Exactly my point, so he shouldn't have lied to our faces and told us that it was

The board can now start negotiations with the next coach openly now SM has made his descision. This for me is at least the second best situation we could be in

Player or Coach in "saying what they think fans want to hear" shocker.

Someone at the club told me he had "be all and end all" on his t-shirt as well.

Ahhh, the explanation to so much!

Who's to say we wouldn't have slipped further, at a quicker rate, with more long term damage under someone else?







Come on ME, information put out in the public domain, are quite different from the private thoughts if an individual.



He was hardly going to say: This squad is poop, but it's the best we could get, now is he?







Agree in principle, however, I don't think our situation has been quite that black and white, has it?

I sold him that. It actually says "Bell end".

Personally, while the job is such a poisoned chalice, I can't see how ANY coach worth his salt could refuse THE top coaching job in the northern hemisphere, if offered?



1. If you are an RL coach, then coaching your country is (obviously) your ultimate ambition



2. He is not breaking his contract



3. He is out of contract at the end of the year and had no offer on the table from Bradford.



I'm scratching my head to work out how anyone has any issue with this no-brainer? Especially the 'loyalty' issue raised - if that was a genuine 2 way street then wouldn't he have already been signed up for another few years on a big money deal?

I think the players have more brain cells than you are assuming they do!



They get battered and bruised every week and suffer numerous bangs to the head...............but even they wouldn't be as daft to have the same opinion as yours. (IMO)

Calmed down a little now. And after reading what Mac has to say on the SL website I have no problems with his decision now.



I wish him well, and hope, as he says, he can sign off with a GF win. He seems to want to go for the right reasons, not just that we haven't offered him a contract yet.





Thanks for all the work and effort Steve and forgive me for my initial overreaction. Although it may not be remembered in a few years time, you've put a lot of effort and commitment into matters on and off the pitch. I doubt we would have had the likes of Whitehead, Donaldson, Addy, Burgii, Tate, Lilycrop, Hellewell, O'Brien etc etc coming through the clubs systems if you weren't the coach.





Thanks for your effort and commitment and I hope you can produce an England team capable of demolishing the Aussies





Hopefully that will redeem myself, although tbf, before you read McNamara's comments you could be forgiven for being a bit angry.

You cant take Richard Agar off our hands can you?

Surely agar must be doing a great job?? You've just rewarded him with a two year extention to see off the RFL's advances haven't you?