tomtom84 wrote:
Personally i think the club will always choose recognised ex first team players over other coaches in our system.I have made no secret of the fact that I rate Butterill and it seems others do on this forum but i don't think he fits in with the clubs ethos. He's never played SL and he's never played for Leeds so those 2 criteria alone would see he would never get promoted to be part of the first team coaching squad. My guess is that he's accepting of that and happy to continue in his current role or he recognises thats he never going to get a gig in the first team and leaves in the none too distant future?. We don't know but when you speak to people at games or parents this lads rated as a coach, maybe he's a year or two away and the club recognise this hence other assistants are filling the void? Rugbys a funny game and its who you know that rings true and ex players all seem to get first dibs on vacancies who's to say thats right or thats wrong?. I like JJB i think he will do a good job so i think we should trust Kev and Agars judgment on this one.
There is usually a "threshold of credibility" within a culture. Think of Alex Ferguson in soccer - never the best player, but he'd done enough for other professional players to take him seriously.
People don't generally like taking instruction from others who haven't walked the same path as them.
I'm not sure Agar has been given enough credit so far; he took a floundering side and pointed them back in the right direction overall. They have made lots of tough calls on players and pushed to renew the squad.
Looking at what Agar and JJB bring, they might complement quite well.
Whether the club is looking too nostalgically at the past and failing to embrace the future I guess we'll find out over the next few months. From what I've heard from Agar he does know what he's doing.
