I wonder if Mac is a member of the real old school player mould? it was hard and tough for him, so players need that even in training? and as much his Marine days!



Once for a feature I travelled with a referee to a few matches, who was an ex player, he seemed to let some offences go as he did the same as a player?

Indeed.



I think Briers is a special player though and I think he plays the game as he reads it rather than follows a coach's direction (though clearly Smith didn't want an arm wrestle down the middle of the pitch).



I'd like to see QRL go down the route of putting the ball in the hands of running backrowers and centres.

Being in the Royal Marines doesn't necessarily make anyone a great rugby league coach . . . otherwise I'd be one, and I'm clearly not.

... sad, niggle, niggle.......yet not many week's ago any adverse or negative comment about Big Mac would have been shouted down.



Sorry it does not hold water........think our ever so average squad need to consider shouldering the blame & maybe looking over their shoulders as well for the P45's that might be coming to them sooner rather than later.

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i think we have a very gifted coach/manager who has done some marvellous things down here, who has instilled a sense of purpose and discipline into the squad that has shown it can produce decent results. what we need is to develop some consistency and depth of squad, the former which is down to players and staff primarily and the latter down to making enough £££'s (although i understand that we're at salary cap limit or thereabouts already?!).



people calling for him to be booted have very short memories or very high expectations. we have lower crowds than salford last season for eg (and they was from national league) and look where they are this season.....they're also competing with a big football club, we've got more competition but we've also got a lot of people who could be fans. but backing brian should be a no-brainer, he's the best we'll get imo.

We're competing with Manchester United more than Salford are.

yes, my mistake

do you genuinely believe that?

I suspect if we offered the job out worldwide, a top flight club in London would be an attractive proposition to some quality coaches- My thoughts based on nothing!



In real terms i.e. league positions there is a grave possibility this year that Mac may have taken us backwards. I’m acutely aware there are lots of other factors involved- so it is a cheap shot

THe clubs above us have all (it would appear not having seen the figures) invested much more heavily in their first team squads than we have. hopefully in a couple of seasons our academy will have produced a good proportion of the first team augmented by quality imports. However we are nowhere near that atm and we continually punch above our weight.

I still think this is one of the best, most balanced, and most stable sides we've had in a while, just that other teams - who have years of stability - have improved quicker.

Expectations such as making a playoff system offering 8 PLACES? Memories of 3 seasons of failure?



This is assuming we get tonked by Cas, which we will do.