If you looked at Jermaine Coleman's club level record, he has managed to obtain just a single win over the past two years against English semi-professional opposition.

His sole win against English semi-professional opposition was against Coventry Bears about a year ago and apart from that he has seen only wins against perennial losers West Wales since around this time in 2020.

He did have a good run in the Spring of 2020, with about five or six wins out of seven and also picked up a string of wins back in 2017, when the division split off and he was facing the weaker teams.

However any scrutiny of his record would show that there is probably about two to three fallow years to the ones where there are a fair number of wins.

Where do we go from here?

If you do a statistical analysis of the Championship, the third from bottom team has tended to only need 5 wins to stay up, as the bottom two tend to get little or nothing.

Two wins against Workington, two wins against Dewsbury, two wins against Sheffield, two wins against Newcastle and a win against Whitehaven are all still possible, and I would fancy us to stay up with clean sweeps against Worky and the Rams.

Widnes have fallen away, and that one might not be impossible, whilst Bradford aren't impossibly strong.

However reinforcements are obviously needed.

There are no quality contracted halfbacks at the club although I appreciate some may rate Horsman. I personally do not rate him, the Leylands, Moceidreke, or Ramsey at half back.

There is no quality in the centres or wingers other than Ulberg.

For me, we need to bring in 3 to 5 first team standard backs and half backs if we are to threaten the opposition tryline.

But the question is, is that on?

I think the club would need to bring in several players on relatively decent money, with some job security, perhaps an 18 month minimum contract, if we are to go forwards.

We have already plundered Skolars, and I would assume there is nothing left there; in fact I would have argued there was nothing in the first place that you could not get from the amateur scene.

The question is, will this be sanctioned?

In theory the club could go out and say bring in quite a few players; Dixon would be available; Boafo I believe would return for the same salary; there's also the possibility of Hindmarsh and Walters playing again for the right money. I'm not sure what happened with Kameron Pearce-Paul but he is good enough as is Mason Caton-Brown. There's also got to be good players not in the team at a fair number of clubs.

If we lose to Dewsbury, that would put us 5 points behind both them and Whitehaven. If we lose also to Newcastle, we would then face five games away on the trot. That would take us into the last ten games with next to no points. Whilst 7 games of the last 10 are at home, there are still the likes of Featherstone, Leigh and Halifax to visit. We are running out of track.

But I do suspect Hughes has no interest in putting in anything other than the cheapest possible manager and players and thus we will have to make do and mend.

I think my solution would be to get the players who just miss on the matchday squad, from someone like Huddersfield, and pay a fee and put them straight in to the side, as they have got to be better than what we have.

They could come down on the Saturday for the Captain's run and play the Sunday, that's all we'd need.

They were a very good coaching team, best we've had in a long, long time.

Tony Rea took us to 2 play offs in 3 years.....since then and I include McDermott in this, we've flattered ourselves about being SL standard when we were bottom half 2007-2014/2019.....in TR's case, he found gems like Moran, mclinden, dorn......we even signed a youthful Tommy L before he became a Wigan legend....since then we've recruited/attracted pension seekers like Soward. This is down to the calibre of coaches we've had.....and I suspect Hughes is of the opinion that we have hoards of Louis MS and Clubbs just waiting in the wings.....we don't.
Ward was by far the best London Broncos Coach we had since Tony Rea.

Never been the same since we sacked Tony Currie.

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Hi, it is difficult to give a definitive answer on who the better manager was between London Broncos managers simply because the assistant has become the manager a lot of times; thus there is not a true separation between eras, for instance

1 Brian McDermott and Rob Powell, with Tony Rea above them
2 Brian McDermott and Rob Powell, without Tony Rea above them
3 Rob Powell and associates such as Mick Howell
4 Tony Rea with a support team of Mike Eccles
5 Joey Grima with a support team of Andrew Henderson and Mike Eccles
6 Andrew Henderson with a support team of Danny Ward; Jamie Langley and Mike Eccles
7 Danny Ward with a support team of Jamie Langley and Mike Eccles, with Tom Tsang doing the reserves
8 Danny Ward with a support team of Tom Tsang and Mike Eccles
9 Tom Tsang and Mike Eccles
10 Jermaine Coleman with a support team of Jy-mel Coleman and Mike Eccles

I would argue that Andrew Henderson was much better at recruitment than Danny and managing within the budget.

One of the key differences at the club over the past 8 years or so was this:

Joey Grima brought through a host of players from the academy into the first team squad, on very competitive wages, of around 30k-40k, very decent for a young inexperienced player. These includes the likes of Joel Wicks, Harvey Burnett, Oscar Thomas and Toby Everett but it is thought the likes of Alex Walker and Matt Davis were thought not to be on this very competitive deal.

Andrew Henderson had difficulty in that he wanted to retain some players from the academy, who by that time might have played 30-50 games but he wanted to pay less than when they started, leading to a bit of an exodus, but he did manage to make very good signings in general, however the squad depth reduced visibly over his tenure. In some ways quite a lot of very good players were on bargain wages.

Danny Ward simply inherited the Henderson squad; his initial additions were of mixed quality - arguably none were an improvement on those from the Henderson days except for Pelissier. In the Super League season he bought well and brought in some very good players, but the longer he lasted the worse a deal he seemed to strike. He also brought through a host of players into the first team squad, but I am not sure the strike rate of quality was as high as could be justified. Danny didn't seem able to retain players, and some who seemed happy to stay were jettisoned such as Ioane and Hellewell which I think was a big error given who was retained or played in their position. I do not think he was perceived as getting value for money from either youth players or experienced in his last season, with a high list of unavailability.

I do not think Hendo would have accepted a situation where a player simply did not want to play on yet left him on the books, as I think Danny seemed to do.

What we don't know is how much influence that Hughes had on retention.

I have heard claims about current and past managers allegedly making remarks about how successful they would be, only to field a comparatively ordinary squad, but if they said what I was told, I would think they would be pushed into it. Like the "Quickly Kevin, will he score?" famous football conversation.

In my view the dream team of all the above combinations was Henderson with Langley and Ward