We can't afford the 7 home matches left to drift.
If we could maybe win 4 of those then at least we would have some positivity back.
Looks like it’s all pointing towards John Kear with an announcement early next week, if people are to be believed.
Can’t understand why it’s taken 6 weeks to appoint an out of work coach.
Would be an incredible underwhelming appointment, but guess it shows you where Widnes are as a club.
I hope its not Kear, no offence to the man as he's had a great coaching career, but that Sheffield Challenge Cup win was 26 years ago now. I would rather have Neil Kelly than Kear.
However IF no one else of a decent standard wants the job and Kear agrees to take it to the end of the season then fair enough. If it happens he turns things around by the end of the season then give him a 2 year deal, if we carry on getting beat every week, see who is available and wants the job at the end of the year.
Could there be a situation where they announced Kear, RoB takes the York game on the 12th then Kear takes over for the London game after the International Break on the 26th?
Not that I'm clamouring for any of this btw 🤣
If we are 'expanding' next year time may have been spent setting up a short term deal with Kear to see us out of this season, then appointing a new coach in for next year with Kear mentoring as Director of Rugby.
This can include discussions with a coach presently at another club ready for next year.
Agreed that we can't afford to just jettison all remaining matches but next year is the 'must' upgrade or we are busted totally.
Kear isn’t the man to take us forward in my opinion
I don’t know who we are in talks with so it’ll be interesting to see who’s appointed
Kear isn’t my choice, but I fail to see how he won’t improve us (to be fair, I also fail to see how he’s our first choice).
We need somebody to make these players accountable for their performances, they’ve been getting away with it for too long. I expect him to bring a bit of structure too, which is badly missing. The defence is all over the place.
What a shambles. Just got 3 weeks in limbo now. Sums up the club
John kear it is then.
Maybe five years to late for me, hope he proves me wrong.
I think Kear is exactly what we need.
We can't do the basics right so going back to playing a simple structured game is what a lot of our players need to be coached on.
We are constantly getting turned over by teams playing to simple game plan.
I'd happily see us play old school rugby if that means I don't have to see 20+ knock ons and constantly getting pushed into touch.
