Liked him as a player for us, not sure I agree that he would've done a job for us post Hodgson though!
Ps the power of back slapping and hand clapping is underestimated at your peril.

These are the intangibles that some players bring that can't be measured by opta stats, only what you see with your eyes during games.

AS mentioned, mathers and penny are the running over the field to backslap after a good tackle (or jumping on top of the huddle after a try has been scored)

Paul Noone was the clapper as the scrum was forming(usually after us knocking on)

Mike Forshaw was the "c'mon!" person, with the first drawing down.

And going further back, you had lee penny, running through a gap, where an offload hadn't been given and he was looking at his hands in complete disbelief.

He always gave his best a good professional and will bring that to his new role, strange how as he says he started at Wire and has returned, just as Joel I believe intended to sign for Cas but came here and will now finish there.

Probably checking he had the glue on them.