He has announced he is interested in the players director of football job ie, players contracts etc.
I do wish Matt Ellis would hire him & that all three of them, the coach, owner & near could rebuild the club with equal experience, care & common goal by all to succeed !
It could be awesome !

Thought I read Ellis has that role already covered.

He has someone in mind, but that's not to say it isn't Kear.

Powell has been talked about a lot of course but until those papers are signed none of them can be signed by Ellis.

Fair comment, just depends what the roll covers . I see kear more of a coach rather than office man

I thimk his coaching days are behind him. Some sticky choices to be made over the.coming months

Think the role is as much managing finances and expenditure as it is recruitment. Some accountancy skills I imagine will be required.

Not sure this is a role that would suit Kear to be honest.

Sounds a total non-story with a journalist contacting him first to me. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-wakefield-tr ... rmer-club/

Sounds a total non-story with a journalist contacting him first to me. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-wakefield-tr ... rmer-club/

Indeed. "That's the first I've heard of it"

Typical click bait headline from that journalist.

Wouldn't be disappointed if he ended up back in some capacity. I know memories fade but did't we decline after he left us with just Chester in charge?

You are right it declined big time .Main worry is when he left last time did not give much notice.Could this happen again if he got a job offer some were else

Well love him or hate him Chester doing a great job of DOR at Leigh, the budget helps of course but we haven’t signed too many duds in the last 18 months

I assume that AL is doing the 'choosing' re the squad requirements.

Haha what exactly is he doing? Best player is Lam’s son so I take it that is down to Chester. Give Chester the head coaches job, see how long that lasts.

What exactly does any DOR do, the signings we announced last November (hardaker, O Brien, Holmes, Hughes and about 10 others) didn’t happen overnight. Yes Lam is class but add Asiata, Amone, charnley, leutute etc someone pulled a team together that was beyond our expectations - AL of course had some influence but someone had to pull it together and that was Chester.

We didn’t offer him the coaches role did we, maybe he’s found his niche

It certainly feels that way, however I've just had a look - Kear left December 2017 and we finished 5th in 2018. Chris Brereton left November 2018 (judging by companies house anyway) and then it all went to pot.

I think CB was the "rugby" man so to speak who had the contacts - I could be wrong on that point though.

After 14 games into the 2019 season we sat in 4th place. The build up of major injuries to our key players then took its toll as we faded away badly. We then have loss of income from covid and reduced Sky money.
Not saying the loss of JK or CB have some creeping effect but lets not overlook other major factors.

Fair comment, we never recovered from those injuries.

The downfall started when we re-signed Brough.

It started around the time he suffered that hand injury Round 10 2019 when we were sitting in 4th place. Coincidently, as I mentioned earlier, the same time as few other key players. It was the loss of Brough and the fact he never really recovered as per Bill Tupou for another example.

Brough was class in that victory against leeds from memory. What a team we had out that day

IIRC we’d already started losing players to injury & then we played Wigan at home. Although we won, we lost about 5 players to injury that night. I remember watching thinking there goes the season!

Was that the game Dave went down the wing?