With the injuries you've got to key players and the squad that has been assembled the best coach in the world struggle to get in the top 8. If Chester had an input into recruitment then he deserved to be sacked. The question is what coach would take the job having to work with your squad. He will be on a hiding to nothing.

Not for me. he was a good player for Rovers and did a decent stand in job as coach at Rovers but he is not the man for the long term in my opinion.
I believe it could be another Chris Chester in the making and we cannot keep on going from pillar to post, we have to get it right this time even if it means paying that little extra.
At the end of the day and as the saying goes....you only get what you pay for.

That just ain't going to happen.

I feel for Chester and thought it might happen next week rather than this but it is the right decision for both your club and Chester himself. He sounded likem it was all too much for him after the match.

So who will replace him? Justin Morgan has just upped sticks and taken the assistants role at New Zealand Warriors so i doubt he would move back to Hull KR again at this point. There is always the old mantra of 'never go back'.

James Webster? Was seen to be out of his depth at Wakefield and is not the man right now. He needs to be an assistants to an experienced coach for a while again before he'll be ready again.

Paul Rowley is an option but not what you need right now imho. The same goes for Richard Marshall at Halifax despite his success at turning them around, i think a little more experience is required at present.

Glenn Morrison would possibly be the best pick from the championship, he has the experience of more than 200 NRL and 100 SL games behind him and 3 years coaching at Dewsbury. But again is untried as a coach at the top level.

Steve McNamara may fancy it now his England commitments are no more but with the NRL season kicking off next week the Roosters may not be willing to release him immediately. Given his connection to Jamie Peacock this could mean Brian Noble being a contender for a short term role until the man they want becomes available.

If the club want to throw some money at the role then Geoff Toovey and Ivan Cleary are both available in Australia and have had decent coaching careers so far. Whether they fancy a spell over here is another matter but would be coup for sure.

A couple of outsiders with plenty of experience but have been out of coaching for a couple of years and have experience over here could be Daniel Anderson and Matthew Elliott. That tactic has helped at Wakey with Brian Smith and the improvements are slowly coming through to see now.

One thing for sure i would expect that, after the last two incumbents, your board of directors must surely realise that an experienced pair of hands is needed this time. Trying to do it on the cheap will cost a lot more in the long run.

Going for a big name i see

To me, Chezzies sacking was a foregone conclusion after I heard the end of match boos from the East Stand and North Stand last Sunday. As I left the ground everybody was calling for Chester's head.

Then the normally sanguine but ever so slightly sycophantic Rob Chadwick at the end of his Hull KR TV match commentary said that Rovers performance in losing at home to Wakefield was not what a team with aspirations to make the Super 8s should be churning out. From his eternally red and white lips, that's like a death sentence, but more interestingly would be derived from soundbites from the BOD.

When the youngest and most inexperienced member of the team despite playing out of position, despite earning less than other fellow team members and despite throwing a few wayward passes from dummy half, comfortably out performs and out enthuses his teammates, you know that things are wrong.

I'm glad Chezzie has gone. After Friday, Poching will be gone too. I predict we will be appointing an Aussie, purely on the basis that Neil Hudgell and not Mike Smith wrote the programme notes for last Sunday. Hope it's Geoff Toovey.

Maybe Bobby Bubbles will put his hat in the ring, a little magic to get you out of the mess

Given the history of promoting from within, I'm surprised Jamie Peacock's named hasn't been mentioned.

The offical statement was 'stood down'. Psycho commented on Twitter last night that Chester has walked. No official sacking.

My guess, the club is not heartless and will look to give him a new backroom role. Chester himself may have wanted to resign but the BoD didn't want to rush the acceptance. They may also have given him the old gardening leave.

As for a replacement, I'm going to mention Noble again. But whoever we choose, we need someone commands with authority rather than one of the lads. An recent ex player or current player is NOT what we need right now.

As for Rowley, he gets a lot of bad press, but is he that bad?

