Re: Halifax vs featherstone. : Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:36 pm  

Dane Dorahy as assistant coach as well. Wonder where this leaves Craig Lingard and Muzza. Would love Muzza at Fax in some capacity maybe as second in command to Finn. Hard to say if the money is there for much in the way of support staff though.

Edit: Seems they will still both be at Cas.

Re: Halifax vs featherstone. : Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:14 am  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Long catches everyone on the hop by not going to Warrington and instead going to Wakefield as No.2 and becomes possibly the 3rd head coach from the championship to take up 2nd in charge jobs in SL. I honestly don't blame them, likely more money and probably a bit less pressure.

Significantly less pressure, As Head Coach everything rides on you, I can't even name our assistant, yet along many others in the championship.

Would appear though that some of the SL assistant jobs are part time gigs, On a few occasions Fev's head coach has also been a part time assistant at Leeds (Ryan Carr and James Webster?)

Re: Halifax vs featherstone. : Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:46 am  

Richard Marshall appears to be highly respected as assistant at Warrington (and Saints before that under Wolfe). Do you think he may have applied for the Fax vacancy?

Also Danny Ward is stop gapping at Cas for the remainder of the season (doing a Sam Allardyce at Leeds U, and we know what happened there!) so could be "warming up" for a permanent comeback.

Gareth Ellis is assistant at Hull (where Grix is presumably going). Maybe he may wish to chance his arm as Head Coach?

Re: Halifax vs featherstone. : Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:13 am  

Tony Fax wrote:

Richard Marshall appears to be highly respected as assistant at Warrington (and Saints before that under Wolfe). Do you think he may have applied for the Fax vacancy?

Also Danny Ward is stop gapping at Cas for the remainder of the season (doing a Sam Allardyce at Leeds U, and we know what happened there!) so could be "warming up" for a permanent comeback.

Gareth Ellis is assistant at Hull (where Grix is presumably going). Maybe he may wish to chance his arm as Head Coach?

I guess it depends on the person. I imagine Marshall would think of it as a backward step given how good his rep is as an assistant but on the other hand maybe he feels like a challenge to repair his rep as a head coach. I imagine the head coach job at Fax is quite a lonely job though and after Finn and Grix left did we even appoint anyone to help Grix like Brew mentioned above.

I think ours is already a done deal but I reckon there will be a lot of interest in the job as either a current head coach or an aspiring head coach you take one look at our squad and its pretty easy to see that we have a lot going for us.

Re: Halifax vs featherstone. : Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:20 am  

My only plea to BoD is not to offer long contract and take their time in appointing, unless it is a done deal! I feel the merry-go-round is still circling as far as coach jobs go.

Re: Halifax vs featherstone. : Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:45 am  

the fax in asia wrote:

My only plea to BoD is not to offer long contract and take their time in appointing, unless it is a done deal! I feel the merry-go-round is still circling as far as coach jobs go.

Agreed. All coaches have a shelf life (usually 4 years according to Tony Smith (no relation)) and it's likely Liam Finn
(if appointed) will no doubt have his critics after a while. It's like being married to the same woman for years ..... eventually you get sick of the sight of her (no matter how nice she is) and want a change.