Re: Rowley : Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:01 pm  

chapylad wrote:

Lee Briers wants a head coach job either here or in the NRL.

Couldn't stand Briers as a player - is he another genius coach like Sean Long I wonder...?

Here's a leftfield name for you all: Andrew Henderson at York. I think he's doing a really good job over there - team performance against Bradford at the weekend was everything Leeds haven't been great at if I'm honest. Really solid and committed team performance with good shape at times.

Re: Rowley : Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:02 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

Couldn't stand Briers as a player - is he another genius coach like Sean Long I wonder...?

Here's a leftfield name for you all: Andrew Henderson at York. I think he's doing a really good job over there - team performance against Bradford at the weekend was everything Leeds haven't been great at if I'm honest. Really solid and committed team performance with good shape at times.

Briers seems to be going well in the NRL and is well thought of.
Sometimes a second in command gets away with it more for sure.
Henderson again is another who might benefit an assistant role to a SL coach.
Didn`t he have that role before?

Re: Rowley : Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:08 pm  

chapylad wrote:

Briers seems to be going well in the NRL and is well thought of.
Sometimes a second in command gets away with it more for sure.
Henderson again is another who might benefit an assistant role to a SL coach.
Didn`t he have that role before?

Yeah so been coaching for 10 years ish looks like, assistant to Price at Wire and signed 5 year contract with York from 2022. He just seems to do well with lower-resourced sides and seems to get teams working together well.

Re: Rowley : Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:16 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

Yeah so been coaching for 10 years ish looks like, assistant to Price at Wire and signed 5 year contract with York from 2022. He just seems to do well with lower-resourced sides and seems to get teams working together well.

Yes he worked wonders at Wire

And as for your earlier statement of taking 6 wins out of our next 10 , after seeing the fixture list i could coach us to 5 wins out of that lot , so really the target is one out of five against decent sides because if we cant beat Hull twice , London twice and Cas at home then we are in a bigger mess than i thought

Re: Rowley : Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:09 am  

Slight chance of topic, what are your thoughts on Mcdermott, on paper looks great and has been linked with Hull, most Hull fans including me don't want him but just can't put my finger on what?

What are your thoughts?

Re: Rowley : Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:21 am  

I believe there's a several hundred page thread titled something like 'For the live of God, Allah or whomever, please go Brian' that summarises the views of this forum

Re: Rowley : Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:11 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Slight chance of topic, what are your thoughts on Mcdermott, on paper looks great and has been linked with Hull, most Hull fans including me don't want him but just can't put my finger on what?

What are your thoughts?

Everything we won when he was here was inspite of him, apparently.

Re: Rowley : Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:59 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

Everything we won when he was here was inspite of him, apparently.

You're in the wrong place if you want consistency and logic.

It was probably right for him to go at the time, but again that was a result of terrible signings for years and I'm not sure how much of that was him and how much GH/budgets or whatever at the time. Really hard to say unless you were in the bubble at the time.

Re: Rowley : Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:20 pm  

Leeds need a proven head coach. They can’t be effectively taking a punt on someone just because they got a championship side offloading and scoring a few tries, Jesus.

I’m not saying they are gettable, but Ian Watson for example. Proven at this level, and taken teams to major finals. That’s the profile of coach Leeds need.

Re: Rowley : Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:43 pm  

Despite the rejection of Hull I believe that should Smith get the push the next Leeds coach will be Paul Rowley. I think it's been on the cards since we signed Ackers and Croft. If Smith had started the year with the mildest of bangs it might of been different but unless he can muster a 2022 style run of wins fan pressure will force GH's hand. Despite the clubs increasinly tarnished status an ambitious English coach would still be a fool to turn the offer down. I would not be surprised if Rowley is at the club for 25 or even before.