Agar, Harris, Webster etc don't fit my criteria. Noble and Kear are in the right area even if they have their own flaws.

Yes the email i got said he was stood down but BBC text says sacked

It’s a sorry state you’ve got yourselves into this is. I never so this on-field demise coming to be fair even after Wembley.
To solve this you need to bring in real experience if you're to get to where you want to be which I presume to be the heady trophy days of the 70s 80s ?? cos that’s what we all dream of.
But to bring in real experience will need serious wedge, are you still in that league ?? maybe you are I don't know. And then you have to convince the good Coach to-be that its worthwhile, that the club is being run well and has a real future.
Clearly the present squad is not really a Marketable commodity, no one worth his salt will come to work with what you have at present so promises of some sort will have to be made re. strengthening.
Promises of new buys will also cost money, but you can't just buy willy nilly can you ? they have to be 1) available and 2) you have to have room on your cap, so you can't replace all the deadwood straight away, its unlikely it will be put right even by the end of this season.
Big question is ; is the money available to bring in an experienced coach AND sort out the mess on the playing rosta ?? I hope so for your sakes.

When he comes in I think you'll be in a similar position to where Wakey were when Smithy arrived, where you'll be bringing in a "past its use by date" experienced coach. He’ll just have to motivate and educate the squad he inherits. His good contacts will bring in some once quality journeymen who'll win you some games. If you then stay up you've got a chance to start for real next season. if you go down then you may be looking for someone else to take the reigns and start again. May be at board level too.
All depends on how deep your pockets are I suppose, or, do you just lower your expectations and your dreams ???

You make a good point here.

Speaking from personal experience as both an initiator and a recipient in this regard, in all likelihood he will have been told that they intended to relieve him of his duties and asked him to resign honourably, pending finalisation of new working arrangements or compensation.

Technically a sacking in all but name, but one that allows him to walk away without any employment blemish. He could claim to future employers that it was his decision to leave. Sadly, the media view things differently and have "peed on his chips" in this matter by using the dreaded "s" word.

I know I keep posting about campese and the fact we should have got rid,but interesting in todays rag there is list of injured players who are not close to returning for us, and lo and behold terry is among them.Chester said he may be avaiable for the opening match versus castleford yet we are nearly 4 matches in and no sign of him.Nobody can tell me the money we are paying terry to write a column in the yorkshire post and the quota space could not have been better used.Iam not saying its chesters fault,but somebody is to blame.

How about Paul Cooke?

Former player
Available immediately
Has experience of coaching in the Championship

There is a rumour doing the rounds that Campese wouldn't play for the club while Chester was in charge, personally I cant see any truth in that but just thought I would put it out there so to speak. Be odd if Campese does play in the next few weeks. Don't shoot the messenger

I heard Albert Kelly wouldn't stop eating pies until Chester was sacked

I think the two tweets at the end of the HDM report are telling. "Justice" Sonny Esslemont and "Some news that just makes your day" Macauley Hallett. Obviously everything in the HKR garden was not rosy. That perhaps means that the Campese rumour has some truth in it. As for a replacement it has to be someone with experience and a good track record. Yes it will cost but at the end of the day if we start winning and playing attractive rugby we get more supporters through the gate and that offsets the cost.

I don't for 1 minute think campo would be that unprofessional

Why would Powell want to move from a success story at Castleford to HKR?

I agree, just sharing what I had heard.

Paul Rowley was offered the job before Chester, so I would expect you to revisit and offer Paul the chance again.

he was awfull at fc

Feel sorry for Chester but was inevitable. I hope you don't go for Poaching though. Surely you need a new regime with new ideas. I think Francis Cummins will be appointed, for what its worth.

Question I would have is, having employed Sandercock and then Chester, do the fans have any faith in the current BoD making the right call on Chesters replacement?

I think Peacock would have a major influence on the new appointment. Mind you for your sake I hope he is better at recruiting coach's than players.

Francis Cummings is a good shout, will be well know by Peacock.