I’m not sure I buy this ‘King is the victim’ BS. He’s one of RL’s top earners and threw a hissy fit when he received an honest appraisal of his form from the coach. Then he got off the coach home one night after a bad day at the office when he was still on duty. ‘One team’ and all that…

Are we now wrapping players in cotton wool with a mug of cocoa, hoping that they’ll be nice and commit to their job once in a while?

I feel sorry for Holbrook already. No wonder Wane didn’t want the gig.

Report from Courier Mail in Aus says he has rejected us.

Sorry it’s the Aus Daily Telgraph behind a paywall

Pooh if true

Quote ="Lord Tony Smith"This is an interesting listen with Middleton. Skip to 9 mins. He says 'they regretted the way they treated some players last season who are no longer with us and doing really well'. I'm assuming he means Charnley and King. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fz881n'" Charnley, Mulhern, Cooper (pre injury obvs), King (early season) all possibilities. Mulhern is a massive step up from Dudson in any event.

Quote ="Lord Tony Smith"This is an interesting listen with Middleton. Skip to 9 mins. He says 'they regretted the way they treated some players last season who are no longer with us and doing really well'. I'm assuming he means Charnley and King. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fz881n'" Charnley, Mulhern, Cooper (pre injury obvs), King (early season) all possibilities. Mulhern is a massive step up from Dudson in any event.

Steven Mulhern is a massive step up from Dudson!

https://www.totalrl.com/ex-st-helens-bo ... ob-offers/

https://www.totalrl.com/ex-st-helens-bo ... ob-offers/

If he comes, then great.
If he would rather stay in Aus - then that’s understandable. It’s a big decision to make.
Hopefully the pull to be head coach sways the decision - but it’s never as simple as that.

Apparently gone tits up.

Rejected the offer earlier

Is anybody honestly shocked?

Holbrook didn't exactly have the best record when it mattered... Lost multiple knock-out games to both us and Catalan. Bit of a choker, no?

He won the Grand Final.

Well good luck to the guy if be comes.

We'll have ample time to judge whether he's a good coach, man manager AND political manoeuverer - if the rumours of really how bad the situation is within the club are true.
If he's just the former it'll end in tears I'd suggest.
If he does the business, I wonder how many of the sceptics will come on here to say 'I was wrong'. Not many methinks.

From the long list of 'possibles', he and Wane were the two that stood out for me - and I thought all along that Wane was a non-starter given his background and current commitments.

I note on other sites it's said he's 'rejected' the Wire approach (according to Vossy for example). I have no idea if that's true or not.

About the same number from those on here who were urging to stick with Powell and slating the "knee jerkers" over the last 18 months. Zero.

This does sound a little Aesop.

By stating a fact? I care neither way whether Holbrook comes or not because I don't think any coach will get us over the line such is my dissolusionment with the club in general after the past couple seasons, so why not Holbrook tbh. Just saying that we did in fact make him look silly with the likes of Price in charge and the something club that was Lineham, Mamo and was it Currie? Maybe King. Point stands.

HHolbrook was reportedly keen to accept our offer but sadly his family didn't want to come back.

Also Justin Morgan signing a new deal to stay in the NRL: https://www.totalrl.com/ex-hull-kr-boss ... ague-move/ I'm getting ominous vibes of the mess we found ourselves in after DVDV left and Neil Kelly turned us down and we were scrambling around trying to find somebody and ended up with Anderson and Plange. If needs be just stick with Chambers and Marshall for a year and look to recruit next year, rather than just grab whoever we can get and hope...

Also Justin Morgan signing a new deal to stay in the NRL: https://www.totalrl.com/ex-hull-kr-boss ... ague-move/ I'm getting ominous vibes of the mess we found ourselves in after DVDV left and Neil Kelly turned us down and we were scrambling around trying to find somebody and ended up with Anderson and Plange. If needs be just stick with Chambers and Marshall for a year and look to recruit next year, rather than just grab whoever we can get and hope...

To be fair his first year was as bonkers as anything I've witnessed and not just at the Wire, to say Powell's methods polarised opinion is an understatement and some might rightly but not in hindsight supported Powell to make it work given full backing and a reasonable amount of time. .

As a collective, once our heads cleared and we faced up to last season's nadir (given the investment and expectation), we seemed to be saving our assessment for the first run of games (6 or

, where we all thought we'd know where we stood. How daft were we then?

Although as I've stated elsewhere I don't think that the majority were fooled by our blinding start and his removal from post is anything but a knee jerk reaction.

So who next then?

Holbrook will no doubt have swung back to the new Wayne Bennett from the overnight Andy Last on the redvee scouse reactionary coach-o-meter.

Quote ="sally cinnamon"Also Justin Morgan signing a new deal to stay in the NRL: https://www.totalrl.com/ex-hull-kr-boss ... ague-move/ I'm getting ominous vibes of the mess we found ourselves in after DVDV left and Neil Kelly turned us down and we were scrambling around trying to find somebody and ended up with Anderson and Plange. If needs be just stick with Chambers and Marshall for a year and look to recruit next year, rather than just grab whoever we can get and hope...'" This for definite, I said it in an earlier post somewhere....let the dust settle in the 'post Powell era', then look to move forwards with the RIGHT person, not just any random Aussie who fancies money off coupons for Ego in Stockton Heath.

Quote ="sally cinnamon"Also Justin Morgan signing a new deal to stay in the NRL: https://www.totalrl.com/ex-hull-kr-boss ... ague-move/ I'm getting ominous vibes of the mess we found ourselves in after DVDV left and Neil Kelly turned us down and we were scrambling around trying to find somebody and ended up with Anderson and Plange. If needs be just stick with Chambers and Marshall for a year and look to recruit next year, rather than just grab whoever we can get and hope...'" This for definite, I said it in an earlier post somewhere....let the dust settle in the 'post Powell era', then look to move forwards with the RIGHT person, not just any random Aussie who fancies money off coupons for Ego in Stockton Heath.

Daryl Powell is available.

On the positive side it shows our intent to get the best coach available and we moved fast but we might regret the rumours about how much we were willing to spend. Getting Aussie families to commit to a few years over here is a real issue. I think the vast majority of fans were looking forward to seeing what Holbrook could do ... but not to be. We move on.