All of which will be completely irrelevant if he stays on and this happens AGAIN next season. He will kill the club if he is allowed to continue. Hopefully he will walk away (I think he will).

IMHO, if BM realises he's killing the club he'll walk.

I'm afraid so.

I'm not happy. I wrote those comments before the Salford game. If we had won (which we should have) we may have kicked on, got a few wins, maybe played some good rugby and everyone would have been a bit happier.

Now I'm not so sure.

What I am particularly annoyed about is that in the last three years a pattern has emerged where in the first half of the season we win half (or just over half) of our games and look set for the play offs. Then in the second half we collapse and win just a handful of games and finish outside the play offs.

Is this in any way linked to Howell's training injury which I still find inexplicable.

Yep, me too.

I have a feeling that BM may walk of his own accord.

he bloody should do.

There is no one to replace him if he did walk.
Personally i would love Rae back here, highly doubt he'll come back. He wasn't the best coach, but he got players like Hill here, he also just generally recruited players that were experienced and were vocal, something we need right now.
Just imo.

What a load of Boll*x. There are RL league coaches all over the place. McDermott came to us from a No2 position. I can think of 13 other No2's in SL for starters. They say fatty Anderson at Hudds is very good.

Then there are coaches in Australia.

If Quins RL put a worldwide advert out for a First team RL coach I suspect there would be 40 plus applicants and within that probably 10 real quality coaches.

Thats surprising to hear. I thought our team togetherness made up for some of the players limited individual ability.

Not good-Doesn't bode well

If he's lost the dressing room (which I think he has) then OUT. Otherwise IN for another year. Hughes' call, he's got the inside knowledge and im sure chats with Purdo.

I'm sure Rooster Booster could name No.2s in Oz who'd like the chance to make a name for themselves by taking a head coach job over here - plus the added attraction of being in London. Have to admit that after reading about yesterday I'm moving into the 'out' camp, and I'm not a great believer in geting rid of coaches.

And what if what has happened at Catalans happens to us?
Its a big risk.

But we're nowhere near where they were when they brought Walters in. Much less of a gamble.

Depends on how you look at it.
It could be a much bigger gamble as Catalans are more likely to get a franchise next time round then we are.
So we need a coach that will guarentee us our average in the top 8.

There's no such thing, not with our squad and financial situation. Id like to see a serious, experienced, professional coach in charge. Rea and McD were'nt/aren't that, although Rea was more so than McD is. They might be expensive but that's what we need as much as better players.

They're above us in the league now - so what's their problem?

So now we judge a teams success if they are above us in the table? :S
They finished last year in 3rd.

I've thought long & hard about this following yesterdays result, but I still find myself saying Brian Mac "IN",

With tony rea we got play-off rugby and we are not getting that with McDermott, and Im not sure we can afford to sack him he's got 2 years on his contract.

Although I would like to see McDermott stay and Hughes bring in Brian Noble to a similar role that Tony Smith and Jimmy Lowes are.

If you were looking for a reason as to why to give your coach the spanish archer, this one takes some beating viewtopic.php?t=425683

If you were looking for a reason as to why to give your coach the spanish archer, this one takes some beating viewtopic.php?t=425683

Quote ="Homer"If you were looking for a reason as to why to give your coach the spanish archer, this one takes some beating viewtopic.php?t=425683'" I wonder if Brian will be OK with Stormingbronco on his hotel room floor next year

Quote ="Homer"If you were looking for a reason as to why to give your coach the spanish archer, this one takes some beating viewtopic.php?t=425683'" I wonder if Brian will be OK with Stormingbronco on his hotel room floor next year

So.........anybody changed their minds then?

Yep. No problem admitting that if we had made the play-offs I would have remained in the "in" camp, but yesterday was it for me.....he should go.

I was all for continuity and letting him do the job, but there was something very wrong yesterday and I believe the buck stops with him.
21 points in '06, 23 points in '07, 22 points in '08 and now 22 points over 27 games is just not good enough. We had 20 points on June 12th FFS.........something has gone very wrong.
Catleford, Wakey, Wigan, Bradford, Catalans and Huddersfield have all overtaken us since June 12th......that's unacceptable!

Well, somebody has to take responsibility for the way things have gone over the past 3 months and he's the man in charge, so my marginal "in" now becomes an "out".

There's no doubt that he was achieving things until mid season, but whatever's happened since then, he's lost it.

I don't suppose we have the money to bring in an upper layer as Wire did with very positive results, but that'd be good.