Laurie Gant to replace McRae for me. With Gant at the helm we wouldn't need to worry about employing assistants.

You offering to exhume him YR ?

Being reported on the France federation site(ffr13) that Millward has been appointed as assistant coach.

His spirit would be enough JJ

Just to put the record straight Talau hasn't been appointed as an assistant coach. This has been misintepreted due to some lazy journalism that mentioned about Talau and Alker retiring and joining the coaching staff. It was just a badly written article that has caused a lot of confusion.



With regard to Hunte I wonder if he prefers the stability of doing what he may consider a long-term role with the club. If he was assistant and things went badly on the pitch or the head coach changed then he's more likely to lose his job. Maybe Alan has created a niche for himself within the club and wants to concentate soley on developing young players.



I do agree with you and the Saints fan about the meat to make a Pie comment! I don't think Mcrae could use the 'quality of players excuse' with the squad he's got for 2011, fail to make the top 8 next year and he will be gone! (And I wouldn't think he'd need telling)

Translation from the FFR13 Website: -



Former coach of St Helens, Leigh Centurions today, Australian Ian Millward has been recruited by Shaun McRae, the Salford coach, to become his deputy.



How true it is we'll have to wait and see...

Perhaps Alan gets a lot of job satisfaction out of his current role. However, you can't blame him for steering clear of the coaching setup at the moment. Simms, McRae, Millward and Alker. Something or someone is going down. Looks like a putsch to me. Remember Roy Evans? Next season could be messy.

At this rate we will have strength in depth both on and off the field!!

Maybe they are hoping having two negatives will turn it into a positive

FFS, shouldnt we judge them on next seasons results? Rather than laying into them both straight away

Can we have a McRae calling holiday until next season starts and see what happens now we have bought our meat at M & S and not Netto.

only a littlle light-hearted fun corvospace.

and as we all know fresh meat is better than frozen meat!!

I do hope if this is true that it isn't a case of too many cooks spoiling the Broth.



Though can only see this as a vehicle to get Millward settled in before SM calls it's quits at the end of his contract at the end of next season, can hardly see anyone new coming in with a fair sized back up team already in place and not being able to bring in his own people. Think Millward and Simms being very good friends will work to our advantage in the long run.