Blease plans for a post-Watson future
By GARETH WALKER
IAN BLEASE is confident Salford can continue to progress in 2021, despite November’s unplanned coaching change at the club.
Ian Watson’s departure to Huddersfield Giants stirred significant emotion among the Red Devils’ supporters, and raised questions externally over whether the club can make further major finals without Watson.
But Blease has full confidence in new man Richard Marshall, and says they share the same vision of how the club should look in the long term.
Integral to that is forming a genuine player pathway that produces locally born stars for the first team, alongside challenging the top teams in Super League.
Blease explained: “You get used to the knocks, having our team ripped apart for the last few years.