Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:47 pm  

Agree with others about Tony Smith, best stuff we’ve ever played for mine.

Interesting to see how he goes at Hull KR, they play some decent stuff already, I reckon he’ll get more out of them for rest of the year

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:09 pm  

Mark Laurie wrote:

Agree with others about Tony Smith, best stuff we’ve ever played for mine.

Interesting to see how he goes at Hull KR, they play some decent stuff already, I reckon he’ll get more out of them for rest of the year

If Tony Smith stays at KR next season they will have arguably the best head coach & best head of youth development of the past 1/4 of a century, both ex Leeds #GoldenGeneration

Positive appointments by KR

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:27 am  

I know he has plenty of knockers and says he doesn’t want the job, but after the unbelievable improvement in our defence we should consider Agar.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:31 am  

after 1 good game? really?

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:47 am  

shadwellrhino wrote:

I know he has plenty of knockers and says he doesn’t want the job, but after the unbelievable improvement in our defence we should consider Agar.

No absolutely not.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:49 am  

I knew it would provoke a response, but I did say “consider”! He’s clearly done something special to improve that defence in the last couple of weeks. Maybe the Watkins decision showed the players they are all on borrowed time, or maybe Agar worked some magic on the training ground. One thing is certain - that defensive improvement was no accident.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:00 am  

If you look at our points difference we’re tracking well above relegation on that measure.
Agar does need some credit for stepping in like he has. Binding the team after a lot of changes is the right thing to do, and it showed yesterday.
It sounds very much like more players are on their way out; there is hope for next year.
The coach just needs to be the right coach - I know that sounds obvious but if we have to wait for the season end so be it.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:22 am  

TS would have been my first choice for the new Leeds coach provided he is sufficiently motivated.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:43 am  

So people are throwing their teddies out of the pram because the club hasn't resricted their search to coaches who are immediately available in the middle of a season.
That makes sense.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:04 am  

shadwellrhino wrote:

I knew it would provoke a response, but I did say “consider”! He’s clearly done something special to improve that defence in the last couple of weeks. Maybe the Watkins decision showed the players they are all on borrowed time, or maybe Agar worked some magic on the training ground. One thing is certain - that defensive improvement was no accident.

No accident, I'll concede. Show that attitude for the next six games and you might have a point. But in my experience teams that can't be ar$ed with the hard stuff tend to revert to type fairly quickly. In any case, hasn't Agar taken pains to distance himself from the role in the long term?