: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:27 am  

Gary High wrote:

A coach lives & dies by his results and regardless of past acheivements our results recently have been very poor. The wins we have scraped together have been poor - Dewsbury should have been in the Semi Finals of the NRC, Fev should have been in the final because they worked out our plan A and got in our faces. We had no plan B and never have - That is a coaching error.

The NRC final was a bonus that quite frankly we didn't deserve after those 2 games. Dave Clarke has done very well and has punched above his weight. He is a great servent of the club but sentiments cannot get in the way im afraid. It excites me to know we have a Chairman who demands success despite sometimes appearing to have megalomaniac tendancies. 2nd is nothing in sport !!!

Looked to me as if he got the best out of some very average players. With the team you have there is no way that you should be second in the league. To me that is good coaching to your chairman thats failure.

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:40 am  

First off, Clarky wasn't sacked by the Chairman. If he was do you really think he'd stay at the club as assistant. I believe Clarkly realised after the final that he'd done as much as he could with the team hence the stepping down.

While we have been getting some good results our performances have been getting worse (note: worse not better!!). Nixon is our top try scorer yet in the past 6 games he'll be lucky if he's had 6 passes. That's where Clarky came unstuck, once teams had sussed us out he had no ideas on how the change the way we played to get the ball out wide.

Deakin might not be the most exciting coach but hopefully can bring some fresh ideas to help us maintain a place in the play-offs.

Des is a larger than life character and folk outside of Barrow take his comments to literally. I'm sure the players let most of his comments go over their heads, just like most of the supporters do while at the same time admiring him for what he's trying to achieve at Barrow.

See you all in the Grand Final

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:14 am  

Barrow's No2 Fan wrote:

See you all in the Grand Final

Given Deakin's record in Finals, I'll take that