Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 12:34 pm  

Just a quick one to see what you lot actually make of Jamie Peacock and his role at your club, i know he's ruffled a few feathers and lost you a lot of friends/wellwishers with his silly and ill thought out comments and possibly tarnished his reputation a bit by pulling on his boots again (surely you didnt need him that badly ?) but what are your opinions of him and do you think/hope he will stay on ?

Genuine question as most comments i've seen seem to have a lot of people losing respect for him and partly blaming him for your demise.

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 12:45 pm  

Can they afford him? Does he add value above and beyond sheens? Has he offered anyone out on twitter since they were relegated on his watch?

He'll be fine though as he charges £1500 for a 2 hour "motivational" speech - or at least he does if you're an amatuer RL club. Talk about giving back to the game

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 1:41 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

Just a quick one to see what you lot actually make of Jamie Peacock and his role at your club, i know he's ruffled a few feathers and lost you a lot of friends/wellwishers with his silly and ill thought out comments and possibly tarnished his reputation a bit by pulling on his boots again (surely you didnt need him that badly ?) but what are your opinions of him and do you think/hope he will stay on ?

Genuine question as most comments i've seen seem to have a lot of people losing respect for him and partly blaming him for your demise.

We'll see in the next year or so what he's made of. Picked up a crock of a team so was on the back foot to start with. We'll never know if we had cash for loanees mud season but if we did then it was his fatal error not to use it.

Get the feeling everyone at the club was convinced that 'we'll be alright' until it was too late. Recruitment, lack of head coach and a lack of reaction killed us in the end.

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 1:43 pm  

To keep Sheens (a recognised coach) we may have to make the role of Director of Football redundant anyway to keep costs down.

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 1:51 pm  

If Peacock leave now of his own accord then it will be an unfortunate blight on his great career and he will be quizzed about it for years to come. I am sure that if he does go it be released as either by 'mutual consent' or 'cost saving'. Having said that, if he is the man on integrity he claims to be he will still be at the front rattling his sabre next season

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 1:59 pm  

Gallanteer wrote:

To keep Sheens (a recognised coach) we may have to make the role of Director of Football redundant anyway to keep costs down.

You need sheens but I don't see what peacock brings to the party when sheens is in place.

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:00 pm  

Rural Robin wrote:

If Peacock leave now of his own accord then it will be an unfortunate blight on his great career and he will be quizzed about it for years to come. I am sure that if he does go it be released as either by 'mutual consent' or 'cost saving'. Having said that, if he is the man on integrity he claims to be he will still be at the front rattling his sabre next season

He'll offer to take a pay cut if he stays surely? He can't expect to be paid the same in the championship as he was in SL

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:03 pm  

barham red wrote:

Get the feeling everyone at the club was convinced that 'we'll be alright' until it was too late. Recruitment, lack of head coach and a lack of reaction killed us in the end.

As a neutral I agree with this statement; however I disagree with the OP's view that JP has tarnished his reputation; other than some silly comments he has made recently, he has shown a large degree of inner strength, resilience and leadership by putting his boots on again in HKR's time of need. OK, it didn't work but that's not the point!

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:24 pm  

I think the most obvious question is, would rovers had stayed up had Kelly been playing, whatever went on, do you think the absence of Albert Kelly contributed to rovers' relegation.
Whether he had a future beyond this year, do you think the club needed his presence?

Re: Thoughts on Peacock : Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:34 pm  

meast wrote:

I think the most obvious question is, would rovers had stayed up had Kelly been playing, whatever went on, do you think the absence of Albert Kelly contributed to rovers' relegation.
Whether he had a future beyond this year, do you think the club needed his presence?

I was asking that question about regretting it if we lost a few days ago.

As it happens, I don't think it makes a difference. We did enough to win it but threw it away. Kelly would also not have been match fit.

Regardless, coulda, woulda, shoulda, it's done now. We just need to hear what the plan is to get back to SL in as short a time as possible. If we don't start signing players in the next week or two, next season is already lost.