Who would you replace him with?

A coach that has more knowledge of modern coaching techniques.

i remember you saying to my face a few years ago "hahaha cas have signed korky , hes a *******, wouldnt pay him in brass buttons" then low and behold hes back at wakey giving away penalties galore.... bet hes best thing since sliced bread now though... kettle , frying pan.....you dont half talk excrement...

What's Korky got to do with McGouldrick?

I don't know, maybe he's confused, i did quite cleary said RM not MK.

Agree. To me whilst i accept the squad we have is limited due to the financial constraints we were operating under at the time it was assembled, the imbalance in it (ie lacking props etc) is Kears fault as he should have used the money to ensure we had players in the key positions rather than a load of utility backs. Our poor defense especially out wide is down to Kear as well. He needs to go for me, we won't improve with him in charge and he won't develop the young players we now are relying on for the future.

Oh and Hyde is not good enough to play half back in SL.

Hyde has also only played 1 game of sl at hb so maybe judgement should be kept in reserve

If he goes on to prove me wrong I will gladly eat humble pie but to be honest when Jeffries is fit and if smiths visa ever gets sorted, I don't think he will be getting many more opportunities in that position.

we are not short of props because of the financial crisis. it is because Kear preferred to sign players who have failed at other clubs like jeremy smth , kevin penny, and tommy lee..their wages would have got a half decent prop.I am sick of this myth that Kear can make a success out of every player who has failed elsewhere. his successes are far outweighed by his failures and the fact that he did not pick Penny yesterday speaks volumes.

Totally agree and that was the point I was making. We knew we wouldn't have much money and he did not spend it wisely.

By all accounts we had at least one prop lined up to come in but the situation I.E. not getting the planning permission meaning the short fall in funding meant that we could not sign them.

I reckon that within the next couple of weeks we will have signed at least one prop and also Gledhill will be fit and he will hopefully carry on from the promise he showed last season.

I thought Paul Johnson was excellent yesterday would have loved to see his stats...he tooks lots of ball for his first spell making yards all the time...
And second was just as good..
Very impressed with this Kid..
As for Korkidas..penalty machine, slow play of the ball, sloppy in defence, his time is up for me...

Agree with all of that. Korky is a great guy but look at what he gives compared to Johnson both in contribution and minutes on the field and there is no comparison.

Yes we did and thats not something Kear could do anything about, plus Bens back soon.

Not JK's biggest fan but hey we could all do a better job. throw hindsight into the mix and we don't need a coach we could pick and sign all the players off here

Johnsons all heart and has a big engine, can't fault the effort.

Korki's got faults i agree but we are short of props so we'll have to work with him and get the best out of him.

Agree Al but as soon as Gledhill is back or we get a new prop as speculated.. he wouldnt be in my 17...

Al I would disagree. If his budget was reliant on that additional money, it should have been some of his utility back signings that hinged on it, not the props. The props should have been sorted first.

a penalty machine. where do you get that from. 3 penalties . 2 of which were very doubtful. the guy that gave most penalties away yesterday, you fail to mention.
the guy worked his nuts off. i was there and saw people a lot more sloppy in defence, i also watched a team with no recognised stand off, no specialist scrum half. only 2 props and a bunch of kids who gave all they had got . were 12 down in the penalty count. 2 men off the field for 10 mins each and still came away with a better score than cas did last millenium. i'd like to say the supporters that actually got there in good numbers and got behind the boys with some fantastic support were great. my opinion is for the first game of the season with what we have got against cas's sunday best. we did ok. we can only play what we have got , so instead of bagging them we should get behind them..

I will concede that we seem to have too many backs/utility players and we do lack Props, but none of us really know what the plan was upstairs, JK may be lots of things but he's not stupid.


Who knows Tricky, i'm sure you'll agree that its never that simple working at Wakey.

Opinions mate we are all allowed them, well maybe not all




Did you enjoy the day, did we have decent support yesterday, looked poor on the TV.

Absolutely. Even now I am waiting for a problem to crop up with the official confirmation of the new owners!

Anythings possible at this club, unlikely in this case but you just never know.


Anyway what did you think to Luke George yesterday, nailed a couple of Cas players to stop an overlap and IMO can't be be blamed for being left exposed.

Best all round game i've seen from him and i don't think he got injured

I thought the same - I'm not usually a big fan, but he looked the part yesterday and even put on a couple of big hits. Gave me momentary heart failure though, when ran the full length of the pitch then looked like he was going to forget to ground the ball.

Thought he had a good game although wished he had put the ball down for his try a bit sooner!!

I felt sorry for Veivers. He has looked good in the pre-season friendlies at full back which is his preferred position and gets shunted out onto the wing where he was left exposed on a number of occasions.

Its this playing people out of position that I don't like, especially with the young kids because confidence can be affected and it can set their development back (same with Hyde he is not IMO a SL half back and should not have been played there - would have been better with Lee in the halfs and Mariano or Howarth in the pack). Also Chris Dean to me is a second rower and not a centre - if Millard was picked he should have played from the start

There's a mini bus full of Crusaders fans down from Cheshire !!! The cardiff people are there in droves. The Crusaders are our target this year, they have in essence gone bust 2 yrs running and my money will be on the hat-trick this season, which will leave the red hall boys with no where to turn.