Thoughts?

Whats the worst that can happen

He wastes your owners time / money and you are left looking for an owner in 3 years time. Noble and Vievers worked together for several years so you get Vievers reincarnated.

Good luck you will need it.

Scrape the Top 8 / Semi appearances are the best you will get.

Great news for me. Build up a good team for next year. He worked wonders at Wigan and Crusaders. No reason he can't do the same here. Hope all Salford fans get behind him and the team now.

Oh no, semi-finals & playoff appearances, that'd devastate Salford fans after the years of unbridled success we've been enjoying.

S'pose I'm pretty happy with that on the whole. Any idea how long his contract is?



I think most fans would be happy "only" making the 8 or getting to semi finals, given how things have been recently. If we can become a consistent playoff team, then maybe we can attract a real world class coach to take us to the very top - Noble can be a stepping stone and get the foundations built. Or maybe Noble could get us to the top himself, we'll just have to wait and see.

That'll do for me.

Shows the gulf in reality between top sides fans and struggling teams fans. We were readying ourselves to not exist at Xmas, so a top 8 or semi final would be magic.

For fans the occasional bit of finals footy will be great but Dr kashcow's insistence on winning silverware in 2 years is miles away. Will Dr K settle for the odd play off?

just noticed the announcement on the reds website. I think they could have used a different picture though. seems a little insencitive to use an old picture of brian noble with our old coach stood in the background. a bit sloppy really.

Easy mistake to make but very easily corrected.
Sort it,SCR,please

How can you not be happy? 4 months ago I'd have snapped your hand off if you'd told me Noble would be our head coach and we'd have a wealthy/ambitious owner.

By far the best managerial appointment the club have made in the 20 years I've supported them.

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Good news,the right choice in my opinion.

bl00dy hell lance, steady on, you think the club have got something right.....
I'll have to open a second bottle of red

Only time will tell, but I hope you are right.

I'm sick of hearing how we will be getting a huge forward pack & our style of play will change. What actually is our style of play? Defensively we are poor, especially defending our line. Let's face it we aren't exactly the best team going forward either no matter what anyone says. We can be awesome I accept bu I settle for a huge pack & winning games than entertaining & getting beat 4 out of 5 games. I'm glad we've got Noble in & it's time we all got behind him & backed his judgement. The new era starts today! Salford Reds Arising!

I'd settle lick many others for a top 8 finish and a chance in the play offs and a team who others want to avoid in the club if we play regimented rugby.
Think Noble will increase the size of the pack without a shadow of a doubt (he couldn't do much more other than increase it really) but fail to see why he would mess about too much with the speedy wingers we have except for maybe introduce much bigger centres - then you have to find a position for the undroppable Gleeson.

Salford fans seems at odds with the supposed ambition of your new owner. Thus far, none of you have any expectations bar scraping into the top 8 yet your owner apparently wants/expect to win things.

Your owner decided winning the odd game was unacceptable yet you are all quite happy to do so. Are Salford slipping back into their previously limited ambition club? Vievers was not good enough BUT Noble is when they worked together for years and use the same coaching manual.

When Ian Lenagan realised Brian Noble was not up to the task he went out to Australia and spent time getting the right man. The Salford owner was where? The Middle East!

I think you should leave Salford fans to be 'concerned' about what's happening at Salford as it has zero influence on your team. You fail to recognise, on more than one occasion now, that what Noble will bring will be vastly superior to what we have had for over a decade. If you don't like Noble that's fine, please leave us excited Salford fans to enjoy the appointment.

I think what fans of already successful clubs fail to realise, is that it will take us several years of winning to show the levels of arrogance they have in abundance. We are glad to be in existence, I will take Noble to set up some structure and do the groundwork, if he gave us 6th next season and 4th the season after (with perhaps a good cup run thrown in), I for one would be over the moon.
Right now, we have low crowds, a team of kids, and a flash owner who likes horses, after years of being the laughing stock, forgive us if we don't demand the earth.

Has there been any official announcement about backroom staff?

Just read elsewhere that Tony Kemp has resigned as high performance manager of the NZRL and wonder if with the back rooms ties to NZ if there is a role for him waiting in the wings.

Noble is a good choice for our current position and circumstances. The one thing that enthuses me above anything else is the prospect of extra investment in our very small back room team. Improvement will be gradual but at least we should have stronger foundations to build on going forward.

Yazz anyone? Bottom to top, now that would be one hell of a journey and a great sporting story.

Keep thinking to myself how I'd have loved to see Cashmere and Stapleton playing under Noble. Think it is props of that type that Noble will be looking for who lay the foundation for an already half decent back line.

First high profile coach at the club since Alex murphy took over in the late 70's,hope he can help us to the next level.