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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:45 pm  
So 2 hours after John Kear gets sacked, then Widnes get rid of Simon Finnigan....bit of a coincidence ? :shock:
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:31 pm  
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The club has asked Assistant Coach Mark Dunning to take over as Interim Head Coach, while the club runs a thorough recruitment process to identify the next Head Coach.


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So 2 hours after John Kear gets sacked, then Widnes get rid of Simon Finnigan....bit of a coincidence ? :shock:


Should Budge (good evening, hope you are well) be proven correct you will have the measure of Wood and his “open-ness”.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 6:43 am  
Not sure if Finnigan is the right man so I hope it’s not him. But if it turns out to be him, I’ll get behind him for the rest of the year.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:01 am  
Finnigan has just been ousted (mutual consent blah blah) with a similar record to Kear this year. Unless I'm missing something, I'm not sure signing him would be logical.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:07 am  
12 months too late for me but good luck to him. I thought we underperformed in League 1 with the squad and have never looked like progressing in the Championship. I don't see us any further forward than the day he arrived, apart from the fanbase is even more demoralised at the standard of rugby.

If there's no investment then why is Wood here? Similarly if we can't compete with Leigh and Fev budget wise, then we must look to create our own excitement with an attacking, offloading dynamic game. 5k to watch that dross on Good Friday tells you we're still the only club in the championship capable of generating its own momentum if there's something to get behind. There is no economic model for boring rugby at Odsal.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:49 am  
Does anyone think we'll end up with Mark Dunning?

I don't really know anything about the guy, and I don't know if he'd even want the job permanently. But it certainly ticks the 'cheap' box.

If we win the next couple is the call for Dunning going to become irresistible?
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:50 am  
Regarding competing against Leigh/Fev. No we can't compete with their investment at this moment in time. But Featherstone aren't in this position by accident, yes they had investment, but they've also consistently being a top 4 championship team for a number of years. That's what we need to become. Not one year 3rd the next season 8th. The level of investment at those clubs can't go on forever in the championship (Brian Mcdermott comments about wanting to increase home attendances at Fev were interesting)

The squad is good but is underforming at the moment. We need to start capitalising when we get into good positions as a club. The Whitehaven game last year being a good example. There were tons of kids on the terraces and new faces after decent marketing by the club. We were 16-0 up. We should have won that game, finished third and at the end of the game try make a big song and dance of its play-off time and get all those back for a very winnable home play-off tie against 6th place. Instead we completely disintegrated and limped out of the season without a whimper.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:14 am  
The squad on paper isn’t bad and we have a half back pairing as good as any in the league.

Not to mention we have the advantage of being used to playing on that crap pitch of ours. We might not be a top 4 side but we should be able to compete and the players should not be gassing out as much as they are.

A bit of a change will do us good.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:18 am  
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Does anyone think we'll end up with Mark Dunning?

I don't really know anything about the guy, and I don't know if he'd even want the job permanently. But it certainly ticks the 'cheap' box.

If we win the next couple is the call for Dunning going to become irresistible?


Taking the cheap option and more amateur coaches from West Bowling will just make the slide down the table quicker, the club needs to be professional not relying on amateurs, next coach needs to be someone who the players and fans can get behind and drive the club forward.
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Re: Kear Out....and now gone. : Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:32 am  
I don't know what it says about the quality of Bradford or the quality of available coaches, but a thread like this would normally be utterly full of credible suggestions about who we could appoint. Who have we said?

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