Re: New Coaches : Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:45 pm  

ccs wrote:

… or, as AP has already stated, they'll only appoint someone when the right calibre of coach becomes available.

Indeed. It's a fairly small pool in the UK I would have thought?

[Chris71]

Re: New Coaches : Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:37 pm  

Has Purtill started yet? as with all the media stuff so far since pre season started I’m surprised I’ve not seen a glimpse of him.

Re: New Coaches : Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:20 pm  

Thought I’d read somewhere that the defence coach signing was done but waiting while his season had ended?

Re: New Coaches : Wed Nov 06, 2019 1:46 am  

I asked the question to James Smailes, he indicated that a defensive coach would not be signed.
More on this, will be in HDM later this week..

Regarding Purtill, I hope he will have a major input on our attack prep.....

Re: New Coaches : Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:44 am  

weaver93 wrote:

I asked the question to James Smailes, he indicated that a defensive coach would not be signed.
More on this, will be in HDM later this week..

Regarding Purtill, I hope he will have a major input on our attack prep.....

This is what was said when he got the jon didn't he, as a former halfback, i'd expect that this will be his role and radford can get our defensive structures right (like it was for most of 2016/17).

I don't expect us to play a Cas (2017) style of play, but think we will look to offload more, partitcualy with the type of players we have signed, if we improve our support play, this sould also see our attack improve.

We know we can play, we showed this last season ina few games (Catalans and Cas away), we need to do this more consistantly.

One big area that needs to improve is our attacking kicks, we can score from bombs, but we hardly scored trys from grubber kicks and we use to score a lot of trys this way in the past.

Re: New Coaches : Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:01 am  

Dave K. wrote:

This is what was said when he got the jon didn't he, as a former halfback, i'd expect that this will be his role and radford can get our defensive structures right (like it was for most of 2016/17).

I don't expect us to play a Cas (2017) style of play, but think we will look to offload more, partitcualy with the type of players we have signed, if we improve our support play, this sould also see our attack improve.

We know we can play, we showed this last season ina few games (Catalans and Cas away), we need to do this more consistantly.

One big area that needs to improve is our attacking kicks, we can score from bombs, but we hardly scored trys from grubber kicks and we use to score a lot of trys this way in the past.

Purtill has 3 roles to do.
1.Reserves Head Coach.
2. Head of Emerging Talent Squad.
3.Attack Coach.

I hope his Attack Coach duties are primary, and not secondary.. or thirdly...

Re: New Coaches : Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:06 am  

weaver93 wrote:

Purtill has 3 roles to do.
1.Reserves Head Coach.
2. Head of Emerging Talent Squad.
3.Attack Coach.

I hope his Attack Coach duties are primary, and not secondary.. or thirdly...

I don't imagine that the first one will take up too much time, 2 (This will link in with 1) and 3 are massivley important, one short term and one long term, both of equally important.

I think Radford knows he needs help and our attack needs to improve and this is a massive step forward for him to admit this.

Re: New Coaches : Wed Nov 06, 2019 3:59 pm  

weaver93 wrote:

I asked the question to James Smailes, he indicated that a defensive coach would not be signed.
More on this, will be in HDM later this week..

Regarding Purtill, I hope he will have a major input on our attack prep.....

Plus Gaz Ellis will be back in a coaching role after next season

Re: New Coaches : Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:27 pm  

Also means that Andy Last our ranks Purtill? Hmm. If Radders does end up getting the boot at some point, Purtill will likely become our new head coach, unless we have a shot at a top up and coming coach from the NRL.

Re: New Coaches : Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:18 pm  

Bringing in Star players will only take us up from say 6th to 4th
The rest is the Coaching
Errors , discipline , missed tackles and record defeats are all down to the coaching
These things do not change unless a coaching change is made
Let’s hope for C sake that KP is the catalyst