Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:00 pm  

Errol Stock wrote: I understand - no problems Happy to let these three pages put my point in a different way. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/chris-leatherbarrow-dies-rugby-league-10370322 And http://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/705044/Super-League-RFL-George-Stokes-Matt-Thomason-Ralph-Rimmer And http://www.rugby-league.com/article/32667/rfl-statement-jon-sharp If he arrives - I won't be buying a season ticket.

Errol Stock wrote: I understand - no problems Happy to let these three pages put my point in a different way. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/chris-leatherbarrow-dies-rugby-league-10370322 And http://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/705044/Super-League-RFL-George-Stokes-Matt-Thomason-Ralph-Rimmer And http://www.rugby-league.com/article/32667/rfl-statement-jon-sharp If he arrives - I won't be buying a season ticket.

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:09 pm  

Sorry, could somebody please point me to the article whereby the long suffering fans have been informed of Toovey's decision not to return....

Either on the Bulls website...?
Their twitter feed...?
Or perhaps it was in the ever up-to-date and reliable T&A and I missed it...?

Business as usual regards communication with the fans then

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:33 pm  

Please no. Isn't that journalist a Halifax fan? Hopefully he's just trolling us.

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:46 pm  

There's a couple of anomalies in that report.

Toovey wasn’t present for the start of the club’s pre-season training last week and the players were instead addressed by club owner Andrew Chalmers,

So is Chalmers in Australia, scouting players at the World Cup (as he himself said) and meeting with Toovey whilst there (as the T&A reported), or was he at Tong last week addressing the players? Can't both be true...

the Bulls have held lengthy discussions with 50-year-old Sharp, who has been out of a job since his contract with Featherstone Rovers was not renewed when it expired midway through last season.

What???? Surely that can't be right? Isn't it more the case that the Fev chairman decided not to renew the contract for 2018, and they agreed a pay-off so they could get him to leave immediately? I find it hard to believe that any club would hand a coach a contract that ended part way through the season (especially given the way that Toovey has sat on his contract until November, and everyone has been saying that its the norm because that's when all contracts end)

Given these anomalies, how confident are we that the rest of the story is accurate?

[Bulliac]

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:53 pm  

Video conference call?

[Bullseye]

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:01 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Video conference call?

You think we're that tech savvy?

I can just imagine the squad all clustered around one smart phone.

[Bulliac]

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:08 pm  

We were once sponsored by the biggest computer company in the world - mind, there's plenty of stuff that we once were......

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:18 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Bulliac wrote:

Video conference call?

You think we're that tech savvy?

I can just imagine the squad all clustered around one smart phone.

Andrew Chalmers arrived back yesterday afternoon, so he definitely didn't address the players at Tong last week.

Everything is good and building for a successful 2018.

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:33 pm  

Underwhelming and somewhat worrying given some of the rumours within RL about him.

Deemed not good enough to take Fev from top 4 to genuinely challenging for SL. Wonder what our aspirations are as a club?

Re: Jon Sharp lead candidate for new coach : Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:09 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Underwhelming and somewhat worrying given some of the rumours within RL about him.

Deemed not good enough to take Fev from top 4 to genuinely challenging for SL. Wonder what our aspirations are as a club?

He was never going to take Featherstone to super league. No one was though. Not lending 4 leeds players everyweek and the budget they was spending.

Think people are forgetting we are in league 1. He can get us out of league 1 and spend a couple of seasons getting us to top 4. After that we make a decision.