Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:04 am  

Good appointment, current knowledge of coaching in the worlds best comp. don’t read too much into ‘everyone else is staying’ they can hardly tell them they’re off in our current predicament.

Finally, a good news day.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:26 am  

A good start.
Just need two or three more players and we should at least compete next season.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:56 am  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

By announceing it now, im assuming he's going to be coming regardless of which league we'r playing in nxt season, good to see.

Powell was my first choice, but would of been happy with any of Powell, Furner, Demitriu or Griffin, glad we got one of them.

Not necessarily, there could be clauses in the contract that protect both parties, similar to those that sever the contacts of players of clubs demoted from the SL

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:15 am  

Hopefully with a new(ish) face coming in the existing squad will know that he'll be prepared to make tough decisions and that they'll need to fight for their places in the squad. It would be nice to see that translate into defensive effort tomorrow.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:21 am  

Conditioning review is a must next month too.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:35 am  

TOMCAT wrote:

Not necessarily, there could be clauses in the contract that protect both parties, similar to those that sever the contacts of players of clubs demoted from the SL

Yeah I get that, but the timing of the annoucment would be very foolish of the club if his appointment was based on us staying in superleage, you would think the club would wait until superleague status was guarenteed (or not) before an annoucment, if that was a stipulation in him coming.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:15 am  

HRS Rhino wrote:

Hopefully with a new(ish) face coming in the existing squad will know that he'll be prepared to make tough decisions and that they'll need to fight for their places in the squad. It would be nice to see that translate into defensive effort tomorrow.

Thinking the same, the players must no know that the new coach will be deciding who he rates and does not over the next few games, some big performances needed.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:18 am  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

Yeah I get that, but the timing of the annoucment would be very foolish of the club if his appointment was based on us staying in superleage, you would think the club would wait until superleague status was guarenteed (or not) before an annoucment, if that was a stipulation in him coming.

We will be in super league easily think some people are over estimating the strength of the teams in this comp. plus league yslikely tobe increased to 14 next year anyway.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:46 am  

batleyrhino wrote:

Good appointment, current knowledge of coaching in the worlds best comp. don’t read too much into ‘everyone else is staying’ they can hardly tell them they’re off in our current predicament.

Finally, a good news day.

Yeah i agree,. he will come in, assess and clear out as he sees fit i guess. Good appointment anyway for me, lets get behind him because its certainly not going to be a quick fix.

Re: Dave Furner - New Head Coach : Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:16 pm  

rollin thunder wrote:

We will be in super league easily think some people are over estimating the strength of the teams in this comp. plus league yslikely tobe increased to 14 next year anyway.

Nothing certain on either front though, unless the clubs have got an idea of how the votes going to go nxt week. While I agree we should have enough to stay up, regardless of what happens with the structure of the league, i think some people are over estimating the squad we'v got left fit and the poor/inexpeirienced coaching staff we'v got leading them. There was no pressing need to announce this now, I could be wrong, but i dont think the club would risk pontential further ridicule by announceing this now, unless he was 100% coming regardless.