Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:03 pm  

WB not long been at Souths. Cant see it.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Tue Aug 27, 2019 5:35 pm  

Wayne Bennett....seriously people! If it ain't Agar/Carr I will be seriously shocked now. Zero ambition by the club if so tho.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Wed Aug 28, 2019 5:29 am  

Without a whole raft of player changes next season will be a hard sell regardless unless the next coach is a genuine big name.

Come and watch Leeds next year - with a bunch of recent signings we're still barely winning half our games so with Alex Mellor in the squad we've every chance of nearly making the top 5! Get your tickets now.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:03 am  

Yeah not a brilliant picture that is it.. surely we must still be in the hunt for a 7 and a prop.. surely...

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:35 am  

I expected this squad to do much better this year ,challenging for a top 5 place ,but shows what I know

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:12 am  

An Agar/Carr combination will be fine next year; so long as the club don’t have better options. The list of suitable coaches for Leeds isn’t massive IMO, and it depends on availability etc.

We’re not going to win silverware again without a top coaching team. But the squad also needs attention.

It’s not all doom next year by any means. I do think we need another prop and either play McLelland or sign another 7; but a full pre-season of the new signings together, some dead wood gone and the younger lads another season developed - you would think Leeds can only improve.

Newman, Walker, McLelland, Oledski are all still very young with lots of improvement potential. It is possible that Johnson, Holroyd, Trout, Walters, Broadbent, Stephens, Mustapha could all make some positive impact in first grade next year too.

Honestly we’ve been panic-buying for some time now, and we need to wrestle control back and start to plan and build properly for long-term success. It needs to be the right people and we will have to wait another year or two before assembly is complete I think.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Wed Aug 28, 2019 4:21 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

An Agar/Carr combination will be fine next year; so long as the club don’t have better options. The list of suitable coaches for Leeds isn’t massive IMO, and it depends on availability etc.

We’re not going to win silverware again without a top coaching team. But the squad also needs attention.

It’s not all doom next year by any means. I do think we need another prop and either play McLelland or sign another 7; but a full pre-season of the new signings together, some dead wood gone and the younger lads another season developed - you would think Leeds can only improve.

Newman, Walker, McLelland, Oledski are all still very young with lots of improvement potential. It is possible that Johnson, Holroyd, Trout, Walters, Broadbent, Stephens, Mustapha could all make some positive impact in first grade next year too.

Honestly we’ve been panic-buying for some time now, and we need to wrestle control back and start to plan and build properly for long-term success. It needs to be the right people and we will have to wait another year or two before assembly is complete I think.

Agree completely re recruitment. However all the planning for the next few years needs to start with the head coach and the DOR. We need to as a priority bring in a quality head coach.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:15 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

Agree completely re recruitment. However all the planning for the next few years needs to start with the head coach and the DOR. We need to as a priority bring in a quality head coach.

Like I said mate I think it depends on who is available. There might be only a small pool of candidates in the world right now who are the right fit for us, and they're probably well looked after where they are. We're no chance of taking an NRL first grade coach off a successful NRL side.

We're still committed to another year contract for a bunch of players who are past their sell-by-dates and a new coach can't change that.

Everyone has their opinion on who might be a better coach than Agar, but in fairness he's done a good job for us this year and most of the players seem to praise him (you could say, well they would wouldn't they when they're looking for selection/extensions).

If we do stay up this year, given the abject mess we were in, we owe Agar a big debt of thanks - whether or not he stays on as first grade boss.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:42 am  

Yeah agreed bud

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:52 am  

The problem with that scenario will be if we're in the mire early again as we'll go straight back to knee jerk signings and the whole youth scenario will go out the window.

I really can't see us getting into the top 5 next year - Wire have Widdopp, Wigan have Hastings, Cats have Maloney and Hull and Sts will both be strong.