Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:04 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Not really if they are good enough. Tony Smith won a CC in 2009 - who did he bring in?

Himself,
So likewise we need another coach.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:06 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

New coach comes in, will have to start bringing in his own players like Powell has done this year. We're back at square one.

Not necessarily.
The only ones the new coach needs to move out are the ones Powell brought with him who have had a negative effect. You know who they are.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:12 pm  

It's a difficult decision to be made by anyone at the minute. Keep Powell and hope all is well next year? Sack Powell and then what?
I have to agree that i'm running out of patience with him and we're not seeing any improvement in the team. If it wasn't his first season, our performances would have most definately got him sacked by now.
What i look at is teams like Leeds & Wigan. Leeds had a shocking first part of the season but they made the change and brought in a new coach. Ok, they're not setting the world alight, but with the same squad they are kinda going in the right direction, whereas we are not. They have just beat Catalan 36-32 after being 30-6 down. Our team would never be able to turn around such a deficit. Wigan, who granted have had Field and French back in the side after missing much of last season is more or less the same team as last year too. They were absolutely turgid at the back end of the season but a fresh coaching set up has turned them around and i would expect them to be at Old Trafford this year. Why has Powell not done this with us? Is it because he is a crap coach? If we sacked him now we would never know what he could do with our squad next year after giving him time. But i think patience is running out. If we don't get another win this season, there is a serious threat that Toulous will beat us, and could turn over Hull KR. Level on points, what if they beat Hull FC who are up and down like a yoyo themselves. We'd be finished.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:22 pm  

wirecation wrote:

It's a difficult decision to be made by anyone at the minute. Keep Powell and hope all is well next year? Sack Powell and then what?
I have to agree that i'm running out of patience with him and we're not seeing any improvement in the team. If it wasn't his first season, our performances would have most definately got him sacked by now.
What i look at is teams like Leeds & Wigan. Leeds had a shocking first part of the season but they made the change and brought in a new coach. Ok, they're not setting the world alight, but with the same squad they are kinda going in the right direction, whereas we are not. They have just beat Catalan 36-32 after being 30-6 down. Our team would never be able to turn around such a deficit. Wigan, who granted have had Field and French back in the side after missing much of last season is more or less the same team as last year too. They were absolutely turgid at the back end of the season but a fresh coaching set up has turned them around and i would expect them to be at Old Trafford this year. Why has Powell not done this with us? Is it because he is a crap coach? If we sacked him now we would never know what he could do with our squad next year after giving him time. But i think patience is running out. If we don't get another win this season, there is a serious threat that Toulous will beat us, and could turn over Hull KR. Level on points, what if they beat Hull FC who are up and down like a yoyo themselves. We'd be finished.

The option for the board is to try and brave it out and hope for a better season next year, if we stay up.
Or
They can be really brave, admit they got his appointment wrong and make a change.

I know what I would do, I always had my doubts about him and got pilloried on here for it.
We will see how brave the board is now, the decision is massive and will show the supporters what they are made of.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:22 pm  

I expect nothing from the Wigan game, so, in true Warrington fan style, I’m going to go just incase.

It really is the hope that kills you

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:37 pm  

Barbed Wire wrote:

It really is the hope that kills you

Indeed. Or the blood pressure.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:41 pm  

Where is Gazwire tonight?

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:46 pm  

What a thoroughly depressing topic which is a perfect summary of our season so far. I can’t see him being sacked but I’m sure the Board must be as twitchy as we are.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:01 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

The silence from the club (as a whole) is deafening.

As I type, Mrs Goldblatt is watching a documentary on the Royal Family's various "**** ups" over the years, and the similarities are obvious .
The only difference being, the Royals acknowledged their "**** ups". Our board seem oblivious.

Annus Horribulus 30 years on

Even Prince Andrew would be sweating right now, if he was a Wire fan.

Re: Powell OUT : Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:23 pm  

Powell blaming bad luck the team are getting.The man has lost the plot.