Paul Lakin

But he says he's bringing in a new development coach, and his role will be to make sure that particularly the, the younger squad players, some of the fringe squad players, will be ready to step into first team rugby as and when required.

Because we've spoke about the fact that, um, Paul Lakin has said that he wants the club, uh, the team to, uh, the team squad to be all featuring in the first team and not having maybe y- your set 20 players.

So there's no doubt whatsoever that who comes in is gonna have to have a track record in working with younger players, so it's, it will be really interesting to see who does come in to replace Ian Watson.

It will, and I think the thing that left me scratching my head is Ian Watson was down as a, the defensive coach for Hull KR.

Yeah, I mean, you could say Hulk AR was probably from 2020.

And, you know, Tony Smith had started the work there, but then when Paul Lakin came in as CEO...

But for Wakefield, they'd already planned, like, Roger Tuivasa-Shek, I know it's bad that he's done his ACL, but he's coming next year.

And, you know, he was once the best player in the world.