I take no joy or fun from this, I was enjoying Chester's time in charge and am disappointed he has gone.



I think you need to be realistic, money will be tight after sacking and paying off Chester (Did he have nearly two years left on his contract?) and do you expect McNamara to leave his job in the NRL to come and coach Rovers, I certainly wouldn't.



Think you will only get a coach who is unemployed like Cummins, Toovey or Rowley etc.

We're already playing like waste

don't need mcnamara to do that.

Heard Rowley last week

Rumour has it McNamara never went back to oz and his son(s) have signed for skirlaugh ??



Would Mick Mantelli be worth a shot ???

Maurice Bamford.



Has a great 'tache and we don't have enough of those, just scraggy beards.



Look at the great sides of the eighties, great 'tache's all over the place.

Bloody spell check...Easts

I'll see that tache and raise you an Alex Murphy's Carlos The Jackel version. Get him in now.

It'll be an interim coach til,we announce the biggest coach singing in sl history. Step forward stevo.

Does the club come up with criteria for their ideal candidate, then search for that? Or, given that the field seems narrow just pick whoever they have a good feeling about from the list?r



I know you mightn't get all three of these, but ideally I'd like...



1. Experienced as a head coach. We haven't got loads of time for somebody to be finding their feet.

2. Knows SL. I'm thinking here of Sandercock's understandable but unhelpful astonishment that all the best players in the UK play for a small handful of clubs.

3. Force of personality. I have none and would love it to all be about technical competency and attention to detail. I really, really, really wanted Sandercock to win one for the quiet man. But it's at least as much about inspiring confidence. Someone with a bit of charisma and the self-belief to see them through the inevitable bad days.

I did consider him, but he's nfrom Lancashire, so even worse than an Aussie.

Is there no barometric testing this time?

Agree with 1 and 3.



You omit 3 vital characteristics - winning mentality, passionate and professional. Given the current superiority of NRL over SL, I think our new coach should possess an ability to set higher technical standards and performance and then drive them up up to sustainably higher levels. This tips the balance for me for the newbie to be an NRL coach. Peacock as Head of Rugby would feed in knowledge of clubs and players in SL from a recruitment perspective.



Additionally NRL coaches have a half decent track record in the English game. Tony Smith, Nathan Brown and Trent Robinson among recent successes.

Yep, bound to be loads of pressure