Re: New Coach poll : Tue May 03, 2016 3:13 pm  

Its a news story from 2013 when Lowes was last appointed.

On the new new coach front, I hear Morrison has not applied and would not be in the running either.

The name most are taking about is Rohan Smith and for me would be the one that I would be most excited to see as our new head coach.

Re: New Coach poll : Tue May 03, 2016 3:23 pm  

I hope it's Rohan. I like his 'travel' clothing range. Very East Morton set. FA also wears it while promenading in Benidorm.

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 3:09 pm  

Coach hopefully announced in 72-96 hrs according to greens Twitter.

[Bulliac]

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 3:48 pm  

Let's just hope it's the right decision, though you'd need the wisdom of Salomon to get it right every time - though for us it would be nice to just get it right occasionally..

[Bullseye]

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 4:10 pm  

We’ll see if there’s anything in the rumours going around. I get the feeling it’ll be out of leftfield. I hope we don’t lumber ourselves with a cheapo option that will only continue the downward spiral.

The club needs a leader with fresh ideas who can get the respect of everyone.

The rumour about Matt Adamson didn’t really fill me with optimism as he seemed not to be involved in coaching and was more in player development. He could be an ideal replacement for Steve Ferres though. Rohan Smith is the current defence coach at Gold Coast and he could be ok – perhaps a good progression for him. John Cartwright would be a decent option. A former test player with recent head coach experience.

I’d prefer Smith or Cartwright. At a push Naylor. I think we need more than a shake up at head coach too. Recruitment has been a mess. That needs sorting and hopefully any new coach will get a grip on that.

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 4:44 pm  

I'm expecting Chev Walker.

Ive learnt recently not to be too optimistic!

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 4:54 pm  

Rohan Smith with be an immense coup. He's got bags of potential, has lots of experience with some decent sides and has a lot of admirers down in the NRL.

I always thought that the job could be a poisoned chalice which could put certain candidates off. If we were to get Cartwright or Smith then I think I would be more optimistic than I would be with a Naylor or Morrison appointment.

As for Ferres, I've heard a few things about why Jimmy left and tbh whilst I think its time to move on, it does appear his meddling has done us a favour in the fact that jimmy has eventually moved on.

Smith is the man for me... minus interference from the Managing Director please

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 4:59 pm  

bullinenemyland wrote:

I've heard a few things about why Jimmy left and tbh whilst I think its time to move on, it does appear his meddling has done us a favour in the fact that jimmy has eventually moved on.

People construct sentences willy nilly like this and then don't immediately PM everyone they've heard of to share the gossip. We've had a rule against this since 2002.

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 7:30 pm  

Steve Ferres is becoming like the transfer committee were at Liverpool when Rodgers got the chop blamed for everything.

Re: New Coach poll : Wed May 04, 2016 9:22 pm  

If is Smith