I wasn't Deacons biggest fan, but Gale isn't fit to lace his boots. I watched a rerun of our grand finals on sky the other day, Deacon was booming 20, 30m passes all over the field, Gale passing is embarrassing considering he's a half back. He sort of just lobs the ball. His kicking is decent. But then he has regular brain farts such as trying a chip with outside of boot when we have 3 man overlap.



I reckon he'll be on big money after he signed a long term contract as he was the player we were going to build the team around.

Had the big name signing Cas almost pulled off at the start of the season come good, it would be interesting to see how they would be looking at Sneyd & others.

Marcus Vassilakopoulos?

Same club. Cas lad. England World Cup 2013 player.

Phew. Plan B worked.

Can they take Gale now?I will be glad to see the back of him.I thought Gaskell was decent the bits I saw of him at Saints,but he ain't got no bottle when it comes to a fight with backs to the wall.

As far as trying to compare Gale with Deacs,lol,absolutely NO CONTEST.Deacs was in a different Galaxy imo.

As for a coach for next year,some say you might as well give FC one season to prove himself,although the other train of thought would be to get someone with some OOOOMPH,to get us straight back up.We don't know whether FC has it in him to inspire like PETER FOX WHO COULD MAKE AVERAGE PLAYERS LOOK LIKE WORLD BEATERS under him.Keeping FC could be too much of a gamble as it hasn't paid off this year handing the reigns over to him.I know its been tough but the team has lacked inspiration/spark/guidance imo,so it would be a large financial gamble to let him have another go,albeit at a lower level.

God knows what size the crowds are gonna be,if we only attracted 5k for a QFinal of the Challenge Cup.It shows many have had enough and once they break the habit of "I must be there" it is very hard to win them back.

It could be a long way back.Let's see the management do something POSITIVE for once and try and get a Peter Fox2 from somewhere which sends a clear message out,"WE ARE GOING STRAIGHT BACK UP"---Not more suck it and see from FC as the crowds will be under 3,000 if they don't get this right.

Over to you MANAGEMENT!

Who would you like to see us bring in as coach mac?

Radlinksi/Deacon?But they may be heir apparent s at Wigan.



A Jimmy Lowes type would do for me ,Brian Smith doing out?

It's who would want to coach in the lower league really.

Dave Woods, Karl Harrison, John Kear. They are the most likely names to take over or work with FC and do a good job IMO. There may be others out of work that might be worth a shout but none spring to mind straight away.

Kear is the man, 2 years to tun it round

Well, I'd say 18 months to turn it round. Any more than that and the club is not coming back up. No club is under the new rules as they're simply the illusion of promotion and relegation.

Unfortunately you are right - promotion and relegation will probably never happen given that the middle tier of eight is a mini league with the emphasis on Super League Clubs having full time professionals versus part time players. As Dennis Betts said quite some time ago - it took Widnes four years to be anything near as good as they are at this moment, plus they needed further capital investment from a rich owner. It appears to be a smoke screen to get rid of two teams from Super League and thus save the RFL the Sky compensation money. The game is being imploded and no one seems to care.