Why wouldn't Chester be a yes man? His very coaching future depends on it.

You mean you thought there was something else that made him the best coach available?

Like what? Go ahead convince me.

Sorry , you have lost me Bob, i fail to see where i have indicated Chester is the best coach available, as i indicated the best coaches won't come to serve under the regime/procedures we have now.. i was merely hoping Chester might be man enough to say he wants full control...

As we have both said , it is highly unlikely given his highly paid job depends on pleasing his superiors...

How much do SL coaches earn?

Don't you know? I was under the impression you knew the salary details of everyone connected with Rovers.
Perhaps I was right all along and you know three fifths of four fifths of feck all.

Our potential signing josh mantellato,scored 4 trys and 24points and man of the match in newcastles 42-6 nswcup match. Opinion seems to be he is wasted in 2nd grade.

I wouldnt be overly disappointed with Tommy Lee, slightly underwhelmed maybe but who else is available currently who has a fair bit of experience. He's looked pretty good for salford this year.

Exactly what I posted on previous page,we've signed a lot worse.

Are Cas the same threat without Clarke? Saints without Roby? Wire without Monaghan? Storm without Cam Smith? Tigers without Farah? The list goes on.

Hooker's a pivotal position in the modern game & not one we can afford to skimp on.

Tommy Lee's ok, but that's it. Not up to replacing Josh imo.

Dress it up how we want we will have, as it stands, little threat from full back(if Eden is going) no threat from 7(if keating stays) Burns may stay, may go, may want to go but stays and our Hooker goes from (Imho) 2nd best hooker in the league and an 80minute player to an ok 60 min guy. Hall going is a pretty big blow if only for his covering the halves role, were strengthening the wings and centres finally and wont have anyone capable of putting them away (as it stands) oh yeah and a coach who, upto now has not made me any more confident than Sandy did, bottom 4 next year but staying in S.L is my guess. If thats our aim all well and good. Hull have signed a quality half Salford Dobson and no doubt a few more quality guys, Wakey have, it seems, a good coach and will have tim Smith playing at the club he seems to love. Honestly will our 1, 6, 7 and 9 win us a place at the top table?

Pretty much sums it up for me, as things currently stand.

He cant replace josh,but if we strengthen other areas with the transfer fee paid for josh it may counteract to an extent the loss.Our backs in general have been awful bar a couple of exceptions,mantellato would be a big plus imo,4 trys,24pts and man of the match this weekend,may only be 2nd grade,but still a good level,larroyer signed,so things not all bad.

been told that Ben Crookes his on his way to rovers next season he's had enough of the way Radford has treated him what do you think I would take him

Has to be an improvement on welham.

Transfer fee ?

don't think so he wants out

Like watts did but we ended up paying a small fee . I can't see us letting you have him for free tbh but you never know .. All rumours anyway so time will I suppose pal

If crooks is under contract we will defiantly have to pay something why would Hull let him go for free sneyd wanted out at Salford they didn't let him go for free

Nope. Charlie is equal to Eden when you balance out attack and rubbish Eden defence. Hall makes too many mistakes. He lost us the Salford home game. Agree on Keating but may have youngsters worth a go. New speedy backs already signed. Travis is the quandry. If he wants to go, sell him. Frees up a quota space as well as space on salary cap for a replacement.

He seems to have some deal with Michael Dobson that Dobson gets to kick if Josh scores a try, so Dobson had 4 kicks for 4 goals.
The bottom line is Josh could have scored 32 - or 36 if he didn't miss two goals himself.
He 6 trys in the last 2 games puts him up to 15 for the year, which means he is about 3rd in the league for trys scored, first for goals and first for points.

I think he'll prove to be a big asset for rovers

my point was where our points are coming from not how to stop them, I see the point you make but it does not in any way answer my post, we lose a huge threat in Eden, our only decent half this year must want out cant be this much smoke without a little fire, Keating creates nothing, you would have to have a serious brain injury to be happy with Lee for Hodgson and we can sign outside backs all day if we dont have anyone skilled enough to put em thru whats the point, so I say again dress it up how you want Charlie, burns, keating, lee with any outside backs you want gets us bottom or just above. Neither do you comment on the other teams around us strenghening. On a more positive note we maybe have more stellar signings lined up if Lee ends up as a bench hooker with a little bit of cover in the halves while real quality 9 comes in and Burns does go but a quality half is coming and we have a new Ben Galea who can take over putting centres thru gaps that he creates himself then its all gud in da hood. On your kids coming thru im really positve about that some real talent iv only missed one youth game this year and some willprovide good cover next year, oh and whats your feeling on the coach Gallenteer? Sorry if I seem to be overly knocking everything but I was careful not to post after the widnes game thought id let that car crash sink in before I posted, iv watched that and the Salford game back since and im certain that if we go into next season with this coach and the squad we have announced we will be lucky to have 6 points when the league splits. ill be overjoyed to be wrong I really will.

If we get him nobody has yet said we are or have I missed something

Trust me we have signed him

Who have we signed I'm losing track

Mannatellato