macdone wrote:gowrie wrote:The issue is that Robinson just got sacked because under him Bristol were getting pumped every single game. He'd be no better than what we have now.
And who is someone like him? What coaches are available to us? I can't think of any names right now, and it doesn't do much good to complain about the job Hodge and Scott are doing if there's no realistic alternative.
Dave Rennie wasn't someone you would have said was available but Glasgow signed him up. I suspect there will be lots of people who would like the job. There are 38 head coaching jobs in the European professional leagues. Rugby coaching is an insecure career to say the least, so a 3 year contract with a salary of 100k+ will be pretty attractive.
I would have done actually, I called it on this forum a week before it happened. The point is that we can't afford to buy contracts out, so we're reliant on coaches out of work or coming to the end of their contract, and there simply aren't many of those about who are any good. Rennie's on £300k p.a reportedly, anyone we can get with a third of that will be just as much of a risk as sticking with Hodge, and they'd still have our current assistants for their first year.