Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:05 am  

Him wrote: Is Martin even eligible for a PNG passport? We have no idea on here if he is or if that’s even what the club is attempting. Agar confirmed it a while back https://www.totalrl.com/rhinos-to-consi ... placement/

Him wrote: Is Martin even eligible for a PNG passport? We have no idea on here if he is or if that’s even what the club is attempting. Agar confirmed it a while back https://www.totalrl.com/rhinos-to-consi ... placement/

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:40 am  

Gotcha wrote:

The coaching situation is a far bigger issue than players for me, surely nobody can see our management of this as anything other than amateur?

Agar got the gig by default, still a lot of questions outstanding there, but we wait. However, how did we move from been told the coaching structure would be fully put in place this time last year, to still messing around without adequate assistants this year, and the guy who was to develop it now just the head coach? Either the structure was needed or it wasn’t, and our previous poor seasons here tell you it was. Surely we didn’t only have the one target for assistant? And please don’t anybody tell me Walker is it, the same guy who has been one of the assistants through the poor previous seasons.

I see on the day 3 footage from spain that James Webster is there.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:39 am  

Seth wrote:

I see on the day 3 footage from spain that James Webster is there.

I know he is part time helping too. This is why we are such amateurs with this.

Last year this time, we had a highly rated first team coach (ok did not work out, but when left said we were looking for the right replacement), an assistant coach, 3 assistants to this, a head of coaching development, an academy coach with assistants, and a scholarship head with assistants.

Now this time we have a head of coaching development who is also the head coach in a role he has previously not succeeded in, who is utilising an assistant part time from another club. One of the previous assistants now the academy coach and assistant despite the previous failings, and apparently lost 3 of the scholarship coaches. So much for the much needed structure.

And that is not just a whinge, those are the cold facts of where we are.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:53 am  

Gotcha wrote:

I know he is part time helping too. This is why we are such amateurs with this.

Last year this time, we had a highly rated first team coach (ok did not work out, but when left said we were looking for the right replacement), an assistant coach, 3 assistants to this, a head of coaching development, an academy coach with assistants, and a scholarship head with assistants.

And with all that, we were poop.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:43 am  

christopher wrote:

And with all that, we were poop.

We were, and yet we are in a worse position now than then, because we don't have Carr to pick it back up.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:05 am  

Gotcha wrote:

We were, and yet we are in a worse position now than then, because we don't have Carr to pick it back up.

We can’t say if we’re in a worse position until we know how the team is going, it will be very interesting to see how we start the season, I’ll reserve judgement until then, we can have all the best coaching structure in the world but it means nowt if the team isn’t performing.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:37 am  

christopher wrote:

We can’t say if we’re in a worse position until we know how the team is going, it will be very interesting to see how we start the season, I’ll reserve judgement until then, we can have all the best coaching structure in the world but it means nowt if the team isn’t performing.

It still means there is unanswered questions regardless of how it is spun, and it goes against the statements they said they were doing previously.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:18 am  

Seth wrote:

I see on the day 3 footage from spain that James Webster is there.

It's worth pointing out that Featherstone have a pre-season friendly versus Valencia on Saturday at El Campo del Pantano, Villajoyosa. This is the same town, and I am fairly sure the same stadium, that Leeds are currently using for their warm-weather training camp, so he has probably just come out a day or two early before the Fev players leave to have a look at the potential DR players and/or help out. I'd say it's a good thing for both clubs in terms of consistency of coaching if Webster is involved with the likes of McLelland, A Sutcliffe etc (or whoever plays on DR), as was the case with Carr.

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:30 am  

Gotcha wrote:

We were, and yet we are in a worse position now than then, because we don't have Carr to pick it back up.

We don't know whether Carr did pick it up or was it Agar?

Re: LOAN IN 2020 | Rhys Evans - Expires: 2020 : Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:12 pm  

fanstanningley wrote:

We don't know whether Carr did pick it up or was it Agar?

Agar was there before Carr came in. So the degree of probability is high. What it does say though as I repeat, is there is unanswered questions there, and that need answering this year.