All joking apart, Dixon has skill and speed but on the basis of defence, he deserves to be dropped. His crap tackle technique is more a desire for self preservation on his part and shows a lack of spine.

Since when did little guys tackle high in RL? He needs to be made to watch Roger Millward videos and how he tackled low around the waist and legs until he gets the message.

I don't get it. One minute on here people are slating Chester for the teams mickey poor defence and when he does something about it he gets pilloried?

I don't think Chester et all and the players are under any illusion if they don't show backbone on Sunday then the fall out will be toxic.

IMO if Cockayne is at FB then that places Dixon behind Sio and Mantomato everyday of the week.

Players aren't coached like that nowadays. Old skool tackling was that you hit the player above the hips and then slid down the legs, the old "They can't run without their legs" adage.

Today, players are told to fear the offload at all costs, so they try and wrap the ball, personally, I think players should have the intelligence to do one or the other depending on the scenario, but I realised that's asking a lot.

Too many players focus on the big hit, often, all that's required is to put a firm hand on the opposition and divert them into touch.

We've turned a lot of defence into American football of the nineties, if you watch the NFL know it 's a lot more subtle both in attack and defence, players are much more focused on running good lines and attempting to stop line breaks.

Dixon fails your intelligence test, then. He is poor on defensive reads as well, but not alone in that regard. If he's not responding to coaching advice, he might have to sit out a few games.

Real shame.

I agree, that's what I was saying.

But I think the coaching staff hold a lot of that responsibility, what's Sean Briscoe up to now a days, he's on someone's staff, is it Wire?

Maybe we could emloy him as a part time consultant in the way Bradford employed Jamie Baulch to teach their players (which I thought was an excellent idea and have forever been surprised that it wasn't repeated) how to sprint properly.

Their is one simple answer to all this if we lose the first 2 or 3 games say good by to Chester and co and till they sort out a good coach put campese in charge he can not be any worse he maybe a lot better

Does he have coaching experience?

Chester is doing a great job long may he rule

Did Chester before he took over? I think he's finding out that being assistant coach is light years away from just a little step up to the job as head coach. If we get a good hammering at the good Friday Derby and we're rooted to the bottom of the table then surely his position will become untenable. Can you imagine if sandercock had had these pre season results and recruitment strategy? He'd be getting slaughtered. Chester's good will from the fans is gone, I think. Time to produce. No excuses. I'll still be getting behind the boys on Sunday, as usual, but I fear the worst. Hopefully he'll prove me wrong and surprise us all.

The Derby? If we lose the 1st 2 games I can see him going if we lose v Wakey on 21 Feb.

Did James Webster short time he did manage

I'd love Chester to prove us wrong and stick two fingers up to even the doubters in our own ranks (me included). But I'd be amazed if the board hasn't made tentative enquires about any proven coaches available in say.......March time.

McNamara?

Jesus!

Something to do with fires & frying pans

You certainly do have a sense of humour Mr bicycle man

CC has had no help in preparing to be a coach, both of our previous coaches were inexperienced. We should not be looking at getting rid of Chester but getting him some assistance, Kear would be my choice. He is at Batley and doing Wales so could come as a consultant.

Tim Sheens came a did exactly that when Harris was in control. That didn't last long. To do something like that is like a vote of no confidence in the current coach from the board. And it never ends well.

All I am saying is that it is about time the club brought in some experience in the coaching department. When they appointed CC Hudgell said that the opportunity may have come too soon. That appears to be the case.

Echoes of Malcolm Reilly / Martin Hall. Dark days.

It's nothing at all like that.

Oh good god, I'd tried to eliminate that from my mind, thanks for reminding me!

Quite.

No matter how bad things got under their regime, relegation wasn't likely.

a win tomorrow and all in the garden is rosy see how you get on you could surprise your self if nothing our result proved we are no flash in the pan and our pack dominated Salford in the same way as you you played two very physical teams pre season tomorrow on your own patch you will be a lot different

I really would love to wholeheartedly agree with you, unfortunately I don't share your confidence in our current coaching set up and their ability to overcome their evident shortcomings .
I have a feeling that we will come out strong in the first half and make a real game of it, possibly going in at half time ahead on the scoreboard, but I fear the frailties that were so evident last season and in the two friendly games of late, will come to the fore as the game wears on.
I do hope I'm wrong in my assessment and that my concerns prove to be both premature and unfounded, but like many other Rovers fans it seems, I am not confident about a win at home tomorrow.

I've backed KR first half - Cas full time

If your players aren't fired up for this first game - then youre doomed