You know very well it doesn't work like that, no clubs follow this and go through agents early.

Could this be Salford holding out for more money?

Obvs they want the best money they can get for him. So they reject the offer hoping we offer more, knowing we have investment coming in and are willing to offer more for him.

If we don't offer more, they get to keep their prize asset. If we do, they're quids in.

Look at Brodie croft, signs a 8 year deal then leaves, Dupree,l wants to leave , Salford say no,.reject offers then he leaves for higher price.

Just a thought

Could be and that was my thought yesterday?

But Rowley has more to lose than players although we haven’t had any direct quotes from him which I find quite strange?

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ke-9242443 Pretty concerned our preference is to target a domestic coach. The coaches listed in the article I don't think would help. Mcdermott. Just no. Strange and devisive individual. Ward. Can't see him leaving Rovers, if he plays his cards right he could take over from Peters in a season or 2. McGuire. Just can't see a Leeds legend and Rovers fan favourite and former coach working out. I hope we go overseas tbh

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ke-9242443 Pretty concerned our preference is to target a domestic coach. The coaches listed in the article I don't think would help. Mcdermott. Just no. Strange and devisive individual. Ward. Can't see him leaving Rovers, if he plays his cards right he could take over from Peters in a season or 2. McGuire. Just can't see a Leeds legend and Rovers fan favourite and former coach working out. I hope we go overseas tbh

Bonaire what a positive person you really are.

Clubs showed some serious ambition by targeting Rowley and willing to pay £££ to get him.

Issue now is, unless they go to Aus and bring someone like Briers or Holbrook in then it’s a massive disappointment.

Mylers come out swinging but if he’s got land someone abmbitious and then back it up with 2-3 decent signing

No, I’m not naive.

Either Myler has chosen to play a straighter bat, and been burned, or there’s been some form of misunderstanding.

Who knows, this time yesterday it looked nailed on. By the end the day it appeared to be dead in the water. When I’m back online this afternoon/evening, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another twist.

Yeah me too, think there is more to this than meets the eye.

Whatever happens, I'd doubt Rowley will be at Salford in a years time.

https://www.totalrl.com/ex-wigan-warrio ... ching-gig/ If Briers thinks he's ready we need to make a serious play

https://www.totalrl.com/ex-wigan-warrio ... ching-gig/ If Briers thinks he's ready we need to make a serious play

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/5 ... 0650640650 7 mins in. Job needs to be right for him. Thinks he's ready but not in a rush.....

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/5 ... 0650640650 7 mins in. Job needs to be right for him. Thinks he's ready but not in a rush.....

*conspiracy head on*
The timing of this article coming out from briers is interesting.
Is it a come and get me call?

Imagine if we beat Leeds, they sack Smith and then appoint Rowley. Meltdown.

I'd be amazed if Myler doesn't give Briers a call, if he hasn't already to discuss the job here. Briers clearly knows super league and has been serving an apprenticeship for a while now. He sounds ambitious, whether he's right fit for us or us for him, who knows. Think we all know what type of character he is, as he always gave his best out there on the pitch.

Just ordered several rolls of tin foil from amazon

I’m afraid to agree as a poster previously said “FC is a poisoned chalice “ The club won’t attract coaches who can’t face building a club root and branch from the bottom. Maybe that’s why Rowley knocked us back. IMO the only coach who could do that and has previously done it is Maguire. I’m sick of the title “sleeping giant” and “massive club” it’s BS. we’ve had 2 periods of sustained success, late 50’s/early 60’s and obviously 1979/1985, other than that blip. The club failed miserably 2016/17, yes back to back Wembley wins for which I’ll be eternally grateful but we massively under achieved, it should have been back to back clean sweeps but Radford allowed the team to switch off each season after the cup wins. Myler’s biggest job is getting the right coach, someone who wants and feels like he can rebuild this terribly stagnant club, other than Wane, I don’t think there’s a domestic coach capable of the massive task in hand. Has to be a proven Aussie coach but who??? I’m at a loss, I just hope Myler gets it right, fan speculation isn’t helping matters

Another coach with possibly a good style of rugby , Big decision for both Briers and the club to make .

You keep mention that we are bin dipping. Maybe there's a reason for that? Just because we potentially have money doesn't mean we can go out and get quality and exciting names. Even if we send Myler out to Oz we are going to be a hard sell. We're going to need to put in one hell of a sales pitch about our potential if we are to attract quality or an exciting names. Or throw them a serious amount of cash. And even that might not be enough given our current plight.

