The thing is Gary that it looked like you had Crompton all lined up and for whatever reason the announcement just seemed to be delayed. From the outside it looks like Des is only interested in the name rather than the reputation and swooned the minute Schofield's name was mentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't brought in to increase the clubs exposure in the media but this just doesn't look like it has happened.
When all is said and done the guy had been around four or five games which isn't very long to implement any new style of play. I accept what you said about the defence but it's not even as if the guy has had a go at putting it right since the last game. It's not like you're coming off the back of a defeat this weekend.

I don't think you will have too much problem getting a new coach in as Des will throw his wallet behind the appointment but the issue will be keeping them. After the last game I was amazed to hear Des berating the coaching staff for the team's performance. He brings in the players he wants, he gives half time team talks in important games, he publicly criticises them in the media. It's a bizarre set up looking from the outside in. Ordinarily you would expect him to be commenting on the club from a commercial point of view but he seems to be wielding your club like an eccentric game of RL Manager.

Just been told by a VERY reliable source that Des is considering becoming the head coach himself rather than bothering with the hiring and firing every few months.

Now you may be joking here but everyone of us is thinking...

"is he actually being serious?" Such is the ludicrousness of the situation up there.

That chesnut, Reliable and source.

Not been for a browse on the Barrow totalRL forum in a while, always worth a good laugh



So far seen 'bring on Noble, head to SL in style' & 'Schofield doesn't understand the need for a youth set up'

Dessie has completely lost it now. What coach, in his right mind, would want to go there now. They’d have to be desperate.

Do the Barrow fans really think Brian Noble would go there. They must be even more delusional than I thought they were, if they do.

Old Dessie boy may have no option but to coach the team himself. Every pro coach, worth his salt, will probably have told him to off.

Come on Des you're getting predictable now. He really needs to do something unexpected like appoint his favourite horse coach or something.

Barrow's new coaching staff have just arrived

Emporer Desigula. Quality.

Well I feel a tad sorry for Gary Schofield OBE. I do not understand why anyone would agree to work for Des Johnson. Absolutely no justification for the things he does. He has no trust for his coaches, and the atmosphere must contribute more than anything to their failures. I didn't think Schoey was going to do much, he has been out of the game for too long and his criticisms of the modern game always come off as someone too old fashioned to really understand it, but he can't have been given much encouragement there or a chance to succeed.

Who next? One man optimistically predicts Brian Noble steering them into super league. I suspect it will be more like Des Johnson steering them into Championship 1. They are a long way from being ready for the top flight, further than ever, and until they are ran professionally, they wont ever change that.

Stolen from Barrow RLFans page.....


Gary Schofield OBE

Out
Before
Easter


Class!

Gotta love the Raiders...

Cannot help themselves can they? Where was that pearl?

BBC 606 tbf the guys not normally that bad, but proves my theory that Barrow RL live in their own little bubble.

I'm not denying that you may be right on Schofield but surely Dessy boy, being a recruitment magnate wouldn't have fallen for any bull$hit at an interview

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The best post anywhere on RLFANS by far !!!!!











Simply brilliant !

Nice one

Nigel Wright has got the job by the way lads. Someone who reputedly lives in London and in his existing role with Barrow only turned up at weekends, love it!

That's how I read the situation also

As I said Mick, the time has come for Des to appoint a coach and then just walk three steps back and let the guy do the coaching.
No stupid rants in the press about the players or the coaching staff, just let the team responsible for the playing side of things take responsibility for the playing side of things.

You couldn't script it could you... The big difference between Betts and Schofield is that Betts has been learning his trade for the last 5 years at a top flight rugby club. Has that idiot actually seen any of our results so far??

Was surprised... It took Barrow poster until this morning to say after out defeat we'd be an embarrassment if let into SL...

... Think he forgot both they & Fax have lost more this season.

unfortunately, we could script it. these fools seem to choose from a list of 3 prepared responses when responding to anything widnes related.

Can't see how DJ can see what the coach/players are up to/not up to if it's always as dark there as it was on Saturday night! Thirteen tries reportedly scored, but they were only the ones that the ref said he could see!

Logic in Des's appointment there Matt. Wright's absence, during the week, means that Des can coach the team, unimpeded by coaches, up to Friday.