Judder Man wrote:
I said at the very beginning of the season that KC needed a mentor in the same way that Salford is operating. Its a pity our season was not written off much earlier, we could have got Brian Smith here on a "coaching holiday" and sent KC over to OZ to work as a temporary assistant with a NRL club.
Another option was to bring Daniel Anderson over here to work alongside him, KC now appears to be a self appointed coach guru who is trapped in his own dogmatic ideology and won't admit his projects are damaging the club.
A lot of criticism needs to fall on the players as well despite the difficult environment, they are professionals and should be doing the basics right despite the poor form, last night they were just 17 individuals with no team spirit and leadership.
Final question, in the absence of proven coach availability could Wellens do a better job than KC or replace Sean Long.
I agree that ideally KC should have had an "old head" to mentor him and provide a shoulder to lean on when things get tough. As it is he has been thrown in at the deep end and been told to sink or swim. His job is being made harder by us fans now getting poles and pushing him under the water trying to drown him.
The RFL own rules are worded so as to make employing oversees mentors difficult.
Here are some key points to consider from the RFLs own documents:
"As a club can only have one head coach any applications for other head coaches will not be endorsed. Endorsements will not be issued for assistant coaches or for player/coaches."
"The candidate has been in post or in an equivalent post for at least three years (where a coach has been out of post for more than 12 months it is exceeding likely that an application would fail"
"The club has provided the RFL panel with a list of British candidates who were considered for the post and gives brief reasons for not appointing from that list"
"The club provides a copy of the press release or other means by which it has notified the UK market that the vacancy exists"
Now Daniel Anderson is a name that crops up, however there is a big problem re this and it is his suspension from the NRL due to shenanigans at Parramatta. This is currently with the Supreme Court in Australia. So until that is sorted one way or the other I doubt Saints could do anything. There is also the very important point that Anderson may not want to come to the UK.
Appointing Brian Smith would be akin to getting Sean McCrae back at the club, at least McCrae won things.
The only person we could go for is Tim Sheens, but he might be happy at Salford.
