Yes the email i got said he was stood down but BBC text says sacked

It’s a sorry state you’ve got yourselves into this is. I never so this on-field demise coming to be fair even after Wembley.
To solve this you need to bring in real experience if you're to get to where you want to be which I presume to be the heady trophy days of the 70s 80s ?? cos that’s what we all dream of.
But to bring in real experience will need serious wedge, are you still in that league ?? maybe you are I don't know. And then you have to convince the good Coach to-be that its worthwhile, that the club is being run well and has a real future.
Clearly the present squad is not really a Marketable commodity, no one worth his salt will come to work with what you have at present so promises of some sort will have to be made re. strengthening.
Promises of new buys will also cost money, but you can't just buy willy nilly can you ? they have to be 1) available and 2) you have to have room on your cap, so you can't replace all the deadwood straight away, its unlikely it will be put right even by the end of this season.
Big question is ; is the money available to bring in an experienced coach AND sort out the mess on the playing rosta ?? I hope so for your sakes.

When he comes in I think you'll be in a similar position to where Wakey were when Smithy arrived, where you'll be bringing in a "past its use by date" experienced coach. He’ll just have to motivate and educate the squad he inherits. His good contacts will bring in some once quality journeymen who'll win you some games. If you then stay up you've got a chance to start for real next season. if you go down then you may be looking for someone else to take the reigns and start again. May be at board level too.
All depends on how deep your pockets are I suppose, or, do you just lower your expectations and your dreams ???

You make a good point here.

Speaking from personal experience as both an initiator and a recipient in this regard, in all likelihood he will have been told that they intended to relieve him of his duties and asked him to resign honourably, pending finalisation of new working arrangements or compensation.

Technically a sacking in all but name, but one that allows him to walk away without any employment blemish. He could claim to future employers that it was his decision to leave. Sadly, the media view things differently and have "peed on his chips" in this matter by using the dreaded "s" word.

I know I keep posting about campese and the fact we should have got rid,but interesting in todays rag there is list of injured players who are not close to returning for us, and lo and behold terry is among them.Chester said he may be avaiable for the opening match versus castleford yet we are nearly 4 matches in and no sign of him.Nobody can tell me the money we are paying terry to write a column in the yorkshire post and the quota space could not have been better used.Iam not saying its chesters fault,but somebody is to blame.

How about Paul Cooke?

Former player
Available immediately
Has experience of coaching in the Championship

There is a rumour doing the rounds that Campese wouldn't play for the club while Chester was in charge, personally I cant see any truth in that but just thought I would put it out there so to speak. Be odd if Campese does play in the next few weeks. Don't shoot the messenger

I heard Albert Kelly wouldn't stop eating pies until Chester was sacked

I think the two tweets at the end of the HDM report are telling. "Justice" Sonny Esslemont and "Some news that just makes your day" Macauley Hallett. Obviously everything in the HKR garden was not rosy. That perhaps means that the Campese rumour has some truth in it. As for a replacement it has to be someone with experience and a good track record. Yes it will cost but at the end of the day if we start winning and playing attractive rugby we get more supporters through the gate and that offsets the cost.

I don't for 1 minute think campo would be that unprofessional

Why would Powell want to move from a success story at Castleford to HKR?

I agree, just sharing what I had heard.

Paul Rowley was offered the job before Chester, so I would expect you to revisit and offer Paul the chance again.

he was awfull at fc

Feel sorry for Chester but was inevitable. I hope you don't go for Poaching though. Surely you need a new regime with new ideas. I think Francis Cummins will be appointed, for what its worth.

Question I would have is, having employed Sandercock and then Chester, do the fans have any faith in the current BoD making the right call on Chesters replacement?

I think Peacock would have a major influence on the new appointment. Mind you for your sake I hope he is better at recruiting coach's than players.

Francis Cummings is a good shout, will be well know by Peacock.

Has everybody gone mad

I know we get the odd few knuckle scrapers on here, but barrel scrapers? Cummins. No way.

I would say Paul Rowley is favourite he will be relatively cheep he's had some success he's English (don't think hull or rovers want to have there fingers burned again by appointing some untried Aussy) you can not hope to attract a top Aussy coach there on buckets of money and most important Rowley is available cheep no compo to pay to get him out iof a contract, that must suite rovers pocket

Macca will be on a good wage in Aus and working towards a top role in future can not see him chucking that away for a chance to coach ur squad , its got to be Rowley as I think they would of left Chester in charge longer, someone must be close to agreeing to step in soon

Thing is, as much as we see coaches as poor etc, players and owners see things differently. While all the fans at hull wanted rid of Radford, Pearson saw something in him and a few players I have spoken too, also spoke well of him. Maybe this is why Agar keeps getting jobs.

Peacock might see or know more about Cummins to think he would do a good job.

I actually think Harris would be OK, did;t do great at Salford, but it must be hard working under the Dr and he did well in previous roles.

Some people keep mentioning Rowley especially Hull fans it seems but I don't believe he will be the one that Rovers will be looking at.
I know that one or two directors were not particularly happy when Chester was first appointed and preferred looking further afield, unfortunately they were out voted at the time.
I don't think Rovers will make the same mistake by going for another coach based on the fact that he is the cheap option, in fact I would say they cant afford to make the same mistake again.
I would be surprised if the club had not already sounded out one or two options but I doubt that they will make any rush decisions, they may decide to Keep Poching on as caretaker coach until a permanent solution is found but personally I think he is part of the problem.

Bad news for the rest of the league. I reckon rovers have someone lined up and is it just co-incidence macnamara was here last week? Alternatively, it could be a leeds cast off

James Webster must be in with a shout. Would Rovers fans be happy with him?

Which coaches have Leeds cast off? I need to place a bet.