Quote ="ChrisH"The clear out we needed and still need is of the whole coaching establishment. We need a new culture top to bottom. Crooks and Last have been many of these players mates for all of their playing careers right through from junior rugby. Agar has been around the club as assistant or coach for , what , 6 years? Seems longer. We've showed that this dynasty idea doesn't work unless it's based on success in the first place. No amount of time will make this coaching set up capable of bringing a good young player through or changing a player's attitude from amateur to professional or indeed building a true bonded team. The club as much as admitted that last year when they had to bring Fitz in mainly to help Agar change some attitudes. We have little in the way of brains out on the pitch granted but to play probably the one player that has one , Whiting , on the wing is crazy. He's a loose man and we should start with him and put the rest around him. Yesterday even the normally brain dead Yeaman - who is playing ok at the mo - could see that we were strong at his side but persisted in going right. Washbrook was arguing with Tansey , Fitz seemed to be just perplexed at times. They looked like they didn't know each other , just the same at Headingly.
Out the lot of them now. Long can take over as , sometime , player coach and sign the ooc players that have something to offer especially Manu who must surely be looking to get away - how sad is it for him to be playing for us , imagine how devastating he'd be in that Leeds side. We wouldn't be any worse with no coach in place.
Utterly depressing.'"
Excellent post.
