Right then, let's do this!!! : Wed May 11, 2011 6:36 pm
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New Widnes coach Denis Betts told Boots he plans to steer Widnes to a Super League play-off place.
Betts, 41, will oversee the Vikings' return to the top-flight next year after being confirmed in the role despite speculation linking Wayne Bennett and Tim Sheens to the job. The former Wigan star will be Widnes' coach for at least the first two years of their three-year's guaranteed in the Super League and he insisted he is ready to make the role his own. "There is always going to be speculation when you are involved in organisations like this," he said. "I was in the box seat; I came into a side that had already been assembled, we changed some things, we put some structures in place but ultimately Paul and the board thought that I was the right person to do that and all the speculation around the edges was ultimately speculation. "We talked about the fact that communication was key to anything that we were going to do and they did that respectively to me and we ended up in a situation where they felt that I was the right person to do the job and I'm very grateful and honoured by that decision. "I think we've got to start with a real simple objective and that objective is 'we want to be competitive'. "That competitiveness will put us in a situation to challenge for a play-off place. That's an achievable goal, an achievable objective; it's something that we are real capable of doing." Regular Boots pundit Paul Cullen, who is director of rugby at Widnes, said he has no doubt that Betts can guide the club to bigger and better things and is delighted to have one of England's brightest coaching talents on board. "Denis Betts has always been a part of our long-term plans," said Cullen. "It was my decision to recommend Denis Betts to the current board of directors and that was accepted whole heartedly and with 100 percent support. "So it's time for us to make the decision, move on and now start our recruitment plan in full swing. It would be very wrong as director of rugby to be buying players for any coach to start working with. "We have to start right from scratch, right from the bottom level and then re-build this club going forward. We think we've got the right man." http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/ ... 52,00.html |
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New Widnes coach Denis Betts told Boots he plans to steer Widnes to a Super League play-off place.
Betts, 41, will oversee the Vikings' return to the top-flight next year after being confirmed in the role despite speculation linking Wayne Bennett and Tim Sheens to the job. The former Wigan star will be Widnes' coach for at least the first two years of their three-year's guaranteed in the Super League and he insisted he is ready to make the role his own. "There is always going to be speculation when you are involved in organisations like this," he said. "I was in the box seat; I came into a side that had already been assembled, we changed some things, we put some structures in place but ultimately Paul and the board thought that I was the right person to do that and all the speculation around the edges was ultimately speculation. "We talked about the fact that communication was key to anything that we were going to do and they did that respectively to me and we ended up in a situation where they felt that I was the right person to do the job and I'm very grateful and honoured by that decision. "I think we've got to start with a real simple objective and that objective is 'we want to be competitive'. "That competitiveness will put us in a situation to challenge for a play-off place. That's an achievable goal, an achievable objective; it's something that we are real capable of doing." Regular Boots pundit Paul Cullen, who is director of rugby at Widnes, said he has no doubt that Betts can guide the club to bigger and better things and is delighted to have one of England's brightest coaching talents on board. "Denis Betts has always been a part of our long-term plans," said Cullen. "It was my decision to recommend Denis Betts to the current board of directors and that was accepted whole heartedly and with 100 percent support. "So it's time for us to make the decision, move on and now start our recruitment plan in full swing. It would be very wrong as director of rugby to be buying players for any coach to start working with. "We have to start right from scratch, right from the bottom level and then re-build this club going forward. We think we've got the right man." http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/ ... 52,00.html |
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