Roughyeds swoop for Brian McDermott

[Dave Naylor]

Brian McDermott has joined Roughyeds as coaching consultant to the end of the season.

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[ausroughyed]

omg! This really is a coupe… fantastic appointment and gives us a real fighting chance. This is brilliant news and hopefully adds a few extra to the gate.

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[Bedford Roughyed]

Very unexpected!

Brings lots of experience, and a not someone who you'd push around!

[Chris Hall]

Great news let’s get behind him and the lads now starting on Sunday massive game we can beat Bradford and have done it in recent times at Bower Fold

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

Gobsmacked! Balls!!! I'm working Sunday

[ArthurO]

'The former Harlequins RL, Leeds Rhinos and Toronto Wolfpack boss'

Well, he's got certainly the credentials but this is going to be his most difficult job, to date.

It'll be a proverbial 'miracle' if he can pull it off !

Fingers crossed.

 

[Happyed]

Now if he can just tempt Danny McGuire to dust his boots off for a few games! 

[clifford]

Who you gonna call................ Brian Mcdermott a damn sight better than the ghost busters 

[YoungYed]

Told you all it would be him!!! Some more news coming at the end of the week 

[Connor mcb]

What’s an appropriate time to wheel out the ‘we are staying up’ chant on Sunday?

[Oldham 1]

Can't fault that appointment it's a top notch coach who hopefully can use his contacts to get those extra couple of players in the key positions we need ,and inspire the rest of the players to put in the performances we desperately need ,great work from CH and even tho it's still an uphill battle to stay up we have a much better chance now 

[AmigoTopping]

Outstanding short term appointment and hopefully the players will respond on Sunday!!

[thecrab]

9 minutes ago, YoungYed said:

Told you all it would be him!!! Some more news coming at the end of the week 

Big surprise that....more news at the end of the week?? Greg Inglis?

[Stevos Barber]

Wow just wow

[moorside roughyed]

Wow. Brian Mcdermott. Wow. Hopefully the players will lap up whatever he can teach them. 

[Whitworth Yed]

Still can't believe it.

A proper shock appointment.

As in the words of my Hull KR supporting mate when I showed him a screenshot of the Twitter announcement... F~^& Off, ya taking the p1%^

[LittleboroRoughyed]

We all like to criticise CH but to be fair to him this is an amazing appointment. Hopefully an influx of Leeds players will help keep us up.

I would expect the forwards to start bossing games now. Just a pity this wasn't done pre Sheffield

[georgeb1]

Great news for you guy's , good luck for the season.

[m brooksy]

Fair play to Hamilton this season. Gave Diskin the squad he wanted.  Gave him enough time to get settled in and then enough chances to turn around the slide in form. Sacked him when it became untenable then replaced him with a quality coach.

[Moscow01]

What does coaching consultant mean? 

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

14 minutes ago, Moscow01 said:

What does coaching consultant mean? 

It means he's the coach, but on a consultancy basis.

[Whitworth Yed]

37 minutes ago, Moscow01 said:

What does coaching consultant mean? 

Probably means if we don't avoid the drop then he doesn't have it on his CV as he wasn't 'The Coach'.

Could also be a way of saying it is a cash in hand job 

[shrewsbury roughyed]

Blimey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on you 'Yeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tony Mac]

A big well done and thank you to CH on this.  It sends out a real message to the supporters, the players and the rest of the Championship.

This was right out of the top drawer and if McDermott can't keep us up I don't think anyone can, it's just a pity he wasn't here 3 or 4 games earlier, but still a real lift for us.