Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:19 pm  

Thanks but no thanks.

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:11 pm  

No No and thrice No!!!

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:40 am  

I would give Gary Thornton a chance, look at the youngsters he is bringing on. Did a great job at batley with no money. He is a Yorkshire man well worth atry if TM leaves.

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:05 am  

yes , i think it would be a good move . Why not have kear and powell or thornton. These people all have a fair bit of charisma and strength, unlike the current head coach who seems to offer little direction or motivation in order to take out the big teams in key games (or even get to a cup semi). I could also see kear & powell working well together , however I think they would want to take charge of ALL football matters (like they have at their current clubs) and not suffer idiots like Dicky wright having much input. Therefore I can see another untried overrated aussie replacing the one we have !

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:25 am  

Scabbycat wrote:

I would give Gary Thornton a chance, look at the youngsters he is bringing on. Did a great job at batley with no money. He is a Yorkshire man well worth atry if TM leaves.

You have to ask whether or not he would be able to attract quality players to the first team squad to support those youngsters going forward though. Is he in his ideal role looking after the young players and supporting the first team?

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:36 pm  

Gaslight wrote:

Hopefully Jason Taylor!

That would be a good shout,with Thornton as assistant.

I might have dreamt this but is Tawera Nikau doing some coaching in N.Z?..if he could coach as good as he played

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:13 pm  

'T' and Vowles come in your time is up!

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:03 pm  

No, too late now JK, should of happened a few years ago.

Aussie coach I reckon, we seem to fall on our booty when we appoint a Brit for some reason

No idea why but the Brits can coach, they just don't seem to get the backing of people running the club....i'm thinking of JJ in particular

If we do go for a Brit coach I'd go for Karl Harrison

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:39 pm  

Yes, I would give him a chance. Personally, I don't think he's done a bad job with the limited resources of the teams he has coached over the past 10 - 15 years.

He's a local lad, he wears his heart on his sleave.....set the expectations out clearly in stone and give him a 2 year chance.

In 2006, 2008 & 2009 he coached Wakey to a higher finishing spot than Matterson did with us and we've stuck with him!

Re: WOULD YOU HAVE KEAR AS YOUR COACH..? : Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:03 pm  

Look at the improvement McGuire and Brown made at Wigan & Hull respectively to their British predecessors with largely the same squads! Neither were experienced NRL head coaches so it just goes to show there are good Aussie coaches about who mightn't have been given the chance yet in Oz.

Personally if Matterson does leave at the end of this season I'd be looking for a promising assistant coach from the NRL (unless we can get someone like Steve Foulkes or Wayne Bennett )