Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:04 am  

Spookisback wrote:

i find the 'too soon" thing a bit odd with Applegarth... as I understand it he is 37 years old the same age David Topliss was when he too over Trinity as head (player) coach and Andy Kelly when he became head coach. Peter fox was 38 and Ken Traill was 32.

in 2022... 37 is not young for a manager... in 1992 I was 32 when I got my first senior management role and things have even changed since then! He certainly seems to have worked an apprenticeship and is well respected.

I'm not saying he's the right man for the job (that's for others to decide) but lets debunk the age thing if he's good enough then he's good enough

As far as D T coaching Wakefield ,he was a legend at Wakefield and played at the highest level .With the team K T had he had cash to burn and I think with the players in that team a Wallace Arnold coach could have trained them .Andy Kelly was a crowd favourite when he played for Wakefield and was coaching when we were in Championship .P F was had all ready proved what a good Coach he was .If the Applegarth rummer is true ,it is a gamble that the club can not afford to take .I know 5 people who have bought season tickets for as long as me and are on about not getting one .

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:21 am  

Won't stop me buying a ST, I'll go along and support whoever takes up the reins.
I have read all this and another thread on this subject and it's apparent that nobody 'knows' anything about what the coaching set up was like so I'll trust that the club management have made the right decision not to re-instate WP .
I'll also have to trust they make the right call re the coach .
I'm just surprised they are prepared to take another gamble. I honestly thought they had another 'proven' SL coach lined up! We'll see.

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:36 am  

[quote="PopTart"]Not mine.

I'm less bothered about the people named as the decision to appoint

They should open the job up to applicants, perform a rigorous recruitment process and then choose the right candidate.
If that's MA then so be it......but let's do due diligence first.[/quote]

When I saw the op I assumed mark had got the job

I can see now he’s applied not already got the job

All the things I hear is that Marks being doing a great job
The fact he’s applied is a really good thing, purely just to apply means he has self belief confidence he can do itand ambition among many other things

I don’t believe it possible for him to be ready for this at the mo Though

Agree with what u are saying re process

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Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:54 am  

musson wrote:

When I saw the op I assumed mark had got the job

I can see now he’s applied not for the job

All the things I hear is that Marks being doing a great job
The fact he’s applied is a really good thing, purely just to apply means he has self belief confidence he can do itand ambition among many other things

I don’t believe it possible for him to be ready for this at the mo Though

Agree with what u are saying re process

I heard it was an incorrect article from YP and all it really is, is that he's applied. .....which is great. But I haven't seen anything concrete to say that is the case. Have you?
Or is it just wishful thinking?

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:14 am  

PopTart wrote:

I heard it was an incorrect article from YP and all it really is, is that he's applied. .....which is great. But I haven't seen anything concrete to say that is the case. Have you?
Or is it just wishful thinking?

Makes a lot of difference applied and got ,

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:08 am  

alegend wrote:

As far as D T coaching Wakefield ,he was a legend at Wakefield and played at the highest level .With the team K T had he had cash to burn and I think with the players in that team a Wallace Arnold coach could have trained them .Andy Kelly was a crowd favourite when he played for Wakefield and was coaching when we were in Championship .P F was had all ready proved what a good Coach he was .If the Applegarth rummer is true ,it is a gamble that the club can not afford to take .I know 5 people who have bought season tickets for as long as me and are on about not getting one .

Thanks for completely missing my point!

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:03 am  

Appointment confirmed by the club’s Twitter account

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:05 am  

Thinking about this a bit. Maybe Mark is the key to keeping some of the young talent as they have worked closely with him and he has developed them. He maybe key to Murphy staying or leaving, for example.

Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:08 am  

https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2022/ ... ead-coach/

https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2022/ ... ead-coach/

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Re: Mark Applegarth : Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:09 am  

Oh well. I think it's a mistake but they know best I guess.
He'll have my full support.