooked.

Indeed. Yet strangely 18 people (and counting) have chosen that option. Still none of them have given us a reason why they picked it though.

It must be those pesky 5th column aliases of Tigertot

Just seen the 'McNamara out' Facebook group... The captions to the photos are funny

Either that or it must be Leeds or Wakey fans to blame.

As you can see, clearly blaming the coach for everything - rubbish game plans, rubbish coaching - like so many of the supporters are.

Sorry tigs I forgot an option for those who just wanna get Macca IN the sack

Do you honestly expect him to put any thing other than tat. He was never going to say "Yes it's all Steve's fault he just doesn't have a clue of how to fix things".

No, but he doesn't have to mention the coach at all.

Exactly.

I can remember Andy Farrell saying what a good coach Andy Goodway was while the latter was in charge at Wigan.

But he was always going to mention the coach as soon as he mentioned them not following the game plan. It's a way of trying to deflect the flack that's heading in Maccas direction. Don't forget that Morrison was in the coaching box last Friday and he all the discontent directed at McNamara.

So the fact that, week after week, players are saying that they are not doing what they are told to do yet it still keeps happening? Why?

Yes Adey, WHY??

It was not aimed towards adey to answer. It was a general point.

Low confidence.

Opposition.
Let's not forget we may have a game plan, but the team we are up against will be doing their best to stop us putting it into practice too.

Low confidence is an obvious answer now but if the team started the season low on confidence then that's a clear problem before we started.

I'd say another disrupted pre-season friendly program (thanks RFL) combined with early season injuries to senior first choice players (Solomona, Langley, Deacon, Morrison) and a generally more competitive competition has left us the wrong side of close games and a couple of thrashings leading to eroding confidence.

Gosh, super. Thank you for sharing that.

It was the combination of you replying to Adey, with a quote of what he had written, plus the words you used in your question, clinched by the"?" at the end, which misled me into believing you were using a popular device called a "question", directed at the person you addressed it to.

I now see how wrong I was. I apologise for having forced you to, entirely understandably, roll your eyes and (though you do not say so) doubtless to 'Tut' loudly.

Now is too soon, when the pain of misunderstanding is clearly so raw, but I can only hope and pray that, one day, you can find it in your heart to forgive my having jumped to this obviously unreachable conclusion.

Well this poll didn't really have the option I would go for.

I no longer feel McNamara is up to the job and we need a change at head coach. We should look for a replacement and he should be appointed asap. That replacement should be carefully selected though, if getting the right bloke means waiting till the end of this season then so be it. This season is pretty much over as far as us having any chance of being in the mix for trophies is concerned (though we never really were at the races IMO).

However, we shouldn't be waiting too long Next season is crucial, we must turn the corner and have optimism return to the club before then or dwindling attendances and lower season ticket sales will mean the clubs immediate future would be in jeopardy.

It's all very well to cite a lack of money as the reason we can't change the coach but I don't think any of us have any real hard information on that front. What I do know is if the current decline continues then we certainly will not have any money for anything at all before long, unless we've reached the point of no return already. If that's the case then I really don't fancy watching this car crash unfold any further.

How come there's no option covering the possibility that he's doing a fantastic job and getting all your players performing way above their abilities?