Re: OUT 2023 | Blake Austin - Castleford Tigers : Fri Aug 04, 2023 9:49 pm  

christopher wrote:

Austins gone from saying to NRL clubs to come and get him, to signing for cas and supposedly signing for Featherstone within a month.

It’s not been the best month has it.

A race to the bottom for all parties concerned.

Re: OUT 2023 | Blake Austin - Castleford Tigers : Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:15 am  

Austin after last night’s cas game might have realised he may have been better staying at Leeds. On the plus side looking at George Williams display for Warrington last night Austin looks the better of the two. The advantage of Austin he is considerably cheaper.

Re: OUT 2023 | Blake Austin - Castleford Tigers : Sat Aug 05, 2023 12:18 pm  

Cas' recent results might have been more about players wanting the coach out though. Yet again a case of a caretaker having a couple of OK results and getting a long term gig. It really doesn't often end well, as with Agar for us.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: OUT 2023 | Blake Austin - Castleford Tigers : Mon Aug 07, 2023 10:36 am  

TBF Agar got the job done when other bigger, more illustrious names made a complete pigs ear of recruitment / retention and training.
His problem was he was never the long term solution and should never have been offered the job long term.He should've held it till the end of the season and gone back into the director of rugby role he was brought in to do. Leeds hierarchy then bring in a new coach. Instead we lost our minds and went cheap (again) team falls apart, results go to cock and we are looking for another coach.