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Cummins, who was recommended for the job by his predecessor Vikings Jerseys zyhaa919 Mick Potter after he opted to return to Australia, was unveiled this morning at Odsal Stadium by the new owner Omar Khan and the honorary chairman Gerry Sutcliffe."We had no hesitation in taking Mick's recommendation to offer the job to Francis," said Sutcliffe. "We are delighted he has accepted our offer."It will be Cummins' first role as a head coach and, at 35, he will be the youngest in the Super League when he takes charge of his first match in February.
Catalan Dragons' Australian coach Trent Robinson is nineAuthentic Vikings Jerseys months younger but he is leaving at the end of the season to take charge of Sydney Roosters.Cummins enjoyed a one-club career with Leeds, for whom he made 356 appearances from 1993 to 2005, and also won three caps for Great Britain. He also played for Ireland and cut his coaching teeth as an assistant at Leeds before being appointed as Potter's No2 at the start of the 2010 season.Along with Potter.
Cummins worked without pay for the last three months of the Adrian Peterson Jerseysseason after being made redundant by the administrator amid the club's financial problems in early July.Arsène Wenger's excitement at the onset of another Champions League group stage was undercut by exasperation, and it was not only directed at Uefa, the governing body, which has banned him from the touchline and dressing-room for the first three matches, beginning here against Montpellier on Tuesday night.
The Arsenal manager once again addressed the subject ofJared Allen Jerseys Theo Walcott, who has been unable to agree to a new contract at the club and received a mixed reception upon his introduction at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday, during the 6-1 victory over his old side, Southampton. Walcott did not celebrate his late goal out of respect to them.Wenger worried about the home crowd's reaction but, of greater intrigue, was his assertion that, with Walcott having entered the final season of his contract.
there would come a point when the non-agreement between Christian Ponder Jerseysclub and player represented a problem and influenced managerial thinking."It can," Wenger said, "but at the moment, I still hope to extend his contract so, at the moment, it doesn't affect me. Of course at some stage … if, in April, it's not done, you can think it will be difficult to do."It is easy to feel that the point of friction has already arrived. In the final week of the summer transfer window, it was suggested to Walcott that if he did not sign the new deal on offer, which was worth ￡75,000-a-week, he would be sold.