Martin shaw as put on twitter an article from yorkshire live that willie and franny cummings have left the club

Wtf

I can only think they are trying to mitigate risk of the drop next year by bringing in someone they really rate with strong recruitment contacts.

Next year is huge and I’m assuming they have someone lined up.

Thanks Willie, probably wrong time wrong place to take on the head coach position at Wakefield.

Well I got berated for questioning WP but clearly I wasn’t alone.

No point dancing a jig of delight as that helps nobody and I’d rather have been wrong.

However I was never confident, not in the way we played or the teams we played. For me there was always sorting amis.

No idea who we have in mind but I think we may need to look to Australia. There are some good British coaches about but can we risk it?

Thanks WP for us staying up and thanks for a fair number of decent signings you made.

I do wonder if McDermott is on the radar.

Wasn't expecting that, feel for Poching if I'm honest. He's was left with a right mess to sort and yes performances dropped off significantly mid season but collectively they did what could reasonably be expected last year. Anyhow it's just made recruitment that bit more difficult.

Mash to first team coach?!

Did an excellent job at the end of the 2021 season when he came in and appeared to have got things right at the end of this season, although things looked desperate with a couple of months left of the season.
Nervous times again for Trinity as there is a huge rebuilding job to be done and whoever comes in certainly needs to hit the ground running and hopefully has a couple of decent forwards and a HB in the car with them when they arrive.
At a time when we are trying to sell S/T's for next season, we could do with some positive news and quick !

God I hope not. We don't have a Peacock, Sinfield, Maguire or Burrow to hide his short comings.

Tony Smith isn’t available although his brother would have talked him out of taking the Wakefield job.

Doesn't actually say if he was sacked or not, but I assume that as he was on a 1 year deal they just didn't renew it?

Yes it appears it just wasn’t renewed or extended so more of a left the club. Certainly not a sacking, just going their different directions.

It clearly wasn't for him. I do wonder whether the turnaround was due to someone else taking up the reins or the players getting their heads together. If leaving players are giving bad feedback, it was clearly never a job for Willie.

Although critical earlier in the season, I did think that the end of season flourish might have carried on into next year and he'd learned the job, but clearly not.

Those behind the scenes will know the reason for the turnaround and that might shape where we go next. If it is someone already there, fine. Matt Peet has done okay at Wigan with a similar profile behind the scenes at Wigan.

It's a strange decision.
Poching never had the chance to bring in any players and was very much left with Chester's signings, with a couple of exceptions.
Plus playing most of the season without our star player and others.
Wonder if there were any issues with our recruitment for next season or funds for new players ?

The club statement seems to suggest that it was Trinity not wanting Poching and not the other way around

Knowing Carter he’ll fetch a Hull cast off, Brett Hodgeson anybody??

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It's going to be a tough gig for anyone coming in.
Going from now setting the world alight at Hull, with a full cap spend to Trinity with 25/30% ? less spend, would certainly be a "test".

It seems a little odd that Chester was given so much time and yet Willie is "let go" after one season ?

Isn't it more likely they recognise the mistakes they made with Chester and if they weren't 100% confident in Poching, decided to make a break now.

Apparently, Fev are holding a news conference at 5pm............

Spot on. Under achieved everywhere else he has been.

******BREAKING NEWS******
Vastman being quoted at 33/1 on RW&B FB page to be next coach!

I would try and bring Craig Lingard over from Batley. A good coach who gets the best from his players. Also I’m sure he’s had experience of coaching on a tight budget.

I would be a disaster but I’ll take the job anyway.

Imo tge upturn in form at the end of the season was totally down to four players who didn’t want to be part of the team who finally got us relegated.

Miller, Arona, Fifita and Batch arguably played they’re best Rugby in a Trinity shirt. I’m sure Poching did his bit but those four led from the front.

Danny Ward anyone?

Glad you see it like that.....


Ive had £10 on you!

You may be right but, that would be massively harsh on Poching, given that he had to run with the previous coaches side and hasn't had a chance to bring in an of "his own" signings.
If you look at other coaches, like Powell at Wire or Watson at Huddersfield, both struggled in their first 12 month's, especially Powell.
Chester went from have us finish 5th, 7th. 8th, 10th and 10th (hope I've got that right) and Poching seemed to be worth another season, unless of course it was some kind of player revolt or another intervention which turned this season around and the improvement was due to other people rather than Poching and Cummings ?