Totally agree. Well said

You need to think what opposition teams must think when they prepare for game against Leeds
The centre who will be up against Briscoe must be thinking all his christmases have come at once. Briscoe has never been able to tackle all he ever does it try to block his opponent in the hope he passes the ball. Briscoe is not the sharpest knife in the draw and has for the last 5 years struggled with the concept of catching the ball and running in a vaguely forward trajectory to put the ball down somewhere over the line. Hopefully.
As a wing he has not produced a decent performance since scoring 5 in the challenge cup final. As a centre he seems scared and totally out of his depth just look how many times he is ahead of the line to block his opponent because he knows he is too slow to stop, turn and chase when his opposite centre dances past him time and time again. And he’s an improvement on Hurrell? Is he really? an empty bin bag would stop more than he does

Apparently McGuire will definitely be coming in as AC, Long will go, but they're still far away from appointing a head coach.

McGuire may well be an asset to the club in some capacity (on the field after yesterday's performance) but bringing him in as AC then appointing a HC?

I think this sort of rumour has to be rubbish. There's no way the club would appoint an assistant before the head coach. No way.

Would have to agree. If its already been decided Dannys coming as AC, Smiths coming as HC imo

The problem with smith is he's had his peak era as a coach.

You're right, our recent succession planning is much more thorough than that...

All speculation we all know Willie Poching will be in the reckoning tomorrow. It will be very interesting, but I know its still early in the season, but we do need this turning round performance wise very quickly

I don't understand that sentence.

Find it extremely unlikely that you would appoint an assistant before your head coach.

Likewise, Danny McGuire hasn't done anything as yet to prove he should be either assistant or head coach at Leeds. We can't afford another 2-3 years of wasted time trialing McGuire. He could be a success or flop at this stage and we cannot afford the risk of another unsuccessful coach to further delay our growth. Let him prove himself for another three years at KR before considering him at Leeds.

McGuire makes sense, little experience but used to play for us so get him in.

Leeds tried it time and again with bremner, Clarke, gray etc.
gray did ok but it never worked.
get an aussie in and let the players know he is staying so if they dont like it they can go

I was hinting at all the speculation about the new coach . Everyday a new candidate comes into the reckoning. I was saying Poching has had a few good wins it wont be long before someone is saying he's favourite for the job .

The coach, Peter Williams, ( George Williams father) currently coaching in Perth, he comes recommended by Ricky Stewart, he is friends with Agar. Served his time with Wigan coaching their juniors, moved to Aus, now a coach in Perth. He has no experience of the NRL, Stewart rates the man highly as a coach.
GH will like him, he will be cheap, but with a OZ back ground he will have his own skills, may be a long shot, but this chap can do no worse that what we currently have in place

It was going so well until you said that.

Are Ablett or Bailey available? Delaney has done well at Leeds Uni and York. Maybe Delaney as HC with Bailey as his assistant? Ablett attacking coach.

I haven’t read all the posts but is there Any reason your board hasn’t made an offer to Danny Ward?

Last I heard Bailey was a fireman and Ablett has set up his own plumbing business, so they’ve already got their hands full putting out fires and clearing up s5it.

For me personally, I would like to see him do well at another club before Leeds took the plunge.

David Walliams wouldn’t do much worse.
Ricky Stuart fell out with George Williams when he left Canberra so that sounds a bit odd but Agar knows Peter Williams.

I said Ricky Stuart speaks highly of Peter Williams, its on the internet if you look for it, I never say they were best friends.

I know GH has said there will not be an exhaustive search for a head coach, but realistically, there's probably only about 4 options who can join part-way through the season. There's probably only 3 more you would realistically add to that list once if they'll wait til the off-season (I'd count Tony Smith/McGuire in that camp). So I can't imagine we'll be waiting long a decision.

Given the radio silence out of HQ, I imagine they're already in advanced talks to get a coach in as soon as possible.

What is this obsession with getting in ex Leeds players?
Get rid of all of them and start a fresh culture.
It smacks of nepotism and we need to live for the future not the past.
We`re in this mess because of the old boys favouritism but we don`t seem to learn.