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John Cartwright is not going to leave Gold Coast Titans one of the top teams in the NRL where is the head coach to come to a failing SL team.

just need some balls do it though KOTS, many people i speak to at the club say he is the cause for low morale always looks uninterested and stuff. I think he knows this will be his last managerial job so he'll ride it out

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It's says Bennett, Kevin Moore, Tim Sheens, John Lang, Matt Elliott, Rick Stone and Henjak are all free agents at the end of the season in the heraldsun in oz.

I do not ' hate ' Shaun McRae and I refuse to believe that just by removing him all our shortcommings will be solved.



McRae has never been sacked whilst head coach of a club ... as far as I can remember:-



St Helens - Left to take up Gateshead Franchise with Shane Richardson , Ellery Hanley took over ...



Gateshead & Hull .. merged with Hull FC continued as coach of the combined team , John Kear was appointed assistant to him . McRae left to take up coaching role back in Aus with South Sydney , John Kear took over as Head Coach .



South Sydney - Not officially sacked but [imoved[/i onto a administrating role by the new owners who appointed Ex Paramatta Coach Jason Taylor, who had originally been appointed as his assistant.



at the end of 2006 He then left his new position with South Sydney and looked for another Full Time coaching role , and was offered a position at Salford following the resignation of Karl Harrison mid way through 2007.



He has stated on more than occassion that he will not resign ( walk away ) , so the only course would be to restructure the coaching set up to sideline or appoint another ' assistant coach ' to help with McRae's duties.



I cannot see someone like a Brian Noble etc taking on the job this season , New coaches will insist on bring in their own ' team ' and we have neither the time , finance or capability to do this in season. So I cannot see the point of bandying all these names around , it's not going to happen !



McRae's popularity with our fans has always been muted at best .and his more recent interviews with the press have not helped .



Our club has in the past been linked with ' player - power ' under performing - Garry Jack - Andy Gregory for instance. I sincerely hope that our current players are not engaged on a similar course , if they are my view is our players need to find their backbone, grow at set.... and deliver the results we need to sort out the future of our club.



We have played against one Club with an uncertain future who pasted us , and are due to play another team who will be playing like their whole future depends on it .

I hope our team realises theirs does too and soon .. no matter who is supposed to be in charge .

Good post.



Player power is something Mr Wilkinson will be wary off.



However, the issue here is can we carry on as we saw. We have only one win and that over Swinton (no disrespect). We are not playing at all well: the two SL performances have been summed up in the press as "abject".



The pressure is on our coaches to turn this around with no mercy expected from Wakefield or both sets of fans.



If it is a set of players causing ruptions, then the pressure is on Simms to stop this by any means including disciplinary action. That is his job.



I'll be at Wakey.

Player power should have been nipped in the bud when we were achieving more than the sum of the parts under Harrison.



There needs to be a complete change in culture from top to bottom with unacceptable levels of performance not accepted in any area of the club.



Specifically on the rugby side all roles should be under scrutiny be that player, coach or Director of Rugby or Football or whatever title Steve Simms has.

another analogy, like watching the sinking of the Graf Spee, the world watches on as Salford try and maneuver a way out of the mire, does the ship go down with its coach or does the coach walk away?

The board cant afford to sack him ......Can the board afford to keep him.



If Salford have another season like the last three. Will other clubs want us in the super league.



Lets be honest crouds are going down hill and we dont take many fans to away games as it is. So we dont take any revenue to other clubs. So why would they want us in.



Who wants to go and see us ship 50 plus points every away trip. Pay good money to see a poor performance every game.



People will talk with there feet anyway and stay away.

Can't answer this question of the top of my head, but I regard this man as the best coach at the club. It's about time we put him in the job and get him to tutor Alan Hunte. Simms and Hunte backed up by Vievers and Alker, who could also takeover Hunte's U20s duties, would be a sensible answer to McRae/no money to pay him off situation. Also, it's Simms' team as he signed the players, so I'd like to believe he believes the team.

Between Simms, Hunte, Veivers, Alker and Highton there must be enough knowledge and experience to coach the first team and the U20's, surely?



McRae on gardening leave, even if it has to be on full pay, might well be a forward step?