Michael?

I could see Arthur or Demetriou coming in for the remainder of the season on interim maybe. They wouldn't do any harm with Blease looking after recruitment and retention. If it works then great, if it doesn't we can be looking for the right man going into pre-season.



Without the fans baying for blood it might have made more sense to retain Smith until the end of the season but his position became untenable - I imagine we did have another coach in mind before we made the decision to sack him. Can't wait to see who we appoint, lots still to fix at Leeds but I'm feeling pretty good about the future at the moment.

You will be until they appoint JJB with Agar as his assistant!!

Good interview with Blease in the YEP. Sounds very upbeat about the quality of applicants for the role. Doesn't give too much away but does suggest he's now done with the initial interviews and on to the decision making.

make sense to retain him in what way? lurch on from shambolic display to shambolic display?

If it’s Brad Arthur can he bring in Mitchell Moses please from his former team.

our our prayers answered at 7

Interesting article by YEP with Blease, who seems to be saying it could be a few weeks yet before someone is appointed / announced. Seems to me if it were Rowley then the point would be to agree comp with Salford and he would be able to join, that doesn’t sound like a long task to complete. This leads me to think it will be someone from Aus and Arthur would be the favourite there I think. Getting Visas and agreeing the details around a family move isn’t as quick to close as a simply comp conversation with Salford. I’m expecting it to be BA.

I'm ok with either tbh.

I can see why the delay with Rowley compensation would need to be sorted out which may take some time.Surley with Arthur Blease could confirm without a visa plus I'm I think I read that Arthur said his family were up for a move to UK.It could also be that Blease hasn't made his mind up knowing this his first and most important decision.

Lee Briers in the mix now apparently, doubts over Arthurs long term commitment

I think the longer it’s taking the less likely it’s Arthur as I would have thought it would be a quick ish appointment

I hope we don't go unproven option again.

Briers would be a gamble but is highly thought of wherever he has coached.

Having said that the assistant role is always easier than the head coachs role so who knows.

If we won`t pay the asking price for Rowley and Arthur is looking for a deal closer home than Briers for me is the 3rd choice on the rank.

I`m not too convinced about Demiterou personally.

Briers is another shot in the dark. how many have worked? we need tried and tested this time. you get what you pay for

Briers and Demetriou are too much of a risk / gamble for mine. I hope we stay away.

We need a proven head coach at this time. We're just not in the right place to be taking what would be a massive gamble.

It seems a lot longer, but it's less than two weeks since Smith left, isn't it? Week 1 - Indentify and interview obvious candidates. Week 2 - Interview wider candidates. Week 3 - Make decision and announce. I'd say we are still on schedule and despite a couple of purely speculative pieces in the RL media, Rowley and Arthur are still firm favourites.

This is too big a job for an unproven coach.

I don't know who will be next in line, but I do know that I hate the RL term 'for mine'.

Didn't we bring in Blease to relieve some of the pressure on the head coach?

I thought we brought in Blease to relieve the pressure on the CEO?

Think most believe we need a proven head coach who can put some steel in the pack, could we see the return of the Mc?



My money is not on it (hope this is better Seth)

It’s a Stevoism. As annoying as ‘back to 6” instead of ‘back to 1’.

I actually think Demetriou will be firmly in the frame. He knows the area and has lived here a long time before. He will have been knocked around in NRL and fancy his chances of resurrecting his career with Leeds.



His record at Souths latterly wasn't great but... he was touted as the next best thing a couple of years ago, to the point where he was deemed out of our league around the time we appointed Smith.



Again I know people don't like hearing this but commercials will have a part to play. We can't just sign any coach in the world we want, and there is always a tradeoff. Do we spend an extra £100k pa on Coach X, or put a similar amount towards a marquee player? I do know coaches' salaries don't count on the cap (!), but we need to appreciate the club does still have budgets and needs to trade profitably. If Demetriou is going to cost less and look less risky than Arthur, we would look at it I'm sure.



BA is quite risky in some ways. On the bright side, to have Brad Arthur, Jason Demetriou, Paul Rowley and maybe one or two others in the running for the Leeds job seems like a strong shortlist to me.

According to Aussie media Lee Briers is coming back to the UK ?

Young coach , wouldn’t be in charge of recruitmen.