Steve McCormack at Widnes

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Maybe he's after the Wigan Job, because if they don't beat Cas on Friday, Noble will be in big trouble!

not really up with the recent fortunes of widnes - is this a surprise? was he pushed or did he walk? is he popular with the fans?

Big surprise to me.

Not a bad NL coach. Nice person. Got us to 3 finals in 3 years. winning one of them. dont think he had what it takes to take us to superleague in a few years time.

All the best Ste Mac.

Surprise - No

Pushed or walk? - Most likely pushed.

Popular with the fans? - A resounding no. We've got a very good squad this year, and for the last 3 years and all we've got to show for it is a Northern Rail Cup. The team McCormack put out on Friday against Oldham should have won with 12 or 13 men (no disrespect to Oldham, but surely even you didn't think you were going to win!).

Stanky will take over in the meantime and hopefully we'll put in a cheeky bid for Ellery.

Not really a surprise after Friday's dreadful showing against Oldham. That was the last straw for many fans, including Mr O'Connor it would seem.

Im quite suprised at this news.

A tad harsh if you ask me, he is popular as a bloke that is for sure, but for most not their cup of tea. Good luck to him though, hope he get's himself a position in the not to distant future.

Nice Guy but we are not playing well enough as a team considering the playing personnel we have. Neil Kelly or Ellery Hanley would be my choice.

Nice guy but terrible coach.

Hanley to Widnes for me.

Didn't NL2 Oldham beat, just down from super league Salford, this time last year and Salford didn't do to bad going on to win ever thing at NL1 level.

What i don't get is if the Widnes board don't rate Steve Mac then why not remove him at the end of last season?

Maybe this kind of knee jerk management reaction is one more reason Widnes were overlooked for a franchise

WTF you mentalist, pre season results havent been the best and we have been awful in certain games. Isnt it better to get rid now rather than half way through a season?

Ellery goes out of Dancing on Ice, Steve Mac sacked is there a coincedence I wonder?

In next week's episode ... Jason Gardner turns out to be Steve O'Connor's secret lovechild.

Ok, an outsiders opinion looking in. From an 'insider', Steve Mac has underachieved for 3 years now at Widnes, if you look on Widnes messageboards he's suffered alot of criticism practically the last 2 seasons.

Last season you couldn't really knock what we achieved after the administration we build a squad from only starting with 5 players, way behind everyone elses recruitment yet still made the playoffs. But when we got there, the supporters still felt we had a team that could compete.

Things were maybe getting stale at Widnes with McCormack in charge and even if he has done a good job, it seems to take us to that next level someone else needs to come in. I know we can't get promoted, but the idea at Widnes is to be that strong in the next 3 years the RFL can't look anywhere else.

Ste Mac was in his fourth year at Widnes. He had a new two year contract last year, so he was in his 2nd year of that.

The performances we've seen so far have been diabolical to say the least. Given the players he has available, we should be putting in far better performances. If these constant and woeful displays continued, then we would hemorrhage support. The style of RL under Steve McCormack was simply awful.

If sacking a coach after three seasons in charge is 'knee jerk' and not worthy of a franchise, then half of the current SL clubs shouldn't have got one either! l

Bet he'd wished he'd styayed as Morgans assistant now, so much for loyalty eh, its all one way.

Correct.

He didn't stick around long after the club went into administration did he?

He went back as soon as asked though, he obviously thinks well of the club.

Or was offered more money?

Many of the senior players stuck with the club. Either way loyalty works both ways, and he couldn't get away fast enough. Didn't he accept a job at Barrow and then dump them when Hull KR came in?

Quote ="Pepe"Ste Mac was in his fourth year at Widnes. He had a new two year contract last year, so he was in his 2nd year of that. The performances we've seen so far have been diabolical to say the least. Given the players he has available, we should be putting in far better performances. If these constant and woeful displays continued, then we would hemorrhage support. The style of RL under Steve McCormack was simply awful. If sacking a coach after three seasons in charge is 'knee jerk' and not worthy of a franchise, then half of the current SL clubs shouldn't have got one either! l '" Really? news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 545268.stm Why offer him a year contract if his job was going to be under threat from the very start?

Quote ="Pepe"Ste Mac was in his fourth year at Widnes. He had a new two year contract last year, so he was in his 2nd year of that. The performances we've seen so far have been diabolical to say the least. Given the players he has available, we should be putting in far better performances. If these constant and woeful displays continued, then we would hemorrhage support. The style of RL under Steve McCormack was simply awful. If sacking a coach after three seasons in charge is 'knee jerk' and not worthy of a franchise, then half of the current SL clubs shouldn't have got one either! l '" Really? news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 545268.stm Why offer him a year contract if his job was going to be under threat from the very start?

had the best squad in nl over the last 3 seasons, and alls he will be remember for is making good players into nobodies, killing the game of rugby league in widnes.