No, but to end the search there and to plump for Powell would be an abysmal decision.

If St David Hughes can afford and can tempt a top Aussie coach, that's the way to go. But I'm not going to tell DH what to do until I'm in the position to put a few million quid into the club.

I recall that Lenegan said when replacing Noble with Maguire that he wasn't just buying Maguire's own skills but also his knowledge of coaching systems, tools, etc. as used so successfully (albeit subsequently under something of a cloud) at Melbourne. I suppose he may have been trying to sugar the pill a bit for Noble's benefit, but the proof of the pudding has been in the Pies performances this season.

(Apologies for mixed metaphors.

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According to this weeks League Express, the club have received 25 applications for the vacant post......to be shortlisted to 4

Any Link???

Unfortunately no, It's mentioned in Stevo's column on page 4 of this weeks League Express no names given, Paul Blanchard and David Hughes were supposedly sitting down on Monday just gone to compile the short list of 4.

No doubt someone subscribing to the online version may be able to provide a link

I bet there are some good ones in there given there are only 30 top jobs in the world

Buy the paper like the rest of us, cheapskate.

Kiss my

Listerine!!

Not too many newsagents round here sell it

Take out a subscription then and get it delivered. No excuses.

After being encouraged to buy RL World by paddock to read the ground breaking interview with the marketing bod at quins I can recommend just waiting until PB/DH decide on who they want.......The RL press are at best, lazy and at worst, full of letters from disgruntled northerners upset because their grat club is being overlooked for SL after they had 4 port-a-loos installed and changed the chip oil in the caravan

The League Express is pretty good to be honest.

Poke it you tiresome git. All I said was there was an article in the magazine - did I encourage you to buy it - NO.

love you too PP

Any hints/inside info on a potential coach yet

Can You two have a love in PLEASE. The off season is very very long

There are so many Australians who have coached, left first-grade and gone into business. Others who have coached in the NSW Cup, Queensland Cup, a whole raft of up and coming coaches in the Toyota Cup as well as assistant coaches in the NRL.

With Aussie SL coaches being overlooked in favour of stay at home coaches such as Rick Stone, Ivan Henjak and Kevin Moore. Many Aussie coaches may well see us as a risk, getting off from the conveyor belt of talent. Daniel Anderson wasn't guaranteed a job when he decided to leave St Helens and he won the lot. Flip-side is there is so much talent in Australia that we could do worse than looking at anyone from any grade in Australia.

In England I would only be looking at the Co-operative Championship as the assistants here don't seem to be of the same quality as in Australia. We just can't seem to keep quality coaches in our game. Some good ones in the Championship, but we don't know what their business interests are.

30 top jobs in the world, and London has to be attractive to a number of coaches for a great many reasons. Hopefully Hughesy will pick the right candidate.

Ill be very disappointed if we recruit an inexperienced British coach who's come through the system at a northern SL club. We need either an experienced SL coach or a less experienced young Australian coach. This is a tough job and if we end up with a McNamara or McDermott type coach Ill be gutted. Its a big step up to SL and we cant afford to get it wrong again. Brian Mac was a disaster as far as Im concerned, and his alleged redeaming quality (bringing through local youngsters) was a direct result of his hopeless recruitment and injury prone squad and nothing else.

Oh and the rule changes on home trained players.

on a another forum someone seems to suggest that john kear has signed a 2 year deal would be the ideal man for me for the quins

Which Forum?????

Kear might be OK, but I'd prefer an Aussie with up to date knowledge of NRL people and techniques.

BTW, does anybody know how this vacancy has been advertised? It's well-known over here, but is anybody in the Antipodes, except for Rooster Booster, even going to know about it?

Gooner, someone on the BBC Sport msg board mentions it.

No reason to suggest there's any validity in it.

Cheers DSWG

think it was someone from the bbc forum and he seemed pretty sure hes signed a 2 year deal cud be bullsh%t dont know just thought id put it on here and see your thoughts, me personally i think he would be the ideal man for now as he seems to be able to get the best from your so called lower teams no disrespect, ok i know wakey havent had a great year but last season they punched well above there weight.

I doubt DH will want to spend money buying out what remains of JK`s contract at Wakey (better spent on a better coach or players) and for me JK would not be a great choice. I quite like the guy, but if we choose him because he has done reasonably well with limited resources then I think it sends out the wrong message regarding our future aspirations i.e. mid-table is about all we could ever expect.....this appointment is not only about doing better next season but continuous improvement over a number of seasons. An Aussie coach without the northern based family issues and good contacts to bring in some south-sea islander grunt up front would be good, as there is naff all props to choose from left in the UK. We suffer every year because our pack/team is small compared to the competition.