From everything I have heard Ben and Shane Walker would be a great fit for St Helens, bit of a punt but so would any assistant coach.
From everything I have heard Ben and Shane Walker would be a great fit for St Helens, bit of a punt but so would any assistant coach.
Surely it’s going to be someone who posts on here since this is where all greatest rugby brains of the world congregate. Maybe an online poll?
One thing we're all forgetting is, how many of the current squad will he tempt back with him. I can see us being short of a fullback, a winger and a prop. There's a lot of revenue there and all should make it in Oz. I have my three in mind, any increase?.
All 3 are contracted to us for at least another 12 months though so we still hold the cards. The club aren’t going the roll over and let people walk away without us receiving a lot of money and/or having replacements lined up.
It’s going to be an interesting and challenging 2020 but I just want to enjoy 2019 for now and hopefully send Holbrook off as a treble winning coach.
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The club found Holbrook, the club replaced the irreplaceable by bringing in Coote, I’m sure we will find a solution to Holbrook leaving.
Let’s hope he leaves with the treble on his CV and sings the praises of the club to prospective recruits over in Oz.
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Unfortunate for us but the longer it went after Easter without him signing a new contact, the more likely this outcome was. He's done a good job here, built an excellent squad that plays lovely rugby and has embraced the community. He will be a loss, but we've lost players and coaches in the past and we moved on, and we'll do so again.
Replacing him will be hard - if we're going Down Under then I trust the club to look for the same kind of coach with the same kind of brief - bring through the kids, play attractive rugby and compete for trophies. If we are looking British, I think that it's about Ian Watson's time. He has done a great job with a limited budget at Salford and he is thought of highly enough to be in the Great Britain setup.
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I personally would follow a similar formula to the one that led the club to Justin Holbrook. Go out to Australia do some research/interviews and find a young, hungry coach.
Just hope he doesn’t take any of our youngsters with him. Half our team would get a game at Gold Coast the way they are shaping.
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The Gold Coast job will be a challenge for him IMO, if he gets off to a bad start and picks up a couple of injuries he could be up against it because he hasn’t really experienced that before. Equally though if he pulls it off he’ll be very well set. I think it’s important for him that he’s able to lift a couple of trophies over the next few months so that he’s got a record of success and winning things behind him should things not work out for him next year.
In terms of what he’s done at Saints, it’s probably not the right time to judge him because he’s got the biggest challenge in front of him. I think he’s got some work to do with the players mentally. Physically and from a skill point of view, I think we’re brilliant but it’s just the tactical side and how quickly the players are able to read the game and adapt to it that will determine what success we have this season. There’s no doubt though that he’s done some brilliant things for this club and a lot of the big decisions he’s made have been good ones.
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Well there have been two mentions of the ones I would think off , Ian Watson as serviced his apprenticeship in England in the lower leagues and done well in what must have been tricky at times at Salford and players seem to like him , then also when Long left I thought it was very quick that Marshall came in instantly .
Justin has taken on a tough job and we must wish him and his family well. Thanks for raising the bar Justin. For some reason I have admired the work of Simon Woolford at Huddersfield. I thought they where destined for the Championship but considering the limited resources there I feel he has been top class.
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I don’t want anyone who has the same tactics of a Kieron Cunningham. I wonder how many of our current squad will JH try to entice over to Gold Coast !.
I would be happy with smith, my concern being his teams tend to lack structure which has been a big part of our dominance the last couple of years.
Watson might be worth a gamble but I trust in our recruitment process after Holbrook - it seems we went for the human being as much as the coach and it worked out for us.
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