Keighley Cougars

[Nero]

There seems to be plenty of people on here who know how to coach a team! Why not give Muzza some advice?

[Town utd]

Semi pro rugby is results game,coach's are judged on results, town have not been good enough this season. 

[havenhater]

Can't see Murray staying beyond this season.

Off the field, improvements are brilliant, but on field we haven't progressed and unfortunately the overseas and sammuts experiments this year haven't worked.

Is tabu still with us? 

[Towniefan11]

Who is making the decisions regarding the signings we have made? By all accounts it isn’t Murray. 

[Peter Winthorpe]

Watched the video of the Oldham game on YouTube and was impressed how competitive we were.

Despite the result there was not a lot between the teams. We could have ran them close with a bit of luck.

[homeandawayer]

9 hours ago, Nero said:

There seems to be plenty of people on here who know how to coach a team! Why not give Muzza some advice?

Do you know what Ron I reckon we've all seen areas that are poor and he either can't or the players aren't taking any notice..either way we get to this point every couple of years and same as all the others ..lose this amount of games and you'll be over the bridge and not be coming back. Defeat on Sunday could make it even sooner.  Good coach or not ,excuses and praising the other team don't get you points.

I remember the mid/late 80s when we were this bad but a good coach called Norman Turley got us to the top of the table albeit briefly, with a team scraped together. This team has much more talent as individuals than that group.

Edited July 4 by homeandawayer

[wonky]

11 hours ago, Nero said:

There seems to be plenty of people on here who know how to coach a team! Why not give Muzza some advice?

Ridiculous comment. As a group of fans we're entitled to give an opinion on the team and how there performing, and how there performing this year is pretty awful at times, average at there best. It's got to a point for applauding there efforts after losing by 24 points to Oldham and by 19 points to Keighley, both at home where we've always been strong. This squad shouldn't be where it's at, anyone thinking otherwise needs to visit a doctor urgently. We've now lost 6 in a row, and that includes a hammering at Rochdale, losing at home to hunslet and midlands, and a complete collapse when in control to crusaders, please explain any of these issues that point to the coach delivering and coaching and organising the players the way he should be, I don't have to be Wayne Bennett to tell you that Murray should be on borrowed time 

[Onreport]

1 hour ago, homeandawayer said:

Do you know what Ron I reckon we've all seen areas that are poor and he either can't or the players aren't taking any notice..either way we get to this point every couple of years and same as all the others ..lose this amount of games and you'll be over the bridge and not be coming back. Defeat on Sunday could make it even sooner.  Good coach or not ,excuses and praising the other team don't get you points.

I remember the mid/late 80s when we were this bad but a good coach called Norman Turley got us to the top of the table albeit briefly, with a team scraped together. This team has much more talent as individuals than that group.

Absolutely, Norman Turley and also Ray Ashton turned the club around with a few very clever signings 

[WTRLFC WEBSITE]

7 hours ago, havenhater said:

Can't see Murray staying beyond this season.

Off the field, improvements are brilliant, but on field we haven't progressed and unfortunately the overseas and sammuts experiments this year haven't worked.

Is tabu still with us? 

Tabu has a knee injury. 

[anok4u]

20 hours ago, Nero said:

There seems to be plenty of people on here who know how to coach a team! Why not give Muzza some advice?

My advice would be. Look at the squad you've got. Look at the league table. Look for another career....

[DocH]

On 04/07/2024 at 08:21, wonky said:

We've won 4 games all season, 2 of those against Cornwall and Newcastle, please let's not pretend its because players are missing

..and please lets not pretend its nothing to do with it

[Brookie]

16 hours ago, Onreport said:

Absolutely, Norman Turley and also Ray Ashton turned the club around with a few very clever signings 

Ashton was good for a season. He then started buying mediocre players from the Oldham area. Mark Lord springs to mind

[homeandawayer]

2 minutes ago, Brookie said:

Ashton was good for a season. He then started buying mediocre players from the Oldham area. Mark Lord springs to mind

They're all good for a season!

Walsh was a great coach and had that perfect formula of good locals, talented overseas players and others who'd played at the top level. Who knows if he'd have gone the same way in another era.

[Joe Aitcheson]

4 hours ago, Brookie said:

Ashton was good for a season. He then started buying mediocre players from the Oldham area. Mark Lord springs to mind

Or Lord Lucan as he was known…. Always injured, never there

[wonky]

On 05/07/2024 at 10:07, DocH said:

..and please lets not pretend its nothing to do with it

So you think we haven't had the personnel to beat Huntley at home, midlands at home, crusaders away? Of course we have. The injuries haven't forced matty Henson(our best hooker by a mile) to be used as the smallest battering ram we could have. That team we had out last week vs keighley shouldn't be conceding 25 unanswered points.if your happy with that then Murray is the coach for you, but as a supporter who knows we shouldn't be propping up a dreadful league with Cornwall and Newcastle, the investments the club has made, that the blue knights have made, we should be better, we have to be better. We should not be missing out on the playoffs when there's teams like midlands, crusaders, Rochdale and Hunslet all  tucked in there. 

[ivans82]

Unfortunately Workington seems to be the graveyard for RL coaches  . Chris Thorman apart the previous coaches have one thing in common , they never get a professional coaches job again , namely Dave Clark ,Leon Pryce ,Phil Veivers....you can even go back to Rob Tew if you want.....the next coach whoever it is beware .

[havenhater]

Rotherham got a good job with rl.

Jonty and charlo went to haven.

Thorman stayed in the championship.

Pryce has had a few number 2 gigs.

Vievers I cannot understand, never got kept in the pro game.

 

[Town utd]

Vievers was a brilliant player and  coach,should be still involved in rugby league

[Derwent Park SC]

20 minutes ago, Town utd said:

Vievers was a brilliant player and  coach,should be still involved in rugby league

And one of the nicest blokes you could meet, great fella. 

[Brookie]

On 05/07/2024 at 12:25, homeandawayer said:

They're all good for a season!

Walsh was a great coach and had that perfect formula of good locals, talented overseas players and others who'd played at the top level. Who knows if he'd have gone the same way in another era.

Walsh was a good coach but the club nearly folded with spending beyond their means

[Town utd]

That's the price to bring top class rugby to town,the times were good while they lasted. 

[DavidM]

2 hours ago, Brookie said:

Walsh was a good coach but the club nearly folded with spending beyond their means

I wouldn’t change that for anything . I still watch those highlights now on my iPad 

[havenhater]

When no team came up here expecting a win without bruises or a win at all.

Stuff the super league, the big league is when it was proper RL up here.

 

[Onreport]

27 minutes ago, DavidM said:

I wouldn’t change that for anything . I still watch those highlights now on my iPad 

When i watch it back really shows how quick we moved the ball, probably didnt appreciate at the time.

Reasonably simple game plans but executed perfectly, that's for me is a sign of a well coached side.

 

[DavidM]

21 minutes ago, Onreport said:

When i watch it back really shows how quick we moved the ball, probably didnt appreciate at the time.

Reasonably simple game plans but executed perfectly, that's for me is a sign of a well coached side.

 

We were a good side and we played some fantastic rugby . We were going places expecting to win with loads of confidence . Byrne and McKenzie were just inspired pick ups