I have to agree with this, the club have made some terrible decisions this season but this isn't one
of them!

Even if the Trinity press release is true (it isn't), it just shows yet again how utterly incompetent our leadership is. A complete lack of succession planning is how we ended up with Applegarth, and they've still not learned.

Not to mention that they were supposed to be improving fan engagement to meet IMG criteria - but decided to stay silent for 24 hours so they could create a story about how a coach left

You can believe what you want. But you are wrong.

Odd, because I've just been chatting to somebody in the know at Fev who said I was pretty much spot on. So who to believe, a club looking to save face or a club with nothing to prove about it?

What is poor form is that he was having this discussion with Fev while telling the wakey fans that we were all in this together at the fan forum

So I know for a fact you just made that up.

Keep digging

Fev will be taking a leaf out of Leigh’s book here, albeit a little late in the day - Ford will be on a recruitment drive to get players in place for SL next season, more players may or may not come in this season but they see themselves as pretty much certs to go up, and like Chester at Leigh Ford will now have the scope to do that and leave Long to concentrate on the coaching

Highly unlikely Fev only wanted him at the end of the season as the work has to be done way before then, in fact even now is on the brink of being to late

Do you really, or are you just being like Carter and trying to save face when you've been caught out by events

Fev wanted him immediately, they've been on the look out for a DoR since the start of the season, but ramped up efforts in recent weeks as it looked more and more likely they would be promoted.

Nope. I know for a fact.

Just remember if you heard it from a club official then its just that person's take on proceedings and not fact.

Surely youd agree the officials at Fev and Trinity and Ford are actually doing the deal. So they surely know the facts more than Egg's imaginary friend.

And I'm not trying to convince anyone. The announcement says everything that needs to be said.
But I'm confident that what Egg says isn't true.

MC only wrote this because the bloke on RWAB called him out on it. The first line is a classic MC dig (suggesting that things were behind his back); using the word "naturally" to condition the giving of praise and thanks is condescending, and the trailing comment about further announcements just says that they aren't doing anything about it.

PT flame me as you see fit, but this is how I see it. MC is peed off because he was called out on it, and clearly there is some frost between Ford and the Club. How dare he get another job and not tell them. Even though he doesn't have a contract at Trin for 2024.

Touche

Am i missing something here? Fordy was out of contract at the end of the year and has moved to secure his future and gain a promotion at the same time. No problem there. He was willing to see out his contract and move at the end of the season. Featherstone would have liked him to start straight away but were willing to wait. Wakey have said ok you can go now then and we’ll move on. Job done, move on.

You get all that from the small announcement by the club?
I don't see how you think MC is being called out on it.
As far as I know, you are not even close on any of that. But it doesn't change the facts either way.

Personally, in any business. If someone gets another job with a rival (at leat an IMG rival) you are better letting them go than keeping them while they have eyes elsewhere.

According to Mash in the press ,looks like Fordy was one of the major problems why our attack was dire. Will be interesting to see if things are different tomorrow. Let's hope we can put up a fight

Ahh the good ol' 'it's not me guv, it was the guy who just left'

Is there a link?

One thing that has been playing on my mind is Sreve Ella's interview with the Heritage boys.

He talks about the year he was here. He said we started off with some great wins but Graham convinced Toppo to change style to how he played in Oz. We hardly won another game. Ella said the team just couldn't get it.
When he left at Christmas Ella suggested we go back to a more simple game plan and we started winning again.

I wonder if that's happening here. If Ford is attack coach and hes been trying a new way, and we simplify it now he's gone, it might make a difference.

We have a strong but slow 3/4 line. If we try to play fast rugby it probably isn't going to work. Maybe just sending big lads in the centres through a half gap with a slip ball offload....with runners, it'll punch holes.

To be fair if he was the attack coach then he's right, although head coaches take the liability of their staff so he's just as culpable. We couldcdo worse than having Gale put some structure to our offence.

How much simpler can we get then nothing.

how much more simple can it be? barge our way over with no attacking shape or plays seems to be the plan at the moment.

That isn't what they are doing in my opinion.
They are attacking with forwards, trying for a quick ptb but not getting it, trying to pass out wide but doing it too slowly, so whoever gets the ball has 2 defenders already on them, so it looks like we have no shape.
If we actually tried to barge over you'd have big runners standing deep with lots of dummy runners.
The wingers won't get a nice pass but the centre will have a better chance.
Add a short kick for players to chase and you have a simple game plan for a slow team.

Just read it. That was quite a dig wasn't it.
I guess we'll see soon who was right.

Well, you could say that about [ianything[/i.
I'd rather hear from a club official than the bloke down the chip shop........