So maybe we have to go for "average" players right now and in the immediate future because the reality is we are second from bottom of the league and have been on a downward trajectory for some time now. Maybe we have to start with players that can come in and do a job for us, take the players that actually want to be here, and build from there. Even if it takes time.

You really know nothing about Rugby.

Forwards returning the ball out the backfield, you lost me at that point.

I honestley think your a troll and this week is proving it, no right minded FC fan or RL fan would talk this amount of rubbish. Unless its looking for a reaction.

Just read some snippets from Briers, if that isn't a come and get me message I don't know what is.

Think he'd he an excellent choice, links to the area, worked in two of the best environments in the world. Connections in SL and the NRL.

Knows Myler too.

Now waiting for him to reject us

If it is the case that it's Rowley that has rejected and not Salford, then he can't have fancied it.

None of us know how the discussions between him and us progressed. It could be that he surveyed what was on offer on the table and came to the conclusion he wouldn't be much better off than where he is now.
If he felt that he would be having to lead a club, and more importantly a fan base, with far higher expectations than what he currently has to contend with, and he came to the conclusion that he wouldn't have the tools to be able to carry out the job successfully, then he's probably decided he may as well stay put for the time being.
There is also the problem of uprooting to relocate here, which is never an easy decision for anyone in any walk of life.

We have to face it. We are not currently a very attractive proposition for coaches and players looking to further their career. Myler's biggest task is going to be persuading anyone half decent to throw their lot in with us. He is going to have to somehow sell the club to coach/players that we are once more a club heading in the right direction, make our resurrection sound like an exciting project that others will be excited to be a part of, create a buzz around Hull fc which will entice quality additions to join us here.

If Rowley has rejected us, and rejected us fairly swiftly at that, then it must be that he isn't convinced that the club is back on the right track. I know that if I was a decent RL coach I would want some reasonable assurances that the club are intending to move in an upward direction over the next couple of years.

If we can't give those assurances to anyone, then we are going to find it difficult to appoint any one above Championship level to come here. Myler really has got a job on his hands here. If he didn't know it already, he does now!!!

Said before Bonaire is a dobbin wind up merchant

Didn't realise that Briers isn't an assistant coach at the Broncoed, but a development coach (not 100% sure what that is).

He's in charge of their attack. I think he was originally a development coach when he originally signed, but was quickly promoted to 1st team attack coach.

My gut feeling is that, realistically, this is the recruitment area we are going to have to aim for, at least as far as the next appointment is concerned.

The talk of Briers/M. McGuire/Holbrook is fanciful wishing on our part I think. I feel that, right now in 2024, we are too great a risk for candidates of that nature to put their reputations on the line. The only way any one of those three will pitch in with us is if Myler can persuade them that we are a club on the move upwards once more and sell the club as an exciting prospect to be developed thereby enticing someone of that calibre to join us, or Pearson/Myler put a colossal salary on the table!

I hate to say it, but I think either Danny Ward or Danny McGuire (or Martin Gleeson?) would be our most realistic target. Whether any of them would take up the 'chalice' is another matter.
It's not as if we've temporarily lost our way any are simply in need of someone to steer the ship into calmer waters. We have fallen so far backwards that the job of resurrecting the club looks massive, it will be a brave (or desperate) soul that feels confident enough to want to take it on.

I wouldn't be too despondent if it was either Ward or McGuire taking over (that's just a realistic view from me on where we are right now). Maybe one of those can at least steer us upwards a touch, making us seem to be a more attractive choice in 2/3 years time for someone else to take over the reins.

I'm afraid we may have to walk (slowly) at first before we can contemplate running at full pelt once more. We are where we are for a reason and the road back is a long way ahead of us. I hope I'm wrong on this, but I honestly don't see any white knight in shining armour steaming in to rescue us and lead us to the summit. This is going to take an extraordinarily amount of hard work just to put us back on an even keel, before we can even think about challenging at the top again.

Attach coach. He was on the Bryan Fletcher radio show a couple of weeks back, and basically highlighted the massive gulf in their off field coaches compared to SL.

Briers is responsible for the attack for the side, but they also had a coach for the Back 5 (Darius Boyd), a middles coach, a defence coach, and then Briers is responsible for their shape and structure in attack