Re: New Coach : Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:38 pm  

Can't stand Wilkin usually but i noticed the video popped up at the side https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/1 ... eplacement He's actually right. The whole place stinks of negativity since day 1. The way he describes Holbrook at Saints - i hope he does the same here.

Can't stand Wilkin usually but i noticed the video popped up at the side https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/1 ... eplacement He's actually right. The whole place stinks of negativity since day 1. The way he describes Holbrook at Saints - i hope he does the same here.

Re: New Coach : Wed Aug 02, 2023 6:43 pm  

Someone just posted on Facebook we've signed Holbrook on a 4 year deal at £225k a season.
No idea if true or how they'd know what his wage would be, might just be me but i don't recall ever knowing what kind of wages coaches are on. Does anyone have a clue out of curiosity?
Just realised there is a Holbrook thread**

Re: New Coach : Wed Aug 02, 2023 7:08 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

The Daily Telegraph in Australia reporting that we interviewed Holbrook yesterday afternoon.

Transcript of interview

warrington - please be our new coach... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Holbrook - No
Warrington - oh come on.. pretty please.... pleeeeeeeeease
Holbrook - Maybe
Warrington - come on... nice house in Stockton Heath, job for your wife in the club shop.... PLEEEEEEEASE
Holbrook - hmmmmmmm.. Are there any scousers in warrington?
Warrington - Absolutely not
Holbrook - ok let me go speak with the wife. I will be in touch

Re: New Coach : Wed Aug 02, 2023 8:50 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

Transcript of interview

warrington - please be our new coach... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Holbrook - No
Warrington - oh come on.. pretty please.... pleeeeeeeeease
Holbrook - Maybe
Warrington - come on... nice house in Stockton Heath, job for your wife in the club shop.... PLEEEEEEEASE
Holbrook - hmmmmmmm.. Are there any scousers in warrington?
Warrington - Absolutely not
Holbrook - ok let me go speak with the wife. I will be in touch

KFP wasn't there this time was he?

Re: New Coach : Wed Aug 02, 2023 10:39 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

Transcript of interview

Holbrook - hmmmmmmm.. Are there any scousers in warrington?
Warrington - Absolutely not
Holbrook - ok let me go speak with the wife. I will be in touch[/i]

Is he going to seek an early release to go back to Aus when he finds out he's been lied to?

Re: New Coach : Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:38 am  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Is he going to seek an early release to go back to Aus when he finds out he's been lied to?

Probably on the same plane back as Fitzgibbon.

Re: New Coach : Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:31 pm  

Looks like he googled the scousers thing.

Re: New Coach : Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:55 pm  

Fantastic

Now Holbrooks missus has thrown the hand grenade in, poor old Middletons left floundering around shell shocked amongst a bomb site of 2nd choices

Re: New Coach : Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:05 pm  

He’s probably realised that even coaching this team is beyond his skills.

Re: New Coach : Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:08 pm  

It's a shame about Holbrook. I think it would have been a big lift and like others have said we might have been able to compete over the next 2 years or so. I am not sure we quite have the things in place beneath the first team to enable Holbrook to be the springboard for the sort of success that Saints have had for the last few years. So we all crave just even one grand final but would we have the patience for a longer term plan. Not suggesting we try and get Phil Gould over here but would we have the stomach for a long haul like this https://www.zerotackle.com/goulds-finge ... rl-105063/

It's a shame about Holbrook. I think it would have been a big lift and like others have said we might have been able to compete over the next 2 years or so. I am not sure we quite have the things in place beneath the first team to enable Holbrook to be the springboard for the sort of success that Saints have had for the last few years. So we all crave just even one grand final but would we have the patience for a longer term plan. Not suggesting we try and get Phil Gould over here but would we have the stomach for a long haul like this https://www.zerotackle.com/goulds-finge ... rl-105063/