Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:53 am  

Brian Noble sent upstairs by the doctor after a very short time in the hotseat at the Reds would be a crucial appointment for London.
Tony Rea has been unable to recruit the quality of Players required to compete in this division. Added to that the coaching of the team is way below an acceptable level.
Tony and Joe Grimma have a role to play at the Broncos, but I would prefer to see them working under a proven, highly experienced and successful Rugby Coach.
Wether Noble becomes "Director of Football" at Salford or not He has been sacked as Head Coach and will probably be considering His oprions.
Noble given the right offer, might consider the challenge and given his connections could quickly attract the type of players needed to boslster our struggling squad.
He could also help put in place the structures needed for current and future youth player development.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:03 am  

BN is a coach from a bygone era....Times have changed and we need a young current NRL Aussie no 2 to come in...Grima may be the one who steps up for now but this club needs a whole new mind set and we need to cast our net far n' wide.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:44 am  

We are an English club, playing an English game.
Give me an English coach from a bygone era with little terrier scrum halfs and ugly prop forwards happy to stay onfield and tackle all day.
We have gone down the route of flying in second rate players from down under, as we are unable to exploit the player pool here. There are better players in this country, but we cannot get them to move down here.
Rugby Union remains an untapped source of players there are good Rugby footballers from all the home nations and many, many more Union clubs than league clubs.
We have tried all things Australian and it simply does not work for London.
Give me an English coach and British/ European team every day of the week and if the club is heading for the champlonship that is the way it will need to be anyway.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:19 am  

It would be a good appointment for Broncos but you have to wonder what would be in it for Noble?

A move south on the basis of less than one year in SL remaining. And then what? No chance of Broncos bouncing back with major investment.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:41 am  

What would be init for noble. I think the word would be challenge!

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:03 pm  

He was offered to the Broncos free of charge by the RFL to support Rob Powell. The offer was turned down as was the offer of Royce Simmons.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:12 pm  

wire quin wrote:

He was offered to the Broncos free of charge by the RFL to support Rob Powell. The offer was turned down as was the offer of Royce Simmons.

It seems that under Tony Rea, he will be happy to take us down, IF Brian Noble is a coach from a bygone era, what is Rea a dinosaur? I presume Tony is just happy to pick up his monthly pay cheque.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:36 pm  

And if Noble did come in as coach, how much effect would he have? No disrespect to him but this side does not have the quality to stay up.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:15 pm  

Which bit about no money are you not getting? And Tony Rea coached Union as well.

Re: Brian Noble For London? : Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:54 pm  

I personally would not want Brian Noble as our head coach.
When Tony Rea decides to let Joe Grima take the reins, which I hope will be sooner rather than later, I'm sure we will see a difference in the way the team perform.