we agree then. the juniors have gone back to being brilliantly coached, but only since mac was taken out of the equation.

The u16's/u15's are fine & im hoping Morley taking over the u19's gets them back up to where Barrie Mc had them.
Wrt the 1st team "structure" its wrong purely because of who they have as overall Head Coach i.e Brian Mc. His assistants are either not good enough or ignored because once we were exposed last year none of em came up with a suitable plan to adapt to our situation either before or during games.
Finally when you see the likes of Ian Kirke on the staff as a conditioner & doing the warm ups then you are already behind.

thing is mate I agree with 99% but as for kirke, I have no idea if he's good or bad. plenty of average or even players who never made it have been brilliant in other roles

I just can't see an ex-player who had the heart of a pea & robbed a wage for at least his last 3yrs with us inspiring as a "conditioner" despite his own physique.

maybe not, you could be right but he's only part time. can't see he's significant really

If the coaches are great then the quality of the intake must be an issue - are we not getting the best players in to the system?

From Cuthbertson in the paper yesterday........“We have trained really hard. Most of it has just been getting fit, really. Most of the ball work stuff comes into play after Christmas. “It has been a case of getting all the boys up to scratch and we will start doing more team-based stuff now.”

That statement must come as a huge relief to all those fans who found the Boxing Day performance disturbingly familiar, to say the least.

They can all sleep easier at night now.

wonder when they started doing ball work last season?
august? September?

That should have been Peter Smith of the YEP's response.

Along with...

Did GH tell you to say that?