Funnily enough that was my 1 st thought as well , and I was one of those who sacked him

my guess is Salford

Best Player: Neil Turley
Worst Player: Steve McCurrie (or 90 % of our SL squad)
Best Coach: Ian Millward
Worst Coach: 2009 Season stints of Neil Kelly & Paul Rowley.
Best Game: Keighley away , when we turned the corner and won the Buddies (or whatever it was called) cup - the start of our climb up.
Worst Game: Barrow (A) 2009 , The realisation that utter incompetence right across the board was to cost us all the hard work of the last 10 years(see above Best Game comments) and that Millward would have to (hopefully) kick start the club again.

it was also noticeable that, despite the torrential rain and winds, sheffield didn't drop a single ball ALL evening, their completion rate was flawless.

not a patch on shane irabor

No they didn,t and they did play well. Our tackling that night was poor though.

Quote ="JENKY"Best Player: Neil Turley Worst Player: Steve McCurrie (or 90 % of our SL squad) Best Coach: Ian Millward Worst Coach: 2009 Season stints of Neil Kelly & Paul Rowley. Best Game: Keighley away , when we turned the corner and won the Buddies (or whatever it was called) cup - the start of our climb up. Worst Game: Barrow (A) 2009 , The realisation that utter incompetence right across the board was to cost us all the hard work of the last 10 years(see above Best Game comments) and that Millward would have to (hopefully) kick start the club again.'" to be fair Keighley had just gone 'belly up' which made it easier for us www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1q8PamaP0w The full game is on the internet somewhere, but I cant remember the site as ive only used it once

Quote ="JENKY"Best Player: Neil Turley Worst Player: Steve McCurrie (or 90 % of our SL squad) Best Coach: Ian Millward Worst Coach: 2009 Season stints of Neil Kelly & Paul Rowley. Best Game: Keighley away , when we turned the corner and won the Buddies (or whatever it was called) cup - the start of our climb up. Worst Game: Barrow (A) 2009 , The realisation that utter incompetence right across the board was to cost us all the hard work of the last 10 years(see above Best Game comments) and that Millward would have to (hopefully) kick start the club again.'" to be fair Keighley had just gone 'belly up' which made it easier for us www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1q8PamaP0w The full game is on the internet somewhere, but I cant remember the site as ive only used it once

WE sacked TB for only getting us to 3rd place and winning the NRC

And spent a fortune.

yh and where did it get sacking Tb weve gone downhill since.

cant help thinking something went wrong off the field as well as on it that season because that was a bloody good team

No disputing that, but I seriously doubt he'd have been allowed to maintain the same level of spending on the squad. That said, I didn't agree with his sacking at the time, but no point dwelling on it three years later.

We were 4th when NK moved upstairs. We were 3rd bottom after Rowley did his stuff.

The only time we've been relegated from the 2nd tier in the last 10 years = worst coach IMO.

Kelly also had a difficult period of the season to overcome. The great win at Widnes followed a few days later by us running out of petrol in 2nd half against Barrow. We then had the trip into the unknown at Toulouse. Can't remember who was in charge for the Fev away game, but that was played on Thursday......not an easy congested fixture list when you think about it.

glad its not only me who does'nt blame kelly

Well I thought it was because we lost at home to Batley in the play offs despite us having easily the best squad in that division. When I was at the match I could never understand why we didn,t go for a drop goal to save the game as we did have numerous chances.

I,m told that seasons squad was picked by Steve Grainey.

Never understood that one myself. TB was taken on with a two year contract, and had a two-year plan to get us back into SL. To ditch that plan half way through - with a trophy in the bag, and in the play-offs - seemed crazy!! Although there were strong rumours of a 'drinking culture' in that squad......being led by a high-profile squad member with more than his fair share of 'issues', that TB failed to get a handle on. IMHO we would have been better served bringing in a 'disciplinarian' coach for the 1st team, and moving Benson into a 'coaching co-ordinator' role (the job that Andy Gregory was supposed to have been doing!!), utilising his undoubted skills bringing on the younger players.

nobody will ever know the full circumstances as a 'no disclosure' clause was put on the whole matter by both sides, I heard both 'sides' stories and with what I saw have my own view on it, the 'best' person to tell all would be Heath but he is too much the pro to reveal and IMO was the one who suffered the most out of the whole sorry affair, a true pro a budding great coach who is now (ATM) lost to the game and a great guy.

Heath will be back with Millward, the crystal ball told me so.

That myths shattered then...........

Don't think so as the coaching team is I believed all a done deal.

heath is currently helping out with the coaching at blackpool stanley when time allows

We add a couple of trouble makers who had left by the end of the season and to be fair on Tony did he sign actually sign them or had they signed before he took the job, I think the they,d already signed if I remember correctly.

I agree there Heath was committed to the club and under Darren Abram also did a lot5 of work behind the scenes that he didnt get the credit for.