Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:18 am  

From todays T & A Geoff Toovey's current contract is understood to run out later this week and there have been discussions with joint-owner Andrew Chalmers in Australia trying to persuade him to stay on. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... get_going/ Not a sentence one wants to read now pre season has started!

From todays T & A Geoff Toovey's current contract is understood to run out later this week and there have been discussions with joint-owner Andrew Chalmers in Australia trying to persuade him to stay on. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... get_going/ Not a sentence one wants to read now pre season has started!

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:00 am  

Blotto wrote: From todays T & A Geoff Toovey's current contract is understood to run out later this week and there have been discussions with joint-owner Andrew Chalmers in Australia trying to persuade him to stay on. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... get_going/ Not a sentence one wants to read now pre season has started! If he needs persuading is he really the right man for the job??? We want someone committed.

Blotto wrote: From todays T & A Geoff Toovey's current contract is understood to run out later this week and there have been discussions with joint-owner Andrew Chalmers in Australia trying to persuade him to stay on. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... get_going/ Not a sentence one wants to read now pre season has started! If he needs persuading is he really the right man for the job??? We want someone committed.

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Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:27 am  

Not sure why this needed to take so long.

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:32 am  

I was hoping he'd stay another year and see what he can do but this is really taking the mick now. Get someone else in.

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:56 am  

I don't think gt showed enough to suggest he's worth that much effort, he did ok with the resources/situation, and like others I'd be interested to see what he could do with a full pre season with his players and I'll back him if he returns. However I'd rather we had someone with more experience of coaching outside of the top tier and someone who clearly wants to be here and sees us as an opportunity not a fall back option. Even in our current state I suspect we would have a few suitable candidates to choose from.

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:59 am  

Interesting to know who is available though, bearing in mind any p/t coach with outside employment is required to manage the f/t part of the squad

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:26 am  

Really baffled why the owners are still entertaining Toovey after all this fannying about.

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:53 am  

Well, because we are unlikely to get anybody remotely at his level in the game. And from his POV I assume he would take a better job if one came along, as would we all. And I assume he has in mind the loyalty shown by the club to predecessors and is rightly mainly looking after number 1. As we all would.

If Chalmers as employer hasn't given him a deadline then whose fault - if that is a fault - is that? If Chalmers is happy to give Toovey until November to see if he wants this job or some other, can you blame Toovey and his agent for using the time?

Toovey is not a Bull. he has no historic connection with the club, and only officially started when the season was nearly over. He doesn't owe us much, in the circumstances he was thrown in. So why should he wear sackcloth and ashes if offerd say an NRL assistant job or similar in sunny Aus? How many of those criticising him have yet bought a season ticket?

Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:00 am  

I'd like Toovey to stay but this needs sorting now. He's had long enough to decide.

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Re: Is toovey the right man at this level? : Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:21 am  

I suspect Chalmers already knows what's going on.