We should have had a change of coach a fair few seasons ago ,Willie or not , the fact is we are down on personnel, a huge chunk of our salary cap has been sat out for most of the season and with no signs of coming back to shore up the defences or the attack . Brought in some bargain basement players on long contracts ,who by and large certainly haven’t cut the mustard, why they couldn’t have been on rolling contracts is beyond me . We’ve tried the hard nosed coaching regime and that went down like a lead balloon, I’m 100% of the opinion that we’ve got to give Willie some time to mould this team into something like his squad ,which means outgoings ,loan outs/ins and incomings, the old saying you can’t make a silk purse out of a …….. is so relevant to our squad .Bash Poching all you want and he’ll probably carry the can for the performances, but the fault lies squarely at the previous coaches signings ,the players individual performances and attitudes and lastly the quality we have sat on the sidelines long term .

Well with 2 years under his belt he will still be left with at least 4 players who are below standard and brining in replacements almost impossible.
The Recruitment's been shocking and unfortunately for WP he's unable to get out of it.

He is going to Newcastle.

Dennis Betts will be taking over at Bradford.

I think we need to see what happens this weekend before deciding on what happens with our coaching position.

If we lose we absolutely must change something, either by bringing in a temporary consultant to support the current set up or replace WP.

Sums it up perfectly for me.
Bill I don't expect to come back from his injuries and have more or less written him off but losing Lyne and Tom (that was some niggle in training?) has been a huge blow.

Any coach who as got the Squad we have will struggle we are a championship team playing in S L

This club has made some real howlers on recruitment and one of the biggest was stubbornly hanging on to Chester for at least one season too long. Just about every sane supporter could see that at the time, but not the club. Right now we have serious problems but i wonder how the influencual people at the club are seeing it and what are their plans for the future. Like others have said ,it will take another season or two to undo the damage caused by Chester, so best coach in the world would struggle with our squad.

Whoever coaches, willie or bring someone in the squad is so imbalanced it needs an almighty job to put it right.
Johnstone
Lineham
Tupou
Lyne
Murphy
Kershaw
Evans
Davetanvalu
Hall
Croft
Minns
Kay
12 centres and wingers add gaskell to this it's ridiculous. Some of the forwards have been great for us but most are around 32 and although they will play well a few times its consistency that's needed. One he'll of a big job. Got to hope someone as some forward thinking and knows what their doing. I think wel survive this year but after that if the recruitment continues this way, we're gone

The biggest one is not signing Batch up on a long term deal...our best player this season by far with his form on a par, if not better, than his brother at Saints...and he's younger...madness to let him go cos he's Waky thru n thru

Er, he wouldnt sign a longer deal - we were lucky to keep him for this season..........