Castleford’s New Coach

[Adelaide Tiger]

49 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

Ross Strudwick wife Lisa would have been able to do it ,she used to take the Crusaders (Pre Broncos) players for step classes at Crystal Palace they were mainly totally dead after one of her sessions.

Paul 

It’s really funny watching some of the bench press brigade wander into a pump or HIIT class that I attend with the wife.  They pose in front of the mirrors, preen themselves, then after a few minutes they are absolutely cream crackered

[Spidey]

Well it’s Wednesday. Any more announcements on when the announcement will be?

[corvusxiii]

1 hour ago, Spidey said:

Well it’s Wednesday. Any more announcements on when the announcement will be?

Still waiting for a puff of Black and Amber smoke from the Jungle palace.

[LeeF]

Well it’s not Sean Long. He’s gone elsewhere in the WF postcode game. 

[corvusxiii]

Danny Ward, Craig Lingard to stay.

[Ovenden Grunt]

6 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

Ross Strudwick wife Lisa would have been able to do it ,she used to take the Crusaders (Pre Broncos) players for step classes at Crystal Palace they were mainly totally dead after one of her sessions.

Paul 

So long as they won the second half️

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

2 hours ago, corvusxiii said:

Still waiting for a puff of Black and Amber smoke from the Jungle palace.

I've heard the announcement will be on a day ending in the letter 'y'

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Dane Dorahy as Ward's assistant is one from outside the box.  In a recent RWB FB interview Dorahy did mention wanting to get into SL coaching and had chatted with Applegarth about being his assistant.  Obviously nothing came of that opening. 

[The Blues Ox]

Good signing for Cas that. Going to be nail biting to the end of the season.

[Gates1]

12 hours ago, Click said:

Can I ask why you think he "is a far superior coach" ? What has Ward done to not think he has huge potential as a coach. He was promoted to SL during a time when Toronto were outspending everyone, and he almost kept London in SL with a team that wasn't even closely comparable in terms of salary cap spend with other SL teams.

My thoughts exactly.

Really happy with this appointment, although should have been made instead of Last in the first place.   Just googled the 2019 Broncos squad that only got relegated on points difference.  One of the weakest SL squads ive ever seen to be honest.  They had more than double the league points Cas do and Ryse Williams, Keiren Dixon, Jay Pitts and Jordan Abdull scored almost the same amount of tries as Cas have this year.

Dane Dorety is an interesting one too, note he's been doing a playmaker skills coaching school over in Aus as well as some coaching over there, be interesting to see what ideas he brings.

Question is, whether it's too late, which I suspect it is.

Edited August 9, 2023 by Gates1

[PREPOSTEROUS]

7 hours ago, Gates1 said:

My thoughts exactly.

Really happy with this appointment, although should have been made instead of Last in the first place.   Just googled the 2019 Broncos squad that only got relegated on points difference.  One of the weakest SL squads ive ever seen to be honest.  They had more than double the league points Cas do and Ryse Williams, Keiren Dixon, Jay Pitts and Jordan Abdull scored almost the same amount of tries as Cas have this year.

Dane Dorety is an interesting one too, note he's been doing a playmaker skills coaching school over in Aus as well as some coaching over there, be interesting to see what ideas he brings.

Question is, whether it's too late, which I suspect it is.

How is it too late? We're on the same points, it's a striaght race to the finish. New coaches sometimes get the bounce and still think you have a better collection of play makers than Trinity, even accounting for the absence of McShane.

[Gates1]

15 hours ago, PREPOSTEROUS said:

How is it too late? We're on the same points, it's a striaght race to the finish. New coaches sometimes get the bounce and still think you have a better collection of play makers than Trinity, even accounting for the absence of McShane.

In my view Trinity have the momentum and more home games than Cas.

Ward will have 3-4 training sessions with Cas before the Wakey game,  he cant really implement any major change in that time.  Obvious the winner of which will take a huge step forward survival wise. 

Last should have gone after the Hull FC game with the above in mind.

As for playmakers Widdop has had one decent game (still gave away two trys in that before waking up), Miller is dreadful, just dreadful (hope to god he isn't selected next week), we had to bring a young not SL standard loaned in and have been using a centre as a playmaker a fair bit!.

Obviously the hope is that Austin can change that. Along with with Liam Horne who looks lively.

Edited August 10, 2023 by Gates1